Josef Erich Zawinul -- July 7, 1932 – September 11, 2007
Simon Peter Gunanoot -- 1874 - 1933
Simon Peter Gunanoot, also Simon Peter Johnson, GITKSAN businessman, outlaw (b at Kispiox, BC c 1874; d of pneumonia NE of Stewart, BC Oct 1933).
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Simon Gunanoot at Wikipedia (Gunanoot at left)
Simon Gunanoot was a Gitxsan man, who as a suspect in two murders (1906) eluded the BC Provincial Police for over a decade. He eventually turned him self in and was acquitted on one of the murder charges. The other charge was stayed.
Historical truth is elusive. The comteporary "truth" is that he was an outlaw folk-hero. Whether he committed the murders or not, he was probably most wise to have fled from "justice;" in 1906, there was very little likelihood that he, as a native, would have received anything approaching a fair and inpartial trial. Whether he was fighter for first nations rights or not, he seems to have become a symbol of such.
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Gunanoot with Provincial Police Officals
A more detailed account by Monty Bassett.
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My own tangential account:
I have quite clear but fragmented memories of my very early childhood, starting from about the age of two.
Sometime between the ages of two and four, I accompanied my mother and my aunt on a visit to a certain Mr. Kirby in Hazelton or Smithers. He was, I realized much later, the Constable James Kirby, the leader of the posse that had been outwitted by Gunanoot in 1906. My grandfather (much younger than Kirby) had also been in the BC Provincial Police and had been a friend of Kirby's. I remember from my visit that Kirby, probably in his late nineties at the time, was the oldest person I had ever seen, that he had bright twinkly eyes, that he lived in a tiny log cabin that smelled funny, that he had a very large jar of peppermints from which I was allowed to sample liberally, and that I liked him.
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More stuff:
http://www.northword.ca/connections/...ngunanoot.html
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.c...=A1ARTA0003495
http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/ske/pas/gunanoot.htm
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/bcgn-bin/bcg10?name=4131
http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/447698 (A mediocre, silly and politically correct folk song about Gunanoot, with some anachronisms).
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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
gives me the strength of ten!
Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22, 1928 - December 5, 2007)
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BBC: German composer Stockhausen dies
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockhausen
Stockhausen is an acquired taste, and the acquistion can be difficult. His music still pushes past the boundaries of what most people would call music. But his influence is pervasive, even outside the world of orchestral (classical) music.
From Wikipedia:
"Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Braxton (Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence, as do pop and rock artists such as Frank Zappa, who acknowledges Stockhausen in the liner notes of his 1966 debut with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!. The Beatles included an image of Stockhausen on the cover of their 1967 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Rick Wright and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd also acknowledge Stockhausen as an influence (Macon 1997, 141; Bayles 1996, 222). San Francisco psychedelic groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead are vaguely said to have done the same (Prendergast 2000, 54), though Stockhausen himself merely says the former band included students of Luciano Berio and both were "well orientated toward new music" (Texte 4, 505). Founding members of Cologne-based experimental band Can, Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay, actually studied with Stockhausen[citation needed], as did German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk (Flur 2003, 228). New York guitar experimentalists Sonic Youth also acknowledge Stockhausen's influence[citation needed], as do Icelandic vocalist Björk (Guðmundsdóttir 1996; Ross 2004, 53 & 55), British industrial group Coil[citation needed], and British techno artist Aphex Twin[citation needed]. Pianist Glenn Gould occasionally played a humorous character whom he based on Stockhausen, and who can be seen in the Glenn Gould Collection videos. "
He was, however, not universally admired:
'Perhaps the most caustic remark about Stockhausen was made by Sir Thomas Beecham. Asked "Have you heard any Stockhausen?", he replied, "No, but I believe I have trodden in some" (Lebrecht 1983, 334)."'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrzi4YNhvig
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIPVc...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0h0A...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-1Vm...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0aea...eature=related
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