Tonight’s Kaddish marks the first time that the “kaddish in two-part harmony” was created live, in person, in true two-part harmony. Mira and I agreed this should be a Kaddish for all the foster children who don’t quite make it. The heartbreaking story she posted from her own experience as a foster child earlier today (a kaddish for foster care children) gives the background information for that decision.
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: all that unrest in the Middle East
When even a Middle East expert chains them all together like that, it’s no wonder I feel overwhelmed, and my problem is embarrassingly trivial next to the problems of all those people who are trying to live through all this. And then there are all those people who are not living through all this—who are dying in all this.
A Kaddish for all of them.
daily kaddish: gear angst
[powerpress] In preparation for recording live with Mira in a few days, I’ve made some gear upgrades, and tonight was all about sorting out the details of getting the new audio interface (Onyx Blackbird) to work with the old software (Pro Tools 9). Let’s just say it took all night and wasn’t fun, so by…
daily kaddish: whispering chamber
Tonight I took last night’s three spoken tracks, with Mira leading the charge and two of me trying to keep up, and tried to overlay them on top of each other as well as I could—as if the three of us were reciting together in congregation at a shul. Over that I played a “Kaddish” on horn.
I really need help with my Aramaic/Hebrew.
daily kaddish: five tests
Today’s Kaddish compares two mics for vocal tracks with Mira’s Mac’s built-in mic, and it tests my ability to repeat the Aramaic text.
daily kaddish: for clayton
For Patti’s nephew Clayton, who died two weeks ago at age fourteen in a complication of influenza.
daily kaddish: geraldine ferraro z”l
A kaddish for Geraldine Ferraro. As a friend commented on twitter, she made everything seem possible.
First woman to run for Vice President of the United States, first Italian to run on the top ticket, and if I’m not mistaken, among the first women in politics to get mud thrown at her not for what she herself had done, but for what her husband had done—and wasn’t that interesting?
May she rest in peace.
daily kaddish: for a burned Qur’an
A Kaddish for a burned Qur’an and for the five Aghans, four Nepalese, and three Europeans killed today in retribution. As Reb Deb commented: “The idiot. The blasphemous idiot. You don’t burn books.”
a kaddish for miss pants
Candy Pants was my dad’s hunting dog, retired to California, endured four dogs’ worth of veterinary crises, and healed me—not exactly in that order.
daily kaddish: miss pants z”l
A kaddish for Velvet Marquesa Candace, aka Candy Pants, the smartest and toughest black lab I ever knew, whose Yahrtzeit was yesterday.