Wednesday, March 9th
what’s new
Jason Kao Hwang’s Human Rites Trio (JKH, compositions, violin, viola; Ken Filiano, bass; Andrew Drury, drums), live, New York, 3/1/22
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: viola
2022
Wednesday, March 2nd
sounds of New York
Brandon Lopez (bass), Mat Maneri (viola), live, New York, 2/22/22 (published yesterday)
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), detail from Interchanged (1955)
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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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2022
Tuesday, January 4th
I can almost feel the beer spilling on my shoulder as the waitress gets bumped.
Mat Maneri Trio (MM, viola; Randy Peterson, drums; Ed Schuller, bass), live, Cambridge, Mass., 1997
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, 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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langiappe
random sights
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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lagniappe
random sights
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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lagniappe
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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lagniappe
random sights
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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lagniappe
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
Sunday, September 19th
two takes
“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” (trad.)
Sonja Maneri (1937-2021, voice), Mat Maneri (1969-, viola), live, published 2020
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Mat Maneri (viola), live, Paris, 2020
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
music clip of the day 