From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V3 #229 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, October 29 1999 Volume 03 : Number 229 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- Birchmere Show [Mitchell Sava ] Dow deja vu [dkaskela ] susan at passim [Paul Kim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Oct 1999 08:01:21 -0500 From: Mitchell Sava Subject: Birchmere Show Hello All, Is anyone going to the Birchmere show on Saturday? I'm coming cross country for it (well, actually I'm going to see my parents, but the Susan show certainly helped me pick the date for the trip!) I haven't received my Believer pin yet, so I'll have to hunt the rest of you out. Look forward to meeting some of you there. - Mitch =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mitchell E. Sava msava@dttus.com Deloitte Consulting (work) 415.783.4355 50 Fremont Street San Francisco, CA 94105 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 16:47:32 -0400 From: dkaskela Subject: Dow deja vu Hi all- If you go back to the archives on 9/23/99 you will find the lyrics for Dow Re Mi verbatim as performed 9/5/99 at the Lower Merion "Concert Under the Stars". Of course, Susan regularly fiddles with the lyrics as well as timing, patter between and during songs,tempo and a host of other things. But "That's the way it was, Sunday, September 5th, 1999" to paraphrase old Walter Cronkite. ("WHO?" The post baby boomers chorused in unison!) Anyone else going to the late show at the Tin Angel tomorrow night? I'll be looking for you. Dave HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 02:50:32 -0400 From: Paul Kim Subject: susan at passim this won't be much of a review. but i just needed to get three things out. these three things exemplify why i love susan. Or, what i did on my summer vacation. by paul kim. susan played around on the keyboard she was using that night (a Kurzweil, i believe), and it was obvious that she had spent some time with it since she played some licks and sang "Desperadoes" while a programmed track spewed out the chord changes; and both times she performed "Movie of my Life" she segued into the songs via some odd little snippets of other things. She punched up a choir patch and played some of Handel's Messiah, pulled out some harpsichord to do some Bach, and grabbed some other sounds for other shenanigans before she started the song. A lot of fun. Oh, and don't mind her counterpoint at the end of "movie"...it's got nothing on Bach ;) Susan showed us what a marvel she is by goofing around at one point (ok, many points, but i'm just talking about this one point for now) and singing the 59th Street Bridge Song (feelin' groovy) in a manner that left my jaw on the floor. She sang the first verse and chorus through normally, and then, while playing the same chord changes, sang the next verse and chorus entirely a whole step up. It was perfectly out of key and sounded expertly bad. She had prefaced this little jaunt into the absurd by saying "here's something that I used to do just for fun"...which leaves me wondering what this woman does when she really wants to have loads of fun...be an entire barbershop quartet by herself? Susan pulled out the Pete Seeger/Corinthians tune "Turn, Turn, Turn" at the end of the first show. She warned us that it would be a little different than what we might be used to hearing. As she went into the song, I noticed that it was a little skewed, a little off...i tapped it out, bobbed my head, conducted the meter, and realized it was in 5...and thoughts from a couple days before returned to me. I had been thinking before the show that Susan and Sting would work well together...they both have the penchant for writing the absolutely perfect pop songs that can range anywhere in subject matter and style, they both have such unique voices and talents, and they can turn the usual on its head while taking the unusual and making it seem normal. Now this. Sting has always taken odd meters such as 5 or 7 and used them in songs without even letting the listener in on the joke...he makes the normally clunky rhythms work out so they sound blase. And Susan was able to pull this off with her version of "Turn, Turn Turn". What made it even more fun was that one of her guitar strings broke so she had to figure out a way on the fly to get the thing into another tuning...but she never broke stride in her singing. And while she got the guitar in tune, playing the bottom two strings as a bass drone-kinda thing, she asked us to sing along, and then told us with a smile "you know, you're singing in five....can you feel it?", strumming out the rhythm like a mischievous little child sharing a secret. ahhh.... and of course, i got to see her do La Habanera again. and she had a very cool wardrobe. and she took requests during the second show. and she cussed. now if only she'd perform "I'm in love again" again... Paul "my cat's sleeping upside down" Kim HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at songs.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V3 #229 ******************************* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message