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Víkingur Ólafsson (1984-, piano), live, Washington, D.C., published 3/28/24: J.S. Bach, Goldberg Variations, Aria, Variation No. 1; Jean-Philipe Rameau (arr. Ólafsson), “The Arts and the Hours”; Béla Bartók, Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík; Sigvaldi Kaldalóns (arr. Ólafsson), “Ave Maria”
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lagniappe
art beat: other day, Des Moines, Iowa (Des Moines Art Center)
Edward Hopper (1912-2004), Automat (1927), detail
never enough
Two takes.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Rondo in D major, K. 485
Víkingur Ólafsson (1984-, piano), published yesterday
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Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989, piano), live, Vienna, 1987
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lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
lucid, adj. clear, transparent, luminous. E.g., Víkingur Ólafsson playing Bach.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Aria variata (alla maniera italiana) in A minor; Víkingur Ólafsson (piano), live, Berlin, 2018
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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reading table
[B]y the latest count, there are 70 million persons displaced from their homes worldwide.
—J. M. Coetzee, “Australia’s Shame” (review of No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani), New York Review of Books, 9/26/19
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