Monday, March 21st
two takes
“Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” (F. Landesman, T. Wolf)
Bob Dorough (1923-2018; vocals, piano), 1997
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Betty Carter (1929-1998, vocals), 1964
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Month: March, 2022
2022
Sunday, March 20th
back to church
Hood Memorial Hymn Choir, “Until I Die,” live, Center Baptist Church, Gastonia, North Carolina, 1988
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random sights
other day, outside Chicago
2022
Saturday, March 19th
sounds of Ukraine
Yuko, “Маша,” live (studio), Kyiv (Ukraine), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Maine (Monhegan Island)
2022
Friday, March 18th
sounds of Ukraine
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (composition, trumpet), “Double Quartet No. 9,” live (studio), Ukraine, 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Thursday, March 17th
voices I miss
Billy Bang Quintet (BB, 1947-2011, violin, compositions; James Zollar, trumpet; Andrew Bemkey, piano; Todd Nicholson, bass; Newman Taylor Baker, drums), live, New York, 2006
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lagniappe
reading table
Look at your past, how it’s grown.
—Karen Solie (1966-), from “All That Is Certain Is Night Lasts Longer Than the Day”
2022
Wednesday, March 16th
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Symphony No. 1 (1963-74); National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Volodymyr Sirenko, cond.), Kyiv (Ukraine), 1998
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music is still song, even if one cannot literally sing it: it is not a philosophy, not a world-view. It is, above all, a chant, a song the world sings about itself, it is the musical testimony to life.
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, March 15th
what’s new
Ensemble Musikfabrik (Marco Blaauw, trumpet, curator; Benjamin Kobler, piano), live, Cologne (Germany), yesterday: John Cage, The Perilous Night (1944) for prepared piano; Rebecca Saunders, Blaauw (2004) for double bell trumpet; Rebecca Saunders, Unsaid (2019) for piano; Rebecca Saunders, White (2015, rev. 2016) for double bell trumpet; Morton Feldman, Last Pieces (1959) for piano; Alvin Singleton, Vous Compra (2001) for trumpet and piano
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Monday, March 14th
sounds of Ecuador
Nicola Cruz (DJ), live (3:34-8:24: sound drops), Mexico (Tulum), 2016
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2022
Sunday, March 13th
back to church
“Until I Die,” Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 2001
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
On the first day, we hid in the Mins’ka metro station with our dog, Zlata. The entire platform was covered with people. We found a little gap next to a large family with lots of children and a sick grandad who was getting sicker and sicker. Their cat kept peeing from fear and the smell was everywhere. Some people were better prepared than others: they had brought fold-up chairs, blankets, flasks of hot tea. We came with nothing, though I had started packing a bag as soon as the sound of explosions woke me up. I couldn’t solve the puzzle of what exactly you’re supposed to take with you if you might never go back to your home, or if you might die at any moment. I tried to pack my things several times, but in the end we left with our hands almost empty.
—Sofia Andrukhovych (translated by Uilleam Blacker), from “Day 5, Day 9, Day 16 / Responses to the Invasion of Ukraine,” London Review of Books (3/24/22)
2022
Saturday, March 12th
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), Meta-Waltz; National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (Volodymyr Sirenko, cond.), live, Kyiv (Ukraine), 9/25/21
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
music clip of the day 