alone
Why not begin the week in an abandoned French castle?
Hélène Vogelsinger, “Reminiscence,” live, France, published 11/5/20
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
*****
reading table
Because there is no me
and because I feel
how much there is no me.—Anna Swir (1909-1984), “A Double Rapture” (translated from Polish by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan)
more
Ela Minus, live (“Porch Song [by Jesse and Forever]/Jamaica”), New York, 2016
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
*****
reading table
Who has not found the Heaven – below –
Will fail of it above –
For Angels rent the House next ours,
Wherever we remove –—Emily Dickinson, 1609 (Franklin)
Happy (belated) birthday, Emily (b. December 10, 1830).
sounds of New York
Jaimie Branch’s Fly or Die (JB, trumpet, compositions; Lester St. Louis, cello; Anton Hatwich, bass; Chad Taylor, drums), live, New York, 2018
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Marc Ribot (guitar), Jay Rodriguez (tenor saxophone, flute), Nick Dunston (bass), Chad Taylor (drums), live New York, 2019
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
This I could listen to all day.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
**********
lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of Chicago
The Bridge: Separatist Party (Ben LaMar Gay, cornet; Fred Jackson, alto saxophone, flute; Marvin Tate, vocals; Mike Reed, drums, keyboard; Jakob Heineman, bass; Nolan Chin, piano, keyboard), live (performance starts at 13:00), Chicago (Constellation), last night
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
Even this mountain
moss grows flowers all its own—
thus nature bestows—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
sounds of Colombia
Ela Minus, live (studio), Colombia (Bogota), published 9/10/20
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
On the street corner
the blind musician dances,
fan held high overhead—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
sounds of Ukraine
Alyona Alyona, “Дубадав,” 11/27/20
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
sounds of Estonia
Lepo Sumera (1950-2000), “Piano piece from the year 1981”; Kadri-Ann Sumera, piano, 2013
**********
lagniappe
random sights
this morning, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path)
alone
György Kurtág (1926-, piano), live, Budapest (Budapest Music Center), 10/17/20: Mártának | Mozart: Sonata in D major (K. 576), excerpt (II. Adagio)*
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
*From the New York Times obituary (10/25/19):
Marta Kurtag, a pianist and teacher who shared a 72-year collaboration with her husband, the prominent avant-garde composer Gyorgy Kurtag, profoundly influencing his work and joining him in dual recitals that acquired a legendary reputation in their later years, died on Oct. 17 in Budapest. She was 92.
Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by the Budapest Music Center, a performing arts complex where she lived with Mr. Kurtag in an apartment.
