Saturday, March 12th
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Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), Les espaces acoustiques, I-III (1974-76); Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 2013
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lagniappe
random thoughts
How many things can go wrong with the human body?
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: classical
2016
2016
Thursday, March 10th
sound and space
John Luther Adams (1953-), Sila: The Breath of the World (2014), live, New York, 2014 (performance begins at 4:45)
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lagniappe
reading table
We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louise and Frances Norcross, 1872
2016
Saturday, March 5th
This sound-world I could inhabit, happily, all weekend.
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), Vortex Temporum (1994-96)
Ensemble Sonorama, live, Argentina (Buenos Aires), 2013
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lagniappe
reading table
When we recognize we ‘think again’
without knowing what or if
we thought before.—Rae Armantrout, “Fusion,” excerpt (New Yorker, 3/7/16)
2016
Friday, February 19th
Want to be swept away?
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), String Quartet in G minor (1893); New England Conservatory Student Quartet (Minchae Kim & Harry Chang, violins; Heejin Chang, viola; Hsiao-Hsuan Huang, cello), live, Boston, 2014
2016
Wednesday, February 17th
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Steve Reich (1936-), The Desert Music (1983)
Schönberg Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, BBC Singers, Reinbert de Leeuw (cond.), live, Amsterdam, 1987
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2016
Tuesday, February 16th
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Steve Reich (1936-), Six Marimbas (1986), arranged for gamelan (Iwan Gunawan)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
—John Cage (1912-1992)
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my back pages
Years ago, at the University of Chicago Law School, I took classes from the late Antonin Scalia. He was one of the first professors I encountered, as I had him for Contracts, a first-year staple. Two-word review: Very funny.
2016
Saturday, February 13th
another take
Africa Express, “Terry Riley’s In C Mali,” live, London (Tate Modern), 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
I wouldn’t try to capture it
on the page, or in a blog, the inauspicious
leavings of a day. Closer to dream
than the hum of streets, and people
who once walked along them.—John Ashbery (1927-), “Gravy for the Prisoners,” excerpt (Breezeway, 2015)
2016
Thursday, February 11th
timeless
Terry Riley (1935-), In C (1964); Terry Riley & Friends, live, Amsterdam, 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2016
Saturday, February 6th
This I could listen to all day.
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape (1948)
Michael Compitello (marimba), live, c. 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
music clip of the day 