Priscilla McLean invites us to share her life as a practicing composer/performer making a living by performing the music she and her husband write.I have seen the McLeans in concert and they are a force for good in our culture.By that I mean that they encourage us to stretch our boundaries of what is art and music while at the same time entrancing us.I only wish that their CD was available in connection with the book.However, the information on how to get the CD is, I believe, included with the book.I found the book inspiring and would be delighted to offer the McLeans a place to stay on their travels, a venu to present their works, and even to help pay for their visit.Product Description
The next morning in Alpena, Michigan, lying exhausted in bed in yet another strange (but oh so familiar) motel room, I think about my life-our lives, Bart's and mine. Touring from town to town-no health insurance, no steady jobs, no children, no insurance of any kind against the dark forces in the world...
Hanging Off the Edge is an extraordinary journey into the mind and life of one of America's most creative women, Priscilla McLean. McLean shares her precarious cliff-edge existence as a classical avant-garde troubadour and the day-by-day tour of the world through Europe, Asia, and Australia. She also writes of her touching story, from growing up in a middle-class family fallen on hard times during World War II to her seemingly settled life as a college professor's wife. McLean's quotes from her extensive journals, kept over a twenty-five-year span of time, give an immediacy and poignancy to Hanging Off the Edge.
Mingled with these memories are original short poems, philosophical thoughts on the artist's life, and a whole section where McLean explores how, over the span of thirty-five years, thirteen special musical creations were born and placed before the world.
About the Author
Priscilla McLean has had a celebrated career as a composer, a world touring artist, a singer, and recently as a video artist. Born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, she now resides with her touring partner and husband, Barton McLean, in Petersburgh, New York.
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