timeless
One-word review: astonishing.
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Movements for String Quartet (Op. 5), 1909: Juilliard String Quartet
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
If I was in a deserted island I would take the complete works of J. S. Bach, A. Webern and Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart.
—YouTube comment
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random sights
other day, Chicago
timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano (op. 11, 1914); Dmitri Atapine (cello), Hyeyeon Park (piano), 2014, California (Atherton)
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
alone in Ukraine
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Klavierstück (1925); Antonii Baryshevskyi (1988-, piano), live, Kyiv (Ukraine), 2017
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, outside Chicago
alone
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Variations for piano, op. 27 (1936); Maurizio Pollini (1942-, piano), live, Paris, 2002
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
like nobody else
Anton Webern (1883-1945), String Quartet (Op. 28, 1937-38); Psappha Ensemble (Benedict Holland and Sophie Rosa, violins; Vicci Wardman, viola; Jennifer Langridge, cello), live, England (Manchester), 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
Whenever I sleep
with my socks on
I have bad dreams—Yosa Buson (1716-1783), translated from the Japanese by W.S. Merwin and Takako Lento
timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Six Pieces for Large Orchestra, (Op. 6; 1909-10, revised 1928), Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) conducting an unidentified orchestra, live, Japan
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, outside Chicago (Illinois Prairie Path)
timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Five Pieces for orchestra, op. 10 (1911-13); Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, direction), live, Paris, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
timeless
Anton Webern, Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano (op. 11, 1914); Jacob Szekely (cello), Maksim Velichkin (piano), 2020
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
timeless
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Variations, op. 27 (1936); Maurizio Pollini (1942-, piano), live, Paris, 2002
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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found words
Nobody’s “fine.”
—Governor Andrew Cuomo, yesterday’s press briefing on the pandemic
string quartets
day three
Anton Webern, 1883-1945
Langsamer Satz (1905), Zorá String Quartet, c. 2014
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String Quartet (1938), Quatuor Debussy, c. 2009
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Monhegan Island, Maine
music clip of the day 