Yesterday Mira and I conducted an impromptu experiment, with interesting results. Today I played a kaddish for healing, at Mira’s request. We welcome kaddish requests from our readers.
the concealed one, blessed be he
When Malkah (an incarnation of the Shekhinah herself — and why not?) was a little girl, the tzaddik used to tell her ‘Bobo Stories’ (of all things) at bedtime to calm her to sleep. And this was long before his journeys with Rav Gavriel rescuing artifacts in India. As the tzaddik told it, the Prince…
a kaddish for perfection
When I lived in the foster home, before being rescued by the tzaddik’s intercession, there was more than one uncomfortable moment. I suppress them as best I can, but every once in a while one of them pops back up without permission and without apology for the intrusion. Like a jack-in-the-box wound way too tight,…
daily kaddish (extra): option B
[powerpress] See an experimental kaddish, and a kaddish for healing.
daily kaddish: option A
[powerpress] See an experimental kaddish, and a kaddish for healing.
daily kaddish: richard schultz
[powerpress] Tonight’s Kaddish is a nod to my high school jazzer buddy Richard Schultz (see “yahrtzeits“); if he’d played it, it might have sounded something like this, except on alto saxophone and better.
on emotions in performance
It’s time to make an attempt at unraveling the conundrum of emotions and musical performance.
daily kaddish: sonja
[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…
a kaddish for self-evident truths
A good friend jogged my memory a week or two ago at the tail end of a post on his blog. Well, it was more like a jolt than a jog. It was something about the Declaration of Independence. Which I suppose we’ve all been taught nothing but respect, awe and reverence in the face…
kaddishim for preemption, el akarib, & monotony
recent kaddishim address questions of musical expression, tragic events in El Akarib, and the cold solitude of musical labor