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Marco Romano's avatar

A cricket and a dime! Amazing story and person. You might have heard the following. This somehow brings to mind what Joel Dorn wrote about Most Allison telling him that his epitaph could well read 'Irony is my albatross'. A prominent white educator studying Hopi culture found it strange that almost all their music was about water and asked why. The Hopi man explained that because water was what they had the least of. And then he told the white man "Most of your music is about love."

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Therese Schroeder-Sheker's avatar

Ted, I simply LOVE this posting. Thank you for bringing Charles Kellogg and topics with this kind of imagination and urgency to the fore. Several years ago while concertizing in Italy, David Peat introduced me to a similar legacy which had been nurtured and sustained by a single environmentalist who had survived WWII. That man had died shortly before I arrived but the villagers wanted me to see his notebooks: reams of birdsong scores. Deeply moving! I remember the days when even well intentioned instructors with tenure track professorial appointments once framed that which was white, Western, symphonic and scored by male composers as serious music, real music. They inadvertently dismissed much of what flourished outside that grid as inferior, lacking in seriousness. So thrilled that more informed, generous and respectful scholarship has allowed bias to crumble during our lifetime! BRAVO on bringing Kellogg to your readers! Loved reading this.

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