Hi,
Yeah ... and I wrote some nice things on the original one, and it was the wrong one.
RIP
Folks like him will be missed ... even the CHB could have used him some, or even Yehudi Menuhin, but what the heck ... it's ok without them!
I really liked the East Meets West shows and caught them in Chicago on my Senior Year in High School on a field trip where we also got to see Richard Kiley in "Man of La Mancha", which, of course, I didn't care for, as I like the original story and how it was written, by the Spanish Shakespeare, called Cervantez, but the high school thought the musical was better than the literature!
But there are two memories that are forever cemented in my mind in that day ... the first being the fat old bags in smelly perfumes, coming out of the concert and saying ... all that improvisation, how can that be music? ... and then the massively huge ... totally awesome ... El Greco, at the Chicago Art Institute.
The guts, the ability and the desire ... to show others ... that there is more music out there than you or I will ever know ... is forever forgotten ... and aside from a wonderful handful of folks here, a sad reminder that we simply are not interested in knowing more than the little we know.
RIP ... because today, in my heart is a sad day ... not for you and your family, for we're all proud to have seen, known and appreciated you ... for the wonderful musical soul and heart that you showed us ... for that I'm proud to have been there, and above all, to know what the music meant, and what you thought we needed to know ... still a lot of work to be done ... it's not any better today than yesterday 40 years ago, but at least the stuff is now available, when yesterday it wasn't and the media in America made it sound like a novelty and a weird one at that.
Guts, in music ... is for the giants in the heart and the soul ... and those who mean it! The rest? ...