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
Trudy: A lady of
venture and vision.
Pozzi Escot, NEW England Conservatory