empress of all flowers ...
i fear david may be right in that the preconcieved
notions people carry with them can sometimes make it
.. the thing itself - seem unrecognizable.
can too much information be just as "dangerous" (in a
"tree for the forest" situation) as too little?
> --- David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
> >
> > > Which empress???
> >
> > You mean there's more than one?
> >
> > > Yesterday I taught 2 classes of 19-year olds at
> > NYU, invited by a
> > > poet-friend who teaches a History of Culture
> > course which touches
> > > on the
> > > "mystification as a literary vehicle".
> >
> > Interesting. When I was in graduate school it was
> > de-mystification.
> > Still, that was a long time ago...
> >
> > > So I was asked to do a presentation
> > > on Sautscheckerei, my humble self in the context
> > of literary
> > > mystification
> > > from Descartes, Chatterton, Macpherson, Merimee,
> > Musin-Pushkin and
> > > other
> > > fine individuals....
> > > Dan Swenberg (of the Rebel Baroque Orchestra et
> > al.) helped out
> > > with a dozen
> > > and a half Sarmaticae et Ruthenicae on the
> > Renaissance lute. I
> > > played the
> > > sautscheckerei myself in the second half-
> baroque
> > lute settings of and
> > > variations on Ukrainian songs, with some
> originals
> > interspersed, nach
> > > Haydnisches Manier, naturlich, as a musical
> > equivalent of Merimee's
> > > GUZLA.
> > > The picaresque aspect of the event also was
> > certainly useful.
> >
> > Very impressive!
> >
> > > But before
> > > Sting came along we would drawn blank stares.
> > These kids were
> > > genuinely
> > > interested.
> >
> > Because you play "that thing that Sting plays."
> Ho!
> > Ho! Just
> > kidding. Seriously, we're all "mystified" by
> > Sting's success.
> >
> > David Rastall
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > www.rastallmusic.com
> >
> >
> >
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