Archive for the 'music' Category

jazz for you

March 3rd, 2007

listen here while i process some paper …
Link: Miles Davis & John Coltrane- SO WHAT.


swamped

February 27th, 2007

just swamped … check out django …


more on the opera

February 23rd, 2007

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Cathleen Falsani :: Opera shows courage, cowardice at convent .


battle of the bands

February 23rd, 2007

as usual my ears are humming … i was “an adult presence” more or less … i stood around watching and listening but i was too close down front .. when a few kids wanted to dance on my side i stood between them and the stage and looked official … the bands are always [...]


what they said

February 19th, 2007

reviews of the opera …
Daily Herald … ‘Dialogues’ cast excels in sensitivity, redemption
Chicago Sun-Times … Fear, religious fervor work in ‘Dialogues’
Chicago Tribune … Ravishing `Dialogues des Carmelites’ pierces the heart
pretty much raves all around … yeah … what they said


sorting my tunes

February 17th, 2007

God …
god bless the child - billie holiday
surely god is able - marion williams
god only knows - the beach boys
if i should fall from grace with god - the pogues
God Bless America - Kate Smith
Tears Of God - Los Lobos
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Bruce Cockburn
God Must Be A Boogie Man - Joni Mitchell
God [...]


an excursion

February 14th, 2007

seems i’m going to the opera … saturday … more to come


tumbling walls

February 13th, 2007

Link: YouTube - Mahalia Jackson - Joshua fit the battle of Jericho.
What are you rebelling against?
What have you got?


carmen + billie

January 27th, 2007



J.B. on & on

December 29th, 2006

link: here


J.B. on & on

December 29th, 2006

link: here


piaf et sarapo

November 18th, 2006



don’t much care for opera but

November 12th, 2006

am just now taken by osvaldo golijov’s Ainadamar … was momentarily lost in some schoolwork … but then these voices … single and in chorus .. these guitars … and then the cat and i jump to the gunshot interlude and lament for the death of federico … one gunshot turns into two and multiples [...]


bananas

November 3rd, 2006

lately i’ve been eating a banana for breakfast because that’s all the time i’ve had … for breakfast … just a bananasecond …then i eat cereal after period c … get it? period c? … cereal … after period b … banana …
Link: YouTube - My Hands Are Bananas.


tom waits interview

October 30th, 2006

‘Started with a line I read in the paper one day: “He studied so hard it was as if he had a future.” It was about this kid who got blown up in a suicide bomb on a bus in Israel. They say God doesn’t give you anything he knows you can’t handle. Well, I [...]