OFF: Silver Apples

M Holmes fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK
Wed Nov 11 09:07:55 EST 1998


J Strobridge writes:

> John McIntyre writes:
>
> > >From: Doug Pearson <ceres at SIRIUS.COM>
> >
> > >Silver Apples [New York], who took their name from a work by experiemtal
> > >composer Morton Subotnick ("Silver Apples of the Moon")
> >
> > Doug, as you know people close to the band, perhaps you can offer a
> > definitive answer to this question.  Was the name of the band *really*
> > taken from Subotnick's title or from Subotnick's source, William Butler
> > Yeat's poem "Song Of Wandering Angus":  "And pluck till time and times
> > are done/The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun"?
>
> Wasn't there a Ray Bradbury SF book with this name?

The Golden Apples of the Sun?

FoFP



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