sounds of Ukraine
DakhaBrakha, “Monakh,” 2017
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Volodymyr Zelensky, video message broadcast at yesterday’s Grammy Awards
like nobody else
In a world of too much—news, suffering, noise—he offers a small, quiet space to inhabit.
Morton Feldman (1926-1987, MCOTD Hall of Fame), For John Cage (1982); Jesse Mills (violin), Rieko Aizawa (piano), live, New York (Bargemusic, Brooklyn), 7/30/21
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

alone
Sometimes the performer makes all the difference. In the wrong hands this can seem a mess. In the right ones it sparkles.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), Klavierstücke XI (1956)
Prodromos Symeonidis, live, 2006