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Topic: Steel guitar and music (both kinds) - an interview |
Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Damir Besic
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Nashville,TN.
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Posted 22 Mar 2017 3:43 pm |
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nice interview, and that "Soledad" is a beautiful song.... Anapeg sounds great too..thank you , I enjoyed reading and listening...
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Don Drummer
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West Virginia, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 11:25 am susan
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| Susan, a beautiful work and stunning composition][/u] |
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Bill Moran
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Virginia, USA
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 12:50 pm
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Well, ???
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Bob Blair
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 25 Mar 2017 8:57 pm
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| I was at the Vancouver show last night. The intensity of the improvised music that was being created was astounding and left me exhausted. I can't imagine how tired the musicians were after the show. I had a great visit with Susan and also with a long lost family friend who I hadn't seen since we were teenagers, Paul Plimley, who is a brilliant pianist among other things. It was a super cool event and I'm so glad I was able to go. I can't say enough about Susan's work in this extremely challenging context - she and her colleagues had the audience on the edge of their seats. |
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Charlie McDonald
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Posted 26 Mar 2017 5:02 am
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Well it was a fine article, with some of your personal music history.
Soledad is beautiful as always, particularly on a Sunday morning. |
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Ben Lawson
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Brooksville Florida
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Posted 26 Mar 2017 6:14 pm
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| Beautiful playing and tone. Your hands seem to flow across the strings. I like it! |
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Paul Stauskas
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DFW, TX
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Posted 26 Mar 2017 7:42 pm
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Beautiful playing and great interview!
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Andrew Roblin
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Various places
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:06 am
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| Congratulations, Susan! |
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Mike Neer
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NJ
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 5:14 am
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Susan, you are a real inspiration.
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Fred Treece
From:
California, USA
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Posted 27 Mar 2017 11:11 am
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Wow.
So there really are parallel universes. |
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Billy Carr
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Seminary, Mississippi, USA (deceased)
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Posted 28 Mar 2017 4:01 am psg
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| First time I've seen this. I'm always interested in the player, as well as, the music. She's in total control of the PSG and her face and hands flow easily while playing. I especially like the eye contact just before a note(s) is played. She's probably forgot more than I've learned in 46+ years. |
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Curt Trisko
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2017 8:48 am
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I really liked the video imbedded in the article!
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.... while encountering Messiaen’s Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum on her car radio proved a watershed moment.
“I was on my way to a gig, and I just had to pull over,†she recalls. “With my little ‘I can do anything’ hubris, I thought, ‘Well, I can do this!’ So I ordered the score, and it’s for, like, 35 instruments, and they’re all playing a half-step apart… I couldn’t do it, obviously, but I felt ‘Never give up!' |
It's a certain personality type that thinks like this and I know it well.  |
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Susan Alcorn
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Baltimore, MD, USA
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Posted 30 Mar 2017 10:31 am
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Thanks, Damir, Don, Bill, Bob, Charlie, Ben, Paul, Andrew, Mike, Fred, Billy, and Curt!
That was a hastily conducted interview to hopefully promote an improvised music festival in Vancouver that I played at last week.
Damir, I'm glad that you liked Soledad. That song says something different to me every time I play it (and listen to it). The Anapeg is indeed an incredible guitar, though I've never played a Promat.
Bob, it was so nice to meet you last Friday and to play with your childhood friend Paul - kind of quiet and reserved, isn't he? What an incredible pianist!
Billy, I doubt I've forgotten more than you've learned in 46 years (we've probably both learned a lot, but perhaps different things), but I can assure you I've forgotten (and continue to forget) quite a bit.
Fred, I agree with you - there probably are parallel universes, and universes of different magnitude, but that's probably a subject best discussed on the physics section of the SGF (whenever that arrives!). 
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