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Poetry Reading Performance This Saturday Night!!!


Do come if you can!

Providence friends! This Saturday: the first Wild Combination of the
season at my & Francesca Capone's house with Azure Carter, Gil Lawson,
Wendy Lotterman, and Alan Sondheim words & words & music on the very
strangest instruments...

Here's the rest of the season: http://cargocollective.com/wildcombo/Future

Kit Schlter's photo.

Going
Wild Combination 3.1 | Carter / Lawson / Lotterman / Sondheim
Saturday, September 27 at 7:30pm
699 hope street, providence, rhode island
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Alan Sondheim yay! probably oud and qin, not so strange except for the
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Qin and Guitar


http://www.alansondheim.org/riparian01.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/qinguitar2.mp3
http://www.alansondheim.org/riparian03.jpg

Jon Woodson, guitar, me, qin

Well, the tracks with Azure were accompanied by a rocking sound
from a totally-misplaced recorder, and then the recorder fell to
the floor but it's ok and the first qinguitar1 with Jon was
useless because I couldn't remember my name or even play in
tune, it was that kind of day, so in qinguitar2 stuff came
together, Jon sounds great. The riparian01 is the chart I use
for segments I like with kung at the tonic position but I tend
to use the 1st and 6th strings for tonics instead so that I've
got the fourth and fifth, at least I think I do, and the other
riparian03 is from a riverscape near us which has interesting
old structures on the banks. I thought both images might make
you interesting in listening to yet another qin pieces, yes, I
know I can take it on the qin and I played double qin the other
day and it's jokes like these that killed the enormous qin
movement in New England, why I remember when every kid had one
and bass notes rang through the neighborhood, enthralling the
turkey vultures flying overhead, which can be recognized by
their incredibly graceful dihedral flight. Now you can hear what
the vultures heard, just tune into the mp3 above and prepare to
be delighted.