tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post614438384409157724..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Experimentation in all thingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-19340284516233880302008-12-16T16:22:00.000+00:002008-12-16T16:22:00.000+00:00Welcome home, pliable, and thanks for all the nutr...Welcome home, pliable, and thanks for all the nutritious new food for thought!<BR/><BR/>As to the above post, I'm wondering if you -- and your readers -- recall who conducted the world premiere of Luigi Dallapiccola's Odysseus/Ulisse? (Ah, to be young and of one's own cultural time and place!)<BR/><BR/>Also, some may not realize that Session's Eighth Symphony is based on music from his Montezuma opera (premiered in W. Berlin four years before Ulisse received its premiere in W. Berlin.) [I own both the Ulisse and Eighth Symphony scores.]<BR/><BR/>Here is a link to the Dallapiccola Ulisse sketch (and Wayne Shirley's essay about the sketch) in the Library of Congress:<BR/><BR/>http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/moldenhauer/2428125.pdf<BR/><BR/>*<BR/><BR/>(I also recall that the Pulitzer Prize winning American music critic Tim Page once wrote that he had examined the Sessions Montezuma score in the Library of Congress, and found it not worth reviving ...)Garth Trinklhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11084463787729969177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-39205602189087423332008-12-14T17:04:00.000+00:002008-12-14T17:04:00.000+00:00Instinct versus excavating for information.After u...<I>Instinct</I> versus <I>excavating for information.</I><BR/><BR/>After uploading this post we went to a social function in the village junior school. To reach the hall we had to pass through a classroom. It contained eleven computers, each with a child sized chair. There was not one single book in the room.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com