sounds of Chicago
Chicago Community Choir (with Rev. Milton Brunson [1929-1997, direction, vocals], Jessy Dixon [1938-2011, vocals, piano], et al.), “I’ll Tell It,” live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1966
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Music avoids impossibility.
—Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), from “Anew” (section 2)
never enough
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Rondo in D Major (K. 485), Fantasia in C Minor (K. 475); Leif Ove Andsnes (1970-, piano), live, Vienna (Austria), published 4/8/22
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For you I have emptied the meaning
Leaving the song—Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), from “Anew” (section 9)
sounds of New York
Amber Mark, live, New York, published 1/31/22
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), String Quartet No. 1 (1974); Royal String Quartet, live, Warsaw (Poland), 2021
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basement jukebox
Howlin’ Wolf (vocals, harmonica; 1910-1976), “How Many More Years,” 1951
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alone
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915), Etude in F-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 2 (1894); Ivo Pogorelić (1958-, piano), published 2014
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musical thoughts
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
—John Cage (1912-1992)
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other day, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)
sounds of Ukraine
DakhaBrakha, “Monakh,” 2017
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Volodymyr Zelensky, video message broadcast at yesterday’s Grammy Awards
sounds of Chicago
Progressive Church of God in Christ Radio Choir (Maywood, Ill.), live (TV show [Jubilee Showcase]), 1975
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other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines—
Lifeless in appearance,
sluggish dazed spring approaches—
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind—
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined—
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance—Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken
How about something quiet?
Mat Maneri Quartet/Dust (MM, viola; Lucian Ban, piano; John Hébert, bass; Randy Peterson, drums), playing and talking, Romania (Brasov), 2021 (published 2/12/22)
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basement jukebox
Tyrone Davis (1938-2005), “Can I Change My Mind,” 1968
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Ann Peebles (1947-), “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down,” 1973
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O. V. Wright (1939-1980), “A Nickel and a Nail,” 1971
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