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Tuesday, April 11th

never enough

Hearing the right music at the right time can alter the trajectory of your day, as I found, again, yesterday, listening to this.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), piano

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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

Tuesday, March 21st

Complex? Yes. But its complexity is matched by its clarity. It breathes.

Milton Babbitt (1916-2011), Composition for Twelve Instruments (1948, rev. 1954): Ensemble conducted by Ralph Shapey (1921-2002), 1962

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Wednesday, March 15th

serendipity

What a joy, last night, to bump into this.

Perfect? No.

Exhilarating? Yes.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello: Isabelle Nichols (cello), live, Houston (Rice University), 2022

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Monday, February 20th

Rarely does a musician take your breath away so quietly.

Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950, piano), 1947: Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat major (Op. 27, No. 2)

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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Claude Monet (1840-1926), Irises (1914-17), detail

Thursday, February 16th

more

Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (TV show [CBC]), 1975: Alban Berg (1885-1935), Piano Sonata (Op. 1), c. 1910

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art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Checkered Tablecloth (1939), detail

Monday, February 13th

like nobody else

Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (studio [CBC broadcast]), 1955: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fifteen Three-Part Inventions

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Chicago

Monday, February 6th

Beautiful, delicate, ever-changing: what better way to begin the week?

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), 24 Preludes (Op. 28): Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987

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lagniappe

random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

Saturday, January 28th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 1 in B-flat major: Maria João Pires (piano), live, Portugal (Évora), 1987

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lagniappe

random sights

other day, Oak Park, Ill.

Wednesday, January 25th

kaleidoscopic clarity

Brian Ferneyhough (1943-), Contraccolpi (2015): Talea Ensemble (James Baker, cond.), live, New York, 2016

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lagniappe

random sights

this morning, Oak Park, Ill.

(Taking a day off.)

Thursday, January 12th

more

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Musical Offering: Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, cond.), published 2018

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lagniappe

reading table

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful / thing in the world

—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”

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