T.D.

Hey, John Sebastian's playing this Saturday in Woodstock.

Larry, how do like Chen's Bach? I love her Hat Art recordings of Schoenberg and Barraque/Boulez. Most curious about Bach, but reluctant to take a flier considering the # of recordings I already own.

Actually, to 4 of the original Dorian CDs (Cuarteto Latinoamericano). Also have a couple of discs with the Danubius Qt. on Marco Polo, but overall not quite a complete set.

I ordered Sunday night, and the immaculately wrapped package arrived Wednesday (postal holiday!). Don't know how that could have happened, but most grateful.

Ditto. And today was a postal holiday - I don't understand how the package arrived!

Just got e-mail from Berkshire touting Haba's complete string quartets (plus some other pieces) recorded by the Stamitz Quartet on Bayer. Any opinions on Haba's quartets? I'm favorably disposed to microtonal music, so might like these. [Added] Have been listening on Youtube and greatly enjoy what I've heard. Budget tight right now, so will revisit after the holidays.

Agreed on all but the Kuhn, which is unknown to me. The Moondoc is really good. I was fence-sitting on the Ayler and Lyons, but snoozed and lost.

The Horace Tapscott CD that came with Steven Isoardi's book: It's really good.

I grew up in the Chicago area, went to school in Michigan and upstate NY, and never heard "wait on line" until I moved to NYC. I always assumed it's a regional thing that became widespread because of NYC's dominance in media, etc.

Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas - Stephen Kovacevich - $14.95 for 9 CDs. Damn. Almost bit on this, but realized that it's his EMI set, not the Philips. Unfortunately, Kovacevich's Philips Beethoven Sonatas seem to only be available as part of a 25-CD "Complete Philips Recordings" box.

I recall an old (at least 10 years ago) radio interview on WFAN (forget the host). It was interesting. No time to look for URL now, at one time you could replay the interview online. Old thread on the radio interview

And you could follow it up with

Blue Buddha (Belogenis, Douglas, Laswell, Sorey)

My father (87 y.o.) has a lot of trouble hearing and has been through several sets of hearing aids. The low-end models are basically just amplifiers. The higher-end models are definitely adjusted to specific frequency ranges (per audiologist evaluation). Oddly, my father dislikes the high-end ones and insists on using the cheapo ones he got via Internet. OTOH, he dislikes wearing hearing aids in general, and often goes without or uses just one of a pair. But he's also developed Alzheimer's-related dementia, so it's difficult to reason with him.