[Leica] Portrait of Composer George Crumb

[stasys1 at cox.net (Stasys Petravicius)]

Kyle- I like it- but - could you erase the hair from the right eyebrow 
that crosses his eye? Otherwise he looks like he has all the attributes 
that you ascribe. Stasys
On Jul 25, 2005, at 8:53 AM, 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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