Saturday, May 1st
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona, “Читаю реп,” published 4/8/21
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2021
Friday, April 30th
sounds of Colombia and Canada
Lido Pimienta, “Coming Thru” (L. Pimienta), published 3/9/21
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2021
Thursday, April 29th
sounds of Norway
Sinikka Langeland (kantele, voice), “Eye of the Blue Whale” (S. Langeland), published 4/28/21
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It is hard to believe of the world that there should be
music in it . . .—William Bronk (1918-1999, MCOTD Hall of Fame), from “The Nature of Musical Form”
2021
Tuesday, April 27th
sounds of New York
Nate Wooley (trumpet, compositions), et al., Mutual Aid Music, live, New York, 12/11/20 ((performance begins at 6:40)
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Skylark
sings all day,
and day not long enough.—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto
2021
Monday, April 26th
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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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”
2021
Monday, April 19th
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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A world of dew,
and within every dewdrop
a world of struggle—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
2021
Saturday, April 17th
sounds of Chicago
Hamid Drake (drums, percussion, voice; MCOTD Hall of Fame [right]) and Michael Zerang (drums, percussion [left]), live, Chicago (Constellation), last night (performance begins at 7:00)
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2021
Friday, April 16th
what’s new
Adrianne Lenker (voice, guitar, compositions), live (“anything,” “zombie girl,” “half return,” “forwards beckon rebound”), published 3/2/21
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With a warbler for
a soul, it sleeps peacefully,
this mountain willow—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from the Japanese by Sam Hamill
2021
Wednesday, April 14th
sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Pierre Bleuse, direction), live, Paris, 2/16/20: David Bastien, Urban Song (2019)
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Insisting that change defined our world, Heraclitus concluded that we cannot step into the same river twice. Yet the novel coronavirus has taught us a newer truth: we cannot step into the same river even once.
—Robert Zaretsky, The Subervise Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas (2021), preface
2021
Tuesday, April 13th
sounds of Chicago
Josh Berman (cornet), Tomeka Reid (cello), Joshua Abrams (bass), Mike Reed (drums), live, Chicago (Constellation), 4/10/21
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