this weekend in Chicago
They’re also playing at the University of Chicago—tomorrow night.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903), 1st Mvt.
Takács Quartet, live, New York, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) and Spektral Quartet, “Viejo” (Yo Soy La Tradición), 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
this week in Chicago
They’re playing Thursday at Constellation and Friday at Segundo Ruiz Belvis Cultural Center (benefit for Puerto Rico).
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, compositions) and Spektral Quartet (Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018)
“Milagrosa”
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“Promesa”
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Playing and talking
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Brook, Ill. (Dean Nature Sanctuary)
what’s new
Miguel Zenón (alto saxophone, composition) & Spektral Quartet, from Yo Soy La Tradición, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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Kaija Saariaho (1952-), Cloud Trio (2009); Chartreuse (Myra Hinrichs, violin; Carrie Frey, viola; Helen Newby, cello), live, Los Angeles, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
Walking in Mountains in the Rain
by Wang Wei, 699-759 (translated from Chinese by David Young,
Five T’ang Poets, 1990)In this quick cloudburst
air thickens, the sky comes downdark mountains
flashes of lightningout at sea new clouds
have just started to form
and this small brook I straddle
is a river in flood somewhererags and blankets of mist
hang on these slopes and cliffsthen the clouds open and vanish
rain patters off
and moonlight silvers
that whole reach of river
foothills to oceanand even from this black mountain
I can hear boatmen singing.
1+1=?
Tanya Kalmanovitch (viola), Marilyn Crispell (piano), live, Baltimore, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
It takes a bit of life experience to realize that our choice is merely between making fools of ourselves either intentionally or unintentionally.
—Brother David Steindl-Rast, The Way of Silence
mesmerizing
John Luther Adams (1953-), Everything That Rises (2017); JACK Quartet, live, Ojai, Calif., 6/8/18
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Monhegan Island, Maine
string quartets
day four
Helmut Lachenmann (1935-), String Quartet No. 3, “Grido,” excerpt; Mivos Quartet, live, New York, 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Monhegan Island, Maine
string quartets
day three
Anton Webern, 1883-1945
Langsamer Satz (1905), Zorá String Quartet, c. 2014
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String Quartet (1938), Quatuor Debussy, c. 2009
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Monhegan Island, Maine
string quartets
day two
Dudok Quartet, live, Amsterdam, 2015*
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lagniappe
random sights
late yesterday, Monhegan Island, Maine
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*Program notes courtesy of YouTube:
Pérotin – Selection from Viderunt Omnes
Ligeti – String Quartet no. 2:
I. Allegro nervoso
II. Sostenuto, molto calmo
Debussy – Canope from Preludes, livre II
Ligeti – String Quartet no. 2:
III. Come un meccanismo di precisione
IV. Presto furioso, brutale, tumultuoso
V. Allegro con delicatezza
Brahms – Intermezzo in B minor op. 119 no. 1
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