Been a busy few days of summer projects (lots of painting!) while also working on some fun SuperCollider and iPad stuff. And some good running. I did continue working on the Kronos Quartet box set, but also brought Mira down for a pick the other night. ‘What should we take Mira?’… ‘A big one daddy!’ … well, there aren’t too many big ones left. Some Miles Davis, lots of opera (which escapes her view for some reason) and a couple other collections here and there, but she pointed at a box set of Dvorak symphonies conducted by Rafael Kubelik. Some great performances on those discs… Kubelik is one of my favorite. He seems to me to be often overlooked, as there were so many great conductors alive during his conducting years. I think his Dvorak recordings are probably one of the best. While I don’t find his Beethoven or Mozart that exciting, I think he really had a knack with late Romantic repertoire. His Mahler recordings are probably one of the best (though I was never able to find all of them on CD… I have them on LP, perhaps it is time to see if I can find them anywhere online… a box WAS released in 2000! … hmmm… maybe I better finish ripping the Mahler discs I DO have before I think about buying anything else).