Comments

there are no accidents everything happen s for a reason. I feel so lucky that my destiny has brought you in my life! You are a very caring and compassionate person, and despite never meeting, I feel very close with you. Wish you all the best,

Lena Arkawi Paradise Valley, Ariz July 24, 10

I laugh at your jokes all the time, brings a chuckle to my day and lifts my spirits. Thank you

Maura Gost, Am Kolel July 29, 10

such a great person you are you will continue to be a remarkable one in my life i will not forget you .

Dr.Salim Anati Family Doctor JERUSALEM

Dear Sister Trudy: Your comments are powerful stuff. God bless you!

July 14, 2010 Brother from Australia

Dear Moma Gila!
I am in Athens, and I am thinking about you. We are performing here with Absolute Ensemble. love to you from the seat of the goddesses. you are the goddess of our dreams.

Bonnie 7-11-10

Re: memory of Sheik Bukhar i; encouraging to be reassured that there are others who continue to work, individually and together, to bring God's Shalom to this needy world.

Barbara W. DeLouise July 8, 2010

you bring laughter, and smiles as well as joyful tears to my eyes. your wisdom and your artful advise guides me even when I don't talk to you

Khatmeh Osseiran, Vice President New Jersey City University Jersey City, N. J.

No, there are no accidents as you always say. You always touch my heart and truly, my lovely Trudy, take me to new heights. Thank you so much!

Khatmeh , V.Pres. NJ City University June 25, 2010

we will miss you and play a song in your honor
A good dance tune hello to WIlliam Parker
Travelled all over Europe with Cecil Taylor

Frank London Klezmatics, 6-22-10

with you in spirit for the Jerusalem Hug. It is Aboriginal Day here in Canada, and we are having a Water Fest involving the whole town, and giving proceeds to the Gulf Oil endeavours. That week will be tight as a drum, with military locking down our town until the June 25th G8. Intense times, need committed hearts. Blessings,

Wendy Oke Jun 15, 2010

THIS IS FABULOUS. I hope to give you a little hug one day soon. thanks for the info. Jenna Lordo

Jenna Lordo, 6/15/2010

Please click on: ustream.tv-related videos
I did talk to Mel and his gorgeous wife and kids, they were amazing!!! I remember laughter at moments while you were speaking..

remember Chris there too .She looked better I sat next to daughter Gale really nice and resembles you alot!!! \ W as actually in it, dancing with other ladies!

Barbara Fae Feldstein June 11, 2010

I loved looking at your website.

You are a beautiful lady.

Ronnie 6-09-10

Gilah,
You were inspiration for my most recent cartoon: "A Cartoon featuring Helen Thomas". I sent you a copy by separate post. You'll find yourself incognito

hold on while I continue next minute!

Ron, June 8, 2010

You are a very special soul and I am honored to know you. I pray to be filled with your wisdom so that I may be a more effective and capable servant to humanity.

Andra June 6, 2010

I admire all that you have done to make this planet a better place.

Jay Kappraff writer "connections" May 31, 2010

Thank you very much for this expansive energy. It is a true joy to know you.

Sarah Weaver 5-25-2010

JUST RECEIVED YOUR PACKAGE WITH THE POEM AND ADAM'S DRAWING, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL!! I WAS SO THRILLED!! WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! WE SEND YOU LOTS OF KISSES AND HUGS!!!

.d April 28, 2010

hAPPY BIRTHDAY you are an inspiration to us all!

Dr. David Rothenberg, Apr 8-2010

Mathematical Models of Music

your birthday next, your birthday today, your birthday tomorrow all outside begins to bloom with green, yellow, red, white, blue... that indeed is what blooms in you, namely a huge horizon of multi vivid spans of bright and young colors. Celebrate!

We remember so vividly, so gratefully, that early evening of Ocotber 4, 1991 when you came down the steps to the Harvard University Hilles Library Galllery to hear Bob's lecture and see the "Sonic Designs: Spectrographs and Mathematical Models of Music" exhibit. You stayed for the opening reception and we were introduced that evening! Celebrate! We will have you in our hearts!

Pozzi Escot 4/8/2010

All will be with you in spirit & thanking the heavens for your longevity and for your being in our life. You have such a huge heart and are doing many wonderful things for so many people . Your perseverence & dedication for causes your beliefs is such an inspiration for all.

Tara-Marie Mahootian April 1, 2010

My dearest,dearest, sweet little trudy ;) i'm so proud of you, you are a light onto yourself and the world!! you brighten all our lives!! love you soooo much!!

Dyan Apr 8, 2010

Trudy, Stay as young as you are. I'm proud to have met you in Assisi ,the best place of all. Your resume is astounding. Keep up your good work and varied interests do enjoy your bestdeserved honor and evening.

Love & Prayers, S. Marvina. March 28, 2010

Your efforts at promoting a peace-filled forum over the years is much needed in these aggitated times .. How very blessed I have been to meet you and see what a difference one woman with vision can make in the world. Huge hugs and much Love to you

Paula Mar 25, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TRUDY BEST WISHES FOR GOOD HEALTH, JOY AND MUSIC

Cornelia

your birthday will be celebrated with dance, theater, voice, and above all with great joy. You continue and will continue to extend your vision throughout with kindness, thought, and virtue. We wish celebrations to continue for the birth of a wondrous human. Nothing stays still ever and you Trudy will keep your senses touching us all with the heavens of your light.

Pozzi/Bob Mar 16, 2010

Celebrating International Women's Day Today I am thinking especially of you you always impressed me by your unstoppable joy of life and courage!

Adopted Daughter, Cornelie Mueller-Goedecke, March 8, 2010

I love you so much Mom. I was joking as it is so snowy here! Unexpected for the beach. I am so proud you are my Mom.

Feb 22, 2010, Melvin Morse

wonderful insights about folks helping each other in the snow. loved the video where you danced! My brother Rob was here from Denver; I sent the video to him, too. I am glad that you are still going strong!

Patrice Feb 14, 2010

amazing..poetry.. It is amazing Trudy. your words are just on target.

2-14-10 Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna

You poem/writing was beautiful & moving. Thank you for sharing & so grateful that you (& all of us) survived.

Glenda Ingham, Feb 19, 2010

Feb. 11, 2009 How touching and so beautiful you write!!! As always, I am inspired. The mayor should be proud of your little village. Take good care, can't wait till I join you in that hot tub one day soon

Khatmeh Osseiran-Hanna, Feb 11, 2010
New Jersey City University

Helping the students to finish their studying is really a great and noble thing. Thank you so much for your kind support.

Ammar abdo 2-7-10
NJ Institute of Technology Bio Med Engineer

Peers.... M. J. Rosenberg writes that President Obama should put pressure on Israel "for Israel's sake". Thanks to Trudy Morse for helping to circulate Rosenberg's latest essay. Trudy is a nonagenarian whose Hebrew name is "Gilah" ("Joy").

Peace, Roy
1/29/2010

Yes dear Gilah it was wonderful to see you dancing in the video and without a cane! Your love and faith radiates on and on.

Pauline Oliveros Deep Listening Inst. Dec. 6, 2009

Happy New Year, Trudy!!! You rock! Earshot Jazz

John Gilbreath Earshot Jazz Jan. 3, 2010

monumental. and so mental! ha ha mental! you were so lovely.you danced, we sang. we laughed.we chatted. we all met. I cannot belive that we all met. you brought us together .

all extended family children grandchildren. Farzad is amazing and everyone is. love love hee hee. tee hee.

Frank London Klezmatics N.Y.C. love Bonnie Dec. 30, 2009

Dear Gila: Your xmas/hanukka message is perfect. The "union of opposities" was always the Pythagorean musical logo and always will be. I'm still trying to explain it "my way."

With much love, Ernest, Dec. 19, 2009

Dear Gilah,
Thank you for all your support during this exponential rise in activity. The Morse Foundation seed grant for Adaptive use musical instruments for the physically challenged has spawned some beautiful work by Leaf Miller at Abilities First in Poughkeepsie and Sergio Hazard at the University of Chile in Santiago. Our research is continuing and there are proposals for a therapist training program in improvisation and the use of our software. We have pending proposals with the NSF and hope for good news in the Spring. The Adaptive Use software is available for download for free at Adaptive Use

Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening Inst., Dec 24, 2009

You're right, TG. Transmutation is a mental art.
I should have known that you're an Alchemist.
So am I. I can't stop wishing you a Merry Christmas,

Rambo, Dec 24, 2009

Trudy, you sweet thing you.

Guess who I saw dancing in a video yesterday.
You. On the video that Jim circulated.
I would have recognized you any place.
Even in your nonagenarianism you're tripping the light fantastic. You're a true inspiration to septuagenarians like me. Happy Holidays, my lilliputian lemon flavor.

LOLs and P 12=23-09

Rambo, Dec 23, 2009

Gilah, celestial muse, surely these stophes were weaved by hands of wisdom that have become skillfully trained through a journey of many lives. This is a tactile, musical composition for the soul. You as conductor hold a shuttle, rather than a baton and imbue sound into words as you separate the warp from the weft. A galactic musical tapestry held in the palm of your hands... i love it ! i love it ! i love you !!!

I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season filled with as much light as you give out to the world. I'm spending the time still unpacking boxes from the move. I just unearthed your beautiful series of poetry books which are as meaningful now as when I first read them. I will find a more prominant place for them in this house, along with the wonderful pictures you sent, especially the one of you dancing to the beat of the drums in BoBo !

T, Farzad + clan, Dec 21, 2009

Trudy, my Garden Flower. Happy Holidays, my little Angel. Cheers and Peace to you from San Diego where sun is shining oh, so bright and there is no snow. Cheers and Peace from your beloved,

Roy, Dec 21, 2009

Dear Gila: Your xmas/hanukka message is perfect.
The "union of opposities" was always the
Pythagorean musical logo and always will be.
I'm still trying to explain it "my way." With much love,

E.

Dear Gilah,
You are a Treasure,
A fountain of eternal joy
and such warmh of heart
To me you are a mentor
And one of my dearest friends
and an open ear to lend
I love you dearly
Happy 90th

Chris Chalfont 4-8-2009

Your poetry is so beautiful!! thank's for sharing it!!
i would love to integrate your poetry with my music,
it would be an honor for me, too bad we didn't get
to perform some while in NYC, but maybe next time ;)

Dyan aka Arthur Henry Fork, Dec. 2009

Trudy! it seems as ever has been, that you read minds and sense everything that happens. I am finishing a master on MusicTherapy here in Barcelona, and already having practical work in a Mental Center with retarded people. I am intending to do something in the field of Analytical Music Therapy, the field is wide, the need is endless...Music, indeed, can heal!

Victor Obiels, Dec 9, 2009

You're right once again, my miniature Lily of the Valley of the Nile who's now a nonagenarian walking with a cane. Sacred music is healing.

C,P,R, Dec. 3, 2009

Dearest Grammy:
Beings moms, women have always been incredible and smart, but knowing you, you are a genius. As all moms, you do not forget anything related to us, and at 90 you have more energy, enthusiasm and passion to what you believe in more than anybody else. Thank you, god bless you and give you much longer life, this planet needs you more!

Soha, Dec 8, 2009

Dear Dancing Lady....
Thanks for telling me about your latest adventure. You seem to have adventures where e'er you go.

RHSD, Dec 8, 2009

To Grammy Gilah, for teaching me to search for the divine.

Melissa Stafford, Sep. 30, 2009

A Haiku for Trudy

Time will tell the truth
Speak, listen, hear,
and you will see
Life is beautiful

JS, Oct 15, 2009

All things considered, I've never met a nonagenarian as smart as you. Peacefully,

RH SD, Oct 17, 2009

Your web site is awesome - I love the camel and tub shots best.
What a life and you do know how to make the most of it.
I hope when I am 90 I am as together as you are!!

Kim Kramer, Director of Operations, NJIT, Nov. 15, 2009

Dearest Grand Ma Ma,

You have contributed very much to this wonderful world, and you are still doing so. Yes, please send me the details as my soul is open. With work, I am feeling now that I have stepped back in and taken responsibility . Soon I shall be preparing to have an adventure or two.

Contributing back to society vs. taking another course, sounds much more appealing. Update me, as I am very open to "Your Practical Dreams".

In living Light, Love

Michelle Grace, Dec 1, 2008

I thank God that in this miraculous ebb and flow there are people like you - a visionary with a heart of gold. Otherwise, our life would be a journey of randomness and uncertain proportion from within which it would be difficult to navigate a "higher road". We love you, Fairy Godmother!

- for all your support and guidance - T & Farzad (Fauna, Koa and Zha Zha) 26 Sep 09

To Grammy Gilah, for teaching me to search for the divine.

Melissa Stafford, Sep 30, 2009

All things considered, I've never met a nonagenarian as sagacious as you.

Peace, Rev. Roy Hayes, Oct 17, 2009

You are such a gifted poet. I have loved the poems that have come across my desktop. They are clever and a great historical document of your life and the people around you!

Chris Chalfant Aug 26, 09

I was following the e-mails that Trudy had sent and I am, as always, amazed with her work and dedication. I hope that I will step up to her expectations.

Loay Al-Zube, Ph.D.
Biomedical Engineering Department
The Hashemite University
JORDAN

I hear from Trudy through e-mail. She's such a wonderful energetic grammy. She gives us all strength.

Yitzah Yedid

2009

Malcolm's love for Trudy was a reflection of God's greatest gift - the ability to love.

The 35th Anniversary of Fabrangen

Rob Agus

2009

Thanks so much for helping
Means the world to us.
You were at its absolute heart
Enjoyed working with you
Hope to continue project in future
DVD documentary being made.
May Deep Tones for Peace continue
in our Hearts and in our World.

Sun Ra there somewhere in Space
Sarah Weaver, ISIM

Sarah Weaver

2009

The work you have done all these years to promote healing through music - through the power of sound, through the common language that crosses cultural divides has been a life-achievement! You should be very proud to be honored to be such a mover and shaker! Thank you for all you have done! Keep me posted about Saudi Arabia! How wonderful if we could get a group of harps into the children there! Talk about world peace through music!

Blessings,
Christina

http://PlayHarp.com

Christina Tourins

2009

Dear Grand Ma Ma & Pilar,

Thank you both for your many blessings, I have received a clean bill of health from my surgeon yesterday.

Our prayers have been answered, and now this is behind me. I am very grateful for the love and kindness
extended to me from so many beautiful souls.

In living light. Love Michelle Grace X O

Michelle Grace

2009

How I miss you Trudy, had look at your website the other day with my temp roomie Y-Love (Yitz Jordan)
he said, "you go girl!!!"

Will be in Saratoga Springs for Phish show next month 2 days... other than that am helping people in Human Rights here in Brooklyn,..

Much love, oxoxo.

Barbara

2009

My dearest Gilah!

It's been such a pleasure knowing you and sharing things with you in this lifetime... I'm just blessed to have you around and be your friend (adoptive grandson) ;)

Love you so, so much!

Dyan aka Arthur Henry Fork

July 8th, 2009

I love you!
You are an amazing package of joy at 90.
love and light.

Alicia

June 23th, 2009

Your life and art adventures are tops! You are my role model...

Pilar

July, 2009

I can't tell you how inspiring it has been to hear your stories of how music and sound have created such beauty in your lives.

Alex Theory

February 25, 2008

Subject: Re: Hogaku New Sounds of Japan January 12

Dearest Trudy,

Thank you for your heartwarming mail. I appreciate your faithful mind for your style. It will be pity for me to miss you this time but I will ring and sound our music for all over the world. You will hear our music and rhythms sounding in universe. Take a good rest listening to our performance sounding there.
Love,

MITSUO
http://www.station.li/index_en.html(English)

January 2008

Dearest Gilah,
You are like a vintage wine
the slightest drop seeps through to my soul
and hits just the right spot.
My thirst
once ravenous
now quelled by your words.
You are sooth sayer-
a truth teller
that sooth(e)s my discontent
with age, wisdom and ripeness.

T

January 2008

What a triumph for Gilah
We love the path of your life
It gives us breath of hope

Which does and might continue
To save us a wee from Catastrophy
of Tower of Babel.

Gilah your name from beginning
For the heavens wished
you these admirable
Sensations

Pozzi Escot
New England Conservatory

December, 2007

Subject: Re: Malcolm S. Morse Graduate Research Enhancement Award
To: Pauline Oliveros, Kathy High, "Mumby, Jennifer K."

Dear Pauline and Kathy,
I just wanted to once again express how appreciative (and ecstatic) I am to receive this great honor. I am truly humbled. Hearing the news last night was just such a shock- I don't think I have ever been that surprised before. Working with you, and everyone here, has been an absolute pleasure and great privilege, and this award is such positive reinforcement to just keep working away at what I love to do. Thank you.

Pauline, I would like to write a letter to Trudy. I know she travels a lot, but do you have a snail mail address for her? Or would email be the best bet?

Again, thank you so very very much.

Alex Chechile,
Rensselaer Polytech

December, 2007

Thank you very much for having joined us in spite of your heavy condition. I have really enjoyed the time being with you.

All the participants listened to your words, to be fascinated by your behavior and admired you. We have been feeling that you would be noble every time and we never heard your complaining in severe situation.

I was very happy to have been with you. I will never forget this experience. It was my pleasure to have felt to be with many of my friends in the world. Thank you very much. With love.

Mitsuo Tammara,
Director Mt. Fugi Festival Oct 26 - Nov 6, 2007

December, 2007

Dearest Trudy,

Sometimes I get these flurries of emails from you all of which seem to be addressed to other people. I never know what is happening but I am sure that this fluttering is coincidental with the full moon.

I do try to understand but what I understand more is that you are stirring things up and including me and I really do appreciate that. You are on the edges, Trudy, and its nice to get postcards from the edge. We are less afraid of falling off and we try a litle harder to go there.

I just wanted you to know again, Trudy, that I love you Thank you for loving me back.

JS

Dear Wonderful Trudy,
Blessings on you, your family, and those you love. What a ball of energy---St Frances and beyond! You are love itself. Have a wonderful time in Japan...
Rejoicing in your gifts,

Sharon Franquemont The Prayer Vigil Community

Dearest Gila,
I just want you to know I often think of you and send blessings of Love and Light to you. You are such a blessing! I can still see you, dancing on that boat on the Kinneret!

Oy, what a time we had! Blessings for a truly sweet year, and may peace prevail on earth! xoxox, Krayna

Karen Castelbaum,
Pilgrimage with Rabbi Prather Israel

synchronicity improvisation essential attempt to live with being-becoming- heed Sufi admonition of being aware together time place people skills

Message from Clyve Robbins
NYU Pioneer 40 years Music Therapy
Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation

If there is anything like a guardian for the Prayer Vigil, DC Washington Monument, you are the Queen of the Festival. Your St. Francis recitation and your presence as an elder qualify you.

Bill Rolph, Pres. Order Unlimited
Creating Order- Harmony Out of Chaos

Trudy, the loveliest of ladies around over the mountains, across the oceans, we only wish you could live around here.  We miss your smile, your thoughts, your touches.  I mean it with tears.

Pozzi

You have made it your life's work to make it a better world-- you are one of our heroes!

Susan Chaya

.. you are such a beautiful being and a true inpiration. Please don't forget about us, ok?

dyan and diriak, Mexico City

You always amaze me with your creative mind and your ability to be in touch with so many interesting and advance souls on this planet.

Miriam Ahuvat'el, Israel

Opening Shabbos Sanctuary of Am Kolel and Renewal Center, Saturday Jan 14, 2006... While I watched you dance around the room with such joy, I whispered into Rob's ear that I wanted to know about you because I knew you were a fascinating woman.

Eileen

Trudy, I recognized on the first evening we met that you are a lady wise beyond her years. Peace and Love from a Hotshot Priest,

Roy

DEAR TRUDY:
You are a marvel and one of the people I am happiest to have met. Many things that interest you do not interest me, but the spirit of life that you have and the willingness to go out there and find out how much you know and whether unknown things relate to you is more than remarkable. You are part of the luck of everyone who knows you.
VIA,

S.C.

You are so full of light, but never blinding.

Charlie Steiner

Thank you Great Trudy. I 'm glad you are maintaining your passion for striving for peace, social harmony and tranquility in this tumultous world.

Yassin Ismail

You are everywhere in Jerusalem -I especially feel you in the dining room where you were blessed in so many tongues on your birthday.

Anna Immanuel. April 24, 2004

Here's wishing you the happiest of happy birthdays. Your supreme drive of the sort that can only be fueled by soul. God bless you.

S.C.

Thanks, Trudy. You are one of the people who inspire me to continue to explore creative opportunities.

Ramsey Ameen

Trudy, you are that lone star that carries that shine of God. Let Him give all the peace of mind and heart throughout the new year. God bless you.

Al Orensanz

I really have to be careful with you since I´m very aware that you are one of those RARE persons that can sell ice to the Eskimos!
I'll light a candle as a tribute to YOU and your ever inspiring energy and optimism and promise of a better world.

Victor W. O'Gilvie

I want you to know my prayers are with you as you continue the dance and the song and the sound of life. Your diaries are inspiring and fabulous. Know that you are a blessing to us all. You go girl!

Barbara, Alaska

You always remain one of the most incredible person I have ever met.

DR

Your energy is awe-inspiring

CHIMES

Hello Trudy - living in the temple, living at home, astride the temporal and the spiritual, the family and the ritual invocation. That's Trudy! I am happy to write you wherever you dwell.

Michael Monhart

Thanks Trudy for this inspired sharing.
I want to walk in your footsteps, new mother! Love, Pilar
January 1, 2003

You are an example for so many of us who have been blessed with knowing you a little.
You are mischievous, volatile, vivacious, and all the things that keep us on our toes.

Cecil Taylor, December 7,1998

I enjoy greatly receiving all of your e-mail messages, and to learn of your many travels and all your good works for so many wonderful causes, people, and ideas. Keep up the great work - you are an inspiration to all of us.

Tod Machover, MIT
Toy Symphony

I love being with you laughing laughing and laughing
like we finish each other's sentences
I also am inspired
By the aura of peace you live in

Bonnie Stein, GOH Productions

Thank you, Trudy!

You gave a great performance with Cecil Taylor and you gave great care to him as well. I appreciated all your attention to details that allowed Cecil to be comfortable and well.

Take care! You're a very special woman.

Cynthia, San Francisco Jazz Festival Nov. 16, 1995

Dear Trudy,
There have been angels in my life. Of course, this means you! Truly Divine Intervention Begins with you

Sheri Claire and Gene

Dear Trudy.
I love you I give you my "heart" "Kokoro"
It's part of loving It means also Mind, feeling, thought

Remy Charlip, choreographer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Group. Kyoto, Japan

I was sitting this morning surrounded by wires when I wondered what had become of you so I did a quick internet search and there you were. I'm delighted to hear that you're still full of activity and enthusiasm.
with very best wishes

Dr. Alistair MacDonald
Director, Electroacoustic Music Studios
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama

Earth Mother, Sky Traveler, Water Baby, and Fire Lady
You manifest all of the elements So creatively in human form
That your "ether" is transformative!

Tara Pinnes

Please always be my Fairy Godmother

Farzad Mahootian

Dear Trudy,
I'm glad that you went to see Movin Out. You wrote a great review.

Jay Kappraff, N. J. Inst. of Technology
Author: CONNECTIONS

Thank you for coming to my Bar Mitavah. Your song was really funny an cool. In fact some of my friends afterward said how cool you are.

Your beloved grandson
Toby Kathan

Your life, love and spirit will always be cherished by us.

Married grandchild

On the road with Roadie Trudy
In a group with Groupie Trudy
Get a call from Call Girl Trudy
What a beauty
Rootatooty Trudy

CT Fan

You are most incredible. I am so glad you were born, and that I had the good karma to meet you.

Calvin Tullos
Sax, Flute, Buddhist

For a brilliant, most beautiful, Most Poetic, most conceptual, Most heterophonic
A coded message Of Thoughts and Love

Pozzi Escot & Bob Cogan
New England Conservatory

Right on... I see you still
Travelling the spaceways
From planet to planet
In the spirit of the great RA
Keep swinging

Bill Brower, Production
New Orleans Jazz Festival

You are always discovering. That is why I love you!

Sidra Rouch

Dear Mom,
I miss you very much. I love you. You are a constant source of inspiration.

Dr. Melvin Morse
Newest book "Where does God Live?"
How our brains link to The Universe

In a cover article of JazzIz, Ted Pankin spent three weeks in February, 2001, at a Cecil Taylor workshop held at Turtle Bay School, New York City. He describes his encounter with Trudy Morse.

"I sat in the pale light of the school's foyer with Trudy Morse, Taylor's confidante and frequent liaison to the outside world. A mother of six, with 20 grandchildren, 82 year old Morse is six months removed from her third Near-Death Experience and three months past major surgery, but her voice is clear, her diction precise, her grip firm, and her eyes probe you like a laser beam."

He described the meeting of Cecil Taylor in Huddersfield UK, in 1987, after the death of her husband, Malcolm Morse, at an Electronic Festival. She surprised both the audience and Cecil by mentioning Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principal, feeling that the listener brings his own perceptions to a Cecil Taylor concert.

Later, I noticed that Cecil Taylor kept turning pages of music with very interesting notation. I said 'Mr. Taylor, I don't mean to be too curious, but what kind of notation and whose works are these?' From then on, it's history, Cecil Taylor puzzled me enough that I accepted his invitation to tour with him in Japan. I've been touring ever since.

Ted Panken
Jazziz, June 2001
Turtle Bay Workshop

Night nine brought New Orleans Kidd Jordan into the Seattle vortex Tone Scientists Tribute to Sun Ra in ominous shadows of OK Hotel where grunge bands usually play.

Diminutive septuagenarian Trudy Morse intoned Sun Ra verses about angels, planets and cosmic waves of sound while a brave local string section sawed and shreiked. Jordan's tenor saxophone trilled incantations with partners in turn: Stuart Dempster's barking trombone: Brent Arnold's cello crying note for note with the saxophone. During one sustained uproar, Joe McPhee joined in from the audience on pocket trumpet, and Dempster came down from the stage and moved among the tables, growling on his six-foot didjeridu.

Downbeat, January 1996
Earshot Festival

Dearest Trudy,

I must think about you three times a day.
I hardly ever see you, I never get to talk to you,
I often receive emails from you,
and you are always on my mind.

J.S.

Your productions, always on the cutting edge, turn our department upside down, and we are never the same after you leave.

Hankus Netsky, Director, Jazz Department
New England Conservatory of Music

We thank Trudy Morse for her creative vision and generosity. Trudy is Trudy, a serendipity magnet for waves of joy oscillating inwards from infinity. We love you.

Dr. Farzad Mahootian, Director, Symposium

I would like Trudy on the road as our spiritual advisor.

Michael Dorf, Knitting Factory, New York City.

CECIL TAYLOR WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE FMP 1989, Big Box - Legba Crossing. CD ***** Downbeat

......... the Maestro can be heard as narrator in the background, and after ten minutes, can then launch into a full scale vocal lamentation in which a strangely gilded, angelic type of voice full of energy, cuts in. ..........(voice: Trudy Morse)

Wolfgang Burde, (Trans. Paul Lytton), Berlin

Nothing's impossible when Trudy's on board ship. If we can't get Cecil Taylor's piano up the stairs, she says: 'hire a crane!' and we did!

Marvin Gilmore, Western Front, Cambridge, Mass.

There's the sound. *LISTEN* Excellent recording of Trudy Morse and June Tyson reading/singing them to music. SUN RA's words. Dig how they fit in fluidity with the overall cosmology.

Chris Funkhauser, Newark Inst. Tech

New Orleans Professor of the avant garde, Kidd Jordan, ran into Trudy in Germany and invited Trudy Morse to perform her poetry with him, for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation Creative Music Festival at Charlie B's nite-club. An accomplished poet, Trudy's performance credits include appearances with Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra, legendary jazz personalities. Her poetry presentations are touching pictures made of words and music, evoking thoughts and emotions in concert with her musician collaborators. Her presentations are clear and simple yet mystical, musical and magical. Always on the road around the globe, Trudy's planetary network of contacts spans a wide range of creative fields. Gloria Powers. Rhythm Revival for the Planet

Special guest, Trudy Morse, poet, singer, political activist, mother of six, performed at the Atlanta International Music Festival in l990. Her works reflect her understanding that love and trust are the foundations upon which we come together as people and as musicians.

Lisle Ellis, Line of Descent

Interplanetary threnody, a tribute to the myth/science/art of Sun Ra, Yoshi's, Oakland 10/10/94. Highlights included a blazing duo between Kash Killion, who's dazzling on cello, Eddie Gale on trumpet, with Morse's scat vocals buzzing like a hummingbird around them, a very 70's Sun Ra solo from Iyer, a fascinating duo between Masaoka's koto and the bassist, and several blazing all band jams.

Jim Newman, Saturn Sun Ra List, Internet

Poet, world-trveler, a performance artist, Trudy Morse, traveled with Sun Ra for the last several years before his ascension to the intergalactic spirit plane. As a septuagenarian with whirlwind energies, Morse was chosen personally by Sun Ra, who had suffered several strokes in the early 1990's, and was in need of someone to continue his educational, recitative, and lecturing functions on mysticism in the black diaspora.

John Gilbreath, Earshot Jazz Festival

In the many things I remember about you, the quote, "This is so much fun..." will be at the top of the list.

Have a ball kiddo!

John Gilbreath, Earshot Jazz Festival

Trudy: A lady of venture and vision.

Pozzi Escot, NEW England Conservatory