Performance announcement

Dear all,

I'd like to invite you to attend the off-off-Broadway play "Nuclear
Family", for which I am performing solo guitar to provide transition music,
background music, and accompaniment for the actors when they sing. I'm
learning a lot in the process and consider this my training for writing for
film. The play deals with adult themes and, despite the title, is NOT
family entertainment.

Here are the details:

Wednesdays through Saturdays
December 1 - 18
Abingdon Theater
432 West 42nd Street, 4th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York City
$10 admission
8:00 p.m.
Call (212) 330-8926 for reservations.

John Link

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Watch for the CD "Live at Saint Peter's" by John Link's vocal quintet,
featuring original compositions as well as arrangements of instrumental
music by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Bill Evans, Ennio and
Andrea Morricone, Modeste Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, and Earl Zindars.

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John Link wrote,

>I'd like to invite you to attend the off-off-Broadway play "Nuclear
>Family", for which I am performing solo guitar to provide transition music,
>background music, and accompaniment for the actors when they sing. I'm
>learning a lot in the process and consider this my training for writing for
>film. The play deals with adult themes and, despite the title, is NOT
>family entertainment.

>Here are the details:

>Wednesdays through Saturdays
>December 1 - 18
>Abingdon Theater
>432 West 42nd Street, 4th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York
City
>$10 admission
>8:00 p.m.
>Call (212) 330-8926 for reservations.

Are you playing _microtonal_ guitar?

>From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com>
>
>John Link wrote,
>
>>I'd like to invite you to attend the off-off-Broadway play "Nuclear
>>Family", for which I am performing solo guitar to provide transition music,
>>background music, and accompaniment for the actors when they sing. I'm
>>learning a lot in the process and consider this my training for writing for
>>film. The play deals with adult themes and, despite the title, is NOT
>>family entertainment.
>
>>Here are the details:
>
>>Wednesdays through Saturdays
>>December 1 - 18
>>Abingdon Theater
>>432 West 42nd Street, 4th Floor (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York
>City
>>$10 admission
>>8:00 p.m.
>>Call (212) 330-8926 for reservations.
>
>Are you playing _microtonal_ guitar?

Given all the discussion of the terms "microtone" and "microtonal", that
depends on whom you ask. I'm playing a 12tet Martin D-35 that I've owned
since 1972.

John Link

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Watch for the CD "Live at Saint Peter's" by John Link's vocal quintet,
featuring original compositions as well as arrangements of instrumental
music by Chick Corea, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Bill Evans, Ennio and
Andrea Morricone, Modeste Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, and Earl Zindars.

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>>Are you playing _microtonal_ guitar?

>Given all the discussion of the terms "microtone" and "microtonal", that
>depends on whom you ask. I'm playing a 12tet Martin D-35 that I've owned
>since 1972.

Great. I have some nice 12-tET guitars (including a Martin) too and I'll be
playing them at a gig on Saturday. Do you think it would be appropriate if I
advertised that gig here? I'd definitely like to, but what is this list
about? There are 340 people here now; do we really have room for everyone's
"extracurriculars"?

>Is there a policy of what is acceptable on the list? I've never received
>any.
>
>Comments from anybody else?

While I usually favor a rather strict, narrow definition of subject matter
for e-mail and usenet discussion, the topic of tuning strikes me as a
rather special one. The economic and social machinery, the number of
fields involved, in bringing about a conscious evaluation of musical tuning
is so great, that as long as the topic is related to music, I don't see the
harm. One of the greatest things about this list, in my eyes, has been its
ability to foster the tuning _community_. If I could go and enjoy a
concert, and know that much more about a certain microtonalist's approach
to music, and maybe meet him afterwards, then yes, I'd like to know about it.

Concert announcements are so few on this list, that I don't think anyone
could complain. OTOH, several listers have complained, and even left the
list, due to a lack of _musical practice_ being discussed here.
Importantly, I have been to microtonal concerts featuring considerably less
microtonality than the average "normal" concert.

Finally, there is the old, but good, bandwidth is cheap argument. How much
does it really take to ignore somebody's concert announcement? When there
are so many microtonal concert listings here that I can't attend all of
them, then I'll make a motion to narrow the subject matter.

John, your post was a little vague as to what microtonal content, if any,
it was going to have. Next time, just open with a word about that.

-Carl

For any of you living in or near Washington, DC, I thought I would pass on
the following announcement. I'm afraid that all the instruments will be
tuned in 12tet, but I think that the event will be interesting anyway.

John Link

Burnett Thompson will be conducting a performance tour of the Piano300
collection on Thurs, June 22 and on Saturday, July 1, at 12:00 noon at the
Ripley Bldg., between the Freer and Castle bldgs at the Smithsonian. The
collection includes the original fortepiano, made in 1722, as well as
instruments made in 1768, 1788, and so forth.

This is a celebration of the 300 yr history of the piano, and includes
original instruments of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Ellington, Berlin,
Liberace, et al. The tours begin at 12 noon and last one hour.

Part of the beauty of the tour is hearing music of the composers on the
corresponding instrument of their time, often a startling revelation. For
more info, see www.piano300.org, the Smithsonian site.

The repertoire Mr. Thompson will perform includes excerpts from the following:

Haydn Sonata in Ab
Mozart Sonata in A w/variations
Mozart Sonata in A minor
Beethoven Fur Elise
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven Waldstein Sonata
Schubert Sonata in A minor DV 845
Schumann Symphonic Etudes, Scenes from Childhood
Brahms Piano Concerto #1
Lizst Sonata in B minor
Chopin Fantasie in F minor, Prelude in A, Fantasie Impromptu, Polonaise
Puccini Arias (transcribed by B.T.)
Rachmaninoff Prelude in G minor
Joplin: Entertainer, Maple Leaf
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Fats Waller Ain't Misbehavin'
Berlin Cheek to Cheek (stride) (on his piano)
Hupfeld As Time Goes By
Ellington Just Squeeze Me, A Train, Don't Get Around, Sweet Mama (on his
piano)
Billy Joel She's Got a Way
Chick Corea 500 miles high (on Fender Rhodes Piano)