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Subject: [Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon Jul 25 21:51:10 2005
References: <7629EB4795F39146A4D2ECC655CD68EA05703DC1@asc02.asc.upenn.edu>

Very nice and unusual use of the format. Was this artistically 
motivated, or is the space on the left meant for text?

Nathan

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

> No latex, no piercings. I knew that only leica glass could do this one
> justice.
> 
> 
> A portrait of composer George Crumb. 
> 
> 
> http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/paw/2005/31/2.jpg
> 
> 
> when i was in college, the crumb buzz peaked when the kronos quartet
> annouced that they had recorded Black Angels, crumb's 1970 reaction to the
> vietnam war, long though to be unplayable because of its extreme 
> complexity.
> everybody was listening to it. the recording is brilliant -- melodic,
> dissonet, frightening -- it was like being shot through the chest with a
> violin.
> 
> Dr. Crumb himself I found to be affable, pleasant, soft spoken, and
> gregarious. All those positive adjectives that you want to attribute to
> someone you admire.
> 
> Thanks to Jim Shulman with hooking me up with this portrait gig.
> 
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