[Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb

[vintagebill at verizon.net (bill harting)]

You got it, Kyle.

bill h
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb


> No latex, no piercings. I knew that only leica glass could do this one
> justice.
>
>
> A portrait of composer George Crumb.
>
>
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg
>
>
> when i was in college, the crumb buzz peaked when the kronos quartet
> annouced that they had recorded Black Angels, crumb's 1970 reaction to the
> vietnam war, long though to be unplayable because of its extreme 
> complexity.
> everybody was listening to it. the recording is brilliant -- melodic,
> dissonet, frightening -- it was like being shot through the chest with a
> violin.
>
> Dr. Crumb himself I found to be affable, pleasant, soft spoken, and
> gregarious. All those positive adjectives that you want to attribute to
> someone you admire.
>
> Thanks to Jim Shulman with hooking me up with this portrait gig.
>
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