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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Prelude, Azure's New Song!
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 23:23:30 -0400 (EDT)
Prelude, Azure's New Song! http://www.alansondheim.org/evenings58.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/gut0.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/gut1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/gut2.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/evenings06.jpg Azure has a new song, gut0 and gut2, two versions. We just picked up the 1881 Neuner and Hornsteiner violin from the luthier today. I received it originally from Will and Mary Pappenheimer; it hadn't been played most likely for at least a half century, and had the original gut strings on it. The luthier, Dennis McCarten, was able to find some antique but unused gut strings for me; the instrument is now tuned fcf'c' and sounds amazing, very resonant, very unlike the louder, more strident sound of a modern violin. gut1 is a solo exploring the instrument, but gut0 and gut2 are accompaniments to Azure's new and wonderful song about an endless prelude, which in a way describes our branching lifestyle; the idea of dependent arising; the breathless invocation of music gone awry and forever; and the presentiment of universal hope. So this accompaniment accompanies all, and all are companions, and voice and instrument sing.