Today has been one of those frenetic, multi-tasking kind of days, as I try to get a zillion business and personal things done before rushing off to a gig. I figured the Kaddish might as well match the rest of the day.
Author: erin
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: gud shabbes
Coming at the end of a long, hard week, this is a “Gud shabbes!” Kaddish in the “TGIF!” sense of it.
daily kaddish: the sadness of hard decisions
Tonight’s Kaddish expresses the grief and indescribable sadness of reaching a wrenching decision—when no amount of certainty can ease any of the pain.
daily kaddish: for Phil Zahorsky
The Bay Area lost a great trombone player and human being today. Philip Charles Zahorsky died in his sleep this morning after a long battle with cancer. May he rest in peace.
daily kaddish: for calvin smith
A kaddish for the esteemed horn soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue Calvin Smith, who was my first horn teacher.
daily kaddish: for nanc, the day after her yahrtzeit
For the first time since we started this project, I felt for myself the gratitude (in this case to Mira) that others have told us about when we’ve recorded Kaddishim for their lost loved ones.
daily kaddish: for nanc on her yahrtzeit
Today is Nancy Ring’s Yahrtzeit. She died at home after a long struggle with ovarian cancer.
daily kaddish: with friends and colleagues
We hosted a small dinner gathering of localization professionals, which presented an opportunity to collaborate with a pair of native speakers reading Kaddish.
daily kaddish: heart events
I decided to try making a Kaddish that told the story Mira told us about her evening in the ER.
daily kaddish: for karl savage
Our friend J. Todd Ormsbee shared a yizkor of his dear friend Karl Savage recently, and tonight’s Kaddish recording is for Karl. Todd told me a bit more about Karl after seder at Mira’s, and I can still see the sadness in Todd’s eyes as he quietly answered my questions.