Monday, October 4th
like nobody else
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), live (performance begins at 19:30), Amsterdam, yesterday
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: Amsterdam
2021
Thursday, July 22nd
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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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2021
Wednesday, April 28th
more
Erik Satie (1866-1925), from Sonneries de la Rose+Cross (No. 2); Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020, piano), live, Amsterdam
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Saturday, April 24th
alone
Erik Satie (1866-1925), Le Fils des Étoiles: II; Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020, piano), live, Amsterdam
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Wednesday, February 3rd
alone
Brad Mehldau (piano), live, Amsterdam, 12/3/20*
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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*Program:
Excerpts from the album Suite: April 2020:
I. waking up
II. stepping outside
III. keeping distance
IV. stopping, listening: hearing
V. remembering before all this
Satellite (J. Coltrane)
Here’s That Rainy Day ( J. Van Heusen, J. Burke)
2021
Friday, January 8th
what’s new
Sevdaliza (with Anthony Amirkhan, drums; Leon den Engelsen, keyboards; Jonas Pap, cello; Mihai Puscoiu, violin), live (“Human,” “Dormant,” “All Rivers at Once,” “Gole Bi Goldoon”), Amsterdam, published 1/5/21
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2019
Tuesday, January 8th
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 1 in G major; Lucia Swarts (cello), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2014
2019
Thursday, January 3rd
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Cello Suite No. 6 in D major; Sergey Malov (violoncello de spalla), live, Netherlands (Amsterdam), 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
from the hole
in the moneybox . . .
a katydid—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2018
Wednesday, November 7th
sounds of Amsterdam
Suffering from TMP (too much politics)?
Try this.
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra (ICP), live, Netherlands (Haarlem), 2018
2018
Tuesday, July 24th
string quartets
day two
Dudok Quartet, live, Amsterdam, 2015*
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lagniappe
random sights
late yesterday, Monhegan Island, Maine
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*Program notes courtesy of YouTube:
Pérotin – Selection from Viderunt Omnes
Ligeti – String Quartet no. 2:
I. Allegro nervoso
II. Sostenuto, molto calmo
Debussy – Canope from Preludes, livre II
Ligeti – String Quartet no. 2:
III. Come un meccanismo di precisione
IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
V. Allegro con delicatezza
Brahms – Intermezzo in B minor op. 119 no. 1
