what’s new
Matt Wilson’s Honey and Salt (music inspired by the poetry of Carl Sandburg), 8/25/17
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Portrait Head of Martinique Woman with Kerchief, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
like nobody else
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophone, composition; MCOTD Hall of Fame) & Make a Move, live, Italy (Perugia), 1996
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vase in the Form of Leda and the Swan, 1887-1888 (Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist, through September 10th)
passings
Glen Campbell, guitar player, singer, actor, TV host, April 22, 1936-August 8, 2017
“Wichita Lineman” (J. Webb), live (TV show), London, 2008
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Alice Cooper, talking about his friend
This piece, in over forty years of listening, has never—not once—let me down. And this performance, which I encountered last night, is among the strongest I’ve heard.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello
Mischa Maisky, live, 1991
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reading table
Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity –Unable they that love – to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 951 (Franklin)
sounds of Detroit
Pastor Marvin Winans (Perfecting Church, Detroit) and Perfecting Praise Choir, live, Toronto, 2011
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random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Chicago Botanic Garden)
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Always Mine!
No more Vacation!
Term of Light this Day begun!
Failless as the fair rotation
Of the Seasons and the Sun –Old the Grace, but new the Subjects –
Old, indeed, the East,
Yet upon His Purple Programme
Every Dawn, is first.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 942 (Franklin)
sounds of Chicago
Pipe, “Play That Johnny Cash Song,” 2014
voices I miss
Prince (1958-2016), live, Netherlands (Rotterdam), 2011
tonight in Chicago
He’s singing in Millenium Park.
Youssou N’Dour, “Lang,” live
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And they’re playing at Elastic.
Daniel Levin (cello) & Tim Daisy (drums), live, Bloomington, Ind., 2015
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reading table
The least misfortune can do to make up for itself is to be interesting.
—Michael Kinsley, Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide
keep on dancing
Offhand, I can’t think of a DJ set I’ve enjoyed more.
DJ Maseo (AKA Vincent Mason), London, 2017
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