In memory of Theodore Sturgeon, Leonard Nimoy,
and William Thomas McKinley —
From the Boston Modern Orchestra Project today :
"In a good way"
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Logical Loop
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Elegy with Stars
This evening's New York Times —
"William Thomas McKinley, a prolific American composer
whose music was infused with the jazz he had performed
since childhood, died on Feb. 3 at his home in Reading,
Mass. He was 76.
He died in his sleep, his son Elliott said."
"William Thomas McKinley: Elegy for Strings (2006)
[Elliott McKinley]
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Published on Feb 11, 2015
Composed as an elegy and tribute for friends and family
that have passed, spurred by the passing of McKinley's
long time friend, drummer Roger Ryan. The performance
heard here is by the Seattle Symphony under the direction
of Gerard Schwarz.
Photos by Elliott McKinley (Rho Ophiuchi nebula complex…
and the Pleiades…) shot at Cherry Springs State Park."
Related material from the date of McKinley's death —
Expanding the Spielraum.
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Recycled Religion
The previous post's Kirkridge link leads to
a mention of religious philosopher Parker J. Palmer.
From an Utne Reader page on Palmer:
See also Theodore Sturgeon's 1949 story "What Dead Men Tell"—
"… He’d read about it in a magazine or somewhere.
He took a strip of scrap film about eighteen
inches long and put the ends together. He turned
one end over and spliced ’em. Now, if you trace
that strip, or mark it with a grease pencil, right up
the center, you find that the doggone thing only
has one side!”
The doctor nodded, and the girl said:
“A Möbius strip.”
“That what they call it?” said Hulon. “Well, I figured
this corridor must be something like that. On that
strip, a single continuous line touched both sides.
All I had to do was figure out an object built so that
a continuous line would cover all three of three sides,
and I’d have it. So I sat down and thought it out…."
— and the following mathematical illustration —
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What Dead Men Tell*
"I thought I had an important idea.
It's part of a … call it a philosophy,
if that doesn't sound too high-
falutin'," he said.
"It's a philosophy," she said.
"We can call things by their names."
Leonard Nimoy, 2015 :
"A life is like a garden.
Perfect moments can be had,
but not preserved, except in memory."
* A tale from Astounding Science Fiction
Vol. 44, No. 3, November 1949
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