Monday, January 21st
He didn’t just speak—he sang.
Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream” (excerpt)
Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
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Month: January, 2019
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Sunday, January 20th
timeless
Pilgrim Travelers, “Jesus Met the Woman at the Well,” 1949
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), “On Prayer” (Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays)
2019
Saturday, January 19th
what’s new
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, excerpt (Prelude); Yo-Yo Ma (cello), 1/14/19
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Friday, January 18th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Broken Social Scene, live, 1/13/19
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Thursday, January 17th
alone
Kim Kashkashian (viola), “character pieces” by György Kurtág (1926-), live, Cambridge, Mass., 2018
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the sound of the moat
cracking . . .
winter moon—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Wednesday, January 16th
what’s new
Tim Berne (alto saxophone), Matt Mitchell (piano), Dave King (drums), live, New York, 1/7/19
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in my thatched hut
even dreaming
the cold—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Tuesday, January 15th
what’s new
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, compositions) featuring Spektral Quartet, live (“Rosario,” “Milagrosa,” “Villabeño”), Washington, D.C., 1/4/19
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thin wall—
from the mouse’s hole
the cold—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Monday, January 14th
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Tarkovsky Quartet (François Couturier, piano; Anja Lechner, cello; Jean-Marc Larché, soprano saxophone; Jean-Louis Matinier, accordion), “Nuit blanche,” 2017
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I prefer winter . . . when you feel the bone structure of the landscape . . . . Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
—painter Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), Times Literary Supplement, 11/23/18
2019
Sunday, January 13th
sounds of St. Louis
O’Neal Twins, “Jesus Dropped the Charges,” live
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2019
Saturday, January 12th
This I could listen to all day.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); Claire Chase (flute, alto flute, piccolo), Steven Schick (percussion), Sarah Rothenberg (piano, celesta), live, Houston (Rothko Chapel), 2013
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