From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #457 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Thursday, September 20 2001 Volume 01 : Number 457 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 22:43:56 -0500 From: Diann T Read Subject: [AML] Re: [AML-Mag] Where Were You? I was five years old when Kennedy was assassinated. I was far too young to understand what it all meant. I remember little more than it was the first time I had seen our flag at half-staff and it was almost spooky to me. I was an AFROTC cadet at BYU when the Challenger exploded. I was in a Cadet Command Staff meeting when one of the freshman cadets began banging on the cadet library's door, screaming, "The shuttle's blown up!" We stopped our staff meeting, turned on the TV in the cadet libary, and watched over and over as the Challenger came apart. I stood in the midst of a hundred young men and watched the tears roll, unashamed, down their faces. On Tuesday, 11 September I was looking forward to the last three weeks of a 90-day tour of duty here at Lackland AFB, TX when MSgt Pete Chavarria dashed into our office and said, "Turn on the TV! A plane just crashed into the World Trade Center!" We turned on the TV, saw smoke billowing out of the first tower, and began speculating on everything from an amateur pilot in a small craft to a faulty navigation system--and as we stood debating, we watched in disbelief as the second airliner plowed into the other tower. My 90-day tour of duty won't be ending in another two weeks. Please pray for us, and for the wisdom of our leaders. Diann T. Read, Maj, USAFR On duty for our nation - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:47:30 -0500 From: Ronn Blankenship Subject: Re: [AML] Letterman, Leno, Terrorists and Derrida At 09:56 AM 9/18/01, Eric Samuelsen wrote: >And that's why, last night, Letterman could broadcast a show from New=20 >York, and why Leno could not. Could the fact that Leno's studio is in L.A. have anything to do with it? ;-) - -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To the oceans, white with foam=85 God bless America! My home, sweet home. - -- Irving Berlin (1888-1989) - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 23:20:50 -0600 From: "Mom's Hotmail" Subject: Re: [AML] The List and the WTC I think many of us have held off writing, because we were searching for a literary tie-in. Marianne, I was so sad when I read the account of your search for solace among the Saints. I relate to your experience, because I can remember feeling disappointed and empty when I was needing to connect with my brothers and sisters in the gospel.. Fortunately for me, I had a very different experience at our ward memorial service. My husband is a retired Air Force pilot and served in WWII, Korea and Nam. He has vast military experience, but remains sensitive and caring. One evening I cried through my rather lengthy prayer. I stopped and started many times, but I was determined to say everything that was in my heart. He kindly and patiently suffered through my prayer and when I was finished neither of us said a word. How grateful I was for that silence. As Ward Music Chairman, I was asked to prepare special music for the memorial, so I did lots of thinking about it. I rounded up as many instruments as I could and used them with the piano and organ to accompany the congregation singing My Country 'Tis of Thee and God Bless America. We have lots of musical talent in our ward, but I felt that we all needed to sing. The meeting was open to testimonies and each testimony was sweet and sincere. The parents of a missionary stationed in New York City spoke humbly and were heartfelt. Our bishop is a member of the Special Forces and his remarks were sympathetic and appropriate. My husband and I gave prayers and that was very difficult for me because I have never enjoyed being the mouth for congregational prayer. I feel compelled to say what I perceive is *expected* of me which isn't always what I am feeling. I have no idea what I said. After sacrament I went to Relief Society and there was an amazing feeling of unity and resolve in the meeting. I truly wanted to be better and to do better. Love and acceptance washed over me and pride washed away. How many times in a lifetime do we experience an incident that has the potential to change us? I am old, but for me the list is short. I heard a young teenage boy say that he had never said the pledge of allegiance to the flag, because he didn't think there was liberty and justice for all in this country. He said that today he had said the pledge for the first time. I don't think any of us will ever be quite the same. Life will go on and Armageddon will come, but I feel different and I want to be better. It's the least I can do. If only one good thing could come out of this tragedy, I would want it to be--that there are no more hyphenated-Americans in our country, only Americans. Nan Parkinson McCulloch - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 01:01:46 -0600 From: Scott and Marny Parkin Subject: Re: [AML] Eric SAMUELSEN, _Gadianton_ (Review) D. Michael Martindale wrote: >Perhaps I just want the play to have a different message than Eric >did--which of course is asking more than I ought to: it's his play, not >mine. I've commented on this before, and I think it continues to be an important concept. As it turns out, I almost completely disagree with Michael's evaluation of this play. I think it was well written, well constructed, and succeeded on its own terms. In my review of the play I would have had little to criticize, partly because I very much enjoyed the play that Eric wrote and didn't particularly want to see a different one. Did Eric simplify the conflict? Yes, I think he did. Was Eric's play simplistic? Not in my opinion--it picked its fight and dealt with only that issue. Were some of his characters one-dimensional? Absolutely. But my argument is that not every play needs to be a complex study of all the shades of gray. Not every story needs to mitigate the bad guy's actions. Not every novel needs to show the flaws and foibles of the good guy in order to live up to an arbitrary standard of "honest" portrayal. Sometimes you tell the story you want to tell, not the story the critics demand that you should tell. I think that's okay. That doesn't mean we shouldn't all offer our opinions and the reasons for them. But I think there's an important difference between making an absolute judgement about a work and stating an opinion about it. And the fact that an author doesn't write the kinds of stories I want to read proves only that I'm not that author's audience and I should seek other works or other authors. It's one of the reasons I don't write reviews very often these days. I can offer an opinion, I can comment to what the story made me think about, and I can make broad statements about how well the piece fit into my own concepts of what makes good story. But I can't tell you whether you should read it or not--I'd have to know each and every potential reader intimately to make such an evaluation. I've been somewhat unfair to Levi Peterson that way. I love his writing, but I generally don't like his stories. His and my essential worldviews are different enough that his stories make me angry for what they don't include. I rarely have complaints about what he does include, but his omissions really bug me since my views hang as much on what he doesn't address as what he does. Does that make Levi's stories incomplete? I think so. To me his stories are unfair in some fundamental ways. But that's because he hasn't told *my* story yet, not because his stories are dishonest or simplistic or weak. In fact, it's the very strength of his stories that makes me wish they at least allowed for my worldview, because I really want to feel like part of the world that Levi speaks to. So far I don't. And that's not his fault--or at least it's not something that I can claim is a universal and fatal flaw in his writing. It simply means that I am not part of the audience that can accept his fiction without reserve. He's writing to a different audience, and that's okay. >And since I wanted a different message, I was leery of letting the real >message in, so every bit of the play that advanced Eric's message stuck >out to me. "Ah, ha! He's trying to get me with that part. I'll just show >him!" This to me is the great sin of didactic art: it's less effective, >because it raises the intellectual filter in anybody who isn't already >converted. Why try to beat down a locked door when you can seduce the >person on the other side to open it for you? Arguably the intellectual filter can be raised by any attempt to communicate a specific, be it the fundamental "point" of a story, or a simple physical description. Isn't this part of the old saw that we willing suspend our disbelief when we enter a story to see whether the story succeeded on its own terms? To me this is the great difficulty of artistic judgement--you can only see it through your own set of filters, and those filters are necessarily subjective. It's one of the reasons I cringe at the recurring "What is Art?" thread, because in the end Art is whatever the consumer determines it is. Yes, there are certain qualities that we have all agreed constitute basic quality, certain techniques that we generally agree are preferred over others. But the essential quality of art remains a deeply individual determination. In this case, Michael's beating down a locked door directly coincided with my willing seduction and happiness to open the door on the core concept. I fell for Eric's story wholesale. It directly reflects my own experience that layoffs are usually the result of poor planning by management--either because they were incapable or because they were seeking either power or money by inflating their departments. In other words, it boils down to either greed or incompetence, neither of which strikes me as an endearing trait in management. Picking one and moving forward is craft, not art. But that's my experience, and is one of the reasons the story worked for me. I don't believe that every story has to challenge my fundamental worldview in order to be Art. Sometimes my worldview *is* Art. In my opinion. Scott Parkin - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:07:02 -0400 From: "Debra L. Brown" Subject: [AML] Fw: MN Former MoTab Organist Schreiner Honored: LDS Church News 15Sep01 US UT SLC A2 Former MoTab Organist Schreiner Honored SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH -- In honor of what would have been his 100th birthday, Alexander Schreiner Centennial Celebration was held on September 8-9. A series of lectures, a banquet and a recital on the Tabernacle Organ that Schreiner helped acquire more than a half century ago, honored the virtuosic performer nearly 15 years after his death in 1987. "More than any other, he has influenced LDS music in this century," said Dan Berghout, author of the new book, "Alexander Schreiner, Mormon Tabernacle Organist." "Alexander Schreiner left behind a remarkable legacy," said Brother Berghout. "His 53 years of recitals and broadcasts from the Salt Lake Taberncacle, and his extensive concertizing influenced generations of organists and reached millions of listeners. His published collections of organ music, still in print today, provide countless church musicians with music that was easily accessible. His tireless crusade for an Aeolian-Skinner organ in the Taberncacle in the 1940's resulted in the creation of the masterpiece," Berghout explained. Former Tabernacle Choir Director, Jerold Ottley said, "With his reputation, he could have done anything." "Alexander Schreiner's faith in and commitment to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was undeniably apparent throughout his career." At the age of 13, the young German native, developed an early interest in music and the organ, which he began playing at the age of 5 and became the branch organist at age 8. When Alex's family immigrated in 1912, he lived near Temple Square and was soon turning pages from the organ bench. "Sometimes so preoccupied with the music that he forgot to turn the pages," said Berghout. By his late teens, Alex played theatre organs to accompany silent films. At the age of 22, he turned down an Oregon offer of $300 a week to accept a 1921-24 mission call to Southern California. He taught briefly during the 1930's at UCLA and returned to Salt Lake City in 1939 to marry and raise a family. He assumed his post at the Tabernacle where he ultimately became "chief organist" in 1963. He produced and performed half-hour radio shows in the 1960's with occasional television appearances. In 1942, Schreiner graduated with high honors from the University of Utah and later returned to receive his Ph.D. in 1954. He received four honorary doctorates and numerous awards toward the end of his career, including the Officers Cross from his homeland, the Federal Republic of Germany, for "contributing to international understanding." The congenial musician played his last recital on December 30, 1977, after a bout with cancer. The First Presidency issued a statement at his death that called his life "long and productive" and that "left a legacy which will continue to lift those who love beautiful music," Berghout said. Source: Major influence on Church music LDS Church News 15Sep01 A2 http://www.desnews.com/cn/view/1,1721,200000904,00.html >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:08:48 -0400 From: "Debra L. Brown" Subject: [AML] Fw: MN Film Company Receives Emmy: LDS Canada News 16Sep01 CA SK= Reg A4 Film Company Receives Emmy REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA -- Award-winning film production company, Partners in Motion, added an Emmy last week to the other 75 awards they've received since LDS Church members started the company eight years ago. Ron Goetz, CEO of the Regina-based company and member of the Saskatoon Saskatchewan Stake, announced in a 06 September 2001 press release that Partners in Motion had received an award for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story =D0 Programs at the 22nd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards held the day before. The one-jour documentary, "Kent State: The Day the War Came Home," aired on Canadian and US television stations. The film documents the events leading up to the day over thirty years ago when members of the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four protesting students and wounded 12 others. The Kent State students had been protesting the Vietnam War. Some historians believe this was a turning point in convincing the United States to pull out of the war. Director of the film, Chris Triffo, also a member of the Saskatoon Saskatchewan Stake and president of Partners in motion, is very pleased at the credit this now gives to their work, which was up against programs for PBS and ABC. "This was a story that we felt had never been told in this way before," said Triffo. "Being from Canada, this allowed us to relay the events impartially. We are very proud of the fact that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has awarded this prestigious credit to our work." Previously, "Kent State" had received and award from the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival for Best Sound, Best Editing and Best of Saskatchewan in addition to six awards at the 2000 Showcase Awards and a bronze award issued at the Houston International Film Festival. Source: Partners in Motion Press Release, 06 Sep 2001 >From Mormon-News: Mormon News and Events Forwarding is permitted as long as this footer is included Mormon News items may not be posted to the World Wide Web sites without permission. Please link to our pages instead. For more information see http://www.MormonsToday.com/ - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:10:50 -0600 From: margaret young Subject: Re: [AML] World Trade Center Events Why would you consider Neil Labute and Brian Evensen "cultural terrorists"? And how do you justify comparing them to Satan? Christopher Bigelow wrote: > Some responses sprinkled with literary tie-ins: > [snip] - - AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature http://www.xmission.com/~aml/aml-list.htm ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #457 ******************************