[powerpress] For my friends Lisa and Marc’s dad.
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: bumpers
[powerpress] For Victoria’s and Mira’s cars’ bumpers, destroyed in car accidents.
daily kaddish: the first magnes museums
[powerpress] Mira’s Dad (the Tzaddik) was founder of the Magnes Museum. This afternoon I represented Beit Malkhut at the opening ceremony for the Magnes Museum’s rebirth as part of UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, and when I got home, I recorded a Kaddish for the earlier incarnations of the Magnes. Mira was appalled.
daily kaddish: bismilleh duet
[powerpress] A duet for horn and Mira’s “bismilleh” version of the Kaddish text. I tried to conceive of this one as a true duet, with voice and horn taking equal parts in an harmonic exchange. As I described it to her: Mira, your kaddish is ready. It must be about time for you to record…
daily kaddish: skeezy traffic view
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a kaddish for those who choose their ends
They offed themselves. Both of them, together. She’s pissed, and devastated, and who wouldn’t be? But I can’t help admiring their decision, even as I share her grief and anger.
daily kaddish: waltz
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daily kaddish: cold and sleepy
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daily kaddish: turning tables
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daily kaddish: ha arabim
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