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Thursday, 12/15/11

mysterious, adj. exciting wonder, curiosity, or surprise, while baffling efforts to comprehend or identify. E.g., the string quartet music of Anton Webern.

Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5
Penderecki String Quartet, live
Falls Village, Connecticut (Music Mountain), 2010

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More? Here.

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lagniappe

musical thoughts

Ignorance has a big upside: the more music you’ve never heard, the more there is to discover.

Wednesday, 12/14/11

What I get from this guy I can’t quite put my finger on. But I do know this:
I don’t get it anywhere else.

 Arthur Russell (1951-1992), singer, songwriter, cellist

“You And Me Both”

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“This Is How We Walk on the Moon”

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“That’s Us/Wild Combination”

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Terrace of Unintelligibility, live studio performance, 1985

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(First three clips originally posted 11/23/09.)