From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V5 #104 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 Monday, May 12 2003 Volume 05 : Number 104 In this issue: [lucy-list] dreams can come true Re: [lucy-list] dreams can come true [lucy-list] Montana, Alaska reviews? Re: [lucy-list] Montana, Alaska reviews? [lucy-list] on knowing pi ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 11:13:57 EDT From: Pfleary@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] dreams can come true For me the dream festival would include: Lucy Dar Williams Richard Shindell Tracy Grammer Tom Paxton Greg Brown John Gorka The Nields Arlo Guthrie Holly Near :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:46:13 -0500 From: "Richard Hill" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] dreams can come true Speaking of truly amazing lineups, this one is for REAL: Al Green Mavis Staples Lucinda Williams Rosanne Cash Patty Griffin Alejandro Escovedo Liz Phair Leftover Salmon Ben Harper R.E.M. Los Lobos Asleep at the Wheel The Derailers String Cheese Incident To name just a few. The full lineup won't be announced for another month. But, all this WILL happen September 19-23, 2003 at Zilker Park, Austin, Texas. The 2nd Annual Austin City Limits Music Festival. http://www.aclfestival.com ~R. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 15:29:15 EDT From: Jsluckey@aol.com Subject: [lucy-list] Montana, Alaska reviews? Dear Lucy-listers, Anybody to report on the Montana & Alaska shows? Joyce Eugene, Oregon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 13:15:43 -0700 From: "Stephen Flamer" Subject: Re: [lucy-list] Montana, Alaska reviews? ...no, but I did go to the Vancouver, B.C. show that she gave just before leaving for Alaska. This was an introduction to Lucy for most of the audience, including myself, and was an 'intimate' group of 100-150. Lots of 2-way bantering, which was quite fun, during which she met a former graduate student of her father's from the '60s who had taught him math at the University of Chicago. She was quite tickled by this. This was her first performance in Canada. Well, I became an instant fan. Just Lucy, her guitar and piano, with no back-up. Incredible talent, personality, and stage presence, which all of you know already. She sang from most of her CDs, sold many, and she signed Every Single Day for me. She did one number that is unfinished and will be on her upcoming new CD. I had a brief chat with her, from one psychologist to an ex-. I should only be as successful in my next career... Stephen Vancouver, B.C. - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2003 12:29 PM Subject: [lucy-list] Montana, Alaska reviews? > Dear Lucy-listers, > > Anybody to report on the Montana & Alaska shows? > > Joyce > Eugene, Oregon ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 18:35:42 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] on knowing pi Unfortunately, no Montana or Alaska reviews to contribute from here...but was glad to see Stephen's B.C. review. My weeklong hiatus from the Lucy-list has involved many adventures great and small (albeit mostly small), including a daylong return to Verizon Hell (this time at least my entire block was affected, not just me---a good thing in terms of getting service restored), the burial of a beloved family pet during my trip upstate that turned unintentionally comical, and a close call with being quoted in the New York Times (as with the hair highlighting TV segment, it didn't happen---my anonymity in the larger world remains intact). However, this being the Lucy-list, I will share my latest Lucy-related thoughts...specifically relating to Lucy and pi. I haven't been at a show where Lucy has done her father's songs in quite a while---no surprise, since she does them mostly at solo shows and I haven't seen her solo in some time. But I have heard her do Song About Pi a number of times, and whenever she does the intro to that song, in explaining how it was written with notes corresponding to the digits of pi, she very quickly reels off pi to a fairly impressive number of decimal places for a layperson. I mean, I never learned it in school beyond 3.14159, but she always goes some digits beyond that. Even knowing the song, I was never able to remember all those numbers---I can't match up notes with their place on the scale that easily---and frankly, I was always a bit disturbed by this. It never bothered me that Lucy could sing way better than I could, or play guitar way better than I could, or write songs way better than I could, but that she, no more mathematical herself overall than I as far as I could tell, could recite PI better than I could??? This seemed to be something I could and should rectify...but I never did. There was never an easy way. Until now. The other day I was listening to a recording I recently obtained of a show Lucy did in California a couple of years ago, one in which her father appeared and played a couple of his songs onstage with her, and in their mutual intro to Song About Pi, it came up that he had ALSO written a mnemonic ("REALLY useful," grumbled Lucy) to help people remember the digits of pi! It's a sentence in which the number of letters in each word corresponds to a number in pi. It goes as follows: "Boy, I need a drink---alcoholic, of course---after the tough lectures involving quantum mechanics!" Of course, I needed to scribble it out right away to make sure that it worked (as if a mathemetician was going to make a mistake on this sort of thing!), but it does. It even goes one digit beyond Song About Pi...and now, thanks to this helpful mnemonic, I can reel off the start of the numerical pi---3.14159265358979---with the best of them (OK, the best of the folk singers, at least!). And for the possibly two or three other people on this list who might actually care and think this mnemonic, courtesy of Irving Kaplansky, is as cool as I think it is (and since Lucy's dad encouraged her to say it onstage, I assume he wouldn't mind), I thought it deserved to be shared. Benay ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V5 #104 ******************************* 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