RE: USA Today article, bits and pieces...

[Grant Covell <GCovell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Subject: RE: USA Today article, bits and pieces...


Hello friends--

This piece actually rekindled my interest in the manuscript: I can provide a
citation for a recording next week after I check the CD at home.

In my opinion, the musical work doesn't do the manuscript and the quest for
it's decipherment much justice: I'll need to reaudition it before I get more
into details!

Grant.

-----Original Message-----
From: Zandbergen@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Zandbergen@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 2:43 PM
To: voynich@xxxxxxxx
Subject: USA Today article, bits and pieces...


Dear all,

the USA Today article mentions a musical composition by one
Hanspeter Kyburz, which Jacques already unearthed a couple of
years ago. I don't know if anyone has actually heard the piece
(I haven't).
A description of the reasoning behind it (in German) is
found at:

http://www.mhsg.ac.at/mp_97/programm/sa1.htm#kyburz

Also, the French musician mentioned in USA Today was actually
English, but he is part of a French group called
"Ensemble Intercontemporain", who performed the French premiere
of this piece on 23 May this year. This is announced at the 
following web site, which contains a curious coincidence
(10 points for spotting it):

http://www.ircam.fr/departements/creation/saison99/00_05_23.html 

Finally, I got another message from the author of the article
saying that he was approached by one of his readers with the
following suggestion:

   The reader believes Nathaniel Hawthorne saw the book in
   Rome in 1858 and later used it in his story Septimius
   Felton. He further claims "You can look in Hawthorne's Rome
   notes and see that he sees the Voynich or a book much like
   it." 

Well, I'm an absolute ignoramus when it comes to literature, 
but someone one the list may well have read this book and
may wish to comment on it.

Cheers, Rene