Preface
"The time has long gone since the monumentality of the written text, having found its niche in the great halls of literature, could experience such achievement in proxy for its poet as ultimate bulwark against the flotsam of history and the underlying tussle and torque of time. Neither Keats' Urn nor Yeats' Singing School nor even the dusty owls of Robert Duncan's grim Museum, can hold out any longer against the utterly transitory character of even the most heartily well-wrought artifact. The artifactual nature of reality itself is now felt to be so keenly ensconced in its fleeting identity, that 'the work of time's' subjection to time's ravages hardly evokes a whimper. You must find a way to live with a moment's grace and let the matter of durative identity take care of itself as it can." Charles Stein "Magic Without Tears in the Writings of Lissa Wolsak" - Open Space Magazine Issue 12/13 fall 2010/winter 2011
Texts
Recorded
December 26, 2016
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| Fletcher Henderson |
That Devilin' Tune - Stella Mayhew [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
An oversize stage presence in the service of cringe-worthy minstrel-show lyrics.
Unknown Blues - Fletcher Henderson [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Loose-jointed piano playing.
Panama City Ltd. - Ada Brown [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
Delicious horn section.
I'm Crazy About My Baby - Fats Waller [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
The sophistication of the performance leaves the song far behind.
December 27, 2016
Romeo et Juliette Act III - Prokofiev - Orchestre du Theatre Bolchoi de Moscou, Algis Juratis
Clearest bliss layered on clearest bliss, but viewed from an angle that fragments each line, especially in secret, where intricacies are worked out.
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| Nat Cole |
Sets up shop and stakes a claim.
Somebody Loves Me - Lester Young, Nat Cole, Buddy Rich [from Alan Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]
All three of them are fabulous, but Nat Cole's piano playing is astonishing in the way it folds rhythm and tune together.
In Session at the Tintinabulary
December 25, 2016
UTUMC - MCC Coffee Makers 161226 - Keith Eisenbrey
When we got to church Christmas morning Karen and I took our choir folders, which we had taken home with us late on Christmas Eve, back to choir room in the basement. In the hall was a coffee maker, and in a kitchen off the hall was another, all by themselves, happily singing carols.
December 26, 2016
Banned Telepath 52 161226 Anchorage
Banned Telepath 52 161226 Seattle
Banned Rehearsal 925 161226 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, and Steve Kennedy, in Seattle; and Aaron Keyt in Anchorage
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