Thanks very much to Derek and Carlo for their information.
I did not know Kenner was such a humorous writer when he referred to
EP's birth year. :-) Also I'd love to see the day when those moving vinyls
are made into CDs. Cheers, Michael.
 
> Date:    Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:15:50 PDT
> From:    derek hardy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: EP in Spoleto in 1968?
>
> I have a vinyl recording - "The World's Great Poets - Ezra Pound Reads His
> Cantos" (Vol II). The sleeve notes by Hugh Kenner are dated 1968 and read "
> A voice from another age, from a very old man, born in Idaho at a time
> (1885) when the lanes of London were scavenged by municipal goats.  Marius
> the Epicurean was published in that year.  Browning and Ruskin were active.
> Wagner was but two years dead, Jesse James but three.  And at 82, in
> Spoleto, 1967, borne by earthspin with the rest of us through a cosmic (sic)
> adrift with artificial satellites, the survivor retraces his written
> memories"...and so on...
>
> So it looks like he definitely read there in '67 at least.
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> Date:    Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:40:25 -0400
> From:    "R.Gancie/C.Parcelli" <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: EP in Spoleto in 1968?
>
> I don't know if I'm repeating others remarks here, but I have a two
> record boxed set called the Spoleto Festival which has a very old Pound
> reading Canto XVI. It is very moving. Ginsberg also reads on the
> recording. I'm sorry but I've been too busy to reply earlier or make an
> effort to ferret out the recording and look up the date. Carlo Parcelli