Tuesday, July 6th
sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Léo Margue, cond.), live, Paris, 1/27/21: Matthew Monaco (1997-), Scaling
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other day, outside Chicago (Dean Nature Sanctuary, Oak Brook)
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Tag: Ensemble Intercontemporain
2021
Wednesday, June 2nd
sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 6/9/20: Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992), Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time, excerpt); Charles Ives (1874-1954), The Unanswered Question
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2021
Monday, April 26th
sounds of Paris and Moscow
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Dylan Corlay, direction), live, Moscow (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall), 11/19/20: Pierre Boulez (1925-2016), Dérive 1; Bruno Mantovani (1974-), Chamber Concerto No. 2
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yesterday, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
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Light was on its way
from nothing
to nowhere.***
How could speed take shape?
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God is encrypting his account.
—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Accounts”
2021
Wednesday, April 14th
sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Pierre Bleuse, direction), live, Paris, 2/16/20: David Bastien, Urban Song (2019)
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other day, Chicago
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Insisting that change defined our world, Heraclitus concluded that we cannot step into the same river twice. Yet the novel coronavirus has taught us a newer truth: we cannot step into the same river even once.
—Robert Zaretsky, The Subervise Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas (2021), preface
2021
Monday, March 29th
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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yesterday, Chicago
2021
Saturday, March 13th
sounds of Paris
Ensemble Intercontemporain (Matthias Pintscher, direction), live, Paris, 11/14/20: Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), Octandre (1924); Marko Nikodijevic (1980-), music box/selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei) (2003/rev. 2006)
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this morning, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
2021
Tuesday, February 16th
sounds of Paris
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996), And then I knew ’twas Wind (1992); Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 2017
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this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
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Like Rain it sounded till it curved
And then we knew “twas Wind –
It walked as wet as any Wave
But swept as dry as Sand –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), from 276 (Franklin)
2021
Thursday, February 11th
sounds of Paris
Edgard Varèse (1883-1965), Ionisation (1931); Ensemble Intercontemporain (Susanna Mälkki, direction), live, Paris, 2012
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other day, Chicago
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In the mountain’s shadow
my grass hut’s
so cold
I’ll be up burning firewood
all night long—Ryokan (1758-1831), translated from Japanese by Burton Watson
2020
Saturday, November 21st
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György Ligeti (1923-2006), excerpts from Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Hamburg Concerto for Solo Horn and Chamber Orchestra, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 2019
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other day, Chicago
2020
Monday, November 16th
sounds of Paris
György Ligeti (1923-2006), excerpts from Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano; Études for Piano; Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet; Ensemble Intercontemporain, live, Paris, 8/6/20
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a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)
