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Pauline Oliveros R.I.P.


Tom 1960

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Pauline had always been nice to me whenever I saw her, but she was such a very stern woman -
which is kind of unexpected when you think about the music she introduced to many generations of listeners.

A funny story: when I was a young man around 11 or 12, I had already owned her work,
"I of IV" on the LP with Reich's "Come Out," but the piece that really made me kind of
"fall in love" with her was a piece for flute, string bass, and percussion called "Outline." 
At my young age, I was dreaming of meeting this composer with the lovely name "Pauline"
and had decided that she had to have been young and beautiful if she wrote such fantastic, 
creative music - ha! No, it didn't really make any sense ... and later finding out that her rather
"manly" looks were part of her lesbian proclivities - ha - oh man, I was soooooo surprised - ha!

She left us with some wonderful music - and I suppose that's really another bright side of creativity -
leaving memorable work for the ages and future generations to discover and enjoy.

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