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Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Mon Jul 25 09:47:34 2005

Next time, apply the golden rule below:

Comb the eyebrows. Always comb the eyebrows. :-)

No seriously: great portrait. Subtle toning, too.
> 
> ----- 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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