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Day 157. Toscanini.

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

I think I am finally going to have to accept the fact that daily blog posts are a thing of the past for me. On one hand, work is keeping me so busy (and often into the night). On another, I have gotten little of my own composing done over the past few weeks. Part of me is bummed about this, but there is another aspect at play as well. As more and more of the CDs disappear from the front layer of shelves, more and more from the back are being pulled down for ripping. The quality of the discs here is still better then average for the most part, but there are lots of discs back here that, while I have listened and enjoyed them, they don’t necessarily bring up strong memories or personal history. I glanced over the blog as a whole a bit this past week and I have come across some strong memories that seem to be with me almost every day, and I also noticed that I have ‘found’ memories that I thought were lost (and now returned because of this project). I’m sure those aren’t done, but I am also sure at this point that they will be occurring with less frequency.

For me, starting this project almost a year ago was a needed distraction for what was a difficult time for Tamiko and me. Not between us, but due to situations in our lives that were, at the time, beyond our control in many ways. The blog provided some welcome distraction, and the enormity of the project itself gave me a positive outlet for some not always so positive energy. It also gave me focus on my life, family and one of the things that make me happiest in the world (music) at a time when lots of negative energy was flowing our way. I think this outlet for me helped me protect my girls from some of the negative that was hitting us and affecting me greatly at times.

Plus, there is just more music in the house now. Not that there wasn’t before, but the variety has grown considerably. Tamiko and I now have something different on every night as we wind down like we did when we first moved in together, Mira is discovering new ‘pretty music’ all the time and Celia and I start our evening reading with a new composer or musician just about every night. It’s pretty amazing how I have found something so great as a result of such a difficult situation (but, that is just how it goes sometimes).

Anyways, on to some music, and tonight I have been working on a stack of 11 2-Disc sets… the Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra remastered and cleaned up sets the RCA put out in the late 90s. 6 discs of Beethoven, the pairs of discs covering quite a bit of the symphonic repertoire. All in mono. And while these are old recordings, it is remarkable how dynamic they are. I love watching videos of Toscanini conducting, and an image of him ‘shhhshing’ his orchestra almost always comes to mind (my friend Colin was able to do a wonderful imitation of this). It strikes me that Toscanini new that there was really a maximum of loud that you could get out of an orchestra, but with enough coaxing you could always get people to play a little quieter. This makes the louder parts seem more so by contrast, and this led to a large number of very dynamic recordings at a time when the technology in use was still quite limited.

Toscanini’s interpretations are seen by many people, especially today, as a bit off. I tend to find them a bit operatic, and sometimes overly dramatic. I don’t really have a problem with this, and like Glenn Gould I think that what you are getting is Toscanini performing a piece rather then just the piece itself. I wouldn’t suggest any of his recordings as the way to get to know a work (same with Gould – do NOT listen to the Gould ‘Goldberg Variations’ as the first version you listen to). Both are performers that you should go to once you know a piece pretty well. THEN – they are excellent examples of what great musicians can do with the art of interpretation. As I listen right now to Beethoven’s Seventh, I feel like I have a good idea about what is Toscanini and what is Beethoven. And the two are having a great conversation. It is my like I am having a seance as I listen to the ghosts of these two musicians play with each other… truly a treat.

Tags: Beethoven, Toscanini, Wagner
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Day 153. Some folk / blues collections and some Mozart.

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Tonight was some folk / blues and Mozart. Mostly a few collections (including some old Tower Records samplers and the ‘O Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack) and the Muddy Waters Chess compilation, and the Mozart discs were made up of the Piano Quartets and his six quartets for Haydn. The folk and blues compilation ripping though was inspired by an assembly held for the student’s at Celia’s school. Every month, a few students from each K-2 grade classes are chosen to be honored students. All the other students in the class get to put together a list of why the honored students are people they like, the teacher adds something, and then the principal of the school gives each kid a little certificate with the list. During the assembly, the list is read, and parents are invited to attend. It is really very sweet, and Celia was in the first group of honored students for this school year. Tamiko and I made it to the assembly and were just so impressed with how this school teaches kids about what recognition is and how this sort of thing really makes them feel welcome in these first few years of school. And there was lots of positive reenforcement for good behavior with the kids (which is pretty impressive considering that there were 150 or so kids under the age of 8 in one room… they were all great, and they were told so).

Seeing Celia get her certificate was great. She stood with her classmates, waved at friends and blew kisses. She waved at me, Tamiko and Mira, and didn’t hide her head when the principal read about her. It’s amazing to see my little girl adapting to this new environment so quickly and so well. There are, of course, tons of challenges ahead but so far, she seems to be enjoying herself and learning so much.

My next favorite part of all this though we the fact that the music teacher was an important part of the assembly. Once things officially started, all the students stood up, turned towards the parents and sang a song together. This wasn’t a concert, no one was dressed up or told what was going to be performed ahead of time. The principal mentioned a song, and the kids sang it. What made it so special for me was the sense that it wasn’t special – it was just part of their day.

Even more amazing to me though was what happened before anything officially began. The music teacher started to play a relaxed waltz, then suddenly half the kids began to sing ‘Goodnight Irene’. Some very sweet music (recorded by Alan Lomax in the 40s with Leadbelly singing) makes its way to into my kid’s assembly. There was no verbal announcement, but at the same time, the music teacher playing this waltz was recognized by most of the students and they just started to sing. It blew me away… what lucky kids to have this be such an important part of their school.

So – I had to find my Alan Lomax discs with Leadbelly which led to a few other discs and a couple blues discs. I get so caught up in the centuries of music history from western Europe that when I realize the rich musical heritage my own country has created I find myself surprised over and over again. Part of me is a little ashamed of this, that this music isn’t just more of a part of my life (especially since I enjoy it so much), but I am also realizing that is part of what having kids is about. Celia and Mira have reminded me so much already about things that I have forgotten about, and part the excitement for me of Celia heading off to school is that I get to learn so many things again. What surprised me the other day is that for some reason I didn’t think music was going to part of that reminding. I’m excited now that it is.

Tags: Alan Lomax, Leadbelly, Mozart
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Day 151. Wagner, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

Mira again spotted the box-set operas tonight, and then she noticed that four of the double discs sets were actually in a single box… excitedly, she jumped at the shelf yelling ‘Daddy!!! big one big one BIG ONE!!!!’. Little does she know that in that box is the music that she already will recognize as ‘Kiwl the Wabbit’. Of course, it is none other then Wagner’s Ring.

I have the Karl Böhm Bayreuth Festival recordings from 1967. Buying a complete Ring cycle is a special thing… costly on the one hand, and on the other there isn’t a perfect one you can find. Now, I would certainly look for it on DVD, but fifteen years ago a CD set was still the way to go. I researched for a good few months and asked numerous people what they thought, and eventually chose this set for two reasons… it was a live recording, shaped by a masterful conductor, and Birgit Nilsson’s ‘throat of steel’ was singing Brünnhilde. I’ve listened to this set twice, and the coughing and ambient audience noise really doesn’t bother me. The performance is great, and doesn’t feel as flat to me as the Solti studio recordings do (which seems to miss the overall arch at times… I believe these are more production errors then Solti’s, but the problem is still there).

While I am sure I will probably spend the next week going through these recordings again, I am also thinking it might be time to go through the process again and see what else I should listen to and to see what is available these days on DVD. I can’t imagine just playing these pieces straight through for the girls to hear for instance. More and more I regret spending so much money on opera CDs and wish that opera DVDs had been around in the mid-90s (or even DVDs really for that matter), but I think that is especially the case with The Ring. On top of that, though I don’t watch much TV I don’t think our little tube will cut it for watching The Ring. So I probably really just need to wait a little longer until we can afford something a little bigger and for BluRay to really take off. I just need patience… Wagner isn’t going anywhere.

Celia finally got into the box set act tonight as well, and pointed to the Ella Fitzgerald / Duke Ellington ‘Côte d’Azur’ eight disc set. A wedding present from our friends Bryn and Colin, this CD out of all our discs may be the one I will miss the packaging of the most. There are 4 two disc sets in jewel cases with different bright colors, and imprinted on the clear cases and the CDs underneath are male and female figures that, when aligned, embrace each other. The box itself is slightly off-white and doesn’t let on to art underneath. And as beautiful as the packaging is, the music in the set is even more beautiful. I probably won’t get to rip it tonight (I am ALMOST done with ‘Götterdämmerung’) but I look forward to playing it over the next couple nights after we get home with the girls.

Tags: Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Richard Wagner
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Day 149. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Great Pianists!

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Mira pointed to a Glenn Miller collection, and Celia wanted more piano music for her room. I went ahead and grabbed a Benny Goodman disc as well, and for Celia grabbed my little selection of the Phillips ‘Great Pianists of the 20th Century’. Tonight, Celia went to sleep with Rosalyn Tureck playing Bach Partitas.

Big Band music has a special place in my heart… when high school marching band would finally slow down in Fall, concert and jazz band took on a focus. Midway through freshman year, I FINALLY got to switch to saxophone, and we got to play ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ (a la Benny Goodman rather then Louis Prima). After years of playing clarinet I was finally playing sax, and when I hear ‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ I immediately go out and buy a Benny Goodman record and hear … his clarinet. And I suddenly realize how cool clarinet could have been. I sold the instrument short. I remember thinking ‘I should go back to it!’ but then I hear John Coltrane shortly afterwards and am hooked on sax. So while I stuck with the saxophone (and still get my alto out every now and then) it was that first year of jazz band that finally made me appreciate the clarinet, and it is still one of my favorite instruments. And it works so well in modern music as well… such an amazing range of timbre within single notes, and across the whole instrument.

All this of course reminds me when I first started learning how to play in instrument in 6th grade. I’d had a guitar for some time, but never learned how to play it really. And when there were music classes in 6th grade, I really wanted to play alto sax. I wanted to play ‘Tequila’ like the 6th graders the year before me did… but the school didn’t have any left. My parents took me to the local music store, and again, no alto saxes were left. ‘But we do have clarinets’ said the clerk at the store, an guy in his 60s or so. I came wanting an alto sax, and a guy in his 60s tells me all they have is clarinet… I go from thinking I can get a cool alto sax to a stodgy clarinet. Well, that was just how my 6th grade mind thought. Still, I learned how to read music and learned how to play well with others. By the next year in junior high I auditioned into the second best band in the school, and was set to be in the top band the next year when we moved. By that time, I had started to learn guitar as well and I was hooked. Not having a band at the K-8 school I moved into when I moved to Roseville didn’t stop me, and I kept practicing on my own because I really enjoyed it.

I am often asked by other music friends when we are going to start music lessons for Celia (or, a few times, I receive looks of shocked horror that Celia isn’t already in lessons). I don’t think it was my parents intentions to not force lessons on me so I would enjoy making music more, but that is how it worked out. In the over twenty years of playing music, I have always enjoyed it. I’m sure I could be a better musician in many ways (especially a better instrumentalist) but I don’t know what the price I would have had to pay is. What I do know is, right now, Celia is listening to a wonderful pianist play Bach in her room as she goes to sleep. She will probably listen to this CD for a number of weeks, or switch back to Beethoven or Miles Davis. During the day, her and Mira want music on so they can dance. They have instruments all around them. They play on toy pianos and real pianos. Celia has bowed my violin while I practice cello, and has sung along with her toy accordion. If she asks for lessons, we’ll find a way to get them for her. And if Celia or Mira DO play instruments later in life, I look forward to practicing scales with them, then playing duets or trios. But for now, no pressure. Just lots of good music playing in the house.

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Day 147. Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and a box with a picture of Dizzy Gillespie on the cover.

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

I had some Charlie Christian and Benny Goodman on earlier tonight, and it had both Mira and Celia dancing in their seats during dinner. And hearing Charlie Christian made me want to hear some Django Reinhardt, so I went downstairs and grabbed two JSP boxes that were hiding in the back shelves.

JSP (and in some ways, Properbox as well) have taken advantage of recordings going out of copyright, or of licensing recordings as they get ready to go out of copyright, and what this has meant to those of us who like early jazz is usually some pretty cheap box sets of music where the recordings have been cleaned up a bit. The Django boxes are generally well done. No documentation really (basically an article and personnel listings when possible) but packed CDs of music. In the early ‘90s, I had bought a 10 CD Django Reinhardt box-set that was an import distributed by Cema Distribution… the box was great, and I sold it to a friend (for pretty cheap) when he was having a rough time. I figured it would turn up again and I could re-purchase it, but it never happened. The two JSP boxes clock in at 9 CDs, and while it isn’t everything that was on that import box-set, it’s pretty close… and I’m sure it was a third the original boxes price.

Properbox has done an interesting job as well putting together some nice collections for around $30. I have a 4 CD Charlie Parker set to rip tonight (if I get to it) as well as a set called ‘BeBop Spoken Here’. Another set I previously ripped was a Lester Young collection that I enjoy quite a bit. These are old mono recordings, often transferred from disc. They will never sound great, but the performances are well worth having, and it is nice to see the label going to a large volume of sales rather then gouging the rare performance collector that would probably plop down serious cash for some of these recordings. Both of these labels have appeared in the waning days of the record store (or more precisely, the waning days of the CD). I imagine the parties putting these together see this, at least in some way, as a labor of love. These recordings won’t survive well in the MP3 age (they are too noisy and will just sound worse)… but in 5-10 years, when lossless recordings finally kill lossy formats.

We’ll see if the girls groove as much tomorrow night… I imagine they will.

Tags: Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt
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Day 144. Brahms.

Saturday, September 4th, 2010

Tonight Celia grabbed a box set that was hiding in the back of the shelves of the complete Brahms chamber music. The box is an 11 CD set put out by Philips, and has some very nice recordings on it. Performances are by the Beaux Arts Trio, Janos Starker, Quartetto Italiano and Arthur Grumiaux. Mostly analog recordings from the 60’s and 70’s, which I am perfectly fine with (I still think this period represents a prime time for classical recordings, both technically and performer wise).

Funny thing is, I think I forgot I had this set. I probably moved it to the back because I do have other recordings of the Piano Quintet, Cello Sonatas and Violin Sonatas that I like quite a bit. And in general, though I am familiar with Brahms’ chamber music, it never quite grabbed me in the same way that Beethoven’s did (or Dvorak or Tchaikovsky for that matter). The textures often feel heavy handed to me, a little trying on my ears. However I realize that this is more the memory of someone in his mid-20s (and still discovering classical music) then it is my current ears. So as I saw Celia grab this set tonight I told myself that I would sit down with the scores and go through most of these pieces again. I’m curious to see how my perception of them has changed. I have the C minor Piano Quartet on right now, and I can already tell that I’m hearing things differently. And a big part of this project as a whole was rediscovering and revisiting music that I have. I think I have a weekend of Brahms ahead of me.

And regarding the picture above… I totally would have had coffee with him.

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Day 143. Mussorgsky, The Coral and Van Morrison.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Mira looked at the CD shelf. Mira’s main thing has always been box sets, and most of them have been picked. Then she looked up. Opera. ‘Want BIIIIG ones!’ so I lifted her up, and she grabbed a bright blue and red box… containing two versions of Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Boris Godounov’. Celia grabbed the first disc by ‘The Coral’, Van Morrison’s greatest hits and I had a few more Nono discs still to rip.

While I was working at Barnes and Noble here in Seattle, a co-worker (Mark) also worked as the main liaison for donor relations with the Seattle Opera. A few months after I got here, the director of Seattle Opera had to cancel one of his preview talks for ‘Lakme’ and I stepped in at the last minute to give an audience of about 50 a heads up about what the opera was about. It was quite fun, and after that Mark kept an eye out for donor tickets that weren’t being used (usually for the dress rehearsals). Tamiko and I saw a number of operas this way, and ‘Boris Godounov’ was one of them. The set was brilliant, filled with reds, golds and candles, and the performance was great. If you have talked to me about the arts in Seattle, you probably know that I hold the Seattle Opera in the highest regard. While they don’t program as much new music or commission works like I think a major arts powerhouse should, they make up for it by putting on productions that are top of the line, and the singers are world-class.

Since seeing so many operas, I have found myself listening to less and less. Italian ones are fun still, since they are, well, Italian opera and just great to listen to. But listening to ‘Boris Godounov’, especially after seeing it the way we did, really shows how much you miss by listening to opera. I wish I had gotten into opera about ten years after I did. If I had, I would probably have a large collection of opera DVDs rather then CDs, and while this still wouldn’t capture the enormity of seeing an opera live, it would do better then the CDs would.

And as I’ve said many times, this is just the problem with recorded music in general. There are, of course, exceptions. And the track ‘Dreaming of You’ on The Coral’s first album might be one of them. Great British Invasion style rock, and the 19 year old lead singer sounds like he has decades more behind the voice on that record. The singing on this track is up there with John’s on ‘Twist and Shout’. I’m glad it was caught on record, because there is a good chance performances like this can’t be repeated.

Tags: Mussorgsky, The Coral, Van Morrison
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Day 140. Old And In The Way and Schütz.

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Just a couple discs tonight but quite a bit of fun. The first is a live Old And In The Way recording called ‘Breakdown’ (which seems a little odd to me now, since I think all the Old And In The Way albums were live), and the other a disc of Schütz’s Italian Madrigals.

Old And In The Way was actually mostly some younger guys in the early 70s (including Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Peter Rowan) and finally Vassar Clements who was a bit of a seasoned bluegrass veteran. The playing is great, and it is nice to hear Jerry Garcia playing banjo. Jerry Garcia playing banjo is kind of like Steve Martin playing banjo. You don’t hear it too often, but when you do you realize how good they are in their ‘second gigs’. The other surprising thing to me is how much I tend to like banjo once I start hearing some banjo playing. So listening to this disc today was lots of fun, and made me miss playing bluegrass. I wasn’t ever great at it, but I learned more about guitar playing while trying to play bluegrass then probably any other style.

The Schütz provided a different surprise to me tonight. I put it on while I was getting a little work done while Celia was playing in her room, and when she heard it she completely stopped what she was doing. I think it was the first time I have ever seen Celia completely distracted by music, and the moment made me very happy. She asked if I could make a disc of it for her to listen to tomorrow. I can’t wait.

Tags: Old And In The Way, Schütz
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Day 132. U2, Pink Floyd, Arvo Pärt and The Ventures.

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Finished up a few Dylan discs this week, and ripped some discs here and there as the week went on. Tonight was the first night in a week though that I made a more focussed effort in ripping discs though. Celia picked out ‘Meddle’ by Pink Floyd as well as compilations by U2 and The Ventures, and I also grabbed a stack of Arvo Pärt.

Like a lot of people my age that grew up or went to college in the Bay Area or Sacramento, Laser Floyd is probably a shared experience. Though complete playings of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was a popular playlist at these shows I preferred starting that disc up while watching ‘Wizard of Oz’. The Laser Floyd I saw was more of a career overview that jumped from ‘Meddle’ to ‘The Wall’ back to a track for ‘Dark Side’. I’m not sure if this was a good experience or a bad one (not being into hallucinogens)… but I don’t like that every time I hear a Pink Floyd song I think about laying on my back in Morrison Planetarium watching lasers draw patterns on a ceiling. I don’t think I ever ‘got’ the rock laser show. The only laser / rock show experience I ever was amazed by was the great use of lasers one time at a The Might Be Giants show, and I think seeing something done in a live performance was more impressive to me then something put together to a CD being played loudly.

The Pärt discs were mostly choral works tonight, including ‘Miserere’. I bought this disc one day when Tamiko was out of town. When she is gone, I have a hard time falling asleep, and thought some nice calm Arvo Pärt would be good going to sleep music. Wow, was I wrong.

The first part of the piece is stunning. Organ, voices and a very pointillistic and bell-like texture. Started off pretty good. Then the full force of the choir and ensemble blasted force in a rather violent fashion. At the moment, it scared the crap out of me and I think it took me an extra hour to get to sleep. In hindsight, it is one of the most well prepared moments in his music. Not only had the texture of the piece set me up to be blown away by this moment, but the cliches of his own style had. There is quite a bit I liked about Pärt before this, but after this moment I had a much higher respect for his work. I listened to it again the next day and while I was expecting it, I still appreciated how well this piece is written.

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Day 127. Nunes, Messaien, Lutoslawski, Pérotin and Leonin.

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

It has been a busy week, with the evenings filled with lots of odd and ends to take care of. Projects at work and some personal projects (including a website revamp and a piece I have ben trying to finish) have held my attention a bit in the evenings, and I will sometimes pop in a disc to rip, then forget about it.

One thing that is starting to slow the DAC project down is the old laptop that I am using to host and rip everything. It’s getting a little long in the tooth, and it is starting to show and it has had to work more this past year then it probably did over the three or four years before this one put together! It is an old PowerBook G4 (with the lid / monitor cracked off of it from a nasty fall at a cafe). It’s been a little 1 GHz work horse though… before the DAC project began, it served as a little web server for me and a few friends (which was fairly low traffic), so to suddenly be using its hard drive to rip CDs on a nightly basis (the original hard drive at that!) plus the CD drive has probably started to tax it some. Plus, it streams music to me quite a but now. There are over 1,000 CDs that the computer has ripped and now manages between iTunes here at home and Subsonic when I’m away. Over 300 GB of files are on the connected hard drive. In other words, for a machine that is 7 years old, it has done quite a bit since all this started in January. And the thing that is failing? I’m not positive, but I think something with the latest version of iTunes on it is weirding it out… I put CDs in, CDDB finds it, then iTunes kind of just drops it. I have to open Disc Utility to force an eject of the disc, then I pop it back in and it shows up just fine. This takes some time and attention where initially the ripping of CDs was rather mindless. The other thing that has slowed things down was the replacement of a 250 GB Firewire drive with a 1TB USB drive. The old computer only has USB 1, so things are just slower now.

Over the course of a few nights this week I finally finished up the Kronos Quartet box set, and also the last couple discs of the Dvorak symphonies set that Mira chose earlier in the week.

This afternoon Mira broke from her usual pattern and went for ‘pretty box!’ as she put it. She brought a CD of Emmanuel Nunes upstairs to me this afternoon and wanted to show me the ‘pretty box!’ and ‘hear pretty box music!’. After about two minutes of confusion, Celia finally turned to me and said ‘Daddy, this music is scary… do you LIKE this???’. The piece (‘Quodlibet’) for 6 percussionist, 28 instruments AND orchestra (weren’t the 28 instruments already an orchestra?) was a piece I looked at quite a bit while working on a doctoral exam topic on sound and space. Yes, I can see why to a five year old the music would seem scary, and it isn’t something I would normally put on for the girls. So I turned it off and and put on some Kylie Minogue (and there was much rejoicing).

After dinner, I went back downstairs with the girls to pick out more discs and Mira grabbed some Lutoslawski (which probably would have also bee scary) and Celia grabbed a stack of five innocent looking purple jewel cases that contained four discs of Messiaen’s organ music and a disc of music by Perotin and Leonin. Celia and I listened to the music from the early days of the Notre Dame Cathedral while reading about Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, and she loved it. I did too. I do find some enjoyment (and quite a bit of mental stimulation) from Nunes, Messiaen and Lutoslawski. And Lutoslawski and Messiaen have been highly influential in my work though… and I have lots more music from them to rip so I’ll have more opportunity to talk about both of them. But give me music from almost 1000 years ago, and my mind gets working on musical ideas for things that I am working on today, and I loved watching Celia relax into a book while listening to this music. It is nothing like what she encounters in her day to day life really, but it shows how something that has survived almost a millennium can still reach out to a five year old today.

Tags: Leonin, Lutoslawski, Messaien, Nunes, Pérotin
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Archive for the ‘Celia’ Category

Day 157. Toscanini.

Day 153. Some folk / blues collections and some Mozart.

Day 151. Wagner, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald.

Day 149. Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Great Pianists!

Day 147. Django Reinhardt, Charlie Parker and a box with a picture of Dizzy Gillespie on the cover.

Day 144. Brahms.

Day 143. Mussorgsky, The Coral and Van Morrison.

Day 140. Old And In The Way and Schütz.

Day 132. U2, Pink Floyd, Arvo Pärt and The Ventures.

Day 127. Nunes, Messaien, Lutoslawski, Pérotin and Leonin.

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