Saturday, November 30th
alone
Modney (violin, composition), “Ascender,” 2024
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Illinois (Conservatory)
music clip of the day
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Category: violin
2024
Thursday, November 28th
sounds of London
Leonkoro Quartet (Jonathan Schwarz, violin; Amelie Wallner, violin; Mayu Konoe, viola; Lukas Schwarz, cello), live, London, 11/21/24: Joseph Haydn (String Quartet in F major, Op. 50, No. 5 [“The Dream”]), 2:00-; Felix Mendelssohn (String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2), 22:30-; Giacomo Puccini (Chrisantemi), 53:00-
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago
2024
Wednesday, November 20th
like nobody else
Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007, violin, viola), live, Atlanta, 1999
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
2024
Thursday, June 27th
like nothing else
György Ligeti (1923-2006), Violin Concerto (1993) (with encore [Bela Bartok, Sonata for Solo Violin, excerpt]): Gürzenich Orchester Köln (François Xavier Roth, cond.) with Christian Tetzlaff (violin), live, Germany (Cologne), 2017
2024
Saturday, June 8th
3n
Devin Gray (percussion), Mark Feldman (violin), Russ Johnson (trumpet), live, Milwaukee, 4/19/24
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2024
Tuesday, March 19th
sounds of New York
Earle Brown (1926-2002), Times Five (1963), for chamber ensemble; Argento New Music Project (Michel Galante, conductor; Francesca Ferrera, flute; William Lang, trombone; Jacqueline Kerrod, harp; Conrad Harris, violin; Michael Katz, cello), live, New York, 2023
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2024
Thursday, March 14th
sounds of Chicago
Macie Stewart (violin, voice), Ben LaMar Gay (cornet, electronics, voice), live, Chicago, 2/22/24
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Smart Museum (University of Chicago)
Ruth Duckworth (1919-2009), Untitled (1970s), detail
2024
Saturday, March 2nd
timeless
No one ever died from too much beauty.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor (Op. 25); Fauré Quartet, live, Tokyo, 2014
2024
Saturday, February 17th
passings
Seiji Ozawa, conductor, September 1, 1935–February 6, 2024
Vienna Philharmonic (Seiji Ozawa, cond.) with Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), live, Tokyo, 2020; Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), Nostalghia: In Memory of Andrei Tarkovsky (for violin and orchestra), 1987
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
2024
Saturday, February 3rd
two takes
Carlos Simon (1986-), “Between Worlds” (2019); Miranda Cuckson (1972-), violin
#1 (1/21)
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#2 (9/21)
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About “Between Worlds”
Bill Traylor was born a slave in Alabama in 1853 and died in 1949. He lived long enough to see the United States of America go through many social and political changes. He was an eyewitness to the Civil War, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation and the Great Migration. As a self taught visual artist, his work reflects two separate worlds— rural and urban, black and white, old and new. In many ways the simplified forms in Traylor’s artwork tell of the complexity of his world, creativity, and inspiring bid for self-definition in a dehumanizing segregated culture. This piece is inspired by the evocative nature as a whole and not one piece by Traylor. Themes of mystical folklore, race, and religion pervade Traylor’s work. I imagine these solo pieces as a musical study; hopefully showing Traylor’s life between disparate worlds.
—Carlos Simon
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts (2023)
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