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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Geography Lessons!
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 12:17:07 -0400 (EDT)
Geography Lessons! Dave MacIsaac and Louis Benoit at the Old Triangle, Halifax http://www.alansondheim.org/strathspey.jpg This was one of the most amazing nights of my life. I love this music and its subtlety - its grace notes, rhythmic, tempo, and genre shifts - its joyful and mournful beauty - its singing to the world. We listened and talked with the musicians for three and a half hours; we're going back next Monday night as well. The music is formal, the occasion isn't, and everything was perfect. Dave MacIsaac is internationally known for his playing on fiddle and guitar; he's played all over the world. I hadn't heard Louis Benoit before, but his mandolin playing is wonderful, and his guitarwork perfect. MacIsaac's right hand picking is the best I've ever seen, and his bowing, magical. ice pellets with the latest change in heavy weather: a beautiful sound! http://www.alansondheim.org/pellets.mp4 flocking starlings on the side of the Halifax Citadel! http://www.alansondheim.org/starlings.mp4 And th'Nor'easter's leaving th'ice behind And in the foggy curtains of m'mind I see'em still ha'f way's up th'hill And I'd not what dialect's t'fill But's circled n'my mind's gone's spill