Hi, Bede. Cordell sends his best wishes. I asked him last night (reading him some of the posts that I googled on the Internet about pan), if really he played without practicing. Here's what he said. He used to go to the library to get the sheet music and "practice" soundlessly there at the library, without hearing a thing. Or, he would copy the music scores onto sheets of paper and take them home, and practice on the table with a sheet of paper that had circles where the notes would have been. Finally, he would play the music on the instrument. When you consider that his music was usually classical, Chopin, Bach, DeBussy, I find this no less incredible.
Cordell was still playing Chopin's "Waltz in C# minor" when I met him in the late 70s. He asked me to put his poetry online and I just posted it. Hope you like it. His "Panology" poems (or at least the first two) were published by Pan-Lime, the newsletter put out by Pan-Yard in Akron, Ohio, in the November 1996 and Jan/Feb 1997 issues.
BEDE LOPEZ > Kathy BarbourApril 10, 2011 at 10:41pm
Thats exactly what I heard from his good friend Rudolph Walker (city symphony/solo harmonites) I just did not want to go through the whole process, and people would start picking and nitpicking, but thanks tho' for putting it out there.
hey Bede thanks for bringing up Spongy's name on the board he is a real pan jumbie so is all his family, Nocturne in Eb is not an 1812 overture though , but you will be surprised how many real crackshots there are out there, spongy nonethe less is "bad a_s ", you are too from what I heard on your video, well people sometimes need to be reminded about people like Spongy , don't forget Moutha bee, zephrine, Delbert Henry and them fellas just to mention a few, As somebody once said real pannist are special grain of musicians, too bad the powers that be focuses only on a select few, a lot of fantastic things have been done with steel, some known some unknown there is a relative of the late George Goddard nemed Andy Goddard one time turned backwards and played half of Hatters version of "home for carnival" on a double tenor without a mistake, I was looking at a 98 video of Fonclaire and saw a fella named Chatterpaul play a chromatic scale on a bass winth two on the pans behind his back whilst standing at attention moving only his hands, and what about the 12 bass man in Solo harmonites any body rember that fella , what is his name he bad too bad, keep the thread going
Hey, Apple, I am glad that I opened this thread, it brings out good history so that the younger people around the world could grasp all this knowledge that they never new. Once at a party many years ago bout 1958 or 59, I saw Kelvin Hart from City Syncopators fix a C# note while playing the tune, yes I quite agree that many people have done remarkable things before and are also doing some of those thing today. As you say "lets KEEP THE THREAD GOING".
Greetings , this discussion is healthy,I also know of Cordell's ability ,we both attended Eastern Boy's Government Primary school.It would be great if we can have CORDELL in T & T for the Carnival in Tobago later this year if it is possible from his schedule.I am willing to make a contribution to his ticket $100.US.
I told Spongy bout it, he appreciate it but he is incapacited, he has been this way a few years now but his memory is still very very sharp, He knows you very well, if you give me your email I will send you his tele#
Actually I was the first to play a tune on the tenor pan without pracitising. It was a classic!! I was the only person that could recognise the tune. I played soooo badly!
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Why??... What's the point??... So that you would not be as good as you might otherwise be??...
Would you ask the same of your doctor??????????????
And what ultimate, unvarnished PROOF is there that Spongy did not practice?... None whatsoever!!
Ridiculous!!
Hi, Bede. Cordell sends his best wishes. I asked him last night (reading him some of the posts that I googled on the Internet about pan), if really he played without practicing. Here's what he said. He used to go to the library to get the sheet music and "practice" soundlessly there at the library, without hearing a thing. Or, he would copy the music scores onto sheets of paper and take them home, and practice on the table with a sheet of paper that had circles where the notes would have been. Finally, he would play the music on the instrument. When you consider that his music was usually classical, Chopin, Bach, DeBussy, I find this no less incredible.
Cordell was still playing Chopin's "Waltz in C# minor" when I met him in the late 70s. He asked me to put his poetry online and I just posted it. Hope you like it. His "Panology" poems (or at least the first two) were published by Pan-Lime, the newsletter put out by Pan-Yard in Akron, Ohio, in the November 1996 and Jan/Feb 1997 issues.
You always starting something, this is a good discussion us young folks can learn a lot from discussion.
Greetings , this discussion is healthy,I also know of Cordell's ability ,we both attended Eastern Boy's Government Primary school.It would be great if we can have CORDELL in T & T for the Carnival in Tobago later this year if it is possible from his schedule.I am willing to make a contribution to his ticket $100.US.
Hi,
Actually I was the first to play a tune on the tenor pan without pracitising. It was a classic!! I was the only person that could recognise the tune. I played soooo badly!
Jean Campbell
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