From: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org (the-landing-digest) To: the-landing-digest@smoe.org Subject: the-landing-digest V3 #58 Reply-To: the-landing@smoe.org Sender: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-the-landing-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk the-landing-digest Sunday, April 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: the-landing-digest V3 #57 ["Philip Silva" ] BOF/DE. ["Ryan Sargent" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:01:03 EDT From: "Philip Silva" Subject: Re: the-landing-digest V3 #57 Hello All; Is anyone planning on going to the Wednesday BOF show in Hoboken @ Maxwells? If so, write back - it would be great to meet someone from the list. Does anyone know if BOF will be touring in Europe? Bye Bye Philip ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:34:00 PDT From: "Ryan Sargent" Subject: BOF/DE. Is anybody here going to the BOF show coming up at the Black Cat? DUKE ELLINGTON: - --------------- He didn't sleep at night. He liked to eat large meals - Steak, vegetables, and grapefruit. He drank coca-cola with sugar in it. He hated the color green, especially wall paper. Duke Ellington liked to eat ice cream. He was constantly clean - sartorially speaking. He was the greatest flirt - ever. He respected his elders. He thought the 13th was a lucky day and Friday the 13th was an especially lucky day. He loved the differences in people and revered originality above all else. He liked kangaroos. Duke Ellington remembered people's birthday's. He was patriotic. He worshiped his mother. He was a very good dancer. He liked blue, royal blue, especially curtains. He had good manners and loved New Orleans. Duke Eliington was always calm, even though he was the leader of an orchestra of 16 musicians - all characters - ready, willing, and inclined to express themselves. Duke Ellington touched more people than confetti. He captured the sound of trains, planes, baby(s), lions and elephants. He liked simple songs with complicated developments and pretty endings. He didn't change with the style; he developed. He invented a new system of harmony based on the blues - whole musical forms that have yet to be imitated. He invented new logic's of part writing and orchestration for each composition. In other words, he was a slave to no systems. Duke Ellington combined the sensuality of the blues with the naivete of society music to create blue mood pieces. He understood that music is neither new nor old. He believed that there were two kinds of music; the good kind and the other kind. He was the world's most prolific composer of blues, blueses of all shape and sizes. Duke Ellington wrote music based on Shakespeare's themes. Wrote music to accompany the paintings of Degas. Wrote thousands of innovative arrangements for instrumentalists and vocalists of various levels of sophistication. Wrote music in all 12 known keys and some keys that are still unknown. Wrote music about little bugs and other night creatures. Wrote music about countries all over the world from Nippon to Togo. Wrote music to be played in gymnasiums, street parades, and charades. Wrote sacred music. Wrote music about the human experience; if it was experienced, he stylized it. And he played it all with a heart of blues and swing... In other words, Duke Ellington had a lot on his mind. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of the-landing-digest V3 #58 ********************************