Saturday, September 30th
astringent, adj. sharp and penetrating. E.g., the playing of Ran Blake and Steve Lacy.
Ran Blake (piano) & Steve Lacy (soprano saxophone), “The Man I Love” (G. Gershwin), 1991 (That Certain Feeling)
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Month: September, 2017
2017
Friday, September 29th
what’s new
Danish String Quartet, “Shine You No More” (R. T. Sørensen), Last Leaf (2017)
2017
Thursday, September 28th
never enough
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major (:07-), Fantasia in C minor (22:42-), Sonata No. 14 in C minor (39:54-); Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000), live, Germany (Munich), 1990
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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2017
Wednesday, September 27th
what’s new
Björk, “The Gate,” 9/20/17
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reading table
Said is missaid.
—Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), “Worstword Ho” (1983)
2017
Tuesday, September 26th
sounds of New York
The Full Salon, “Bish,” “Sriracha Michelada,” live, New York (Silent Barn), 9/7/17
2017
Monday, September 25th
Ever heard this instrument before? (Me neither.)
Kazue Sawai (1941-), bass koto, live, Tokyo, 2009
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reading table
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
—Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), “Worstword Ho” (1983)
2017
Sunday, September 24th
Bumping into something wonderful you never heard before—something you didn’t even know existed—can lift up your entire week, as this did mine when I encountered it the other day (WFMU, Sinner’s Crossroads, 9/21/17 [archived]).
Theotis Taylor, “If I Could Just Hold out until Tomorrow,” live, Atlanta, c. 1976
2017
Saturday, September 23rd
mesmerizing
Enno Poppe (1969-), Stoff (2015); Ensemble Dal Niente (Enno Poppe, guest cond.), live, Chicago, 2016
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found words
I’m above the soil—and I love it.
—Neighbor’s response this morning when I asked how he was doing.
2017
Friday, September 22nd
what’s new
Moses Sumney, “Doomed” (Aromanticism), 2017
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Izumi Masatoshi (1938-), Islands (Shima tachi), 2000
2017
Thursday, September 21st
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1
András Schiff (piano), live, London, 9/7/17
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reading table
Cold night: the wild duck,
sick, falls from the sky
and sleeps awhile.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Robert Hass
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