You may hear excerpts from the CD at
http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Poundcd.shtml.
>>
>>
>>-----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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>MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/
>"Perfectly-crafted gems": Jack Dann, Nebula & World Fantasy Award winner
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>http://www.uri.edu/artsci/english/clf/
>
>OFFICE:
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>University of Rhode Island
>Kingston, RI 02881
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