Hmm, I guess it isn't. Well Stravinsky is a good choice, anyway!not on iTunes....?
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Queen Greatest Hits 2 at work today. Who wants to live forever?
There is another title similar to that though and the album art is also similar.
Love Queen, - have (and play) that particular album, it's on my iPod - and that is an especially awesome track. Love it. Just love it.
Actually there are so many good tracks on that album.
I saw that, although they are sonatas (can't go wrong here, even so). They do have another collection of unaccompanied cello solos performed by Yoyo, which ought to be good too.
I'm not proud to admit that my only connection to his work is his conducting the soundtrack to Amadeus. The day after hearing the news of his passing I spun the SACD, which is wonderful. Still, his is the umpteenth name in music to be eulogized in a rough year across genres and generations.
Memory and music. Just an anecdote. One of my first music loves was The Beatles, who I discovered at 16 (when they hit CD). I distinctly remember listening to the song "Help!" and viscerally feeling how strange it was that its singer/writer was ten years older than me when he wrote the song and that it had been six years since he was killed. I vaguely remember when he was killed; kids in my class talked about it but I didn't know who he was.
Flash forward to a few years ago when I hit 40 -- the age Lennon was murdered -- and listening to his demo, "Life Begins at 40." I can't say that it struck me deeply but it didn't go unnoticed and it was a personal signpost. Life is filled with them, but they become eerier. Like today when visiting my mother on the thirty-sixth anniversary of her mother's death. My mother is almost that age now.
I remember learning arithmetic; I remember it feeling kind of unreal unless it was somehow attached to cupcakes, candy, or toys. Now, its rudiments are often more solemnly attached to waning years ahead, distant times behind, news stories of tax returns, and dosages. Man, I hate math -- except when used to construct music.
Flash forward to a few years ago when I hit 40 -- the age Lennon was murdered -- and listening to his demo, "Life Begins at 40." I can't say that it struck me deeply but it didn't go unnoticed and it was a personal signpost. Life is filled with them, but they become eerier. Like today when visiting my mother on the thirty-sixth anniversary of her mother's death. My mother is almost that age now.
I remember learning arithmetic; I remember it feeling kind of unreal unless it was somehow attached to cupcakes, candy, or toys. Now, its rudiments are often more solemnly attached to waning years ahead, distant times behind, news stories of tax returns, and dosages. Man, I hate math -- except when used to construct music.
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I can often enough share that feeling but for me the exceptions extend to quilts... pardon the off topic drift but surely the glimpse is worth it. The photo below is of a quilt from a vast collection of red and white quilts acquired by Joanna S. Rose; six hundred and fifty of them were installed in the Park Avenue Armory in NY in March of 2011 as "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts". It's amazing how women with little knowledge of math past arithmetic, and no access to the tools and acrylic templates we use today came up with some of the patterns they managed to translate to fabric using no more than the fabrics themselves, some paper and cardboard, string, pencils (two tied together with a length of string in lieu of a compass!) staight edges, small circular items to trace like plates or cups. some scissors, pins, needles and thread. And Singer sewing machines if they could afford them when those came along. Today our machines are computerized so practically anything is possible for a determined quiltmaker but I admit to holding a place in my heart for those older quilts sewn with the simplest of resources.
Anyway this "vortex" quilt from 1890-1910, I am very sure, "took some doing":
http://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/infinite-variety-three-centuries-of-red-and-white-quilts/
It's hard for me to imagine someone of my great grandma's time turning this thing out. But there it is.
Note: there's even an app available on the site's resource page, versions for iOS and Android,
that lets you virtually revisit the exhibition. I am not 100% sure they've updated if necessary
but when I downloaded it for my iPad it was just stunning to wander through.
Again sorry for the topic drift. Math, music and quilts all run together for me... 
but I realize I'm really off on a tangent with this post.
but I realize I'm really off on a tangent with this post.
Spectacular quilt!I can often enough share that feeling but for me the exceptions extend to quilts... pardon the off topic drift but surely the glimpse is worth it. The photo below is of a quilt from a vast collection of red and white quilts acquired by Joanna S. Rose; six hundred and fifty of them were installed in the Park Avenue Armory in NY in March of 2011 as "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts". It's amazing how women with little knowledge of math past arithmetic, and no access to the tools and acrylic templates we use today came up with some of the patterns they managed to translate to fabric using no more than the fabrics themselves, some paper and cardboard, string, pencils (two tied together with a length of string in lieu of a compass!) staight edges, small circular items to trace like plates or cups. some scissors, pins, needles and thread. And Singer sewing machines if they could afford them when those came along. Today our machines are computerized so practically anything is possible for a determined quiltmaker but I admit to holding a place in my heart for those older quilts sewn with the simplest of resources.
Anyway this "vortex" quilt from 1890-1910, I am very sure, "took some doing":
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http://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/infinite-variety-three-centuries-of-red-and-white-quilts/
It's hard for me to imagine someone of my great grandma's time turning this thing out. But there it is.
Note: there's even an app available on the site's resource page, versions for iOS and Android,
that lets you virtually revisit the exhibition. I am not 100% sure they've updated if necessary
but when I downloaded it for my iPad it was just stunning to wander through.
Again sorry for the topic drift. Math, music and quilts all run together for me...
Well, that'll teach me to flippantly dismiss an entire broadly applicable discipline while posting on the in'ernet!
That quilt really is astonishing. Almost has a fractal quality to it.
Our increasing dependency on technology really can dull our appreciation for how inventive people can and could create in its absence through diligent craftsmanship -- that goes for music, quilting, painting, architecture and -- as we learned this week -- the the art of tax genius.
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That quilt really is astonishing. Almost has a fractal quality to it.
Our increasing dependency on technology really can dull our appreciation for how inventive people can and could create in its absence through diligent craftsmanship -- that goes for music, quilting, painting, architecture and -- as we learned this week -- the the art of tax genius.
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I can often enough share that feeling but for me the exceptions extend to quilts... pardon the off topic drift but surely the glimpse is worth it. The photo below is of a quilt from a vast collection of red and white quilts acquired by Joanna S. Rose; six hundred and fifty of them were installed in the Park Avenue Armory in NY in March of 2011 as "Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts". It's amazing how women with little knowledge of math past arithmetic, and no access to the tools and acrylic templates we use today came up with some of the patterns they managed to translate to fabric using no more than the fabrics themselves, some paper and cardboard, string, pencils (two tied together with a length of string in lieu of a compass!) staight edges, small circular items to trace like plates or cups. some scissors, pins, needles and thread. And Singer sewing machines if they could afford them when those came along. Today our machines are computerized so practically anything is possible for a determined quiltmaker but I admit to holding a place in my heart for those older quilts sewn with the simplest of resources.
Anyway this "vortex" quilt from 1890-1910, I am very sure, "took some doing":
View attachment 662609
http://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/infinite-variety-three-centuries-of-red-and-white-quilts/
It's hard for me to imagine someone of my great grandma's time turning this thing out. But there it is.
Note: there's even an app available on the site's resource page, versions for iOS and Android,
that lets you virtually revisit the exhibition. I am not 100% sure they've updated if necessary
but when I downloaded it for my iPad it was just stunning to wander through.
Again sorry for the topic drift. Math, music and quilts all run together for me...
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Listening to some Lafayette Gilchrist today. This is In Depth on his Three album from back in 2007.
Some Albanian folk music - wedding music actually - that I bought in Kosovo, from the usual obscure places, to the stupefaction of my personal staff who were delighted and surprised that I wished to source - and buy - this music; the generic style goes by the name of 'Valle Dasmash', and some of it is hauntingly brilliant.
Until your post I assumed they were a one-off. Nice to see they have a few other releases. This is the only song I know by them. It's become my favorite version of the widely covered song, "Malagueña Salerosa". Sounds great when turning the volume up to 11. Their version is sort of mariachi meets surf rock. Easy to see why Robert Rodriguez and/or Tarantino chose it.
I have an album of theirs called "Mexican Spaghetti Western" which is simply brilliant. It includes that track.
Some of that nasty dirty funk/jazz -
Kashmere stage band with -
"$$ Kash Register $$"
Could listen to this all day...
Kashmere stage band with -
"$$ Kash Register $$"
Could listen to this all day...
Agreed, it is. And some of it is surprisingly melodic with lyrics worth listening to.
