Friday, February 3rd
keep on dancing
Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014) remix: Michael Jackson, “Rock with You”
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), Landscape with Waterfall
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2017
2017
Thursday, February 2nd
Last night, in Chicago, worn out by work and the world, I walked from my office to Symphony Center, where I heard these folks perform pieces by, among others, this composer—and I’m so glad I did.
Kremerata Baltica with Gidon Kremer (violin), live; Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919-1996), Sinfonietta No. 2, excerpt (3rd mvt., Adagio)
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2017
Wednesday, February 1st
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Wet Ink Ensemble, Pendulum V (Alex Mincek), live, New York, 2009
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in such an ugly time the true protest is beauty
—Phil Ochs (1940-1976), Pleasures of the Harbor (1967), liner notes
2017
Tuesday, January 31st
Sunday night, in Chicago, I heard these folks perform at Constellation. Afterward, as I walked out the door, the night air seemed clearer, lighter, as if it had just been washed.
Wet Ink Ensemble, Pendulum VII (Alex Mincek), live, New York, 2013
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art beat: other day, High Line (New York)
Tony Matelli (1971-), Sleepwalker, 2014
2017
Sunday, January 29th
back to church
No wonder the place is packed.
St. James Adult Choir , “O Give Thanks,” live, St. James Baptist Church, Detroit
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2017
Saturday, January 28th
tonight in Chicago
She’ll be at Stony Island Arts Bank.
Sarah Davachi (1987-), “As the Morning,” 2014
art beat: other day, The Guggenheim (New York)
Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #5, 1998
2017
Sunday, January 22nd
back to church
Post-inaugural blues?
Try this.
First Church of Deliverance Choir, “Afterwhile It’ll All Be Over,” live, Chicago
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other day, New York (High Line)
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On a cold, snowy night forty years ago, at a church outside Chicago, my wife, Suzanne, and I were married. Tenor saxophonist Von Freeman (MCOTD Hall of Fame) and pianist John Young, both now gone, performed at the ceremony. All of what they played that night—”Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “More” (before); “In a Sentimental Mood” (unaccompanied saxophone, as the bride walked down the aisle); “My Favorite Things,” “Song for My Father” (after)—can be heard here (0:15-).
2017
Friday, January 13th
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Patti Smith, “Peaceable Kingdom,” “People Have the Power” (with Michael Stipe), live, New York, 12/5/16
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Another take.
Live (“People Have the Power,” with Michael Stipe), Chicago, 12/30/16
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2016
Tuesday, December 27th
After all the holiday bustle, how about something that begins slowly, quietly?
Nikhil Banerjee (1931-1986), sitar (with Zakir Hussain [1951-; tabla], et al.), Raag Shyam Kedar, Raag Pilu, live, San Francisco, 1985
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Agnes Martin (1912-2004), Untitled #12 (detail), 1977
2016
Monday, December 26th
old white men
Rolling Stones, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 2013
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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 17A (1948)
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
—Jackson Pollock
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