GR Music

[KENNETH HOUGHTON]

     A NewBot search for Paul Elwood notes that he is both a doctor and a 
     proponent of "Velcro tap-dancing" (thank the UK for that special 
     note).  Not to mention that the man does Zen meditation. And there's 
     another Dr. Paul Elwood--I'm trusting it's another one, since the 
     banjo player appears to live in the Buffalo area--who is "president of 
     Wyoming's Jackson Hole Group, an association of doctors, business 
     folk, and other reformers, wants a lot more data made available on 
     medical 'outcomes.' "
     
     Were I less paranoid, the recent P-List discussions would sound like a 
     Conspiracy.
     
     As it is, I'm certain there is one.  Some of Them are Us.


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Subject: GR Music
Author:  Orlowsky at aol.com at dbnaccip
Date:    6/7/97 5:26 PM


     

     
The second, Paul Elwood from North Carolina, came forward with a five-string 
banjo and a bow (as in stringed instrument bow). His "In the Zone" is taken 
from the third chapter title of Thomas Pynchon's surreal novel "Gravity's 
Rainbow."
     
   The chapter's first two pages are about an American lieutenant in the
American Zone of Germany after World War II dancing a waltz with a young 
woman in a bombed-out house. This is the subject of the music that is scored 
for the banjo, string orchestra, percussion and piano.
     
   Using extended techniques, Elwood employs a bowed banjo, getting sounds
similar to Indian instruments; but he picks and strums it, too. The whole 
work sounds like an East meets West hoe-down. Elwood is a champion banjo 
player and the orchestra under Portnoy played with flair and ear-tickling 
energy."
     
Bob