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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: back to stunts again

Posted on 4 October 2011 by erin

I’m back to stunts alone again tonight. I’m in training to play the opening lines of kaddish while lying on my back, and I’m having trouble figuring out how to do this without exacerbating a finger injury.

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daily kaddish: on Mira’s dad’s birthday

Posted on 3 October 20114 October 2011 by erin

Thank you, Mira, for tonight, and for joining me in this project. It’s an honor to be here with you. May the Tzaddik rest in peace.

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daily kaddish: supine at home

Posted on 2 October 20119 February 2016 by erin

Tonight begins my several weeks of training to be able to play this thing well despite lying on my back. I recorded the whole Kaddish in my studio with the usual setup except that I was lying on my back on the floor.

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daily kaddish: in which Erin reveals just how horrible her Hebrew/Aramaic is

Posted on 1 October 20112 October 2011 by erin

I attempted to read the text looking only at the Hebrew/Aramaic column. You’d think I’d have the text close enough to memorized by now that I’d be half decent at this, but no—and especially not when I’m half asleep and not wearing my glasses.

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daily kaddish: second rehearsal

Posted on 30 September 20119 February 2016 by erin

Tonight was our second rehearsal. I again recorded our run-through, and here is the opening segment of “Kaddish” from that recording.

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daily kaddish: from the dance floor

Posted on 29 September 20119 February 2016 by erin

Tonight we worked the dance in sections, experimenting with musical ideas, transitions, blocking, cues, and so on. Then we tried a run-through from the top, which I recorded on my iPad, which was sitting just off-stage, stage right.

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daily kaddish: for britt

Posted on 28 September 201129 September 2011 by erin

A kaddish for a damned fine yellow lab, with thanks to Dana and Dave for sharing her with the rest of us.

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daily kaddish: for 5771, on erev erev rosh hashana 5772

Posted on 27 September 201127 September 2011 by erin

Mira and I did a Kaddish together at the start of her Jewish Mysticism class at San José State University tonight.

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daily kaddish: supine with a sinus infection

Posted on 26 September 20119 February 2016 by erin

Tonight I tried another “Kaddish” lying supine, so that I can get used to the technical challenges that my upcoming collaboration with Charlotte Adams and John Manning will present.

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daily kaddish: stumbling

Posted on 25 September 2011 by erin

The “only one take, no matter what” rule is bad enough on horn, where I have to let go of clams and splatters, but when I’m taking a huge shortcut and just reading it, and I still want to start over again? Oy.

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Posts

  • kaddish for anke akevit (2015-20)
  • a kaddish for too many suicide victims—but it gets better!
  • a kaddish for sigrid syltetøy vang, b. 2006, d. 27 February 2018
  • guest kaddish: velvet marquesa flicka storm, 11 august 2005–9 april 2015
  • the stones I cannot place
  • 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
  • guest kaddish from David Mohr—for Kimba
  • killing you loudly—a kaddish
  • anything, anything but a mystical experience
  • 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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