music clip of the day

never enough

Johann Sebastian Bach, Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826; Martha Argerich, piano, live, Switzerland (Verbier Festival), 2008

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lagniappe

radio

WKCR’s Bach Festival, now in its tenth day, concludes at midnight.

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reading table

Those who love their own noise are impatient of everything else. . . . Our noise, our business, our purposes, and all our fatuous statements about our purposes, our business, and our noise: these are the illusion.

—Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

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no passport needed

This year folks from ninety-five countries stopped by to listen. Welcome, all.