Category: podcasts

[powerpress] For my friends Zsuzsi and Denis’s mother[-in-law], a Holocaust survivor.

[powerpress] In recent recordings, I tried to play in response to the call of the rhythm and shape of Mira’s reading of the “bismilleh kaddish” text. In this recording, I tried instead to play in anticipation of her pre-recorded text, trying to do call to her response. It was difficult; as familiar as I am…

[powerpress] Here I tried to improvise music in a jazzy style to the sound of Mira’s text.

[powerpress] A recording on flügelhorn in a bluesy style.

[powerpress] This time I foregrounded Mira’s voice and let the improvised horn music be a background accompaniment.

[powerpress] In which your intrepid hornist was fried after a long day of working on her tax return.

[powerpress] For my friends Lisa and Marc’s dad.

[powerpress] For Victoria’s and Mira’s cars’ bumpers, destroyed in car accidents.

[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.

[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…