Thanks to Joe and Tim for the heads-up.
==Dan
At 04:41 PM 7/29/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>The link to the Times article contains a further link to a site that
>purports to give excerpts from the CD, www.otherminds.org
>
>Joe F
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel Pearlman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:26 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: NY Times on Pound's music/Sun. 7-27-03
>
>
>I wonder if the publisher of the CD could be persuaded to
>put some samples online. As to the review, whether the
>assessment of the music's quality is fair or not, I'm not
>one to judge--but at least no preconceived attitude toward
>Pound the person or poet seemed to creep into the article
>and skew its tone.
>==Dan P
>
>
>At 11:26 AM 7/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Did anyone have an opinion or comment about the review by Richard
> >Taruskin in the Sunday NY Times on the Music of Pound CD from Other
> >Minds?
> >
> >Charles Amirkhanian
> >
> >_________
> >
> >
> >Ezra Pound, Musical Crackpot
> >
> >July 27, 2003
> >
> >By RICHARD TARUSKIN
> >
> >
> >According to an old and highly unreliable story, Pablo
> >Picasso gave a few poems he had written to Gertrude Stein
> >for comment. In the middle of the night, he was roused
> >violently from sleep. It was Miss Stein, shaking him
> >furiously and shouting: "Pablo! Pablo! Get up and paint!"
> >
> >There are times when - listening to "Ego Scriptor
> >Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound," a comprehensive
> >sampling of the poet's little-known musical output - one
> >wants to shout: "Pound! Pound! Write a poem!" More often,
> >though, one listens quite fascinated. Much of it is
> >strangely compelling, if eccentric, stuff.
> >
> >The career of no other artist, perhaps, so nakedly exposes
> >the fineness of the line dividing crackpot from genius.
> >Pound's crackpot theories of social, racial and economic
> >justice famously landed him in a mental hospital (the only
> >alternative to prison) after World War II. He loved playing
> >the fool, describing his aesthetic theories, the authentic
> >fruit of his genius, in a semiliterate patois familiar to
> >anyone who has read his letters or scanned the titles of
> >his essays (gathered, for example, in a volume called
> >"Guide to Kulchur"). And those theories drove him to
> >compose music despite a confessed inability - vouched for
> >by his fellow poets William Carlos Williams and W. B.
> >Yeats, among others - to carry a tune.
> >
> >etc.
> >http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/arts/music/27TARU.html?ex=1060433524&ei=1
>&en=9437ab8c98d2acfd
> >for entire article
>
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"Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner
Director, Council for the Literature of the Fantastic:
http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
OFFICE:
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University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881
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