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Yeah, Conrad Tao's playing of the Rzewski was tremendous. New name to me, but he deserves serious attention. Thanks again for pulling my coat re. this event. Wish I'd caught more of it.

I'd only heard recordings, which were cool, but her stuff live is a completely different experience!

Thanks for posting this, I just noticed and tuned in (7:20 PM EDT, toward the end). I very much liked the little Pamela Z (electronica) I've heard, looking forward to her, the Rzewski piece and Terry Riley.

Thanks. I'm in.

Back in 2016 (well pre-election), based on how the campaign was going, I purchased and read Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism. It wasn't a wrong decision.

The new string quartet box by Quatuor Ébène looks promising and is getting excellent notices. If I add a "modern" set it's likely to be the Ébène.

I was surprised by an electronic deposit, not requested and much earlier than I expected. In recent years I've gotten refunds from the IRS and elected e-deposit. They apparently went ahead and sent the stimulus $ to the account/routing #s on file.

One of those mid-20th century American composers who seems to have faded into obscurity but wrote some excellent music.

Interesting project! I've been listening to a lot of Beethoven over the past week (string quartet and piano sonata cycles), so will hold off for now. "Only" have 5 cycles (Kempff DG mono, Serkin - Sony box not complete cycle, Kovacevich -Warner orig. EMI, Eric Heidsieck, Yves Nat). Off the top of my head, it's between Heidsieck (who I really like in the late sonatas) and Serkin, but the outcome might well differ if I do a "laboratory" comparison.

Thanks for posting these! Among other things, I can stop kicking myself for sleeping on the recent Japanese CD reissue of Porto Novo.

Wow, I just noticed that the shop I mentioned above is open to a limited degree. Posted on Facebook 5/15: XXX records in XXX is OPEN! Kinda.This Saturday & Sunday. Make an appointment for a private shopping time, wear a mask, we will provide fresh gloves. Tried this last weekend & it worked out nicely! Contact rick directly or message us here via FB messenger. You may also drop of trades of LP's , DVDs , CDs & books ( just the good stuff!) I would shop under those conditions. Maybe I'll get in touch in mid-June, when I expect to be in the neighborhood (it'll be a weekday, though).

There's really only one candidate store (which also sells books), it's over an hour's drive away, and I don't go unless I'm in the neighborhood on a work errand...but I would visit subject to spacing (preferably 1 person at a time in shop), gloves, mask. I will be in the neighborhood mid-June, but don't expect the shop to be open at that time. I'll walk past and look in the window, though.

Dude on another forum was listening to his yesterday. No comments.

I bought a Mosaic box on discogs, requested first class shipping. The parcel was shipped from Philadelphia suburbs Saturday, arrived upstate NY today (Monday)! Needless to say, I'll request first class if possible. In contrast, I have two media mail parcels in limbo, one last tracked to the dreaded Jersey City (Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate).

No shit, Sherlock. A certain "irony deficiency" seems endemic to Internet discussion forums.

New one coming up, #3 in series: http://nobusinessrecords.com/ricochet.html

That's one I'd like to hear. I had been on the fence about this forever, but finally went for a used copy: I grew up in Evanston, IL (home of Bee Hive), so it's nostalgia in a sense. I never knew of the Neumann family, though.

I ordered a 12-CD box from England around the same date. It shipped April 15 and arrived May 4, sooner than I expected and faster than some domestic USPS media mail deliveries.

I also enjoy that [Hemphill Black Saint / Soul Note] box, generally listen all in one shot. Never heard much of the WSQ, got the impression it wouldn't be to my taste.

Uh-oh. I've had another small package (orig. Cambridge MA, dest. upstate NY) fall into the dreaded Greensboro <-> Jersey City loop. Looks like 2 weeks or more until I'll see it. Last package finally (I'll spare details) only escaped the loop via Denver. Taking over-unders on how many times it'll cycle between Greensboro and JC... May 8, 2020, 12:21 am Arrived at USPS Regional Facility JERSEY CITY NJ NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER Your item arrived at our USPS facility in JERSEY CITY NJ NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER on May 8, 2020 at 12:21 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination. May 7, 2020 In Transit to Next Facility May 6, 2020, 11:10 pm Departed USPS Regional Facility GREENSBORO NC NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 6, 2020, 6:51 pm Arrived at USPS Regional Facility GREENSBORO NC NETWORK DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 4, 2020, 6:42 pm Departed Post Office CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 May 4, 2020, 5:38 pm USPS in possession of item CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138

That Al Haig album is awesome, close to desert island material for me.

The difference between first class and media mail is astonishing. The small (1 CD digipack) media mail package I whined about above took exactly 3 weeks to arrive via a bizarre multi-looped tour. I had a bunch of first class letters to mail from work, required arrival around May 1. Scared by my experience, I mailed them early, but they arrived within a couple of days, so it turned out that I f**ed up by sending them too early. Since then, I've received a couple of small first-class packages that were comparably fast.

This is really good.