fifty years ago
March on Washington, August 28, 1963
Mahalia Jackson, “How I Got Over”
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Martin Luther King
Has there ever been a greater musician of speech?
last night
I went back to Northwestern’s Pick-Staiger Hall—they’re in the midst of a Winter Chamber Music Festival—where I heard this string quartet, along with this clarinetist, play this piece.
Aaron Jay Kernis (1960-), Perpetual Chaconne (2012); Calder Quartet with John Bruce Yeh (clarinet), 2012
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
When we go out to hear live music, we realize, again, something that seldom occurs to us when we listen at home: the world, in its messy unpredictability, its insistent particularity, is way more interesting than we are.
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the music of words
Martin Luther King, Jr., Shreveport, La. (Galilee Baptist Church), 1958
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