I decided to try to play Kogan’s “Kaddish” in a soothing style.
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Erin Vang, PMP, BMus, MMus, is Owner and Principal Pragmatist of the consultancy Global Pragmatica LLC®, offering custom JMP scripting, localization program management, and facilitative leadership services. She is also an orchestral horn player who freelanced in the San Francisco Bay Area and played assorted brass for the celebrated dance bands Midnight Smørgåsbord and contraPtion. She now conducts all her nefarious activities from Vanghalla, in Helena, Montana, where she's principal hornist of the Helena Symphony. More about Erin…
daily kaddish: trio
Mira’s son and daughter-in-law are visiting this week, and Alana joined us in tonight’s recitation of Kaddish.
daily kaddish: somalia
Tens of thousands are already dead and half a million are on the brink in Somalia, where famine, insurgency, and poverty are doing what aid organizations and the government cannot: working together.
daily kaddish: after an all-nighter
I’m feeling a little ragged tonight. I was up all night last night filling out divorce paperwork.
daily kaddish: for kristen and carolyn’s aunt and uncle
Carolyn and Kristen, my thoughts are with your family. May your aunt and uncle rest in peace.
daily kaddish: no frills
Mira and I finally got to work together live in my studio again, and we decided to go “no frills” all the way.
daily kaddish: muted backstage at the opera
Tonight’s Kaddish is played entirely on muted horn, since I recorded it using my iPhone in a far too live exit foyer backstage at the opera.
daily kaddish: trying once again to harmonize
I keep sitting down at the piano thinking I’ll be able to harmonize “Kaddish” the way I hear it in my imagination, but it never comes out quite right. This one’s a little closer, but I think I’m going to have to spend time with pencil and paper.
daily kaddish: getting back to the kaddish
It can’t be right to say I’m enjoying getting back to mourning, but that’s almost what I’m saying here.
daily kaddish: for amanda simmons
Tonight’s kaddish, using Mira’s text for a household engulfed in sadness, wishing blessings on the house, is for Amanda Simmons