in 1967 David Hollander was at RCA studios with his camera, recording Nina Simone as she recorded Nina Simone Sings the Blues. Three shots below, more at the link.
This is Day 44 of physical distancing. My guess is there are about 440 more to go before vaccines are available for Coronavirus.
Yesterday I made dough; today I made bread:
It came out fine. I also have some sourdough starter that is getting off the ground and looking for some of that sweet Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis I’m told is everywhere.
Next weekend, perhaps a sourdough loaf will be on order.
Since I’ve been taking screenshots for a while, just a reminder below that on March 26th, one month ago, there were 1,124 Americans dead and 80,000 confirmed cases. Today, the number of deaths exceed 55,341 with close to a million cases confirmed in the US. For context, the Korean War resulted in 33,686 US combat deaths.
We still have no serious federal response leading to the prospect of rapid and sustained testing, and instead we just have some voices being louder than others clamoring for their own economic interests and the health of The EconomyTM amid feckless ignorance coming from the White House. I periodically assume there is going to be a significant political reckoning for such a dramatic failure of public health policy, but then I ask myself where the evidence is to support such an idea is, and…
Switching back to music: The presentation of J.S.Bach as a rule-breaking hacker by Kathleen Kajioka is both compelling and convincing and I would encourage a listen:
I don’t know that much about Bach, but I do see this trend he has of periodically slipping in phrases that simply do not fit. When I was learning the first prelude to The Well-Tempered Clavier, for example, there are a few bars where I was certain “that can’t be it” — that I’d misread the notes (which would be very easy for me). It just sounds wrong. Bars 22 and 23 in particular are just sort-of affronts to the calm (predictable?) harmony of the bars before it–except for the ones that were perhaps softening the listener up (maybe bars 8 & 12). What sounds wrong as a stand alone bar ultimately gets folded in successfully. But there is no reason for it. Other than ‘cuz. So much is ‘Haydn’ and then there are the components that make it unmistakably Bach. Anyhow – I had never focused on this harmonic subterfuge by Bach before, and found the idea compelling.
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