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The best thing that ever happened to new music was when composers stopped having to wear ties for group photos.

Actually, all five of them are Giacinto Scelsi.




Also, the fact that Beethoven marked the opening of the Waldstein pp is one more piece of evidence (as if we needed more evidence) that he was great. Anybody else would have marked those notes f or ff, and it would have been generic and bombastic. The contrast between the ferocity of the notest themselves and the dynamic at which they are played gives it that unusual sense of epic anticipation instead of the generic epicness that we hear all the time.

I am Martin Mailman's daughter, so it is with great interest that I read your story about my father. Thanks for the post!!

This is to Martin Mailman's daughter:

I remember you when you as an infant in Greenville, NC, where your mother and father were teaching at East Carolina University. Mickey, as his friends called him, was one of the very finest composers I ever knew, and I was proud to have him for a friend. I first met him and your mother In Jacksonville, where he was the Ford Foundation Composer. Also he and your mother were at Brevard Music Center with me one summer, I think in 1959. I was very distressed to hear that Mickey died on 2000, and I wonder if you might know where I might contact her. She was one of the very finest pianasts I ever knew. She, you, and I attended the same Episcopal Church in Denton for a short while. At Brevard, she, Jack Kitts, and I played the Poulenc Trio for piano, oboe, and bassoon. I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
I wish you all the best, and I was very distresed to hear of his death.I'd really appreciate it if you might contact me.

My email address is: phil_koonce@yahoo.com
I now live in Bath, Maine.

Sincerely,

Phil Koonce

Sincerely,

Phil Koonce

This is to Dr. Mailman's daughter, Phil Koonce, or anyone else who may have contact information for MaryNan Mailman. I studied piano with MaryNan Mailman, Dr. Mailman's wife, at NTSU in the mid-1970s and have fallen out of touch with her. A group of her former students would like to reach her. If anyone has contact information for Mrs. Mailman, can you please pass it along to me at the following address:
dianespear@aol.com

Thanks!

Diane Spear

hello this is dr. mailman's grandson and i thought i would read the article about him. he wrote amazing music!

KG replies: Yes he did. Nice to hear from you.