<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123394" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">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. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124365"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">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. <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124698"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124659"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">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". <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124661"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">Possibly one could adapt Gracie Fields' song about the Aspidistra and sing of "the beeggest tuning fork in all the world"? <br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124670"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124663"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">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,</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124665"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124667"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505">Robert R. Calder </span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123395"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123399" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123398"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123397"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123396"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123401" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123528" size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124363"><span style="font-weight:bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124362">From:</span></b> Bill Haesler <bhaesler@bigpond.net.au><br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124686"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124685">To:</span></b> Marek Boym <marekboym@gmail.com>; Dixieland Jazz Mailing List <dixielandjazz@ml.islandnet.com>; ROBERT R. CALDER <serapion@btinternet.com> <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124117"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124116">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 22 August 2017, 23:04<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124120"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124119">Subject:</span></b> Old emails<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123403"><br><div id="yiv5526352734"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123408"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123407"><blockquote type="cite" class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123406"><div class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123405">On 23 Aug 2017, at 6:27 AM, Marek Boym <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:marekboym@gmail.com" class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123507">marekboym@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="yiv5526352734Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="direction:rtl;" class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123447"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123446"><div class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123445"><div class="yiv5526352734" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123444">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!<br class="yiv5526352734"></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123509"><br class="yiv5526352734"></div>Dear Marek and all.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123450">And that 10th August email from Robert Calder [received today] goes back to 2016!!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123516">Cheers, </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123452">Bill.</div><br class="yiv5526352734"></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>