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.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: classical
2016
2016
Tuesday, February 16th
more
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)
2016
Saturday, January 30th
serendipity
What a joy to bump into this.
Charles Curtis (cello), live, West Hollywood, Calif., 2015
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
2016
Thursday, January 21st
Ashley Fure (1982-), Soma (2012)
Curious Chamber Players, live, Germany (Darmstadt), 2012
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Why shouldn’t our music be as mysterious as our life?
2016
Monday, January 18th
spellbinding
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano (1978); Natalia Gutman (cello), Vassily Lobanov (piano)
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
How sad that some miss out, put off by an unfortunate label – “classical.”
2016
Thursday, January 14th
sounds of Chicago
Still fresh after seventy years.
John Cage (1912-1992), Credo in Us (1942)
Third Coast Percussion, live, Chicago, 2011
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