Yesterday Mira and I conducted an impromptu experiment, with interesting results. Today I played a kaddish for healing, at Mira’s request. We welcome kaddish requests from our readers.
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 (extra): option B
[powerpress] See an experimental kaddish, and a kaddish for healing.
daily kaddish: option A
[powerpress] See an experimental kaddish, and a kaddish for healing.
daily kaddish: richard schultz
[powerpress] Tonight’s Kaddish is a nod to my high school jazzer buddy Richard Schultz (see “yahrtzeits“); if he’d played it, it might have sounded something like this, except on alto saxophone and better.
on emotions in performance
It’s time to make an attempt at unraveling the conundrum of emotions and musical performance.
daily kaddish: sonja
[powerpress] In honor of Sonja, my friend Louis Janus’s cat, a real beauty who died yesterday after a long illness. Louis would have been my favorite Norwegian prof had I been smart enough to take Norwegian while I was at St Olaf College. Instead I got to know him when he came to the computer…
kaddishim for preemption, el akarib, & monotony
recent kaddishim address questions of musical expression, tragic events in El Akarib, and the cold solitude of musical labor
daily kaddish: el Arakib
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news on our virtual, asynchronous minyan
For our purposes, the “minyan” is our community of listeners. But we’re not all Jewish. (So far we’re all adults.) We don’t gather physically but virtually, by internet. And we don’t gather at the same time, exactly—we’re asynchronous.