Re: [tuning] footprints in the same sand

Dan, your skills as a poet are at least a match for
your skills as composer. I love reading what you write.

-monz

----- Original Message -----
From: D.Stearns <STEARNS@CAPECOD.NET>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:31 PM
Subject: [tuning] footprints in the same sand

> After ten years of phone conversations, writing letters and exchanging
> emails, I finally met my good friend Ken Rubenstein in the flesh and
> blood.
>
> Ken was talking advantage of the school break by flying out to Boston
> from Iowa (were he's presently study advanced mathematics) to rehearse
> some material for a future project with bassist Ed Broms.
>
> I'm reflexively hesitant to meet people and famous for squirreling out
> of such commitments--on Masashi Harada's invitation, I once had a
> chance to meet Cecil Taylor, but I went home during the intermission
> instead... it's pathological and I'm beyond redemption!
>
> With Ken it was even worse still. I mean we'd gotten along nothing
> short of magically to date, and being the furtive hermit that I am I
> was quite reluctant to mess with that. It's just too damn rare. Ken on
> the other hand, while surely no socialite, is by nature a bit more
> gregarious than I am, and he was pretty intent on making a
> get-together happen. I'm glad he was.
>
> We met halfway at my mother's place in Duxbury on Green Harbor. Green
> Harbor is a ghost town this time of year, and we braved the howling
> winter winds and walked the abandoned beach in a light rain.
>
> It was surreal and mundane, and it was beautiful and a bit melancholic
> as well. On it's best days, so is life... today was one of those days.
>
> Several years ago Ken asked me if I'd like to play on his then
> upcoming CD, Is that my world that hovers? As I'd long admired Ken's
> work, I jumped for it--I played in 13-tet and Ken played in 12-tet,
> together. Clash? No they didn't clash, they left footprints in the
> same sand we walked in today... I'll miss my friend Ken Rubenstein.
>
> --Dan Stearns
>
>
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--- In tuning@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> Dan, your skills as a poet are at least a match for
> your skills as composer. I love reading what you write.
>
>
> -monz

Monz, thanks for quoting Dan's post in its entirety. Had you not done
so, I don't believe I ever would have had a chance to read it, as Dan
appears to have deleted it from the archives (?) . . .

Paul,

> Monz, thanks for quoting Dan's post in its entirety. Had you not
> done so, I don't believe I ever would have had a chance to read it,
> as Dan appears to have deleted it from the archives (?) . . .

If you actually sign up as a mailing list rather than the web
interface, you don't miss anything.

Cheers,
Jon