[Dixielandjazz] Old emails

[Tony Davis]

The mills of the DJML do seem to grind slowly at times, for no apparent 
reason.  I sent my email about Graham Tayar on August 12 last year, and 
wondered why it didn't show up on the list.  I had an email yesterday 
from 'dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com' announcing:

Your message entitled

     Re: [Dixielandjazz] Graham Tayar RIP

was successfully received by the Dixielandjazz mailing list.

Better late than never, I suppose :-).

Tony Davis

On 23/08/17 01:37, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:
> 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
>

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