basement jukebox
Ann Peebles (1947-), “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” (E. Randle), 1973
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random sights
yesterday, Chicago
*****
reading table
In pale moonlight
the wisteria’s scent
comes from far away—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
keep on dancing
If I could move like this, I’d never stand still.
Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (1976-, dance), live, New Jersey (Bloomfield), 2014
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
never enough
Need a break from America 2020?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (K. 467); Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, cond.) with Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950, piano), live, Switzerland (Lucerne), 1950
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lagniappe
random sights
a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
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reading table
The undisguised brutality of our time is weighing heavily on us.
—Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), letter to Oskar Pfister, 1/27/20, two days after his daughter Sophie died of Spanish flu
alone
Ben Goldberg (1959-, clarinet), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 5/31/20
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
Judging from the sounds I hear outside my door in the morning, birds don’t seem to have gotten the memo.
John Luther Adams (1953-), songbirdsongs (1974-80); Callithumpian Consort (Stephen Drury, dir.), 2012
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Monadnock Building)
basement jukebox
Sensational Nightingales (featuring Julius Cheeks), “Pressing On,” 1950s
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art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), The Migration Series (1940-1941), panel 14
like nobody else
Charmaine Lee (voice), live (Quarantine Concert presented by Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago), 4/17/20
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art beat: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 3/6/20
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Number 1A, 1948 (detail)
voices I miss
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), “Move On Up” (C. Mayfield), live, London, 1988
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random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
This I could listen to all day.
Generations Quartet: Billy Hart (1940-, percussion, lower left), Bob Moses (1948-, percussion, upper left), Dafnis Prieto (1974-, percussion, upper right), Marcelo Perez (1997-, percussion, lower right), live, Boston, 2019
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random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
another take
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Sonata No. 14 in C minor (K. 457); Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000, piano), live, Germany (Munich), 1991
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
*****
reading table
My old village lies
far beyond what we can see,
but there the lark is singing—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill
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