For those who may not know Bill Duckworth’s music, David McIntire is making Andy Lee’s lovely recording of The Time Curve Preludes on Irritable Hedgehog a free download through Sunday night.
What hurts today is the visceral sense I have that Bill’s sense of humor has disappeared from the earth. Bill had an attractive knack of finding life humorously absurd. Seen through his eyes, the world seemed petty, laughable, and nonthreatening, like it wasn’t big enough to scare him. Even though I hadn’t seen him much lately, I already miss that, like I may not get to see it that way again.
UPDATE: And I forgot to mention, Bill’s temporarily successful treatment enabled him to finish a piano concerto. I haven’t heard it yet, but others have.
For those that have Spotify – UlyssesStone has made a wonderful playlist of all of his recordings available on that service.
Complete Recordings on Spotify – http://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/5XDxTmpvotqD8o7ZKmbzle
So sorry to hear of William Duckworths passing….his music will always stay with me. Five years ago i did a radioshow on his music for Dutch radio, with a.o. the amazing ‘Slow Dancing in Yugoslavia’ for accordeonist Guy Klucevsek. It’s still online and can be listened to via this link:
http://www.concertzender.nl/programmagids.php?date=2007-11-12&month=-58&detail=26035
(click on the little ‘speaker’ icon, next to the word Thema)