Off to lovely Annandale-on-Hudson for an immersion in the world of Edward Elgar during the second weekend of the Bard Music Festival. I'll be offline and incommunicado until Sunday night. Be good.
Playlist:
Edward Elgar - String Quartet in E minor - Maggini Quartet (Naxos); The Dream of Gerontius - Helen Watts, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Lloyd, John Alldis Choir, London Philharmonic Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra/Adrian Boult (EMI Classics); Violin Concerto in B minor - Albert Sammons, Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent (Naxos)
Max Roach memorial broadcast on WKCR-FM (MP3 stream)
Doveman - With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead (Brassland, due out in October; meanwhile, download the first single, "Chasing Clouds," from Stereogum)
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust (Constellation)
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music - Zeitkratzer (Asphodel)
The Angels of Light - We Are Him (Young God, due out August 28, 2007)
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