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
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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
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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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
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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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
kaleidoscopic clarity
Brian Ferneyhough (1943-), Contraccolpi (2015): Talea Ensemble (James Baker, cond.), live, New York, 2016
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
(Taking a day off.)
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Musical Offering: Le Concert des Nations (Jordi Savall, cond.), published 2018
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reading table
Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful / thing in the world
—George Oppen (1908-1984), from “Route”
never enough
What better way to begin the week?
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fifteen Three-Part Inventions: Boris Giltburg (1984-, piano), 2020
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art beat: yesterday, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Concetto Spaziale, Attese (Spatial Concept, Expectations [1960]), detail
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major, 3rd Movt. (Largo): Christian Tetzlaff (1966-, violin), Berlin, 2013
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reading table
It’s good now and then
to go out snow-viewing
until I tumble—Matsuo Basho (1644-94), from “The Knapsack Notebook” (translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill)
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Piano Partita No. 2 in C minor: Martha Argerich (1941-, piano), live, Germany (Görlitz Synagogue, Lausitz Festival), 10/13/20
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radio
Again it comes, one of my favorite musical events of the year: all Bach, all the time, until 11:59 p.m., December 31st—Bachfest 2022, WKCR (Columbia University).
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