Letters
These letters were published in Vol. 17, #1.
Kind Words for an “Unequipped” Reviewer
Thank you very much for reviewing our Immersion DVD-Audio and mailing me a copy of the issue. I appreciate the thorough way you offered some comments on each piece.
I hope you get to hear this in surround someday. All the music uses surround in ways that are missing in stereo.
I also note it is technically impossible for the DVD-Audio format to support moving images; it can only present a limited number of still images.
Good luck with your publication,
Tom [Steenland]
Starkland [Records]
Boulder, CO
Roses from the South?
Dear Barry,
Thank you so much for sending me the latest edition of the New Music Connoisseur. This journal is such a fascinating treasure of features and activities on the contemporary music scene; I am enjoying it immensely. You and your entire editorial staff are to be congratulated on the work you do.
It was also very nice to see my review of Leonard’s excellent CD in print.
Thanks again,
Ken Boulton
Southeastern Louisiana U.
Hammond, LA
East-West Perspective
Dear Barry,
You are still my best source of New York new music info.
Sending my best wishes,
Dr. Jane Brockman, composer
Santa Monica, CA
A Missing Event
Hi Barry,
Sounds like some really cool developments are in the works. Really looking forward to the “new and improved, more taste and less filling!” NMC! 
I’m off to a concert now (my 9-year old twins playing in the school orchestra), but just one quick thing about the current issue: How could the passing of Max Neuhaus go unnoticed!? One of the most underappreciated American composers of the post-War era, in my opinion. I was just in New York last weekend for a premiere, and paid a visit to Times Square in memoriam, to see/hear/experience
his Times Square installation (you know that work, right?). If not, there is a wonderful 8-minute documentary video about it on his website: http://www.max-neuhaus.info/audiovideo/) Truly a loss, and I hope that NMC will write something about him in the next issue!
Off I go.
All best,
Lansing McLoskey
Odhecaton Z Music
Miami, FL
[Ed. note: Max Neuhaus passed away about the time we began putting the last issue to bed. His obituary appears in this issue.]
A Blast from the Past!
Dear Mr. Cohen,
I am writing because I discovered that one of the contributing editors to New Music Connoisseur
is Larry Vide. I was wondering if he is the same Larry Vide who taught English and Drama at Sheepshead Bay High School when I was a student there (I graduated in 1963). If so, could [we exchange] contact information?…
I … just wanted to tell Mr. Vide that I am one of his success stories, having been inspired by him and having gone on to become an English professor at Ohio State University, where I have been teaching for over thirty years. Teachers, as you may know, so rarely get to hear these kinds of things, and I just wanted to express my gratitude and share information.
My best,
Professor Les Tannenbaum
Department of English
Ohio State University
Columbus, OH 43210
[Ed. note: The Larry Vide Mr. Tanenbaum is seeking is indeed the same Larry (or Laurence) Vide he studied with and who has been serving as an illustrator for NMC for almost ten years.]
