Commencement Speaker's Address: Laurie Anderson

[Ian Livingston]

Well, yeah, but it would have had to be a special set of banjos of her own
design. Maybe she'll still do it someday....


On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Rich Clavey <antizoyd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> My god, if anybody could put GR to banjo Laurie could. I wish she had
> taken him up on that...
>
> http://www.macclaveyphotography.com/
>
> --- On *Mon, 5/28/12, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Commencement Speaker's Address: Laurie Anderson
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, May 28, 2012, 9:16 PM
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zthU59YvuqY
>
> SVR:     Who are some artists you admire and why?
>
> Anderson:     Thomas Pynchon I admire very much. And now I'm using
> "artist" in the broadest sense of the word. Gravity's Rainbow is just
> so beautiful because it's very multidimensional. I really like books
> that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic
> and visual. I wanted to make an opera of that book, actually, and I
> wrote to him and asked him if that would be OK (I actually found him;
> he's quite reclusive). And he wrote me this funny letter. He said,
> 'You can do it, but you can only use banjo.' And so I thought, 'Well,
> thanks. I don't know if I could do it like that.' I suppose it was his
> polite way of saying, 'No. No way can you do this.'
>
> http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html
>
> Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," the Laurie Anderson opera that
> never came to pass
>
>
> http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/01/thomas-pynchons-gravitys-rainbow-the-laurie-anderson-opera-that-never-came-to-pass
>
>


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groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
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