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daily kaddish: for abraham & sarah

Posted on 12 April 201112 April 2011 by erin

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I set out to play a Kaddish for Abraham and Sarah and all their dreadful mistakes. What a weird experience.

Sometimes the musician knows what she’s doing. Sometimes the Kaddish does.

I felt sure and passionate on my phrasing, but I kept hitting wrong notes, in all the worst places—even as I felt sure-footed in where I was going. I couldn’t figure out what my problem was. I had clear intentions, I was breathing well, and my chops felt great. Why was I making so many mistakes?

I figured it out when I was bouncing the file to disk and typing its name—which I also got wrong, writing yesterday’s date instead of today’s. I didn’t notice that while I was doing it, though. I noticed that just now, while uploading it to the server.

A Kaddish for Abraham and Sarah.

And their mistakes.

Oh.

2 thoughts on “daily kaddish: for abraham & sarah”

  1. mira says:
    12 April 2011 at 23:07

    I like your analysis of what was going on here. Thing is, I don’t hear your mistakes at all. Only my own. As far as Avraham and Sarah — they sound like they’re doing just fine together. And Hagar is nowhere to be found here. So this must be, for Hagar, post-exilic. And the rest of Bireishit is just playing itself out following on their heals.

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    1. erin says:
      13 April 2011 at 17:34

      Maybe the good parts were Hagar and Ishmael getting on with their lives. And trust me, my mistakes were far more obvious than yours.

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