Here are two more takes on the song we heard Sunday (“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”)—both from Hollywood.
Robert Mitchum with Lillian Gish, The Night of the Hunter, 1955
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Van Johnson, et al., A Human Comedy, 1943
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage, c. 1885
genius at play
Henry Threadgill (alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader) leading a master class (excerpt), Big Indian, N.Y. (Creative Music Studio), 2014
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More.
Henry Threadgill and His Very Very Circus, “Too Much Sugar for a Dime,” live, New York, c. 1993
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Today Henry, who’s been lifting my spirits for over three decades, enters the MCOTD Hall of Fame, joining tenor saxophonist Von Freeman, trumpeter Lester Bowie, poets John Berryman, William Bronk, and Wislawa Szymborska, and gospel singer Dorothy Love Coates.
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Irises (1914/17)
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radio
One of my favorite musical events begins tonight: the annual Bach Festival on WKCR (Columbia University), which runs through midnight New Year’s Eve.
three takes
“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms” (A. Showalter, E. Hoffman)
Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, live (TV show)
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Mahalia Jackson, live (TV show), 1961
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Iris Dement, recording (Lifeline), 2010
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lagniappe
art beat: Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Self-Portrait, 1887
Bach cello festival (day five)
Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor; Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007), live, France (Vezelay), 1991
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lagniappe
art beat: Sunday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Oribe-Type Ewer (glazed stoneware), early 17th century, Japan
Why not begin the week with something beautiful?
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Ballade No. 1 in G minor (1831); Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995), piano, live
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musical thoughts
[N]ow Miles [Davis] was relaxed and pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was sending him into several shades of ecstasy.
“Listen to those trills!” Miles ordered.
—1961 interview (Marc Crawford, The Miles Davis Reader)
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art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Interior at Nice, c. 1919
blues festival (day one)
T-Bone Walker (1910-1975), “Don’t Throw Your Love on Me So Strong,” live (TV show), Germany, 1962*
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), The Customs House at Varengeville, 1897
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random thoughts
Every painting was once a blank canvas.
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*With Memphis Slim (piano), Willie Dixon (bass), Jump Jackson (drums).
never enough
I could live happily inside a cello.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Nathan Chan (1993-), live, San Francisco, 8/17/14
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Monday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Slovakia, 1966 (from Gypsies)
Nationality Doubtful, through tomorrow
tonight in Chicago
These guys will be at the Hideout, as will I.
Survival Unit III (Joe McPhee, tenor saxophone, pocket trumpet; Fred Lonberg-Holm, cello; Michael Zerang, drums), live, Denmark (Copenhagen), 2013
I could live a thousand years and never tire of going out in the dark to hear music.
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lagniappe
art beat: Monday at the Art Institute of Chicago (brief stop after lunch)
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Slovakia, 1963 (from Gypsies)
Nationality Doubtful, through September 21st
alone
Henry Cowell (1897-1965), The Tides of Manaunaun, c. 1917
Andy Costello (piano), live, Chicago, 2009
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Thursday night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Ireland, 1972
Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
passings
Johnny Winter, guitar player, February 23, 1944-July 16, 2014
“Highway 61 Revisited” (B. Dylan)
Live, Denmark (Roskilde), 1984
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Recording (Second Winter), 1969
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lagniappe
art beat: last night at the Art Institute of Chicago
Josef Koudelka (1938-), Nationality Doubtful, through September 14th
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the beat goes on
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