Trinidad!

[libertango]

kate_schaefer wrote to me with a snippet of something we were talking about last night:

Trinidad!
...and the big Mississippi,
and the town Honolulu...

This was just enough to get me finding a few things. The piece in question is "The Geographical Fugue" or "Fuge aus der Geographie" by Ernst Toch.

While searching for more details, I found this reminiscence by Lawrence Weschler, who is Toch's grandson. Among other things, it turns out the English translation of the piece was made at the instigation of John Cage -- which is probably why I performed it with my college choir, as both Cage and I are alumni of Pomona College.

Comments

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

And apropos of spoken choruses, this reminded me to go googling for the full text of the Vestibules' "Bulbous Bouffant", whose page includes the bonus of a link to a video-game music video of the original skit, here, so people can even listen to it.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

I performed at Yale, with the New Blue. We just did it because it was cool.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

It. It. I performed it at Yale, with the New Blue.

I hate it when I words out.