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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 '<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces@ml.islandnet.com">dixielandjazz-bounces@ml.islandnet.com</a>'
announcing:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Better late than never, I suppose :-).<br>
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Tony Davis<br>
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On 23/08/17 01:37, ROBERT R. CALDER wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_124698"><span
id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505"><br>
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<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>
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<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>
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id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1503389458538_123505"><br>
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<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>
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<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
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