I guess it’s appropriate that this is a real “workman’s kaddish”—nothing fancy or great, just another day on the job with a horn player—because it’s a Kaddish for a former colleague of mine, Sheila Snyder.
Author: erin
daily kaddish: from the dressing room
Today’s “Kaddish” recording is the first in a series made in the dressing room before our rehearsals and performances—a slice of life backstage.
daily kaddish: from the floor of Space Place
Today’s kaddish is an excerpt recorded on the floor at Space Place, the University of Iowa Dance Department’s theater.
daily kaddish: for the Iraq War
Clearly this quagmire is far from over—but let the Iraq War rest in actual peace.
daily kaddish: for qaddafi
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi died today. Arab Autumn?
daily kaddish: for Margaret Cashel Phelan
A kaddish for Margaret Cashel Phelan, granddaughter of one of the founders of my old home-town, Grafton, North Dakota.
daily kaddish: my marriage
Today V and I had our final meeting with the mediator and reached agreement on our settlement.
daily kaddish: memories shared with good friends
Tonight I had dinner with some dear friends, who know both me and my soon-to-be-ex-wife well.
daily kaddish: because it’s what we do
Today’s Kaddish is another whose only theme, really, is that this is what we do during our year.
daily kaddish: horn, text, and chant
I absent-mindedly starting chanting the text along with the melody while setting levels for Mira to record the spoken text.