string festival
day three
Jason Kao Hwang (1957-, composition, direction) and Uprising Orchestra (Lester St. Louis [cello], Ken Filiano [bass], Andrew Drury [drums], et al.), “Myths of Origin,” live, New York, 10/10/21
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), Woods, Aix-en-Provence (1887-1890), detail (Cezanne—The Artist’s Artist, through 9/5/22)

string festival
day one
Daniel Levin (1974-, cello) and Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), live, Columbia, South Carolina, 1/16/22
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#2
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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reading table
Daybreak—
—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from the Japanese by Lucien Stryk with the assistance of Noboru Fujiwara (The Dumpling Field: Haiku of Issa, 1991)
working as one,
two butterflies.
sounds of New York
Mat Maneri (viola), Gerald Cleaver (drums), Brandon Lopez, (bass), live, New York, 4/16/22
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lagniappe
reading table
The melody! the rest is accessory: . . .
—Louis Zukofsky (1904-1978), from “A”-6