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Tag: musicians

daily kaddish: on Mira’s dad’s birthday

Posted on 3 October 20114 October 2011 by erin

Thank you, Mira, for tonight, and for joining me in this project. It’s an honor to be here with you. May the Tzaddik rest in peace.

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daily kaddish: for Keith Abbott Conant

Posted on 21 September 201121 September 2011 by erin

This is one of those “there but for the grace…” Kaddishim.

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daily kaddish: for amy winehouse, in music

Posted on 25 July 201125 July 2011 by erin

Yesterday’s Kaddish for Amy Winehouse had no music. I thought it fitting—when a musician dies, the music is gone.

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daily kaddish: for amy winehouse

Posted on 24 July 201125 July 2011 by mira

All that potential down the drain… A kaddish for Amy Winehouse.

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daily kaddish: backstage at the opera

Posted on 9 July 201111 July 2011 by erin

I recorded tonight’s Kaddish between acts of La Traviata. . I was recording with iTalk on my iPhone, which has no input level controls, so I had to play pianissimo to minimize the distortion from high input levels.

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national poetry month

Posted on 29 April 2011 by mira

Thought I’d better get this in before it isn’t April any more. I think next year, the whole month of April’s posts should be in poetry. I’d be pretty proud if I could manage it. This poem I stumbled on searching through my replacement computer after the crash of my favorite but unreliable old one,…

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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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a kaddish for miss pants

Posted on 1 April 20119 February 2016 by erin

Candy Pants was my dad’s hunting dog, retired to California, endured four dogs’ worth of veterinary crises, and healed me—not exactly in that order.

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a kaddish for those who don’t escape

Posted on 12 March 201113 June 2011 by erin

My ordeal was long ago and I’m fine. For far too many others, this story is today, this story is now, and this story is how they will die.

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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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