Friday, July 31st
summer in the city
Sleater-Kinney, live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
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lagniappe
art beat: Wednesday at the Chicago History Museum
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago
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Month: July, 2015
2015
Thursday, July 30th
Morton Feldman (1927-1986), Rothko Chapel (1971), live (excerpts), Houston (Rothko Chapel), 2013; Kim Kashkashian (viola), Steven Schick (percussion), Sarah Rothenberg (celeste), Hallie Reed (soprano), Houston Chamber Choir (Robert Simpson, cond.)
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Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets John Berryman and Wislawa Szymborska and William Bronk, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
random thoughts
No matter how often we turn away, the world keeps calling out to us.
Look.
Listen.
2015
Wednesday, July 29th
summer in the city
Shamir, “Head in the Clouds,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
2015
Tuesday, July 28th
tonight in Chicago
These guys are playing at Elastic Arts.
Vox Arcana (Tim Daisy, percussion; James Falzone, clarinet; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello, guitar), live, South Carolina (West Columbia), 2012
2015
Monday, July 27th
Sometimes I want more. Sometimes less.
Billy Gomberg, “False Heat,” 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning
Oak Park, Illinois
2015
Sunday, July 26th
back to church
Hymn Choir of Langrum Branch Baptist Church (York, S.C.), “Calvary,” live, Mt. Zion Baptist Church, McConnells, S.C., 2010
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lagniappe
reading table
The Blood is more showy than the Breath
But cannot dance as well——Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1558 (Franklin)
2015
Saturday, July 25th
Back to Brooklyn.
Trio Caveat (James Ilgenfritz, bass; Chris Welcome, guitar; Jonathan Moritz, saxophone) with Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York (Barbes), 2012
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Too much music suffers from too little mystery.
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reading table
[T]hose who know her [nature], know her less / The nearer her they get.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1433 (Franklin)
2015
Friday, July 24th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Patti Smith, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 6/28/15
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lagniappe
art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), from The Lines of My Hand (1972)
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reading table
I have no Life but this
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1432 (Franklin)
2015
Thursday, July 23rd
This guitar player gets around. Last weekend Wilco—he’s been a member since 2004—headlined Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival. Here he’s playing a small performance space in Brooklyn.
BB&C (Tim Berne, alto saxophone; Jim Black, drums; Nels Cline, guitar), live, New York (Shapeshifter Lab), 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday morning
Columbus Park, Chicago
2015
Monday, July 20th
sounds of Eau Claire
Bon Iver (AKA Justin Vernon), live, Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival (Eau Claire, Wisconsin), 7/18/15
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taking a break
I’m taking some time off—back in a while.
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