To the editors:
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In April of 1990 (April 6th Reader) I had a concert at Southend Musicworks. It was the opening weekend and Mr. Tesser wrote a column for your calendar pages about the weekend’s activities at Southend. Nowhere in this article does my name appear, this despite the fact that I put one of the concerts together, wrote music for it, paid the musicians and had Bill Smith of Toronto as a guest artist and collaborator in that concert. The press material that I saw made it very clear that this was a joint venture between Bill and myself, featuring both of us as composers and performers equally. Mr. Tesser labelled the concert “a jam session led by sopranino saxophonist Bill Smith.” I can’t of course, say with total assurance that Mr. Tesser saw the press kit that Southend gave him, but it seems to me that part of his job is to review this material before writing the article.
Just this past week (Oct. 5) Mr. Tesser again ran a “choice” for (pianist) Myra Melford. In this case Myra played the first half solo, then I joined her for duets in the entire second half, and again, Mr. Tesser makes no mention of this fact in his column.
