viola festival
day two
Morton Feldman (1926-1987; MCOTD Hall of Fame), The Viola in My Life (1970); João Pedro Delgado (viola), et al., live, Portugal, 2014
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
viola festival
day one
Mat Maneri (viola) & Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), live, Boston, 2015
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this morning, Chicago
more sounds of Iceland
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Aeriality (2011); Iceland Symphony Orchestra, live, 2011, Iceland (Reykjavik)
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
sounds of New York
Nina Kraviz (DJ), New York, 2017
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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day two
Trio Da Kali (Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté, vocals; Mamadou Kouyaté, bass ngoni, vocals; Fodé Lassana Diabaté, balafon), live (studio), Seattle, 2017
“Eh Ya Ye”
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“Kanimba”
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“Guede”
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“Dissa”
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the morning light is in us
—Peter Gizzi, from “Lullaby”
3n
day one
Sounding Tears Trio (Mat Maneri, viola; Evan Parker, soprano saxophone; Lucian Ban, piano), live, Bucharest, 2017
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where there’s people
there’s flies
and Buddhas—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
what’s new
ÌFÉ, live, Washington, D.C., 4/27/18
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
passings
Glenn Branca, composer, guitarist, October 6, 1948-May 13, 2018
Live, Washington, D.C., 2012
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Live (Symphony No. 16 [Orgasm], First Mvt.), Paris, 2015
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That was fast.
I mean life.—Ron Padgett, “Haiku”
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Hamid Drake (drums; MCOTD Hall of Fame), David Murray (tenor saxophone), live, 2017
(Taking a break—back in a while.)
God has given me a ministry. It’s about reaching as many souls as I can through techno, speaking God’s truth and his gospel to as many ears as I can, taking the message to the street.
—Floorplan (aka Robert Hood), New Yorker, 5/7/18
Live, Paris, 2015
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yesterday, outside Chicago (Prairie Path, Bellwood)
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