Friday, April 1st
only rock ‘n’ roll
Building a Broken Mousetrap (2006), concert film of The Ex
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2016
Thursday, March 31st
Something to wash over you.
John Luther Adams (1953-), The Light Within (2007); New Music Detroit, live, Detroit, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
spring rain—
the uneaten ducks
are quacking—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1828; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2016
Wednesday, March 30th
sweet soul music
Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999), “Move On Up” (C. Mayfield), live (Master Henry Gibson [1942-2002], hand drums), Netherlands (The Hague), 1987
2016
Tuesday, March 29th
In a hurry?
Better go somewhere else.
Want to step outside of time?
You’ve come to the right place.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Piano Sonata No. 18 (G major, D. 894); Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), live
Tried listening to this last night while working on a criminal appeal. Couldn’t. Work waited.
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
2016
Monday, March 28th
sweet soul music
Do you feel me?
—Bobby Womack (1944-2014)
Bobby Womack, live, England (Glastonbury Festival), 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Garfield Park Conservatory)
2016
Saturday, March 26th
otherworldly
Iancu Dumitrescu (1944-), Infinity for bass clarinet and ensemble, Hyperion Ensemble (feat. Tim Hodgkinson, clarinets), live, Bucharest, 2009
#1
***
#2
I love watching this guy conduct.
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent van Gogh, Parisian Novels, 1887 (Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, through May 10th)
2016
Friday, March 25th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Joy Division, live (“Digital,” “New Dawn Fades,” “Colony,” “Autosuggestion”), Netherlands, 1980
2016
Thursday, March 24th
Uneasy sounds for an uneasy world.
Iancu Dumitrescu (1944-), Hyperspectres for doublebasses, cellos, and percussion, live, Paris, 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow / And leaden-eyed despairs
—John Keats (1795-1821), “Ode to a Nightingale”
2016
Wednesday, March 23rd
More cello.
Marcos Balter (1974-), Memoria (2007); Katinka Kleijn, live, Brazil (Manaus), 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
. . . and the mystery itself is the gateway to perception.
—Lao Tzu (c. 5th cent. B.C.), Tao Te Ching, translated from Chinese by Sam Hamill
2016
Tuesday, March 22nd
More cello.
Anna Thorvaldsdottir (1977-), Transitions (2014); Michael Nicolas, live, Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
reading table
Let Emily sing for you because she cannot pray . . .
—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), letter to cousins Louis and Frances Norcross (on the death of their father), 1863
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