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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: for Sheila Synder

Posted on 25 October 201130 October 2011 by erin

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.

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daily kaddish: from the dressing room

Posted on 24 October 201130 October 2011 by erin

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.

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daily kaddish: from the floor of Space Place

Posted on 23 October 20119 February 2016 by erin

Today’s kaddish is an excerpt recorded on the floor at Space Place, the University of Iowa Dance Department’s theater.

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daily kaddish: for the Iraq War

Posted on 22 October 201130 October 2011 by erin

Clearly this quagmire is far from over—but let the Iraq War rest in actual peace.

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daily kaddish: for qaddafi

Posted on 20 October 201121 October 2011 by erin

Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi died today. Arab Autumn?

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daily kaddish: for Margaret Cashel Phelan

Posted on 19 October 20119 February 2016 by erin

A kaddish for Margaret Cashel Phelan, granddaughter of one of the founders of my old home-town, Grafton, North Dakota.

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daily kaddish: my marriage

Posted on 18 October 201120 October 2011 by erin

Today V and I had our final meeting with the mediator and reached agreement on our settlement.

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daily kaddish: memories shared with good friends

Posted on 17 October 201120 October 2011 by erin

Tonight I had dinner with some dear friends, who know both me and my soon-to-be-ex-wife well.

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daily kaddish: because it’s what we do

Posted on 16 October 201120 October 2011 by erin

Today’s Kaddish is another whose only theme, really, is that this is what we do during our year.

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daily kaddish: horn, text, and chant

Posted on 15 October 201118 October 2011 by erin

I absent-mindedly starting chanting the text along with the melody while setting levels for Mira to record the spoken text.

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Posts

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  • guest kaddish: velvet marquesa flicka storm, 11 august 2005–9 april 2015
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  • oh amy, how could you — a kaddish for amy smith
  • guest kaddish: Gudrun Fossum Vang (16 June 1905–3 April 1972)
  • occasional kaddish: for Josephine Selvig Anderson (11 April 1915– 22 January 2012)
  • and death is so much closer than it was—a kaddish for rebecca fromer
  • easy come easy go: a kaddish for adrienne cooper
  • nyt remembrances—a kaddish for departed strangers
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  • killing you loudly—a kaddish
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  • daily kaddish: our project’s yahrtzeit

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© 2010–22 by Mira Z. Amiras and Erin Vang (beitmalkhut.org). All rights reserved worldwide.

thank you—תודה רבה

Permission to use Lev Kogan's "Kaddish," © 1982 by Israel Brass Woodwind Publications
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