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2015

Monday, December 7th

The more kinds of music you love, the more chances you have to make wonderful discoveries, as happened yesterday when I heard this for the first time (Oberon Ensemble, Art Institute of Chicago).

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor; Martha Argerich (piano); Gidon Kremer (violin), Yuri Bashmet (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), 2001

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You don’t hear the sound; you go into the sound—you and the sound become one.

—Seung Sahn, Only Don’t Know

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2015

Thursday, November 19th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin; Johnny Gandelsman, live, East Lansing, Michigan, 2015

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musical thoughts

Dance?

Sing?

Why not both?

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2015

Monday, November 16th

Sounds for a strange, scary, sad world.

Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), String Quartet No. 8 (2014); JACK Quartet

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2015

Wednesday, November 4th

two takes

“I Never Learnt to Share” (J. Blake)

Spektral Quartet (arr. Chris Fisher-Lochhead), live, Chicago, 2015

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James Blake, live, Berlin, 2011

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musical thoughts

When we’re full of music, we’re free of everything else.

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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2015

Thursday, October 15th

3ⁿ

Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009

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This World is not conclusion.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)

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2015

Monday, October 12th

3ⁿ

Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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2015

Saturday, October 10th

tonight in Chicago

These folks will be playing at Curtiss Hall.

Christopher Fisher-Lochhead (1984-), Dig Absolutely (2010); Spektral Quartet, live, Evanston, Ill., 2011

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2015

Wednesday, September 9th

serendipity

When this came on the radio the other day (WKCR, Columbia University), background became foreground.

Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Differences (1959)

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2015

Thursday, August 13th

sounds of Argentina

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), live,* Montreal (Montreal Jazz Festival), 1984

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With the way the Cubs are playing, taking twelve of their last thirteen, what could be more beautiful than baseball?

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Here’s something from last night’s game—first baseman Anthony Rizzo.

After conferring, the umpires reversed the call, ruling this an out.

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*AP, bandoneon, compositions; Pablo Ziegler, piano; Fernando Suarez Paz, violin; Oscar Lopez Ruiz, guitar; Hector Console, bass.

Set list:
1.Lunfardo
2.Muerte Del Angel
3.Resurreccion Del Angel
4.Tristeza De Un Doble A
5.Adios Nonino
6.Chin Chin
7.Otono Porteno (from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)