Tuesday, January 21st

passings

Claudio Abbado, conductor, June 26, 1933-January 20, 2014

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), Symphony No. 5 (4th Movt.); Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Claudio Abbado, cond.), live, 2004

I love watching him conduct: his hands and arms embody the music, moving with the grace, and the precision, of a ballet dancer.

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lagniappe

reading table

[T]he time of death is every moment . . .

—T. S. Eliot, “The Dry Salvages”