A Kaddish for a burned Qur’an and for the five Aghans, four Nepalese, and three Europeans killed today in retribution. As Reb Deb commented: “The idiot. The blasphemous idiot. You don’t burn books.”
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A podcast of the daily recordings of Lev Kogan’s “Kaddish” for solo horn, by Erin L. Vang, usually but not always on horn and often including improvisations and collaborations with Mira Z. Amiras and guest artists.
daily kaddish: miss pants z”l
A kaddish for Velvet Marquesa Candace, aka Candy Pants, the smartest and toughest black lab I ever knew, whose Yahrtzeit was yesterday.
daily kaddish: nose surgery, percocet, and pants
Today is Candy Pants’ Yahrtzeit, but we’re going to have to mark that tomorrow—I’m in too much pain from nose surgery today, which is oddly fitting.
daily kaddish: for the george lawson gallery being in san francisco
After twenty-six acclaimed exhibitions, the George Lawson Gallery will close its doors and move south to Los Angeles. A kaddish for having our friend and his gallery around, nearby.
daily kaddish: for a lump of clay
Mira’s beautiful post from this morning about winter struck a nerve with me.
I marvel at her ability to celebrate rebirth, welcome surprises, and plan to keep molding her lump of clay. I usually feel that way myself—I’m having a great life, and I’m looking forward to seeing how the rest of it plays out. But today I find myself wanting to bake my lump of clay hard, in this lovely shape it has today not wanting surprises.
I know she’s right. That’s not how this lifetime works, and I need to go on molding and rolling with the surprises.
So this is a kaddish for a lump of clay.
daily kaddish: fluegelhorn shabbes
The end of a long week arrives and I’m in no mood to play a long, slow, mournful Kaddish, so instead I break out the fluegelhorn and toss off a playful Kaddish to kick off Shabbes.
daily kaddish: n&g, 4th draft, for mira’s birthday
[powerpress] The fourth draft of a kaddish layered with Mira reading her adaptation of Dodi Li to G and N’s poem to me, with congratulations to Mira on her birthday.
daily kaddish: elizabeth taylor
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daily kaddish: n & g, third draft
[powerpress] Another recording that incorporates a poem by N to Erin and an adaptation of “Dodi Li” by Mira for G. This time the horn track has a brief delay effect between the left and right channels.
daily kaddish: n & g
[powerpress] A kaddish incorporating the text of a poem written by N to Erin, and an adaptation of “Dodi Li” for G by Mira.