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 >> >>===================================================== >>Dan Pearlman's home page: >>http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/ >> >>My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER >>MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/ >>"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: >>Department of English >>University of Rhode Island >>Kingston, RI 02881 >>Tel.: 401 874-4659 >>Fax: (253) 681-8518 >>email: [log in to unmask] > >===================================================== >Dan Pearlman's home page: >http://pages.zdnet.com/danpearl/danpearlman/ > >My new fiction collection, THE BEST-KNOWN MAN IN THE WORLD AND OTHER >MISFITS, may be ordered online at http://www.aardwolfpress.com/ >"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: >Department of English >University of Rhode Island >Kingston, RI 02881 >Tel.: 401 874-4659 >Fax: (253) 681-8518 >email: [log in to unmask]