― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)
The text of the piece was assembled by the composer from fragments from Carl Sandburg, Tertullian, Leo Tolstoy, Lenin, Rudyard Kipling, Matthew Arnold and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Wanting the Impossible
Credo quia impossibile.
Pure. . .sorrow is as impossible as pure. . .joy.
The substitution of the proletarian for the bourgeois state is impossible without a violent revolution.
I am the Prophet of the Utterly Absurd,
Of the Patently Impossible and Vain.
Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.
How often have I said to you
that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth? (Jaffe 1996)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unanswered_Question
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)
http://www.earbox.com/sub-html/souls/souls-schiff.html
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)
xpost, not this piece, more the Fourth. Adams is a big Ives-head.
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)
should I give that Adams piece another chance? he really throws me.
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)
i've never listened to a ton of adams, but now i'm intrigued and want to hear this one
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)
― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)
whenever I'm down, I just re-read parts of it
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 23:46 (nineteen years ago)
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:54 (nineteen years ago)
― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 2 March 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)
my three favorite books on Ives are his Memos, the Perlis book and the Henry Cowell bio. the latter in particular is just one of the most inspiring things I've ever read, almost surreal -- it's out of print, if you see a copy don't pause.
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)
― zombierza (tehresa), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago)
bump
milton pls to answer ?
― yur twit (tehresa), Friday, 13 March 2009 04:09 (sixteen years ago)
if you will
― yur twit (tehresa), Friday, 13 March 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)