[powerpress] In honor of Sonja, my friend Louis Janus’s cat, a real beauty who died yesterday after a long illness. Louis would have been my favorite Norwegian prof had I been smart enough to take Norwegian while I was at St Olaf College. Instead I got to know him when he came to the computer…
Category: podcasts
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: el Arakib
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daily kaddish: bitchy
Mira and our mutual friend Tina have a paper-grading-and-bitching party planned for tomorrow night, so by special request I have prepared a bitchy version of the Kaddish tonight and will do so again tomorrow. Also, I’m wondering how I’ll manage to get tomorrow’s Kaddish recorded; the dailiness of daily ritual becomes tricky at times.
daily kaddish: uff da
[powerpress] Tonight’s Kaddish (2010.11.28_uffDa) was humbling. I tagged it “uff da,” which is the Scandinavian version of “oy vey.” In the course of schlepping to shul (certainly it must feel that way some days) to say Kaddish day in and day out for a year and a day, I figure there must be days that…
daily kaddish: as promised
Last night’s Kaddish addressed a situation involving hope that is bound up in despair. Tonight’s Kaddish was a dispirited mumbling-through; practice that was only practice.
daily kaddish: thanksgiving, with flügelhorn and accordion
[powerpress] A Thanksgiving Kaddish recorded after the feast on flügelhorn with one of our dinner guests, David Mostardi, playing accordion.
daily kaddish: Alexander 310 triple horn
[powerpress] A farewell (I hope) to my Alexander 310 triple horn, which a potential buyer will be taking with him for a trial. As of 22 March 2011, this horn is still available for sale; details here.