Monday, February 23rd
More of Daniel K.
Daniel Knox, “Blue Car,” 2014
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1955
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2015
2015
Sunday, February 22nd
back to church
“The Storm Is Passing Over”
Mt. Mary Primitive Baptist Church, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 7/11
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Theater Tickets, New York, 1955
2015
Sunday, February 15th
back to church
Pineville AME Hymn Choir, “Daniel—That Suits Me,” St. Luke Baptist Church, Sharon, South Carolina, 2001
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lagniappe
art beat
William Klein (1928-), Pray, Sin, New York, 1954
2015
Sunday, January 25th
old school
The Consolers (Iola & Sullivan Pugh), live (TV show), early 1960s
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lagniappe
art beat
Bruce Davidson (1933-), New York (Subway), 1980s
2015
Saturday, January 17th
If your appetite for new music is insatiable, what better time to be alive?
Tyshawn Sorey (1980-), Quartet for Butch Morris (2012); International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), featuring Erik Carlson (violin); Joshua Rubin (bass clarinet), Eric Lamb (flute), Cory Smythe (piano); live, New York, 2012
Six decades of listening and, until yesterday, I’d never heard this particular combination of instruments. You?
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
James Ensor (1860-1949), Rooftops of Ostend, 1884 (Temptation: The Demons of James Ensor, through January 25th)
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reading table
Nature, the sky above us, is conducting no mean politics when it presents beauty to all, without discrimination, and nothing old and defective, but fresh and most tasty.
—Robert Walser (1878-1956), “Snowdrops,” excerpt (translated from German by Tom Whalen and Trudi Anderegg)
2015
Wednesday, January 14th
sounds of Chicago (day two)
Sometimes encountering a new piece of music can turn your whole day around, which is what happened to me the other day when I bumped into this.
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), In Vain (2000)
Ensemble Dal Niente, live, Chicago, 2013
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882)
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Seascape (1879)
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random thoughts
Eyes taste paintings no less than mouths taste food.
2015
Sunday, January 11th
two takes
“Jesus Gave Me Water” (L. Campbell)
Original Five Blind Boys (Archie Brownlee, lead vocals), 1950
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Soul Stirrers (Sam Cooke, lead vocals), 1951
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Young Tuxedo Brass Band, New Orleans, 1959
2015
Friday, January 9th
two takes
Rebirth Brass Band, “A. P. Tureaud,” live, New Orleans
Treme Sidewalk Steppers Second Line, 2011
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Revolution Social Aid and Pleasure Club Second Line Parade, 2012
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), Second Liners at Mardi Gras, New Orleans, 1957
2014
Tuesday, December 23rd
Here are two more takes on the song we heard Sunday (“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”)—both from Hollywood.
Robert Mitchum with Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter, 1955
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Van Johnson, et al., A Human Comedy, 1943
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage, c. 1885
2014
Monday, December 22nd
genius at play
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader) leading a master class (excerpt), Big Indian, N.Y. (Creative Music Studio), 2014
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More.
Henry Threadgill and His Very Very Circus, “Too Much Sugar for a Dime,” live, New York, c. 1993
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Today Henry, who’s been lifting my spirits for over three decades, enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining tenor saxophonist Von Freeman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Irises (1914/17)
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radio
One of my favorite musical events begins tonight: the annual Bach Festival on WKCR (Columbia University), which runs through midnight New Year’s Eve.
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