Thursday, November 5th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Twelve Little Preludes
Tatiana Nikolayeva (1924-1993), piano
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Tag: Johann Sebastian Bach
2015
2015
Saturday, August 29th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 6 in D major for Unaccompanied Cello, 4th Mvt. (Sarabande); Yo-Yo Ma, live
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random thoughts
Better one day awake—one moment, even—than ten years asleep.
2015
Saturday, April 18th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 3 in C major for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma, live, 2000
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art beat: Thursday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), Vase in the Form of an Exotic Plant, 1886/87
2015
Thursday, March 12th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma, live, 2000
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reading table
I haven’t got a kopeck, but as I see it, it’s not the person with a lot of money who is rich, but rather the one who has the wherewithal to be alive here and now in the lush, bountiful setting bestowed upon us by early spring.
—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to Lidia Avilova, April 29, 1892 (trans. from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])
2015
Wednesday, February 25th
never enough
Only a great artist could play so simply.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)/Ferrucio Busoni (1866-1924), Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme; Solomon (AKA Solomon Cutner [1902-1988]), recording, 1948
2014
Saturday, December 13th
Bach cello festival (final day)
Cello Suite No. 6 in D major; Matt Haimovitz (cello), live, Montreal, 2011
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavottes 1 and 2
Gigue
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Joy sometimes comes not in waves but droplets.
2014
Friday, December 12th
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
2014
Thursday, December 11th
Bach cello festival (day four)
Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat major; Pablo Casals (cello), recording, 1939
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art beat
Paul Strand (1890-1976), Toward the Sugar House, Vermont, 1944
2014
Wednesday, December 10th
Bach cello festival (day three)
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major; Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello), live, Austria (Salzburg), 2007
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lagniappe
reading table
The life of a human being draws back, comes into view like an animal at the edge of the forest, and disappears again.
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The outside world is too small, too clear-cut, too truthful, to contain everything that a person has room for inside.
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The only essential thing for life is forgoing smugness, moving into the house instead of admiring it and hanging garlands around it.
—Franz Kafka (Rivka Galchen, “What kind of funny is he?,” London Review of Books, 12/4/14)
2014
Tuesday, December 9th
Bach cello festival (day two)
Cello Suite No. 2 in D minor; Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), live, Germany (Quedlinburg), 2005
Prelude, Allemande, Courante
Sarabande, Minuets 1 and 2
Gigue
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