Once again I am grateful to Monte Schulz for his input. In my previous post he correctly identifies the music to Jo Stafford’s song ‘No Other Love’ as being by Frédéric Chopin. It is Chopin’s Étude No. 3 in E Major, Op. 10. Here is a recording of the complete piece.
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I would be intrigued by a book telling the Schulz story from the viewpoints of Monte and his siblings. Obviously, there would be consensus on some points, and contention on others, but I suspect their collective story has parallels for many other families from that era.
As a way of describing the sweeping changes throughout America from the relatively sedate late 1950’s, through the turbulent 1960’s, and into the uneasy early 1970’s, I feel the Schulz children have compelling tales and insights to tell, and I’m sure many people of our generation could relate to them.
I had written a thoughtful post on the nature of the internet, then lost it when I closed the window without first hitting “submit”! This too is the nature of the internet.
Basically I was musing on the ability of the blogosphere to remove barriers of timing, geography, and social distance, and to allow anyone with something to add to join the conversation, whenever their schedule allowed. I’m also thanking Monte for joining the conversation on my brother’s blog. At the tender age of 5 or 6 (I’m the youngest Pratt sibling), it meant something to me when I learned that the famous Charles Schulz had a big family–just like ours*. Somehow, I felt a kinship with this family of kids on the other side of the country whom I’d never met and never would. Which is the memory that brought me around to musing on the nature of the internet…
*Undoubtedly I learned this from Doug, who was drawing all the time in his childhood, and knew a great many things about all comic-strip and comic-book artists. As he still does, along with many other facets of popular culture. Whenever one of my own children asks a question related to the better parts of popular culture, I refer them to Uncle Doug, because I surely will get it wrong. (Not that they remember to ask when they see you, most of the time!)
And Joni James singing Hank Williams! Yes, I agree. He liked a lot of things, other than cartooning and ‘Citizen Kane’. The why of those interests is certainly worth exploring.
In one interview, your father made a point of asking if the interviewer had ever read the Spoon River Anthology of poems. The interviewer had not even heard of it, and being unable to infer anything from the reference, he missed a real opportunity for a deeper discussion. The collection is described as, “citizens of the fictional Spoon River, Illinois tell us the truth about their lives—with the honesty no fear of consequences enables.” I’m almost glad that Michaelis didn’t pick up on the interest in Spoon River Anthology, out of concern where he might have taken his interpretation!
Correction: On page 351 Michaelis does, in fact, make reference to the author of Spoon River Anthology, Edgar Lee Masters, “a freethinker who despised hypocrisy in fundamentalist preachers.”
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Monte, thank you for your comments. How can anybody but the child, spouse, dear friend, or confidante of a person truly understand them? Like my twin brother, I dearly loved “Peanuts,” and there were parts of each character that I could relate to.
I was also intrigued by your observation that Jo Stafford’s absence in the biography was a serious omission. I couldn’t agree more. Indeed, David showed no real interest in discussing anyone Dad admired. But how about this for a short list in no particular order of importance: Mozart, Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, Jo Stafford, Eddy Arnold, Creedence Clearwater Revival (Will and the Poorboys!), Edgar Lee Masters, Thomas Wolfe, James Gould Cozzens, Carson McCullers, Andrew Wyeth, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Laurie Colwin, Billie Jean King, Willie Mays, Jackie Gleason, Jack Benny, Clint Eastwood, Sam Snead, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ernie Pyle, Omar Bradley, Joe Montana, Bobby Hull, Peggy Fleming, Cormac McCarthy, James Jones, John Marquand, Leo Tolstoy. Why he admired even some of these people might have been worth writing about in his biography, don’t you agree?
And “No Other Love” really is beautiful. You’re right that David ought to have used it in the book.