Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0604170020270.1037@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Two Sarah Bernhardt recordings -
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:20:50 -0400 (EDT)
Sarah Bernhardt http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/2000/2302/cusb-cyl2302d.mp3 http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/2000/2352/cusb-cyl2352d.mp3 From the Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project. Bernhardt has always been an inspiration and influence; I'd heard Phedre (also available at the site) a number of times - but not these - which sound so much like Noh for example; I was completely unprepared for them. A while ago I put up a mechanical pump organ from the mid-1800s; this was a music box with reeds working on the same principles as the parlor organ. And again I was surprised. It's rare to be able to hear voices across a century and more, and rarer to be exposed to their power. These recordings are some of the most interesting works I've come across in a while, even though I can only understand part of the text. Best yet, we can use any of the cylinders for our own work - I can hear Sarah B. in Los Angeles now - - Alan