[Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Keep on Truckin!

Ooops... that's a different Crumb.

Nice portrait, I like the non-centered balance of it.

Jim


Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> 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.