From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V2 #129 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Saturday, May 20 2000 Volume 02 : Number 129 In this issue: [lucy-list] Tom Lehrer [lucy-list] TYN Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on Joni's List ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:56:17 -0400 From: "Paul Castle" Subject: [lucy-list] Tom Lehrer Jeff jeffb@optonline.net wrote: > Has anyone ever seen Irving Kaplansky and Tom Lehrer >in the same place at the same time? They both sing, write >silly songs, play piano, and are mathematics professors... As a very young child I remember being puzzled by the lines of one of Tom Lehrer's songs, which I heard at a friend's house. "Take your cigarette from its holder And carve your initials in my shoulder As we dance to the Masochism Tango, ole!" At the time, I thought 'Tango' was a fizzy orange drink that was supposed to be not very good for my teeth, for some reason. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:08:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "goldberg, sharon d" Subject: [lucy-list] TYN i guess i have nothing to be concerned about FUV spinning lucy kaplansky.. TYN is being played this am at 9:10am i will not be able to record the drive time airplay, as some of you know. i dont have my car right now, due to an accident on the interborough yesterday. they havent told me that my car has gone the way of cliff eberhardt's little red guitar but being without it hampers my travel to music event. dar not only am i on house arrest, but i have to walk when i can ' get out...i have a bike, so lucy in fact see me riding up to her next gig... sharonG who will not be in watertown or haverhill.. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 13:48:42 EDT From: SpecGlobal@aol.com Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Lucy on Joni's List In a message dated 05/18/2000 10:10:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, pdcmusic@freeuk.com writes: << I hope Harvey will forgive me for stealing his thunder a little, but I could not stop myself posting extracts of the Associated Press interview on the Joni list. >> Paul; Forgive you? I thank you! The more people that hear about Lucy and her music the better. Please feel free to repost to your heart's content. As for the Joni List, I would guess that anyone who is a Joni fan should absolutely love Lucy. I saw Joni in concert just after "Blue" came out. The "emotional resonance" that I heard and felt that night was something that I have never forgotten. Joni's performance of "River" at that concert was probably the most incredible thing I have ever witnessed a performer do. The depth of sadness and despair Joni had in her voice was (both literally and figuratively) breathtaking. It wasn't until many years later that I read that during that period Joni was in the midst of approaching (or experiencing) a nervous breakdown. It took many years until I found in Lucy an artist who could communicate emotion at the same kind of deep level (thankfully without the accompanying clinical difficulties). I have had some extraordinarily interesting conversations about what draws a person to a particular artist's music. Lucy has an exceptionally beautiful voice, her material (particularly the things she and Rick have written) is fantastic, she always projects genuine intelligence, wit, warmth and friendliness, and is a joy to see in concert. All true, but for me it has always been the "emotional resonance" that touches me most deeply and most sets Lucy apart from other artists. When Lucy performs, it is patently obvious how deeply she experiences her music. There is only one Joni Mitchell. Likewise, there is only one Lucy Kaplansky. Harvey ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V2 #129 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message