never enough
Two takes.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Rondo in D major, K. 485
Víkingur Ólafsson (1984-, piano), published yesterday
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Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989, piano), live, Vienna, 1987
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sounds of London
Shame, live (“Snow Day,” “Born in Luton,” “Human, for a Minute”), published today
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basement jukebox: sounds of New Orleans
Professor Longhair (aka Henry Roeland “Roy” Byrd, 1918-1980; vocals, piano), “Tipitina” (R. Byrd, C. Matassa), 1954
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like nobody else
Bjӧrk, “Mutual Core” (directed by Andrew Thomas Huang), 2012
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sounds (and sights) of New Orleans
Hot 8 Brass Band, “Give Me the Night”; Second Line Parades, New Orleans, 2018-2019
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like nobody else
Nina Simone (1933-2003), “Ain’t Got No, I Got Life” (J. Rado, G. Ragni, G. MacDermot), live, London, 1968
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Rising from sickness, I lean on a cane and stand by the river.
Countless peach petals flow downstream.—Ryokan (1758-1831), from “Upon getting up from sickness in late spring” (translated from the Japanese by Kazuaki Tanahashi)
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Whitney Houston (1963-2012), “I Love The Lord/Joy To The World,” live (with the Georgia Mass Choir), 1996
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Since there is nothing but just this moment, the time-being is all the time there is.
—Dōgen (1200-1253), translated from the Japanese (“The Time-Being,” Moon in a Dewdrop: Writings of Zen Master Dōgen [Kazuaki Tanahashi, ed.])
alone
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Sabine Liebner (piano), 2007
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sounds (and sights) of New Orleans
Jon Batiste, “Freedom” (J. Batiste, A, Rowe), 2021
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never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor; Menno van Delft (clavichord), live, Amsterdam, 2015
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