sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 6/9/20: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, excerpt); Charles Ives (1874-1954), The Unanswered Question
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
never enough
András Schiff (1953-, piano), playing Bach and Beethoven, London, yesterday*
*Program:
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (“WTC”), Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A flat major
Bach: WTC, Book II, Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A flat major
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat (Op. 26)
Bach: WTC, Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor
Bach: WTC, Book II, Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor (Op. 31)
Bach: WTC, Book I, Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor
Bach: WTC, Book II, Prelude and Fugue No. 14 in F sharp minor
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 24 in F sharp (Op. 78)
Encore: Bach, Invention No. 8 in F
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Paris
Why not begin the week with something unlike anything else?
Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris and Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, direction; Paul Fitzsimon, direction; Bruno Mantovani, direction), live, Paris, 2016: Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Gruppen for three orchestras (1955-1957)
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art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet, 1840-1926, Luncheon under the Tent, Giverny, c. 1883-86, detail (Monet in Chicago, through 6/14/21)
never enough
This sound-world I could live in all day.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (excerpts); Piotr Anderszewski (piano), live, Germany (Hamburg), 4/16/21
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
alone
György Kurtág (1926-), from Signs, Games and Messages (Jelek 1, Jelek 2); Nuala McKenna (cello), live, Netherlands (Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo), published 5/1/21
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yesterday, Chicago
timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, (Op. 6; 1909-10, revised 1928), Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) conducting an unidentified orchestra, live, Japan
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random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path)
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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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Paris and Moscow
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Dylan Corlay, direction), live, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall), 11/19/20: Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), Dérive 1; Bruno Mantovani (1974-), Chamber Concerto No. 2
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random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
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reading table
Light was on its way
from nothing
to nowhere.***
How could speed take shape?
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God is encrypting his account.
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Accounts”
alone
Erik Satie (1866-1925), Le Fils des Étoiles: II; Reinbert de Leeuw (1938-2020, piano), live, Amsterdam
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Why not begin the week, in this battered world, with something beautiful?
John Luther Adams (1953-), Sila: The Breath of the World (2014); Oberlin Conservatory of Music (featuring students from the Brass and Percussion Departments; Timothy Weiss, cond.), live, Oberlin, Ohio, 9/11/20
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
A world of dew,
and within every dewdrop
a world of struggle—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
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