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Sunday, September 9th

More from Aretha’s homegoing service.

Jennifer Hudson, “Amazing Grace,” live, Detroit, 8/31/18

 

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lagniappe

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The World Contracted to a Recognizable Image
by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

at the small end of an illness
there was a picture
probably Japanese
which filled my eye

an idiotic picture
except it was all I recognized
the wall lived for me in that picture
I clung to it as a fly

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

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