Talk:Clive Wearing

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Clive Wearing also appeared in a documentary called "Equinox: Prisoner of Consciousness." I have found so few references to this film on the internet, though, that I cannot do much insofar as adding it to the article. Anyone have a copy / more information? --- Stephen Goldmeier | Profile | Talk | (._.) | 05:46, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Clive Wearing's Musical Career

Speaking as Clive's daughter, I find it insulting to the man that no real mention of his huge contribution to the world of Music is made. Nowhere does it mention his life's work of editing the works of Orlandus Lassus. Nowhere does it mention his major contribution to the accepted practice of period instruments, contextual performances and original language of Early Music. Clive sang at Westminster Cathedral as a Tenor lay clerk for many years and also had a successful career as a Chorus Master and worked as such at Covent Garden and the London Sinfonietta Chorus. He ran The London Lassus Ensemble and was the person who thought up and staged the 1982 London Lassus Festival to commemorate his 450th Anniversary. To dismiss all this and concentrate instead on the awful thing that happened to him totally negates everything he strove to do. His illness came about because he worked so hard at his music. To focus entirely on that leaves the reader with the impression that his musical career was not noteworthy. On a personal level (and I know what has been happening with Wikipedia in the news recently) I don't like this and would prefer to see my father's real contribution to the world of music acknowledged in no small way here. Eleison 12:55, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

-- People just might know enough about your father to enter information about him. This is where wikipedia excels - enter it yourself, since you probably know best and let other people edit it for you if you don't know how to format it properly.

Eleison, I went ahead and wrote up a short bit on your father's musical career, based on the information you provided above. Unfortuantely, I don't know any more than that, and can't find anyplace to cite that information from. If you could help us out with that, maybe just providing some more detailed information to fill in what's missing, I think we can definitely make this article a whole lot more representative of him and his contributions. ObsidianOps 16:37, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. I believe at the time, it was difficult to edit anything! I have figured it out now, though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eleison (talk • contribs) 14:12, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Memory

It is worth noticing that, apparently, Clive Wearing's almost complete loss of memory has not affected his language abilities at all: he is capable to form meaningful sentences and understands completely what is said to him, within limits of his memory, and also can still read. (I know this from a TV documentary "Time".) -- Voice from Finland, November 28, 2007. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.214.205.62 (talk) 14:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC)