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Great story, man!




- In 200e@yahoogroups.com, "Gary Chang" <gchang@...> wrote:
>
> Up front, I apologize for my off-topicness....
> 
> No cenntenial commisions, 1976 - not ready for primetime yet....
> 
> I built my Serge system in the summer of 1976 while living at 
Serge's
> Lab, above a massage parlor on Western Avenue!  It was the summer 
in
> the middle of my MFA studies.  
> 
> FWIW, I am indebted to Serge for his wisdom and candor during 
period
> of time.  Perhaps not often mentioned, Serge has a very pedigree
> musical upbringing - his grandfather, Alexander Tcherepnin, the
> notable Russian piano composer, his father. Nicolai Tcherepnin, who
> was a composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony, and his 
mother,
> a Shanghai Chinese Pianist who lived in France.  Studies with Nadia
> Boulanger (he studied with her during the time when Quincy Jones
> Studied with her!), and his ties to the Darmstadt crew makes him 
one
> of the last of a dying breed of the post WWII avant garde.  When it
> comes down to it, he was brought up in the ranks of Carlos and 
Glass,
> but came out to California to Calarts, building Mort special custom
> boxes, and, eventually creating his bathtub-gin version of the 
modular
> synthesizer....  
> 
> For not knowing this young student from Pittsburgh, PA (e.i., me),
> Serge was quite generous to let me stay in the back room of the lab
> for 2 months, though, to be honest, it wasn't the most pleasant
> neighborhood - porno movie theaters and a rather motley crew 
loitering
> on the street nightly.  My only sense of security was the next door
> neighbors, who were a metal rock band - they had a shot gun....
> 
> Serge was fascinated with all of the little idiomatic statements 
of my
> chatter at the time, such as, 
> 
> "that really blows a dead dog!" and 
> "lick the street" or 
> "that's better that me dragged from the back of a truck!"
> 
> He finally came up with one of his own, speaking in his thick 
French
> accent;
> 
> "Fuck a Duck on a Crutch!"
> 
> Perhaps this says it all about Serge...!
> 
> 
> gary
> 
> 
> 
> "cuari7" <cuari7@> wrote:
>   
> > 
> > Wow, Gary, and were you ever commisioned music for the first 
> > Centennial of the USA?
> > 
> > Serge tcherepnin must have been awful' young back then....!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ;-P
> >
>