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Probably Mr. Burns' fault.

I love that box...so much Jimmy Lyons there, and there will never be too much of that.

Or I could die first, you place your bet on that one.

When Lyons was alive, I afforded myself the luxury of being picky about the settings. Now that he's dead, I'm more like, holy shit, Jimmy Lyons, yeah, gotta hear THAT!, no matter what.

Probably as much to do with interpretation as anything, but I've now heard the DSO do both Haydn and Mozart, and Haydn delivered so much more in terms of music that presented possibilities rather than inevitabilities. The pairing with Wagner was not without significant contrasts, but they were not incomparable contrasts. Also with Wagner, I think you gotta look at the lyrics as well as the music. That's something I need to do more of myself, but there's a lot of really deep, dark thingshappening with those characters and those stories and the music is only part of it. And yes, there is a DSO Live label, and yes, that Mahler disc is a worthy offering. Recommened, and not just as a point of local pridr.

Whatever label it was on, I liked it.

Panning over photos, yes, i am SO tired of that shit.

No, I was just confused about that. Ken named one record, I thought about another one.

"Keep Hold Of Yourself" is one of the great Rollins cuts ever, period. Don't sleep on this record. It's more than usual, not just for Sonny Rollins Lovers.

I dug that Cassandra thing quite a bit, but had no idea that it was on BN.

To that end, perhaps, there was a bit of mustyness to the music, but of a type that exists in all the post-WWII Wagner I've heard...it's like, for, obvious reasons, the danger has been removed from Wagner, and now it's all safened up. But you get the airshots of this shit in full roar, and it's. ..unsettling how primal it is, primal in the deep way of there is darkness in all of us, darkness is an essential trait of humanity, yes people are beautiful, but that beauty comes with a corollary, so...look out for that, be ready to deal with that, beauty and the beast indeed... Of course, where that all led in its time is a matter of record, and polite people rightly step back from all that, so we don't hear THAT type of Wagner these days. We did not hear it last night, and that was ok, as what we did hear was splendid on all counts. But I tell, you, there is a deeply dark danger in this music that we try to step over..we can step over it, but it's impossible not to step in it again at some point, just look around at all the darkness that keeps making a fully intentioned effort to swallow the light, and look at how ravenous that appetite is. Wagner is not really dangerous today, but people sure the hell are, so...just keep that in the back of your mind at all times, that's all.

Very enjoyable concert last night. The big takeaway for me was the Haydn, which began like it was gonna be all foo-fooey, but no, between some truly brilliant wriiting, playing, and interpretation, there was no prissyness, just music, seamless, so seamless that there were times when the passing of the lines back and forth between seemingly unlimited combinations just dizappeared, and all that was there was the pure music of the music, if that makes any sense. I have not yet really dug into Haydn, but he keeps popping up, and every time he does, it's seriously rewarding, so....my loss, yet again...so much music, so little time. The Wagner pieces were executed wonderfully.People seem to associate Wagner with LOUD, and there is that, but there is also that sustained quietude where the lines just keep going and the inner harmonies keep moving, and geez, it's its own oversized world of totally internalized craziness, but the science of both how and why it works...amazing, really.

Hate it when it takes a death to bring attention to a worthy talent. RIP.

I think this is one of the better Sonny Rollins records, period.

So much music...

Which series are you talking about, the 2-fers?

Muted trumpet indeed sounds muted, Earl Hines again defies gravities, Zutty (& Baby Dodds) still more modern than modern.

I first seriously heard Tristan about 18 months ago and those harmonies took me to a place I had never been to before, not like that. I liked that place, and still do.

Just got my copy in today's mail, already got it playing...I love Sonny Rollins. I get all the criticisms/reservations/caveats/etc., but do you understand me when I say that I love Sonny Rollins? Unconditionally. Anybody who puts the air through the horn that way and gets it out of the horn that way can have their way with my musical intimacies. It's one of those things where even when things don't go right at any given moment, you just hang on and keep going because that's just the way this shit goes, don't worry, just keep going, Remain Calm and Sonny Rollins. Plus, this one, so far, is a bit more consistently spunkier than the previous volumes.

I've come to really embrace the Wagnerian opera thing. Risking my marriage though, as this one was an additional, non-subscription presentation, and the generally receptive Mrs. JSngry has let it be known that she is attending this under protest, still feeling very aversional to all things "classical vocal", particularly opera. I'm hoping that it's just so damn Wagnerianly overwhelming that it breaks down her resistance, or at least doesn't jeopardize her lesser-but-still-present hesitations about going to see Carmina Burana in two weeks.

Damn Bev, you've turned into a veritable gadfly! We've had a bit of a lull here, but we have this coming tomorrow. https://www.mydso.com/buy/tickets/jaap-van-zweden-conducts-wagner-lohengrin-and-haydn Expectations are for a good old-fashioned thrill ride (yay!).

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