Thursday, July26th
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
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
Category: violin
2018
2018
Wednesday, July 25th
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
2018
Tuesday, July 24th
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
2018
Monday, July 23rd
string quartets
day one
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), String Quartet No. 3 (1927); Arditti Quartet, live (studio), Tokyo, 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Monhegan Island, Maine
2018
Thursday, July 19th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, excerpt (Sarabande); Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), live, Vienna, c. 2008
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2018
Monday, July 9th
mesmerizing
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Farthest Place (2001), Andrew Ferdig (marimba), Kevin Keith (vibraphone), Danica Smith (violin), Andy Sproule (bass), James Wehe (piano), live, Denver, 2017
2018
Wednesday, July 4th
violin festival
day three
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Chaconne (Partita No. 2 in D Minor); Ivry Gitlis (violin), live, Tokyo, 1990
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lagniappe
reading table
Try to Praise the Mutilated World
by Adam Zagajewski (1945-)
(translated from Polish by Clare Cavanagh)Try to praise the mutilated world.
Remember June’s long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine.
The nettles that methodically overgrow
the abandoned homesteads of exiles.
You must praise the mutilated world.
You watched the stylish yachts and ships;
one of them had a long trip ahead of it,
while salty oblivion awaited others.
You’ve seen the refugees going nowhere,
you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.
You should praise the mutilated world.
Remember the moments when we were together
in a white room and the curtain fluttered.
Return in thought to the concert where music flared.
You gathered acorns in the park in autumn
and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.
Praise the mutilated world
and the gray feather a thrush lost,
and the gentle light that strays and vanishes
and returns.
2018
Tuesday, July 3rd
violin festival
day two
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Four pieces for violin and piano (1910)
Joseph Szigeti (1892-1973, violin), Roy Bogas (piano), 1959
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lagniappe
random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
2018
Monday, July 2nd
violin festival
day one
Listening to this the floor begins to feel less solid.
Michael Hersch (1971-), “the weather and landscape is on our side” for unaccompanied violin (2015); Miranda Cuckson, 2017 (published)
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Bellwood, Ill.
2018
Thursday, May 24th
3n
day three
Anton Webern (1883-1945), String Trio, Op. 20 (1927)
Goeyvaerts String Trio, live
Part 1
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Part 2
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Difficult? Life is difficult. Not music.
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random sights
other night, Oak Park, Ill.
music clip of the day 