From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 00:45:45 MDT
At 11:30 PM 7/1/02 -0700, Lee wrote:
>>Jackie
>> du Pré's Elgar tear-making and hair-raising.
>Never heard of her,
Ack! Repair this omission instantly!
>and probably couldn't think of any Elgar beyond
>Pomp and Circumstance and one other thing he wrote.
Egad, the horror, the deprivation. See if you can find the hauntingly
beautiful Ken Russell BBC black and white program about Elgar.
>There was more about how good she was. Or is.
Was. Part of the poignancy of listening to her play is that she died early
of MS (so her almost supernatural control was lost bit by bit, like a
hideous nightmare of cruelty). And she was beautiful, and quirky, which
wouldn't matter to a robot, but does.
Damien Broderick
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