Saturday, August 24th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
No drummer gives me more joy.
Aly Keita (1969-, balafon), Hamid Drake (1955-, MCOTD Hall of Fame, drums), live, Italy (Santa’Anna Arresi, Sardinia), 2017
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music clip of the day
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2019
Friday, August 23rd
sounds of Sweden
Robyn, “Dancing on My Own” (R. Carlsson, P. Berger), live, Denmark (Roskilde), 7/5/19
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Thursday, August 22nd
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Christian Wolff (1986); Eberhard Blum (flute), Nils Vigland (piano, celesta), 1992
It can be hard to recall, after an hour or two, what the world sounded like before this began.
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lagniappe
listening room
Clear, open, luminous: pianist Aki Takahashi’s recently released recording of For Bunita Marcus (1985), available on Spotify, is one of the finest renderings of Feldman’s unique sound-world that I’ve ever heard.
2019
Wednesday, August 21st
another take
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2; Martha Argerich (1941-, piano), live, Germany (Saarbrücken), 1972
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Tuesday, August 20th
never enough
Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2; Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950, piano), 1947
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lagniappe
reading table
Consonants are the body; vowels are breath.
—Sadiqa de Meijer, “The Ebbing Language,” Poetry, 9/19
2019
Monday, August 19th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For Philip Guston (1984); S.E.M. Ensemble, 2000
2019
Sunday, August 18th
sounds of Chicago
Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer Choir (feat. Cynthia Price), Rev. Charles Hayes, “How Did You Feel Wilderness,” live, Chicago
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Oak Park, Ill.
2019
Saturday, August 17th
mesmerizing
Philip Glass (1937-), “Metamorphosis Two”; Lavinia Meijer, harp, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2019
Friday, August 16th
summer in the city
black midi, live, Chicago, 7/21/19
“Ducter”
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“bmbmbm”
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lagniappe
reading table
Why should I be my aunt, / or me, or anyone?
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “In the Waiting Room”
2019
Thursday, August 15th
MCOTD Hall of Fame
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), Violin and String Quartet (1985); Pellegrini Quartet with Peter Rundel (violin)
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
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