The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18749   Message #187993
Posted By: Mark Cohen
02-Mar-00 - 03:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gordon Bok
Subject: RE: BS: Gordon Bok
Kendall, thanks for the tip! I was lucky enough to be at the Puget Sound Guitar Workshop in 1989 or so when Gordon was on the faculty. He taught a class called "Things to Do With More than One Voice" which was basically a chance to sing fun stuff he'd arranged (most taken from the recently put-together February Tapes), and listen to him talk about singing and sailing and songs, for an hour and a half four days running. Although there were only about twenty in the class, at the student concert we had about a hundred people who had learned Wind Calling during the week, all singing it. (That's the song that is sung by the sea people in Another Land Made of Water: Call now the wind to thee, Go as you may go...) Gordon told us the song really did have the power to call the wind--and sure enough, that night there was a tremendous wind that broke branches on trees. It was a time I won't soon forget. Thanks again for telling us about the site.

Aloha,
Mark