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2017

Monday, August 14th

This piece, in over forty years of listening, has never—not once—let me down. And this performance, which I encountered last night, is among the strongest I’ve heard.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello
Mischa Maisky, live, 1991

 

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Unable are the Loved to die
For Love is Immortality,
Nay, it is Deity –

Unable they that love – to die
For Love reforms Vitality
Into Divinity.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 951 (Franklin)

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2017

Sunday, August 13th

sounds of Detroit

Pastor Marvin Winans (Perfecting Church, Detroit) and Perfecting Praise Choir, live, Toronto, 2011

 

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random sights

this morning, outside Chicago (Chicago Botanic Garden)

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Always Mine!
No more Vacation!
Term of Light this Day begun!
Failless as the fair rotation
Of the Seasons and the Sun –

Old the Grace, but new the Subjects –
Old, indeed, the East,
Yet upon His Purple Programme
Every Dawn, is first.

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 942 (Franklin)

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2017

Wednesday, March 29th

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Yasmine Hamdan, “Beirut,” 2014


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No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man –
As the perusal of
His Individual One –

‘Tis Fiction’s – to dilute to plausibility
Our – Novel. When ’tis small eno’
To credit – ‘Tis’nt true –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 590 (Franklin)

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2016

Sunday, December 4th

back to church

Pastor Eric Thomas, Greater Harvest Missionary Baptist Church, “Ain’t No Need to Worry,” live, Chicago, 2016


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Each Second is the last / Perhaps

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #927 (Franklin), fragment

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2016

Thursday, October 6th

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Kris Davis & Craig Taborn, live, Washington, D.C., 10/3/16


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musical thoughts

Musicians wrestle everywhere –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), #229 (Franklin)

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2016

Thursday, September 29th

what’s new

Wadada Leo Smith,* “New Orleans: The National Culture Park USA 1718” (W.L. Smith), excerpt (America’s National Parks, out 10/14/16)


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Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 143 (Franklin), excerpt

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*WLS, trumpet; Anthony Davis, piano; Ashley Walters, cello; John Lindberg, bass; Pheeroan akLaff, drums.

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2016

Wednesday, July 20th

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One-word review: Wow!

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (“Pathetique”); Annie Fischer (1914-1995), live


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To be alive – is Power –
Existence – in itself –
Without a further function –
Omnipotence – Enough –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 876 (Franklin), excerpt

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2016

Sunday, June 19th

testify!

Minister Febe & The Chosen Ones (joined by GeGe of True Anointing, Birmingham, Ala.), “Everybody Saw Me When I Fell,” live


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The Soul has Bandaged moments –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 360 (Franklin), fragment

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2016

Wednesday, June 15th

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Sonata No. 1 in G minor for Solo Violin, excerpt (movts. I, II); Patricia Cordero, live, Spain (Madrid), 5/10/16


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Perhaps I asked too large –
I take – no less than skies –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 358 (Franklin), fragment

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2016

Thursday, June 9th

never enough

Two days ago I’d never heard of him; last night he took my breath away.

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, excerpt (Sarabande); Leonidas Kavakos, live, France (Annecy), 2015

 

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The Poets light but Lamps –
Themselves – go out –

—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 930 (Franklin), fragment

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