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GG & Iceland & William Morris & Dancing Subhumans
This, with a buncha kewl images, is
almost certainly the William Morris exhibit you're referring to. I'm sorry I
forgot to buy the CD; I bought everything else in the gift shop.
For my desktop wallpaper I use Morris'
first wallpaper design, "Loop Trail," by Kate Faulkner (wife of Morris
& Co.'s accountant, who also designed). "Loop Trail" is on the
above Morris URL. I really want to see Kelmscott House in London
someday.
"Dance of the Subhumans" --
now THERE'S a title and a half! Click HERE to order NOW.
Several hours at the Iceland airport
sounds just dandy! Imagine how much fun it would be to actually get out into the
countryside and to Rekjavik!
Reminds me of the fellow in rural Maine
who won the Volunteer Fire Department raffle, a round-trip train ride to New
York City and a week at a hotel. Everybody in the little town was there to see
him off on the train. Then a week later they were all there to welcome him back.
HOW WAS NEW YORK??? they all yelled as
he got off the train. He blushed a deep crimson.
"Well, to tell you the
truth," he admitted, "there was so much goin' on down at the depot,
that I never did get out to see the village."
>Hey, I had some of Morris' designs as my Windows
wallpaper for a while
>about a year ago. I learned about those from
a CD "Music For William
>Morris" that includes some of Gibbons'
keyboard music, played by Martin
>Souter. The CD was evidently for
some Morris retrospective exhibition.
>
>My favorite Icelandic CD (I
have at least 25, of various things) is "The
>Hamrahlid Choir"
with a cappella works by Nordal, Leifs, Sveinsson, and
>others.
Haunting (and sort of like Sibelius' choral music). And that led
>me
to collect a bunch of individual discs of Leifs' works. Weird,
wild
>stuff. "Dance of the Subhumans" in
"Baldr"...weird, wild stuff.
>
>This "Edda" CD
is pretty good, too, diametrically different from Leifs:
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000IFOM/
>
>It's
about 3000% better than the strange promotional Coca-Cola CD of
>Christmas
music (about half in Icelandic). Boy, there's a
novelty.
>
>The BIS CD "An Anthology of Icelandic Choir
Music" is good, too, and a
>disc of solo Icelandic violin music
played by Rut Ingolfsdottir....
>
>I got most of those discs after
the Iceland stopover; the several discs
>from the airport, and the
landscape, and the storytelling all hooked me to
>want to know
more.
>
>Bradley Lehman, Dayton VA
>home: http://i.am/bpl or http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl
>CD's:
http://listen.to/bpl or http://www.mp3.com/bpl
>
>"Music
must cause fire to flare up from the spirit - and not only sparks
>from
the clavier...." - Alfred Cortot
>