[powerpress] A recording on flügelhorn in a bluesy style.
daily kaddish: horn accompaniment
[powerpress] This time I foregrounded Mira’s voice and let the improvised horn music be a background accompaniment.
daily kaddish: f*@$ing taxes
[powerpress] In which your intrepid hornist was fried after a long day of working on her tax return.
daily kaddish: lisa’s dad
[powerpress] For my friends Lisa and Marc’s dad.
daily kaddish: bumpers
[powerpress] For Victoria’s and Mira’s cars’ bumpers, destroyed in car accidents.
daily kaddish: the first magnes museums
[powerpress] Mira’s Dad (the Tzaddik) was founder of the Magnes Museum. This afternoon I represented Beit Malkhut at the opening ceremony for the Magnes Museum’s rebirth as part of UC-Berkeley’s Bancroft Library, and when I got home, I recorded a Kaddish for the earlier incarnations of the Magnes. Mira was appalled.
daily kaddish: bismilleh duet
[powerpress] A duet for horn and Mira’s “bismilleh” version of the Kaddish text. I tried to conceive of this one as a true duet, with voice and horn taking equal parts in an harmonic exchange. As I described it to her: Mira, your kaddish is ready. It must be about time for you to record…
daily kaddish: skeezy traffic view
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a kaddish for those who choose their ends
They offed themselves. Both of them, together. She’s pissed, and devastated, and who wouldn’t be? But I can’t help admiring their decision, even as I share her grief and anger.
daily kaddish: waltz
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