[powerpress] In which your intrepid hornist was fried after a long day of working on her tax return.
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: lisa’s dad
[powerpress] For my friends Lisa and Marc’s dad.
daily kaddish: bumpers
[powerpress] For Victoria’s and Mira’s cars’ bumpers, destroyed in car accidents.
daily kaddish: the first magnes museums
[powerpress] Mira’s Dad (the Tzaddik) was founder of the Magnes Museum. This afternoon I represented Beit Malkhut at the opening ceremony for the Magnes Museum’s rebirth as part of UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, and when I got home, I recorded a Kaddish for the earlier incarnations of the Magnes. Mira was appalled.
daily kaddish: bismilleh duet
[powerpress] A duet for horn and Mira’s “bismilleh” version of the Kaddish text. I tried to conceive of this one as a true duet, with voice and horn taking equal parts in an harmonic exchange. As I described it to her: Mira, your kaddish is ready. It must be about time for you to record…
daily kaddish: skeezy traffic view
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a kaddish for those who choose their ends
They offed themselves. Both of them, together. She’s pissed, and devastated, and who wouldn’t be? But I can’t help admiring their decision, even as I share her grief and anger.
daily kaddish: waltz
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daily kaddish: cold and sleepy
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daily kaddish: turning tables
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