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- The Last Words of Arthur Wallace
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- David Greenberger
The mind tries to make sense of the jumbled memories and bodily diminishments resulting from a stroke. David Greenberger tells a tale based on a conversation with Arthur Wallace. From the 2005 CD, Whispers, Grins Bloodloss and Handshakes, with music by 3 Leg Torso.
Artist David Greenberger has been collecting the thoughts, memories and stories from elderly Americans for more than a quarter century. Genuine, moving, and often funny, combined with music, the pieces
explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity.
Produced with help from Jay Allison and the Open Studio Project.
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The mind tries to make sense of the jumbled memories and bodily diminishments resulting from a stroke. David Greenberger tells a tale based on a conversation with Arthur Wallace. From the 2005 CD, Whispers, Grins Bloodloss and Handshakes, with music by 3 Leg Torso. Artist David Greenberger has been collecting the thoughts, memories and stories from elderly Americans for more than a quarter century. Genuine, moving, and often funny, combined with music, the pieces explore issues of aging by revealing real characters that are in decline, but are still very much alive. They reveal the common threads of our humanity. Produced with help from Jay Allison and the Open Studio Project.
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Emily Hanford
Posted on September 13, 2006 at 05:45 PM | Permalink
Review of The Last Words of Arthur Wallace
I listened to this the first time without reading any of the text and I had no idea what I was listening to. Disturbing, confusing, strange, non-sensical. Read the text and listened to it a second time and of course, the text helps. "The mind tries to make sense of the jumbled memories resulting from a stroke" is essential reading, and of course as a listener you would have some form of this info as host intro/ host set up. Still, I am not sure I took anything away from this piece. It was just short and strange and my mind could not really make much of it. A good radio producer might be able to give it a great home in a longer show, but I didn't get much from it on its own/ on my own.