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Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006), Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano (1982); Tomas Major (violin), Zora Sloka (horn), Denes Varjon (piano), 2009
#1
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#2
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lagniappe
reading table
This World is not conclusion.
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #373 (Franklin)
3n
Albrecht Maurer (violin), Mat Maneri (viola), Lucian Ban (piano), “Irreverence” (L. Ban), live (recording session), Germany (Cologne), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
tonight in Chicago
These folks will be playing at Curtiss Hall.
Christopher Fisher-Lochhead (1984-), Dig Absolutely (2010); Spektral Quartet, live, Evanston, Ill., 2011
serendipity
When this came on the radio the other day (WKCR, Columbia University), background became foreground.
Luciano Berio (1925-2003), Differences (1959)
sounds of Argentina
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992), live,* Montreal (Montreal Jazz Festival), 1984
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lagniappe
random thoughts
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)
sounds of Brazil
Jorge Ben & Gal Costa, “Que Pena,” live
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Cafe – Beaufort, South Carolina, 1955
sounds of Argentina
Chango Spasiuk, live, 2009
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musical thoughts
What would it be like to live in a world with just one kind of music?
Why not start the week with something strange?
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), Tetras (1983); JACK Quartet, live, Philadelphia, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
Trust in the Unexpected —
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #561 (Franklin)
string festival
day four
Alfred Schnittke (1934-98), Piano Quintet (1972-76), live (Katya Apekisheva, piano; Boris Brovtsyn, Julia-Maria Kretz, violins; Amihai Grosz, viola; Torleif Thedéen, cello), Netherlands, 2010
string festival
day three
Wolfgang Rihm (1952-), String Quartet No. 13
Arditti Quartet, live, London, 2012
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lagniappe
reading table
One peers down into regions where one’s feet would never, never have trod, because in certain regions, indeed in most, one has no purpose whatever.
—Robert Walser (1878-1956), “Balloon Journey,” 1914 (translated from German by Christopher Middleton)
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