[Oe List ...] You Deserve a Treat Today

[frank bremner]

Hi Beret!

 

(1)

 

"Lots of tapes" - between my cassettes, in storage, and those of the late Ken Maher, in the Australian National Library, we should eventually have recorded versions of the Sep-Nov 1972 Academy in Sydney.  There must be some sining there!

 

I have yet to hear what happened to the LP records of singing (S/72, S/71?) that we had in the Philadelphia House when I was there in Sep 79 - May 80.  We sold some of them to raise funds, but maybe there were some left over.

 

(2)

 

And like many of you, I find myself breaking out into one of "our" songs, with "our" words, at odd (but most

appropriate) times.

 

(3)

 

As I'm developing my The Wedge Workshop program, for secondary school students initially, I've been thinking about singing.  What songs - singable songs - would students of today put together into a collection?  What do students sing along with today?  And under what themes? 

 

Not lots of grown-ups' songs - not initially anyway - wait for a Michael Buble or Coldplay or version to make them "new".

 

(I always got a buzz at school dances in the 1980s when students would rave about a "great new song" the DJ was playing .  I then deflated them when telling them it was Friday on My Mind from the Easybeats, 1964.  On the other hand, some of them did have a sense of musical history.  One group of 1986 Year 10 Science students were in a guitar band, and were fans of Sky, Segovia, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Les Paul.)

 

Cheers

 

Frank Bremner
 


Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:59:04 -0500
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
From: beretgriffith at charter.net
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] You Deserve a Treat Today

What a treasure. I recall coming into the Great Hall after singing had gotten going during a summer program. As I stood at the back for a few moments, looking over the gathered community before finding a seat, I felt in the midst of something extraordinary. 

Hundreds of tapes are part of the archives. Most of them are most likely not in very good shape. And...there must be some among them that have survived. 

Beret Griffith

At 07:26 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:

Colleagues --

Can't sit on this until our usual end of month Repository update--just too good!  Many thanks to John Tresise, who found this remarkable cassette tape of our singing at Summer '72 and converted it to digital audio. Its sound quality is first rate and includes not only our singing but some of the other elements of our common life at that summer assembly.  I haven't experienced anything that better transports one back into our life together at this moment in time.

It's about thirty minutes long, so give it a chance to download to your player after you click on it. You should plan to have the time available when you start listening; I don't think you'll want to interrupt this. 
http://twiki.wedgeblade.net/bin/view.cgi/Main/Summer72Sing

Gordon

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