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Sunday, 7/31/11

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, services at Bishop Perry Tillis’s Alabama church.

Bishop Perry Tillis (1919-2004), preacher, singer, guitarist

Live, Savior Lord Jesus Pentecostal Church
Samson (pop. 2071 [2000]), Alabama, 1995

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The Bishop Joe Perry Tillis . . . gives Church services every 1st and 3rd Sundays at the Our Saviour Jesus Holiness Pentecostal Church in Samson, Alabama, playing electric slide-guitar, singing, and talking through one scratchy amplifier. He preaches the Pentecost and uses a combination of testimonies and extended hymns he developed with the help of his guiding angels, his daughter, and good friend Sister Bertha Lee Baker.

Steve Grauberger (1995)

Saturday, 7/30/11

The four familial instruments seem to whisper directly into our ears, communing with us about our personal sadnesses and anxieties.

—Wendy Lesser, Music For Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets (2011)

Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 14 in F-Sharp Major (1972-73)
Fitzwilliam String Quartet

1st Movement (Allegretto)

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2nd Movement (Adagio)

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3rd Movement (Allegretto)

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musical thoughts

I think he [President Obama] needs to listen to some jazz. Maybe the entire capital needs it to calm down.

—Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, 7/28/11