Re: [ARSCLIST] Shout Factory Poetry Box still continues Walt Whitman Cylinder hoax, + treasury business

[Roger and Allison Kulp <thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well that Brahms hoax certainly hasn't been revived.The one where they supposedly found a pre-Edison glass(?) cylinder buried in a box underground.It was undecipherable,except for a regular thumping noise.They claimed this was because it had been laying on its side for 130 years.Someone refresh my memory,please.

                                     Roger Kulp

Richard Warren <richard.warren@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Steve,

The Whitman Dept. is getting to be as bad as the 
Mark Twain Dept. (the one that's most likely 
William Gillette) -- yuck, why don't frauds die, like people do ?

Today I've sent off to you 3 requests for 
payment: Jessica Wood and Don Rayno, the 2006 
Research grant recipients' forms and slips and 
the next chapter in the translation project (it's 
been so long you may have forgotten that project, 
which has its own fund). Please let me know how 
much is left in that fund when you've paid the current invoice.

Thanks very much, and Happy Thanksgiving !

Richard

At 02:46 PM 11/22/2006, Steve Ramm wrote:
>I got an email today from Shout Factory about their box sets for the  holiday
>gift season. One was:
>
>_Shout!  Factory - Poetry on Record - Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their
>Work  (1888-2006)_
>(http://www.shoutfactory.com/selection/292/poetry_on_record_poetry_on_record:_98_poets_read_their_work_(1888-2006).html) 
>
>
>As you will see the fraudulent Walt Whitman cylinder is included. No matter
>what we do, we can't kill this myth. It certainly is great for promoting a
>set,  showing how early they went back to include it.
>
>I wrote to SF and sent them the NPR story on the cylinder. The reply I got
>was:
>
>
>Rebekah addresses this in her  essay: Of  the three Edison recordings, only
>the one of  the American giant of modern poetry, Walt Whitman, has had its
>authenticity  questioned. We know that Edison 
>wished to  record Whitman, and we
>know that Whitman (who was so tireless a self-promoter  that he once reviewed
>his own book!) would have liked to be recorded. 
>His  four-line poem, â??America,â??
>  published in the 1889 edition of Leaves Of  Grass, seems too obscure to be
>chosen by a forger. As Galway Kinnell  points 
>out, Whitman wanted to be seen as
>more patriotic and acceptable to the  general public late in his life, which
>is why he wrote such work 
>as  â??America.â??  Still, the original wax cylinder
>has never been found and neither has any  documentation verifying that the
>recording session took place. Kinnell, who 
>says  he is unsure of the recordingâ??s
>authenticity, also says that the first time 
>he  heard it, a flock of birds flew
>to the ceiling of the church he was in at 
>the  moment Whitmanâ??s voice hit the
>air.
>I'm  posting this JUST incase any Sound Archives have purchased this set.
>They should  be aware. The same thing happened 
>about a year ago with a book and
>CD set  "Poetry Speaks" from Source Books.
>Steve


 
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