ELP Digest Vol. 23 #02
02 November 2014
The "I Tried To Mend" Edition
* incorporating the Keith Emerson 70th Birthday edition
and the ELP Digest 23rd Anniversary Edition
* Keith Emerson at the South Shore Symphony (Long Island, NY)
* Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy eastern US/Canada tour starts this week
Today is Keith Emerson's 70th birthday!!!! Happy Birthday, Keith!
Thanks for all the music, performances, and memories!
Also, it was 23 years ago (2 Nov 1991) that I sent out the first ELP Digest. (All back issues are available at http://www.brain-salad.com or http://www.elp-digest.com - it's quite an interesting tour through our own history of the internet to see how far the ability to share information has come since those early days!
Though I don't send out these Digests as much as I used to. There are more avenues for sharing information and, alas, there's less ELP-related news these days. But it's still nice to connect with the people and the music that has meant so much to me.
No real "submissions" but I do want to note that I was very fortunate to be able to attend one of the 2 concerts where Keith played with the South Shore Symphony at Molloy College on Long Island. It was great to hear Keith play and tell great stories.
Another highlight was hearing Jeffrey Biegel play Keith's Piano Concerto #1 in its entirety! I was very fortunate to hear Keith play it with the orchestra in Montreal at the end of the Works tour and Jeffrey's playing of it was just as powerful. And, since that performance, we've received word that Jeffrey has recorded the Concerto with the Brown University orchestra and that performance will be released on CD sometime in 2015!
To save you some time in Google or your search engine of choice, here are some great ways to read/see/listen to Keith's appearances on Long Island:
Also, I wanted to note that Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy is beginning a brief Eastern US/Canada tour later this week that runs through early December. I'm going to go to as many of the New England shows as I can. If you're there, please look for me and say, "hi!". It's always great to meet ELP Digest readers!
Summary of Carl's tour dates through the end of 2014:
06 Nov Durham, NC Motorco Music Hall 07 Nov Athens, GA Melting Point 08 Nov Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse 13 Nov Arlington, MA Regent Theater 14 Nov New York, NY BB King's Blues Club 15 Nov Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center 16 Nov Londonderry, NH Tupelo Music Hall 19 Nov Chicago, IL Reggie's 20 Nov Detroit, MI Jazz Café @ Music Hall 21 Nov Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom 22 Nov New Hope, PA Havana Club 23 Nov Bethlehem, PA MusikFest Café 25 Nov Buffalo, NY Tralf Music Hall 26 Nov Toronto, Ontario, Canada Phoenix Concert Hall 28 Nov Montréal, Quebec, Canada Gesu Theater 29 Nov Stowe, VT Rusty Nail 30 Nov Quebec City, Quebec, Canada Salle Sylvain-Lelièvre 02 Dec Pawtucket, RI The Met 03 Dec Northampton, MA Iron Horse
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End of ELP Digest [Volume 23, Issue 02]
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