sounds of New York
Earle Brown (1926-2002), Times Five (1963), for chamber ensemble; Argento New Music Project (Michel Galante, conductor; Francesca Ferrera, flute; William Lang, trombone; Jacqueline Kerrod, harp; Conrad Harris, violin; Michael Katz, cello), live, New York, 2023
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
Macie Stewart (violin, voice), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet, electronics, voice), live, Chicago, 2/22/24
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art beat: other day, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)
Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009), Untitled (1970s), detail
timeless
Bix Beiderbecke (1903-1931, piano, composition), “In a Mist,” rec. 1927 (New York)
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
3n
Marta Warelis (piano), Wilbert de Joode (bass), Onno Govaert (drums), live, Amsterdam, 2021
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
What you didn’t know you needed right now.
Irreversible Entanglements (Camae Ayewa [Moor Mother], vocals; Aquiles Navarro, trumpet, synthesizer; Keir Neuringer, saxophone, synthesizer; Luke Stewart, bass; Tcheser Holmes, drums; Kyle Kidd, vocals), live (“Fireworks”, “Soundness,” “Free Love,” “Our Land Back,” “root ᐸ=ᐳ branch,” “Protect Your Light”), live, Washington, D.C., 2/19/24
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
passings
Seiji Ozawa, conductor, September 1, 1935–February 6, 2024
Vienna Philharmonic (Seiji Ozawa, cond.) with Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), live, Tokyo, 2020; Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Nostalghia: In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky (for violin and orchestra), 1987
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random sights
other day, Chicago
two takes
“Just As Long as We’re in Love” (Terry Callier, Larry Wade)
Terry Callier, 1972
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The Dells, 1972
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of all over
Ali Sethi (vocals) & Nicolás Jaar (electronics), “Muddat” (Lyrics by Mirza Ghalib, 1797-1869), 2023
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
two takes
Carlos Simon (1986-), “Between Worlds” (2019); Miranda Cuckson (1972-), violin
#1 (1/21)
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#2 (9/21)
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About “Between Worlds”
Bill Traylor was born a slave in Alabama in 1853 and died in 1949. He lived long enough to see the United States of America go through many social and political changes. He was an eyewitness to the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the Great Migration. As a self taught visual artist, his work reflects two separate worlds— rural and urban, black and white, old and new. In many ways the simplified forms in Traylor’s artwork tell of the complexity of his world, creativity, and inspiring bid for self-definition in a dehumanizing segregated culture. This piece is inspired by the evocative nature as a whole and not one piece by Traylor. Themes of mystical folklore, race, and religion pervade Traylor’s work. I imagine these solo pieces as a musical study; hopefully showing Traylor’s life between disparate worlds.
—Carlos Simon
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts (2023)
(quietly) stunning
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Palais de Mari (1986); Igor Levit (1987-, piano), 2020
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Igor Levit, playing and talking
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