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Tag: music

the man in the pink suit

Posted on 2 August 20113 August 2011 by mira

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…

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daily kaddish: for lev kogan

Posted on 31 May 2011 by erin

A Kaddish for the composer of this project’s “Kaddish” for solo horn, Lev Kogan, who died in 2007.

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another kiddish for our kaddish

Posted on 29 April 2011 by erin

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.

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daily kaddish: after kiddush

Posted on 13 April 201111 July 2011 by erin

A kiddush for our kaddish. A kiddush for the best collaborator a kaddish-player could possibly have.

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on making the “two-part harmony” live, in person

Posted on 9 April 2011 by erin

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.

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daily kaddish: for all the foster children who don’t quite make it

Posted on 8 April 20119 April 2011 by erin

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.

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another kaddish for japan’s daughters and sons: on scale-slipping and tragedy

Posted on 28 March 201128 March 2011 by erin

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.

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counting cards with my grumpy grampa

Posted on 8 March 201123 March 2011 by erin

I never gave my grampa his due, but I’m starting to appreciate him.

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what is it about words? a rant in response to a preamble

Posted on 10 February 20119 February 2016 by erin

Music sits alongside religion as an opiate for the masses, and when music joins religion, it’s a truly powerful drug—one that scares the crap out of me sometimes.

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recent kaddishim: on connection and music

Posted on 10 February 201123 March 2011 by erin

Something unexpected happened a few weekends ago. I asked Mira to record the text of the Mourner’s Kaddish for me, and she did, and then everything changed. We are nearing the end of the first three months. We have almost ten months to go on this daily musical exchange, according to the Julian calendar, because this is a leap year in the Hebrew calendar, which adds not just a leap day but a whole leap month. And after what felt like a lifetime of awful recordings to both of us, we’re both starting to enjoy the music.

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  • occasional kaddish: for Josephine Selvig Anderson (11 April 1915– 22 January 2012)
  • and death is so much closer than it was—a kaddish for rebecca fromer
  • easy come easy go: a kaddish for adrienne cooper
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  • guest kaddish from David Mohr—for Kimba
  • killing you loudly—a kaddish
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