Ensemble Monterey Chamber Orchestra directed by John Anderson: Concerts take place at 8 p.m. at the Golden State Theatre in Monterey and First Congregational...
"Lite Fall Journey to NYC" The Music of Alec Wilder Sunday, October 15, 2006 at 8:00 PM Hemmle Recital Hall Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX Richard Meek,...
Sheldon Meyer, who died October 9 at 80, was for half a century an editor at Oxford University Press, where he turned the spotlight on American popular culture...
A new review of the CD "Marlene VerPlanck Sings Alec Wilder" [Audiophile 218] by Dan Singer has appeared in the UK magazine, In Tune, Oct. 2006, #176: Marlene...
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I have learned from the authors, Don Velsey and David Jenness, that their book "Classic American Popular Song: The Second Half-Century" [Routledge, 2006] has...
In spite of my posting #17 (Personal vs. Group Messages) from August 19th, there is still some confusion among members as to where to direct their email...
The good stewardship of John O'Neill has presented me with the pencil score of the Wilder-Sundgaard opera, "The Lowland Sea." The title page bears the...
Some Wilder songs appearing in the Fall 2006 Worlds Records catalog: Trouble Is A Man, Eric Alexander - Grant Stewart, "Reeds and Deeds Cookin'" [Criss Cross] ...
There is a full obituary in today's New York Times for Sheldon Meyer. For readers outside of NYC you can access the Times article on the internet at: ...
Piled high on a display table in Borders were copies of a newly published large format (coffee-table) book, with a foreword by Michael Feinstein, "The American...
Gordon Sapsed
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Oct 22, 2006 3:59 am
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In a message dated 10/21/2006 9:01:08 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ... ______________________________________ Agreed Gordon. Now, admittedly, some of Wilder's...
songscout@...
Oct 23, 2006 8:38 pm
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... _______________________ I am comforted that Alec would have dismissed this slight, but perhaps jotted down the reference among "reasons why I want to be...
John Barrows
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Oct 23, 2006 8:41 pm
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It would be lovely to have a link to MP3s of Alec Wilder songs, but I guess legal issues encroach. Is this so? Nick Lindsley...
Does anyone know why the 1956 MGM recording (E3321) of 13 of the Octets lists The George Russell Octet as the performers on the front and labels, but Jimmy...
Steven Ovitsky
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Oct 24, 2006 5:53 am
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There is no George Russell - it's a made up name for contractual reasons. The conductor was Leroy Holmes and Dick Hyman plays a prepared piano. Many years ago...
With sadness, we report the death last Sunday of Arnold Sundgaard, lyricist, playwright, and author of children's books. He wrote the lyrics for many of Alec...
... Some four years ago I spent about four hours one afternoon visiting Arnold Sundgaard at his retirement home in Dallas. What a sweet, lovely, and gentle...
Robert Levy
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Oct 28, 2006 8:05 pm
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This page was sent to you by: jobiderman@.... OBITUARIES | October 31, 2006 Arnold Sundgaard, Lyricist and Playwright, Is Dead at 96 By MARGALIT FOX ...
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Nov 1, 2006 8:31 pm
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Some friends and I have undertaken the project of pushing the reissuing of Lou Ouzer's book "Contemporary Musicians In Photographs". The copyright is in Lou's...
... I met him one summer in the early 1990s when he and his wife were living in Santa Fe. While doing research for "Alec Wilder: A Bio-Bibliography" (Demsey...
In Tucson's Pima Air and Space Museum, there is a World War II B-17 bomber. Its forward fuselage has "I'll Be Around" painted in 2-foot tall lettering. No...
Glenn & Wini Bowen
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Nov 6, 2006 7:15 pm
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... But, Alec Wilder has never had much press, unfortunately. Perhaps that's the way he wanted it. Dinah Rosoff...
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Nov 6, 2006 7:18 pm
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It is really shocking that they didn't acknowledge Wilder's book. Patrick O'Connor...
mapplucia@...
Nov 7, 2006 6:13 am
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... My reading of the books and articles about Alec Wilder (and a few conversations with Loonis McGlohon) indicate to me that he was not entirely the "I...
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Nov 7, 2006 6:23 am
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Glenn Bowen writes: In Tucson's Pima Air and Space Museum, there is a World War II B-17 bomber. Its forward fuselage has "I'll Be Around" painted in 2-foot...
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Nov 7, 2006 6:26 am
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The plane on display is B-17 #44-85828, a restoration of "I'll Be Around" (#23192) which crashed in England on June 4, 1944 and these two sites give some...
"I'll Be Around" was a big radio 'hit' here in the UK in the 1940's - although we didn't have 'charts' in the two page wartime newspapers. Any songs of the day...
Mornin', all... I'm sort of new to this group, so forgive me if this goes on long: it's only Part I. What's on my mind is the year or so I spent more or less...
In a message dated 11/7/2006 7:39:56 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, dschaeff@... writes: I do know that the Riverside jazz session with Mundell Lowe did not...
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Nov 8, 2006 9:49 pm
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My kindness pales to insignificance next to yours, Orrin...indeed my memory - unassisted - is as poor as memories can get. Assisted, I do (sort of) recall...
