I live for the doors. I wait for them. It’s an exercise in great patience. Endurance even. First off, however, this is not a post about Jim Morrison. Though it could be. He walked through these doors as well. So. I wait for doors. Wait for them to open. I watch them start to shut….
Category: kaddish in two-part harmony
The Academic and the Musician. The academic immerses in Kaddish with thoughts of thinking rather than feeling—the emotions being too raw. The musician spends her time in making us feel, whether we want to or not. And making the music of kaddish. Making music kadosh. A flurry of emails ensue between the two. Their blogs lock horns, as do the writers themselves. They start a joint blog. They start a podcast.
A commitment to a year-long project has begun: a kaddish in two-part harmony.
A conversation among an anthropologist, a musician, and their audience on themes of death and dying, grief, ritual, the interplay between musician and listener.
daily kaddish: turbo kaddish
Today has been one of those frenetic, multi-tasking kind of days, as I try to get a zillion business and personal things done before rushing off to a gig. I figured the Kaddish might as well match the rest of the day.
a kaddish for captain jack sparrow
Okay. So. Another Pirates of the Caribbean came out today. And I had absolutely no plans to see it. But we happened to be in the neighborhood, and there wasn’t a line, and there were plenty of tickets, and the timing was right — There were also plenty of good seats. Bad omen, right? Good…
daily kaddish: gud shabbes
Coming at the end of a long, hard week, this is a “Gud shabbes!” Kaddish in the “TGIF!” sense of it.
daily kaddish: the sadness of hard decisions
Tonight’s Kaddish expresses the grief and indescribable sadness of reaching a wrenching decision—when no amount of certainty can ease any of the pain.
daily kaddish: for Phil Zahorsky
The Bay Area lost a great trombone player and human being today. Philip Charles Zahorsky died in his sleep this morning after a long battle with cancer. May he rest in peace.
daily kaddish: for calvin smith
A kaddish for the esteemed horn soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue Calvin Smith, who was my first horn teacher.
daily kaddish: for nanc, the day after her yahrtzeit
For the first time since we started this project, I felt for myself the gratitude (in this case to Mira) that others have told us about when we’ve recorded Kaddishim for their lost loved ones.
daily kaddish: for nanc on her yahrtzeit
Today is Nancy Ring’s Yahrtzeit. She died at home after a long struggle with ovarian cancer.
daily kaddish: with friends and colleagues
We hosted a small dinner gathering of localization professionals, which presented an opportunity to collaborate with a pair of native speakers reading Kaddish.