[Dixielandjazz] Old emails

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

I'm not sure what's happening indeed, I don't remember Graham's old Birmingham schoolmate's mail from last year, to whom it would have been nice to have sent news other than of his departure. It contained a waft of memory for me, for one of my friends had connections with King Edward's School, but a couple of decades after Graham. 
I remember repeating to Graham the anecdote the late (by his own hand in a Euthanasia establishment) Sir Edward Downes told of following up the great Erich Kleiber conducting Alban Berg's WOZZECK at Coovent Gardeng (as Sir Edward pronounced it in his Brummy/ Warwickshire. The harmonic idiom is complex, in one sense dense, and the conductor need not be dense in another sense to have problems. Kleiber seems to have had none. Downes noticed none. 

His story was that he made the very helpful discovery that near his foot when he was conducting in the opera house orchestra pit there was a girder, which in response to a good "keeck" with his boot "produced a serviceable G". 
Possibly one could adapt Gracie Fields' song about the Aspidistra and sing of "the beeggest tuning fork in all the world"? 

The tale may assist musicians on the list to feel relief as they return to their OKOM, though we do have the evidence that part of the attraction for some earlier players (Jimmy McPartland latterly ex-ex-husband of the harmonically stimulating Marian) related to the sort of interest in Ravel et al. mentioned in respect rather of Charlie Parker than of them. They met challenges too,
Robert R. Calder 

      From: Bill Haesler <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
 To: Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com>; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>; ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion at btinternet.com> 
 Sent: Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 23:04
 Subject: Old emails
   

On 23 Aug 2017, at 6:27 AM, Marek Boym <marekboym at gmail.com> wrote:
Kristy's email was not the only old email received today!  Out of the nine DJML emails, only one was from today, the others being from between 9 April 2017 through 10 August!


Dear Marek and all.And that 10th August email from Robert Calder [received today] goes back to 2016!!Cheers, Bill.


   
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