Wednesday, April 13th
timeless
1909?
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Movements for String Quartet (Op. 5), 1909; Telegraph Quartet, live, 2018
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: string quartet
2022
Thursday, April 7th
sounds of Ukraine
Valentin Silvestrov (1937-), String Quartet No. 1 (1974); Royal String Quartet, live, Warsaw (Poland), 2021
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Friday, March 18th
sounds of Ukraine
Yakiv Tsvietinskyi (composition, trumpet), “Double Quartet No. 9,” live (studio), Ukraine, 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Monday, February 14th
like nobody else
Henry Threadgill (1944-, Pulitzer Prize Winner [Music, 2016], MCOTD Hall of Fame), Sixfivetwo (2018); Mivos Quartet, live, Vienna, 7/1/21
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Wednesday, November 10th
sounds of Hungary
György Kurtág (1926-), Officium Breve In Memoriam Andreae Szervánszky (Op.28, 1988-89); Keller Quartett, 1996
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other day, Chicago
2021
Tuesday, October 26th
sounds of Chicago
Spektral Quartet (Maeve Feinberg [violin], Clara Lyon [violin], Doyle Armbrust [viola], Russell Rolen [cello]), “Arnika” (Sufjan Stevens, arr. Gene Knific), Chicago, 1/28/21
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other day, Chicago
2021
Saturday, October 16th
like nobody else
Anton Webern (1883-1945), String Quartet (Op. 28, 1937-38); Psappha Ensemble (Benedict Holland and Sophie Rosa, violins; Vicci Wardman, viola; Jennifer Langridge, cello), live, England (Manchester), 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
Whenever I sleep
with my socks on
I have bad dreams—Yosa Buson (1716-1783), translated from the Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento
2021
Tuesday, October 5th
tonight in Chicago
They’re performing at the Harris Theater.
Nathalie Joachim (vocals, flute, electronics), Spektral Quartet, Haitian children’s choir (recorded): “Suite pou Dantan: Prelid,” 2019 (Fanm d’Ayiti [Women of Haiti])
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2021
Saturday, October 2nd
timeless
One-word review: Wow!
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), String Quartet in G minor (1893), 3rd Mvt.; Quatuor Ebène, live (90th birthday celebration for pianist Menahem Pressler [1923-]), Paris, 2013
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
A string of wild geese
wind-strewn
through the sky
their cries echoing
confused and scattered—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
2021
Thursday, September 9th
like nothing else
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Enigma (2019); Spektral Quartet (Clara Lyon [violin], Maeve Feinberg [violin], Doyle Armbrust [viola], Russell Rolen [cello]), 2021
Movt. I
Movt. II
Movt. III
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reading table
When I consider
how in this world
all is falling blossom—
what then must become
of this self?—Saigyō (1118-1190), translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney
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