Sunday, 11/18/12

Where classical music, as we heard the other day (remembering Elliott Carter), has the concerto, gospel has the soloist and choir.

Jennifer Hudson & Chapter 2 Gospel Singers, “Changed” (W. Hawkins)
Live, New York (Harlem), 2005

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lagniappe

reading table

Deep autumn—
my neighbor,
how does he live, I wonder?

—Matsuo Basho, 1644-1694 (translated from Japanese by Robert Hass)