music clip of the day

If you’re away from home, how good it is to find a musical sanctuary, as I have the last two Fridays at Harvard’s Paine Concert Hall; last night I heard this string quartet play, wonderfully, music by Brahms and two contemporary composers (Adam Roberts, James Yannatos).

Chiara Quartet, Jefferson Friedman: String Quartet No. 2 (excerpt)
Live, New York (Le Poisson Rouge), 2010

Are we ever better—more focused, more receptive, more supple—than when we’re listening to live music?

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lagniappe

art beat

Edward Hopper, Room in Brooklyn (1932), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston