March 2023
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One of the composers on that disk of miscellaneous, indeed wildly heterogenous, classical music that I mentioned last week is Bartok. All six of his string quartets are there, and, as I also mentioned, the way the MP3 files are named means that the movements of the quartets are scattered among other pieces of music.…
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I’m not tough enough or self-denying enough to give up listening to music during Lent. But I do usually limit myself to classical music, and within that tend to favor works that are either explicitly religious (like Bach’s liturgical music) or at least of a contemplative and reflective cast. To that end I swapped the…
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It was only fairly recently that I became aware of the term “outrage porn,” but I just learned from Wikipedia that it’s been around since 2009, when a New York Times writer said: It sometimes seems as if most of the news consists of outrage porn, selected specifically to pander to our impulses to judge…
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I read the other day that Chuck Jackson had died. I recognized the name immediately, though I may not have encountered it since 1962, when his recording of "Any Day Now" was on the charts. I would have been thirteen or fourteen, and was prone to bouts of infatuation which were often called then, and…
Light On Dark Water 