I've just been re-listening to tapes of EP reading - Hugh Selwyn
Mauberley and Canto 1 from Washington 1958; and a range of Cantos from
Spoleto, 1967. A couple of things strike me:
 
1. anyone noticed the progression from 58 to 67? The strong yeatsian
tone of the earlier has modulated somewhat in the later one: ok, he's
older, the voice more tremulous and less consistent, but in the later
recording there's a greater range of tone and pitch - it seems to me.
 
2. At Spoleto, in Canto XVI, the names of those gone to the war are
different to those in the present printed ed of the Cantos: I'm
working from home at present, without a full range of sources to hand
- can anyone tell me when these names changed?
 
Anyone any other thots on Pound as Reader? It strikes me that he's at
his best when the highly stylised tones (derived from Yeats) drop away
and the greater range / variety shows through, even tho that seems to
be at a point when his voice is going.
 
RC