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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.
Bach festival
day one
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C major, 3rd movement (Largo)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin), Berlin, 2013
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
string quartet festival
day three
György Ligeti (1923-2006), String Quartet No. 2 (1968); Arditti Quartet, live (studio), Tokyo, 2018
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random sights
last night, Oak Park, Ill.
string quartet festival
day two
Lawrence Wilde (aka Yuri Boguinia), String Quartet No. 3 (“Wilted Jasmine,” 2016); JACK Quartet, live
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random sights
other night, Oak Park, Ill.
string quartet festival
day one
Like painting, the string quartet endures. Composers keep finding new colors.
Thomas Adès (1971-), Arcadiana (1994)
Danish String Quartet, live, New York, 2015
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
More beauty?
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903); Sacconi Quartet, live, London, 2015
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reading table
The snow is melting
and the village is flooded
with children.—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by Robert Haas)
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Samuel Barber (1910-1981), Violin Concerto (1939); BBC Symphony Orchestra (David Robertson, cond.) with Gil Shaham (violin), live, London, 2013
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last night, Oak Park, Ill.
spellbinding
Johann Sebastian Bach, from Partita for Violin No. 3 in E major (Gavotte en Rondeau), Gil Shaham (violin), live, Berlin, 2017
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Julius Eastman (1940-1990), Stay on It (1973), live, Switchboard Music Festival, San Francisco, 2016*
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random thoughts
The paper clip in my desk drawer will outlive me.
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*Annie Phillips, bass clarinet; Jeff Anderle, clarinet; Aram Shelton, alto saxophone; Alisa Rose, violin; Hannah Addario-Berry, cello; Helen Newby, cello; Dominique Leone, piano; Mark Clifford, vibraphone; Jordan Glenn, drums.
In a country that continues to coarsen, delicacy grows ever more precious.
John Luther Adams (1953-), there is no one, not even the wind (2017); Emerald City Music, live (world premiere), Seattle, 9/15/17
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random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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