OFF: Silver Apples

[J Strobridge]

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?

jill

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