Some years back, I wrote a Facebook post with this tl;dr (“too long, didn’t read”) about a professor in the St Olaf College math department. Yesterday I learned that he died a few weeks ago. May his memory be a blessing. tl;dr for Rebecca Boardman: you don’t lose points for what you get wrong—you gain…
Tag: music
a kaddish for the forestry buff who also played horn pretty well
a kaddish for my teacher, Boris Rybka
the man in the pink suit
When the family lived in Los Angeles, the tzaddik showed early signs of what was to come. Only it was a bit more theatrical down there in Southern California. The tzaddik produced an opera, believe it or not—the opera David, by Darius Milhaud—at the Hollywood Bowl. He even borrowed back the bible story engravings that…
daily kaddish: for lev kogan
A Kaddish for the composer of this project’s “Kaddish” for solo horn, Lev Kogan, who died in 2007.
another kiddish for our kaddish
Mira, your writing and thinking and worldview blow me away on a regular, delightful basis. This is me saying in front of God and everybody what an honor it is to be your collaborator.
daily kaddish: after kiddush
A kiddush for our kaddish. A kiddush for the best collaborator a kaddish-player could possibly have.
on making the “two-part harmony” live, in person
Since Mira and I first met in person several weeks ago, we’ve been planning to start doing Kaddish recordings together occasionally—to start emphasizing the “two-part harmony” of our project title. We released our first collaborative recording last night in daily kaddish: for all the foster children who don’t quite make it.
daily kaddish: for all the foster children who don’t quite make it
Tonight’s Kaddish marks the first time that the “kaddish in two-part harmony” was created live, in person, in true two-part harmony. Mira and I agreed this should be a Kaddish for all the foster children who don’t quite make it. The heartbreaking story she posted from her own experience as a foster child earlier today (a kaddish for foster care children) gives the background information for that decision.
another kaddish for japan’s daughters and sons: on scale-slipping and tragedy
A kaddish for all the sons and daughters Japan has lost and will continue losing in the aftermath of this devastation, whose enormous universal scale I cannot comprehend, whose personal scale is also enormous in its minute detail. On how we use scale-slipping to cope with tragedy. A reply to Mira’s kaddish one daughter at a time.
counting cards with my grumpy grampa
I never gave my grampa his due, but I’m starting to appreciate him.