source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 05:00:31 -0800 Subject: Re: Elsie Hamilton, pioneer of JI From: Matt Nathan Brian Lee wrote: > > In Partch's Genesis of a Music there is extensive reference to a book by > Kathleen Schlesinger > ... > In the Appendix of her book, Schlesinger talks > about the work of Elsie Hamilton > ... > Kathleen Schlesinger and Elsie Hamilton were both Anthroposophists, that > is they followed the teachings of one Dr Rudolf Steiner > ... > Eventually I got in contact with the Woods, a couple in their eighties who > had taught at a Steiner School > ... > Mrs Wood...had scores of short pieces in JI by Hamilton and a > booklet by Hamilton which summarises Schlesinger's system and describes her > own application of it to contemporary music making. How exciting! Keep us posted. Matt Nathan Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:56 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA15372; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 23:56:09 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA15368 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id OAA19915; Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:54:07 -0800 Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 14:54:07 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu