Michael S. Wright:
I have known Ed Bland since 1996 and we have met on several occasions and
shared numerous discussions on music and sometimes politics! Ed Bland opened my
eyes to a whole new concept of music. Musically, he was an innovator and made a
permanent mark on my musical ideas. He was also a good friend and I will very
much miss him. I have reprinted below, an essay he gave at the University of
Pittsburgh almost 14 years ago*. I believe that really summed up an important
part of his musical ideas. I would also like to do what I can to ensure his
music lives on. His death comes less than a week before I am going to read out
his valuable commentary he made on my paper I gave on musical temperament at
the same Conference. This will be at an Institute of Acoustics meeting on 19th
March on the same subject.
Kind regards
Mike
*Towards An African
Pianism: Keyboard Music of Africa and the Diaspora
Volume One - Essays
Volume Two - Music
Scores - CDs
Edited by Cynthia Tse
Kimberlin and Akin Euba
Published by the MRI
Press 2005
422 pages, 35 photographs,
numerous music examples and other illustrative material. ISBN
0-9627473-6-X
Volume 1 includes the
following:
Ed Bland - An African
American Composer's View of African Connections
Mike Wright - Is it the Right
Pitch or the Right Temperament? "Comments from Ed Bland"
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