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Month: April, 2017

Wednesday, April 5th

Another take.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903)
Hagen Quartet, live, Austria (Salzburg), 2000

1st movt.

2nd movt.

3rd movt.

4th movt.

Tuesday, April 4th

Sometimes I just want to be swept away.

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903), 1st Mvt.
Takács Quartet, live, New York, 2017

 

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lagniappe

reading table

cloud becomes a mountain
becomes
a cloud

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

Monday, April 3rd

This I could listen to all day.

Eva-Maria Houben (1955-), lines
R. Andrew Lee (piano), live, Denver, 3/8/17


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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.

 

Sunday, April 2nd

back to church

Rev. Al Green, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow” (T.A. Dorsey), live, Memphis (Full Gospel Tabernacle Church), 2012


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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.

Saturday, April 1st

more

Tank and the Bangas, “Quick,” 2017


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lagniappe

reading table

It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.

—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Card 12: The Hanged Man,” fragment (Our Andromeda)