Friday, August 7th
summer in the city
Run the Jewels, “Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck),” live (feat. Zack de la Rocha), Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/19/15
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2015
Thursday, August 6th
sounds of Peru
Dengue Dengue Dengue!, live, Mexico City, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat
Lee Friedlander (1934-), New York
2015
Wednesday, August 5th
more
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne in B-flat minor (Op. 9, No. 1); Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), piano
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lagniappe
random sights
last night
Columbus Park, Chicago
2015
Tuesday, August 4th
more
I don’t care what you had planned: it can’t compare to this.
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), 24 Preludes; Ivan Moravec (1930-2015), piano
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lagniappe
reading table
Why did I / shrink into a story?
—Alice Notley, “Are Loyal” (Poetry, 7-8/15)
2015
Monday, August 3rd
passings
Ivan Moravec, pianist, November 9, 1930-July 27, 2015
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Ballade No. 1 in G minor
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Ever grow weary of the 21st century?
Me, too.
2015
Sunday, August 2nd
old school
Mighty Clouds of Joy, “I’ve Been in the Storm Too Long,” live, Chicago, 1990
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lagniappe
reading table
There comes an hour when begging stops,
When the long interceding lips
Perceive their prayer is vain.
‘Thou shalt not’ is a kinder sword
Than from a disappointing God
‘Disciple, call again.’—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #1768 (Franklin)
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art beat
Danny Lyon (1942-), Colombia, 1972
2015
Saturday, August 1st
Even in death he remains a source of rare beauty.
Henry Threadgill (MCOTD Hall of Fame, bass flute) and Jason Moran (piano), “Sail” (H. Threadgill), live, New York (Ornette Coleman Memorial Service), 6/27/15
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lagniappe
reading table
The world she grew up in was so different it was hard to believe she was ever in it.
—Anne Enright, The Green Road (2015)
2015
Friday, July 31st
summer in the city
Sleater-Kinney, live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
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lagniappe
art beat: Wednesday at the Chicago History Museum
Vivian Maier (1926-2009), Chicago
2015
Thursday, July 30th
Morton Feldman (1927-1986), Rothko Chapel (1971), live (excerpts), Houston (Rothko Chapel), 2013; Kim Kashkashian (viola), Steven Schick (percussion), Sarah Rothenberg (celeste), Hallie Reed (soprano), Houston Chamber Choir (Robert Simpson, cond.)
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Today Morton Feldman enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining saxophonists Von Freeman and Henry Threadgill, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets John Berryman and Wislawa Szymborska and William Bronk, photographer Helen Levitt, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
random thoughts
No matter how often we turn away, the world keeps calling out to us.
Look.
Listen.
2015
Wednesday, July 29th
summer in the city
Shamir, “Head in the Clouds,” live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/18/15
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