HeyJaredA Year of Bach
Bach is the greatest, and I haven't yet heard his complete catalog, so in 2024, I'm listening to every Bach composition and writing about it here.
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Guitarist Miles Okazaki on the Rhythms of Bach and Monk (opens the original)
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Guitarist and composer Miles Okazaki has been an important guitarist in the New York jazz scene for over twenty years. His latest album is Boomtown, featuring a large chamber jazz ensemble playing his jagged Americana. Miles is best known for his solo-guitar recording of the complete works of Thelonious Monk, and we discuss the art of rhythmic placement in Bach and Monk.Featured are excerpts of Miles’ performances of Bach’s BWV 1005 and one of the Fugues in A Minor.LinksMiles OkazakiWebsite: mil
My Polish Passport (opens the original)
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My great aunt, Bella Ressler, died last October. She was 95, loving and headstrong for almost ten decades.A few weeks after her funeral, my cousins found a letter tucked away in her house that recounted her experience as a girl in Europe. She concluded her testimony with grace and strength, with deep love and a foreboding air:My dear children & grandchildren my wish is you should be always in good health, never forget your roots, and be nice human being and always be Jewish. Never forget where y
"Making Music Visible": Ballerina and Critic Faye Arthurs on Dancing Bach (opens the original)
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Faye Arthurs spent two decades at New York City Ballet dancing Balanchine, Robbins, and Wheeldon. She originated a role in Wheeldon’s Scenes de Ballet while still a student at SAB, and she danced Robbins’ Goldberg Variations. She now writes dance criticism for Fjord Review and Air Mail, and does archival work for the George Balanchine Foundation.We talk about how ballet dancers count from the stage, the special pleasures and challenges of dancing counterpoint, and how and why Bach succeeds (and
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