Monday, November 30th
sounds of Estonia
Lepo Sumera (1950-2000), “Piano piece from the year 1981”; Kadri-Ann Sumera, piano, 2013
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this morning, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path)
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jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: November, 2020
2020
Sunday, November 29th
testify!
The Anointed Brown Sisters, “Hold On,” live, LaFayette, Alabama (Mt. Sellers Baptist Church), 2011
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2020
Saturday, November 28th
timeless
Erik Satie (1866-1925), Ogives (4) (1886, 00:00-), Pièces froides (6) (1897, 12:29-), Gnossiennes 1-6 (1889-97, 25:02-), Sonneries de la Rose+Croix (3) (1892, 44:51-), Gymnopédies (3) (1888, 58:59-); Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020, piano), live, 1982
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Friday, November 27th
what’s new
How strange, and surprising, this word seems today—”fun.”
Emmet Cohen Trio (EC, piano; Russell Hall, bass; Kyle Poole, drums) featuring Cyrille Aimée (vocals), “La Vie En Rose” (E. Piaf, et al.), live, published 11/6/20
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
In cherry blossom
shadows, no one, really, is
a stranger now.—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
2020
Thursday, November 26th
basement jukebox
J. B. Lenoir (1929-1967), “Mama Talk To Your Daughter,” 1955
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Magic Sam (aka Samuel Maghett, 1937-1969), “All Your Love,” 1957
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Otis Rush (1934-2018), “All Your Love (I Miss Loving),” 1958
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Junior Wells (1934-1998), “Little by Little,” 1960
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Buddy Guy (1936-), “First Time I Met the Blues,” 1960
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Sonny Boy Williamson II (aka Alex [or Aleck] Miller, 1912-1965), “Help Me,” 1963
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Fenton Robinson (1935-1997), “Somebody (Loan Me a Dime),” 1967
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Wednesday, November 25th
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Márta Kurtág (1927-2019, piano) and György Kurtág (1926-, piano), live, Paris, 2012: J.S. Bach (1685-1750, arr. G. Kurtág), “Das alte Jahr vergangen ist” (BWV 614)
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Tuesday, November 24th
alone
György Kurtág (1926-, piano), live, Budapest (Budapest Music Center), 10/17/20: Mártának | Mozart: Sonata in D major (K. 576), excerpt (II. Adagio)*
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*From the New York Times obituary (10/25/19):
Marta Kurtag, a pianist and teacher who shared a 72-year collaboration with her husband, the prominent avant-garde composer Gyorgy Kurtag, profoundly influencing his work and joining him in dual recitals that acquired a legendary reputation in their later years, died on Oct. 17 in Budapest. She was 92.
Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by the Budapest Music Center, a performing arts complex where she lived with Mr. Kurtag in an apartment.
2020
Monday, November 23rd
alone
What better way to begin the week?
Hilary Hahn (violin), live (friend’s empty place), 11/8/20: W.A. Mozart (1756-1791), Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major (K. 219, “Turkish”) and New Cadenzas (H. Hahn)
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musical thoughts
Mozart was a kind of idol to me—this rapturous singing . . . that’s always on the edge of sadness and melancholy and disappointment and heartbreak, but always ready for an outburst of the most delicious music.
—Novelist Saul Bellow (1915-2005)
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2020
Sunday, November 22nd
two more takes
“The Storm Is Passing Over” (C. Tindley, D. Vails)
Second Chance (Baton Rouge, La.), live
2011
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2012
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
2020
Saturday, November 21st
more
György Ligeti (1923-2006), excerpts from Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Hamburg Concerto for Solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 2019
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