Nancarrow

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To Carl Lumma --

Actually Nancarrow, as many people know, DID get in trouble with the US by
getting on the "other side" of the Spanish revolution against Franco...

He was in exile in Mexico and not allowed in the US for extended periods.
The important part of this is simply the fact that he had NO
instrumentalists in Mexico City who could perform his music anywhere near
the concepts he had in mind.

This is how he came to the player piano... so this "exile" problem is
significant.

It's lucky that he did, since his player piano music is the most
interesting stuff he has done and really his "claim to fame" or the way he
got recognized through this novelty.

A few years ago, Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs did a full program of
Nancarrow at Alice Tully and he was there. It was a great night.
Tragically, he died shortly thereafter.

I believe Kyle Gann is writing a book on Nancarrow... Gann has transcribed
most of the Nancarrow music for synthesizer.

I am not certain whether Nancarrow did anything outside of 12-tET. It's
possible, but I'm not certain...

Joseph Pehrson

>Exile is an extremely personal matter,

Exile to me means the Federal government had a standing warrant for his
arrest, or perhaps a standing rule that nobody named "Conlon Nancarrow"
should be allowed across the border. Niether of these things were ever the
case, were they, Daniel?

-Carl

Carl Lumma wrote:

> >Exile is an extremely personal matter,
>
> Exile to me means the Federal government had a standing warrant for his
> arrest, or perhaps a standing rule that nobody named "Conlon Nancarrow"
> should be allowed across the border. Niether of these things were ever the
> case, were they, Daniel?

I suggest we vote on changing the name of the
list to the semantics list. Screw the tuning crap.

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>Exile is an extremely personal matter,

Exile to me means the Federal government had a standing warrant for his
arrest, or perhaps a standing rule that nobody named "Conlon Nancarrow"
should be allowed into the country. Neither of these things were ever the
case, were they, Daniel?

-Carl

>Exile is an extremely personal matter,

Exile to me means the Federal government had a standing warrant for his
arrest, or perhaps a standing rule that nobody named "Conlon Nancarrow"
should be allowed into the country. Neither of these things were ever the
case, were they, Daniel?

-Carl