serendipity
This I just bumped into this morning.
What would we do if we could never hear anything new?
Witold Lutoslawski (1913-1994), Livre pour orchestre (1968)
RTVE Symphony Orchestra (Gunther Herbic, cond.), live
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), The Paris Bit, 1959 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)
sounds of Mali
Salif Keita, live, Switzerland (Winterthur), 2013
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reading table
she keeps the nest
nice and neat . . .
widow bird—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Dorothy Love Coates (1928-2002)
“Won’t Let Go” (AKA “I’m Just Holding On”)
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“The Winner”
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“The Accident” (Gospel Harmonette Odessa Edwards, speaking), “Get Away Jordan,” “Getting Late in the Evening,” “You Must Be Born Again,” 1955
Ever feel like listening to something that doesn’t remind you of anything else?
Francisco Meirino (electronics), live, New York, 2013
only rock ‘n’ roll
Joy Division, “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” 1980
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Stuart Davis (1892-1964), Lucky Strike, 1921 (Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, through 9/25/16)
sweet soul music
William Bell, “This Is Where I Live,” “The Three of Me,” “Born Under a Bad Sign,” live, Washington, D.C., 2016
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Danny Lyon (1942-), The March on Washington, August 28, 1963 (Message to the Future, through 9/25/16)
more
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); Either/OR (Richard Carrick, piano/celesta; Margaret Lancaster, flutes; David Shively, percussion), live, Philadelphia, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
flitting butterfly–
every corner of my hut
is inspected—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
Sometimes, in the middle of the night, if sleep leaves and doesn’t return, I’ll put one of these on repeat, softly.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Piano and String Quartet (1985); Aki Takahashi and Kronos Quartet, 1993
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John Luther Adams (1953-), The Farthest Place (2001), 2002
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Joe McPhee (alto saxophone) & Ingebrigt Haken Flaten (bass)
Live, Milwaukee, 2015
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Gas, 1940 (America after the Fall, Painting in the 1930s, through 9/18/16)
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Lester Bowie (1941-1999, trumpet) with Amina Claudine Myers (piano, vocals), Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone), Malachi Favors (bass), Phillip Wilson (drums), “God Has Smiled on Me,” 1978
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), New York Movie, 1939 (America after the Fall, Painting in the 1930s, through 9/18/16)
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