[Leica] Portrait of George Crumb In a Purple Haze

[buzz.hausner at verizon.net (buzz.hausner@verizon.net)]

The Kronos Quartet used to be famous for playing "Purple Haze" as their 
encore piece.  This impressed me until I realized that it took two violins, 
a viola and a cello...each in the hands of an enormously talented 
musician...to make all of the sounds that Jimi Hendrix produced by himself 
on one guitar.

Buzz Hausner

>From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
>Date: Mon Jul 25 10:53:11 CDT 2005
>To: "'lug@leica-users.org'" <lug@leica-users.org>
>Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb

>No latex, no piercings. I knew that only leica glass could do this one
>justice.
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>A portrait of composer George Crumb. 
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>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg
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>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.
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>Thanks to Jim Shulman with hooking me up with this portrait gig.