source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:51:56 -0700 Subject: Ojai, Yates, halls From: John Chalmers Bill: Thanks for the interesting data on Peter Yates. I heard him lecture in the 60's on new music and have his book,"An Amateur at the Keyboard." What ever happened to Wesley Kuhnle's theories of well-temperament and his tapes? My impression of Ojai is that the retirees are also occultists. The (neo-) Pythagorean brotherhood (Crotona) that you pass as you enter the valley has its own cemetery because so many of its members died in residence (and left their money to the center). The last time I visited the town, my sister took me over to see what is left of Krishnamurti's headquarters, Meditation Mt., and some other local sites, etc. According to my sister, Ojai is one of the few large mountain valleys running East to West rather than North to South, so it was used to film "Lost Horizons," James Hilton's novel about the ageless valley of Shangri-La. Halls: Rice University in Houston recently built a new music building with a very good concert hall and several smaller recital halls as well. Whoever did the work, did a very good job, so you might contact the Shepherd School of Music at Rice. BTW, The organ at Stanford's Memorial Church has a meantone stop, but I don't knwow if it also has split keys. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:43 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03160; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:43:11 +0200 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03158 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id DAA07749; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:41:38 -0700 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 03:41:38 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu