source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 12:24:30 -0800 Subject: the SAG stuff (Szanto ventures out) From: gtaylor@heurikon.com (One Cointreau, on ice....) Subject: A Problematic BM >Yes, I am going to meet Brian McLaren, and find out what's up. To >paraphrase David Brinkley, I may not be able to be objective but I can try >to be fair. Good for you. Perhaps you can do us *all* a favor and take a look at the local newspaper for a couple of local concerts to recommend to Brian that might give him a better field for the breadth of work that comes out of "academia" these days. I think it's worth gambling that things are at *least* as loose there as here. Here I am out in dairyland and I'm sitting through Charles Wuorinen wannabes *and* folks who want to channel Shostakovich or Debussy or Duke Ellington and then walking across the street to hear Marilyn Crispell and Roscoe Mitchell running down some kind of harmolodic improvisatory take on the work of this local guy with some serious serialist chops whose music uses a completely different set of tonal resources. I get in my car and drive to Chicago where I spend the interset bits of the aforementioned Table of the Elements festival chatting up some of the string players from Rachel's about Erkki-Sven Tuur and Peteris Vasks. Heck, there's even the rumour that Tristan Murail is going to be at Columbia. That's certainly a sign of the End Times (since I know that they interviewed both Rzewski *and* Ferneyhough)! If he were in Japan, we could simply turn Eric Lyon loose on him :-). See if you can check a copy of Jamey Pritchett's book "The Music of John Cage" outta the library and make him at least flip through the thing. Buy him a good bottle of Merlot and sit him down for the canonical chat about catching more flies with honey than with vinegar. I know we can count on you, John.... If this SAG thang is a chance to hear a live version of the Anaphorian Grady stuff that John Chalmers played for us in Hong Kong, RUNDON'TWALK. It was *wonderful.* My fondest hope for you is that it transpires that la Bry turns out to be just some guy who turns from being slightly socially challenged in real life to an ideologue with a megaphone (in short, that he and I will turn out to be largely similar in real life, as Mr. Chalmers so well knows....except for my reticence when it comes to calling for the ruination and banishment of those with whom I disagree, of course!) once he's free from the vicissitudes of real interaction outside of the electron stream. May it be so. >Am I nuts or what? No, you're close enough to go and hear some wonderful music. I'd jump at the chance, if I were you. >Must be the single malt talking... Ardbegh? (did I spell that right?) Given mah heritage, Ah'm a small batch Bourbon person mahse'f. Booker Noe's. [insert Walker Percy quote here], Gregory _ I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one, paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 04:48 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA09492; Fri, 15 Nov 1996 04:50:07 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA09628 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id TAA16061; Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:50:05 -0800 Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 19:50:05 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu