[Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb

[ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)]

DAMN FINE!

I love the compositional balance and the tone.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Jul 25, 2005, at 12:08 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:53:11 -0400
> From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb
> To: "'lug@leica-users.org'" <lug@leica-users.org>
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> 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.
>
>