Klarinet Archive - Posting 000167.txt from 2001/03

From: Bilwright@-----.net (William Wright)
Subj: RE: [kl] Singing bowls
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 00:57:58 -0500

<><> David@-----.=A0Kumpf wrote:
I think the movie is "All of Me" with Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin and
Victoria Tennant (sp?). I don't think Robin Williams is in it...unless
this is some other movie?

I believe that you are correct. That was my error.

The final chapter of this episode: The album liner says,"The bowl
music is so arranged that one section flows into another without sudden
contrast and it is Alain Presencer's (the performer's) especial plea
that for a total experience the disc should be played in its entirety."
So I obliged, and guess what? At the end of the recording, I felt
an immediate need to listen to Mahler's Fifth.
I doubt very much that Mahler was influenced by 'singing bowl
music' (or by the woodwind/chimes/gongs/chanting that accompany the
bowls -- it's more than just bowls); but when you listen to Mahler's
Fifth immediately after the Tibetan music, the two of them fit together
quite naturally, as if the one was planned to follow the other.
Most of the Tibetan music is microtonal, and yet I feel as if I
heard in Mahler's Fifth the proper completion of the Tibetan melodies
(sequences? it's hard to call them 'melodies'). Europe and the East
fitted together hand-in-glove.
For $3.49 (www.musicalheritage.com), I don't see how you can go
wrong. The Singing Bowls of Tibet.

Cheers,
Bill

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