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Month: July, 2013

2013

Wednesday, July 31st


More sounds from the shadows.

György Kurtág (1926-), 12 Microludes for String Quartet (Hommage à Mihály András) (1978), Maxwell Quartet, live, Scotland (Argyllshire), 2012

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“Chartres”
By George Oppen (1908-1984)

The bulk of it
In air

Is what they wanted. Compassion
Above the doors, the doorways

Mary the woman and the others
The lesser

Are dreams on the structure. But that a stone
Supports another

That the stones
Stand where the masons locked them

Above the farmland
Above the will

Because a hundred generations
Back of them and to another people

The world cried out above the mountain

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2013

Tuesday, July 30th

alone

Ran Blake (1935-), “Over the Rainbow” (H. Arlen & E. Harburg), live, Portugal (Lisbon), 2010


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Even in Kyoto—
hearing the cuckoo’s cry—
I long for Kyoto.

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694; translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)

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2013

Monday, 7/29/13

passings

J.J. Cale, singer, songwriter, guitarist, December 5, 1938-July 26, 2013

Today, remembering him, we revisit an earlier post.

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What was it like growing up in the 1950s in the lonesome state of Oklahoma?

Leon Russell knows.

So does this guy.

J.J. Cale (with Eric Clapton), “After Midnight” (J. Cale), live, Dallas, 2004


Who supplies the juice here?

It ain’t the guitar god from England.

It’s the grizzled guitar player from the state with the funny shape (:38-1:12, 1:41-44, 2:14-48, 3:36-50, 4:20-44).

(Originally posted 11/1/10.)

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2013

Sunday, 7/28/13

fire

Boyd Rivers & Ruth May Rivers, “Fire in My Bones,” live, Canton, Miss., 1978

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2013

Sunday, July 21st

making a joyful noise

Evangelist Rosie Haynes (alto saxophone, vocals), “Because He Lives,” live, Milwaukee, 2005

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taking a break

I’m taking some time off—back in a while.

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2013

Saturday, July 20th

alone

The world seems, sometimes, like an uncatalogued collection of miracles.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 6 in E minor; Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano

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2013

Friday, July 19th

what’s new

The Flaming Lips, “Turning Violent”


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random thoughts

Given all the things that can go wrong with the human mind, it’s a wonder any of us function at all.

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2013

Thursday, July 18th

Claude Debussy (1862-1918), String Quartet in G minor (1893), first movement; Cypress String Quartet, 2006


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musical thoughts

I wouldn’t want to listen to the same kind of music every day any more than I’d want to eat the same kind of food.

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2013

Wednesday, July 17th

What’s needed sometimes, like, for instance, the other morning, when I was driving to court for a hearing in a murder case, slid this into the CD player, and cranked up the volume, is something to get your juices going.

Mark Ernestus, “Mark Ernestus Meets BBC,” 2011


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“Come see
the crappy house at night!”
croak the frogs

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), 1807 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2013

Tuesday, July 16th

baseball and boogie–woogie

In advance of tonight’s All-Star game, here’s the answer to a baseball trivia question: Who’s the finest musician ever to work between the foul lines? This guy, “the progenitor of boogie-woogie piano,” played for the Chicago All-Americans, a Negro league team, during World War I, then worked for twenty-five years as a groundskeeper for the Chicago White Sox.

Jimmy Yancey (1894 [or 1898]-1951), piano, “Yancey Stomp,” 1939

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