Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 1995/09

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Better not to listen to Bob Spring's Dragon's Tongue
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 16:24:56 -0400

> From: MX%"ux403@-----.63
> Subj: Re: Teacher Comments

> >
> >I have a student who is interested in attending Arizona State University and
> >studying with Robert Spring. Does anyone have any information regarding his
> >teaching emphasis or any general information about his program?
> >
> >
> Robert Spring is on this list, and will probably reply to you directly.
> Here is his e-mail address if you do not hear from him:
> robert.spring@-----.edu
> I have heard good things about his teaching; he does a great deal of
> contemporary music with extended techniques. He can circular breathe
> and double tongue like crazy! (Listen to his Dragon's Tongue CD and you'll
> be suitably impressed)

I recommend against it. I bought the record and have been depressed
ever since. It is so great, it will put ordinary mortals into a blue
funk! The man in not human. I think he is an android and, being
familiar with such species, they have 18 fingers and several tongues,
all forked.

>
> Lisa Gartrell Yeo
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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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