TUNING digest 849

Neat! Corngrats on finishing it up! I'll toss a check in the mail.


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Just back after a week lecturing on microtones at South Dakota Stae
University in Brookings. My 4 lectures (outlined in a previous post)
were written about in 2 papers and attended by the Freshman-Sophomore
music classes.

The students regularly surprised the faculty by their astute attention to
the issues discussed; by their willingness to "sing" aloud -
microtonally, of course; and expecially by the non-jazz improvisation by
8 students in their orchestral hall.

Reminding me somewhat of the openness I experienced in Denver during
MicroStock I, I found South Dakotans accepting microtonality at face
value. The _Shrine to Music_ in Vermillion, SD has a huge building
devoted to musical instruments, proud of its Stradivarious violin and 2
Strad guitars (10 string). It also has a Janko-keyed microtonal piano
and the cello-Termin, a theremin cello that specializes in the playing of
"quarter-tones and micro-tones" (as it says on the card next to it.

Professor Anthony Lis, director of the 9th Annual New Music Festival in
Brookings says "It is important for our students to see first hand what
is happening in music" and felt at the end that "people will be talking
about this for a long time to come." :)

Johnny Reinhard
Director
American Festival of Microtonal Music
318 East 70th Street, Suite 5FW
New York, New York 10021 USA
(212)517-3550/fax (212) 517-5495
reinhard@ios.com


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