Subject: Re: 1999 N.O. Words & Music Festival to feature WP events
From: Henry P. Mills (wpercy2@SUNSITE.UNC.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 15 1999 - 21:44:34 EDT
Dear Percy-L,
This just in as a more current website for the Words and Music Festival:
HPM
>1999 WORDS & MUSIC FESTIVAL IN NEW ORLEANS
>to be held
>September 22 through September 26
>
>The festival will feature several Walker Percy events/speakers, including
>
>--the "New Orleans, Mon Amour" conference session (named in honor of
>Percy's essay), which is to be the final working session of the writers'
>conference portion of the annual festival;
>
>--Ron Shelton, whose films include Cobb, Blaze, Tin Cup, and Bull Durham,
>who will speak on "Why The Moviegoer Probably Shouldn't Be A Movie"; and
>
>--Sheila Bosworth and Stewart O'Nan, who will discuss the influence of
>Walker Percy on contemporary novelists.
>
>Last year's Words & Music Festival saluted Walker Percy with several events
>celebrating his work, but most of the festival was cancelled because of
>Hurricane Georges. Contact Rosemary James, Conference Director, at the
>below address for specifics/confirmations:
>
>E-Mail: FaulkHouse@aol.com
>Mail: 632 Pirate's Alley, New Orleans, La. 70ll6-3254.
>Phone: (504) 586-1612.
>Web: http://hometown.aol.com/faulkhouse
>
>____________________________
>ABOUT WORDS & MUSIC '99
>(taken from website)
>
>Words & Music, '99, created and sponsored by the non-profit literary and
>educational organization, The Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society, Inc., will
>be five days of the perfect words of literary masters--roundtable
>discussions, original drama, poetry readings, master classes and one-on-one
>consultations with some of the best publishing executives, editors and
>agents in the country--and great music as only New Orleanians can write it
>and play it, all liberally sauced with the fine cuisine for which the city
>is noted.
>
>The 1999 conference will address the question of why so many writers have
>found New Orleans such an inspiring muse. "New Orleans, Mon Amour" is to
>be a permanent discussion theme of Words & Music in memory of Mr. Percy,
>who has had such a significant influence on many contemporary literary
>fiction writers, and as a permanent salute to The Big Easy.
>
>In 1999, New Orleans will be discussed as an example of what imbues a
>"landscape" with special inspiration for the writer. Nancy Lemann, a
>native New Orleanian who now lives in San Diego, and Sheila Bosworth,
>another native daughter, who lives in Covington, both have unique
>approaches to describing the city in their novels, such as Lemann's _The
>Fiery Pantheon_ and Bosworth's _Almost Innocent_. (Editor's note: both
>Lemann and Bosworth knew Percy personally).
>
>The last working session of the conference, New Orleans, Mon Amour, (after
>the Walker Percy essay) will end Sunday afternoon in time for a nap before
>the finale, the Society's annual fundraiser, Happy Birthday, Mr. Faulkner!,
>featuring the presentation of gold medals to the winners of the William
>Faulkner Creative Writing Competition, and on-stage musical and dramatic
>performances.
>
>1998 FESTIVAL SUMMARY
>The underlying theme of Words & Music, '98 was New Orleans, Mon Amour,
>taken from the title of an essay by the late Walker Percy, the important
>Louisiana novelist who was born in Birmingham and grew up in the
>Mississippi Delta but elected to spend most of his adult career living and
>working in Louisiana.
>
>The conference theme was also the title of the festival's first evening
>event at St. Louis Cathedral, which began with tributes to Mr. Percy.
>Musical centerpiece last year was the preview of the opera, Ash Wednesday,
>set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras and featuring all of the musical
>sounds of New Orleans: jazz, gospel singing, and the blues. Shelby Foote
>provided opening remarks.
>
>Most of the 1998 festival was cancelled because of Hurricane Georges.
>
>New Orleans, Mon Amour is to be a permanent discussion theme of Words &
>Music in memory of Mr. Percy, who has had such a significant influence on
>many contemporary literary fiction writers, and as a permanent salute to
>The Big Easy.
>
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>Henry P. Mills, Director & Editor
>
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