Hello, list,
I too was shocked to hear of James Tyler's death. Though his recordings were he a formative influence on me since the 1970's, I had never met him, but I recently had a wonderful exchange with him about another of his long interests (in his words): "You expressed surprise at my interest in turn of the century fretted instrument music, but that has been a lifelong interest, despite the fact that my career has been mainly that of a lutenist. In the 1950s I studied classic banjo (gut-strung 5 string), tenor banjo and mandolin with Walter Kaye Bauer, who in turn studied with Giuseppe Pettini. So I guess you can say I have sort of a direct link to the turn of the century. My interests have always been classic ragtime (1890s-1912) and American popular and theater music." I had contacted him, unbeknownst, through ebay, where we had competed for a piece of mandolin and guitar music (he won), and he was kind enough to make me a copy. I was looking forward to a thoroughly enjoyable conversation and exchange of music with him, now sadly not to be completed. I think he would not mind me also sharing this: "If you want to see a complete contrast to my lute playing activities, a friend recently put an old 1979 BBC television clip of me playing a 1927 "novelty" tenor banjo piece on Youtube. You might be quite amused. [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZgCpx8BN78"; Like many of you, I will miss my "new friend." Best to all, and keep playing, Chris. >>> Alain <[email protected]> 11/30/2010 10:01 PM >>> Thanks Nancy, I was checking the USC WEB site and was puzzled that there was no announcement... For those who may not know, Jim founded and developed a master's degree in early music performance there in the late 1980's. It's hard to tell from the WEB site if had retired or not, (they do have a link to a recording of the early music ensemble that seems current and seems to have some of his playing in it) but I think a lot of his energy in the past 20 years was devoted to this program and his students. It's been 22 years now, but I still have a wonderful memory of being invited to sit in as a guest student for a year. I hope many of his alumni will testify on that site of his goodness, generosity and talent. Alain On 11/30/2010 11:56 AM, Nancy Carlin wrote: > I am forwarding a note from Daniel Zuluaga<[email protected]> about > plans for a web site in memory on James Tyler. Also we are planning to > plublish something about him in the next Quarterly. Jocelyn Nelson is > the person organizing this and if any of you want to contribute to > that, you can contact her at > [email protected] > Nancy > > We are in the process of setting up a memorial website for Jim, which > may happen in the coming weeks. In the meantime, everyone can send > their remembrances, anecdotes, contributions and any other notes of > interest regarding Jim to the following email we set up: > [1][email protected] > This will be the basic email from which we will process all notes to go > to the memorial website, to be hosted as the USC servers. > Obituaries are due this week in The Guardian, The Independent, and the > LA Times. > > Nancy Carlin Associates > P.O. Box 6499 > Concord, CA 94524 USA > phone 925/686-5800 fax 925/680-2582 > web sites - [2]www.nancycarlinassociates.com > [3]www.groundsanddivisions.info > Representing: > FROM WALES - Crasdant& Carreg Lafar, FROM ENGLAND - Jez Lowe& Jez > Lowe& The Bad Pennies, and now representing EARLY MUSIC - The Venere > Lute Quartet, The Good Pennyworths& Morrongiello& Young > Administrator THE LUTE SOCIETY OF AMERICA > web site - [4]http://LuteSocietyofAmerica.org > -- > > References > > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. [2]http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ > 3. [3]http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ > 4. [4]http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/ > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [5]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZgCpx8BN78 2. http://www.nancycarlinassociates.com/ 3. http://www.groundsanddivisions.info/ 4. http://lutesocietyofamerica.org/ 5. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute
