Night After Night

Playlist (Dodging lions and wastin’ time).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Bob Dylan - Palladium, London, England, Oct. 23, 2022 (ROIO; 2022)

Rued Langgaard - Symphony No. 1 (“Cliffside Pastorals”) - Berlin Philharmonic/Sakari Oramo (Dacapo; due Nov. 4, 2022)

Michael Stearns - Chronos (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Sonic Atmospheres/Projekt; 1984/remastered reissue due Nov. 4, 2022)

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (concert version edited by W. Mengelberg and C. Dopper); Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor - Hong Kong Philharmonic/Jaap van Zweden (Naxos; due Nov. 18, 2022)

Claude Debussy - La Mer - Société des Concerts du Conservatoire/Piero Coppola (Disque "Gramophone"/YouTube; 1932)

Eli Wallace - pieces & interludes (Infrequent Seams; due Dec. 9, 2022)

King Crimson - Live in Chicago (DGMLive; 2017)

theAdelaidean - In the Key of Sleep (Projekt; due Nov. 11, 2022)

Clarice Jensen - Esthesis (130701/Fatcat; 2022)

Mali Obomsawin - Sweet Tooth (Out of Your Head; 2022)

Rubin Kodheli Project (Rubin Kodheli, Trevor Dunn and Brian Chase) - Rubin Kodheli Project (self-released; 2022)

Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil (Elektra/BMG; 1993/2022)

John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles, Vols. 1-4 (Tzadik Limited Run; 2021)

John Zorn - John Zorn's Bagatelles, Vols. 5-8 (Tzadik Limited Run; 2021)

Paul Ben-Haim - Symphony No. 1 - Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Lahav Shani (Deutsche Grammophon; 2022)

Kurt Weill - Symphony No. 2; Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D minor - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra/Lahav Shani (Warner Classics; 2022)

Elton Dean - "Molly's Mild" from Home Brewed (British Progressive Jazz; due Dec. 2, 2022, recorded 1976)

Karl Jenkins - Penumbra II (Jazz in Britain; 2022, recorded 1971)

Steve Roden - 10/21/2014 (self-released; 2018)

Taylor Deupree + Richard Chartier – SPEC. (12k; 1999)

Steve Roden - sometime in the late 80s (self-released; 2018)

Bernhard Günter - Jeph Jerman - Buddha with the Sun Face/Buddha with the Moon Face (trente oiseaux; 2013)

Steve Roden - architeturra (self-released; 2018)

mnortham - :coyot: (Erewhon; 2000)

Steve Roden - Nightfall (humanhood recordings; 2019)

Bernhard Günter - Then, Silence (trente oiseaux; 2000)

Steve Roden - forms of paper (LINE; 2001/2011)

Natalia Lafourcade - De Todas las Flores (Sony Mexico; 2022)

Bob Dylan - Motorpoint Arena, Nottingham, England, Oct. 28, 2022 (ROIO; 2022)

Bob Dylan - United Palace, New York, NY, Nov. 21, 2008 (ROIO; 2008)

Playlist (Inspiration move me brightly).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Peter Coccoma - A Place to Begin (Whatever's Clever; 2022)

Clarice Jensen - Esthesis (130701/Fatcat; 2022)

Rhodri Davies - DWA DNI (Amgen; 2022)

.soundfullness - /listening_sessions/summer.soundfullness (self-released; 2022)

Julius Eastman - Joy Boy - Either/Or (YouTube; 2022)

Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann - A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement (Second Editions; due Nov. 25, 2022)

Ralph Vaughan Williams -Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 2 (Somm; 2022, recorded 1945-46)

Thanksgiving for Victory (A Song of Thanksgiving) - Elsie Suddaby, Valentine Dyall, George Thalben-Ball, Choir of the Children of the Thomas Coram School, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Adrian Boult; Serenade to Music - Isobel Baillie, Astra Desmond, Beveridge White, Harold Williams, BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus/Adrian Boult; Job: A Masque for Dancing - Boston Symphony Orchestra/Adrian Boult

Claude Debussy - Première Suite d’Orchestre; La Mer - Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth (Musicales Actes Sud/Harmonia Mundi; 2013, remastered reissue due Nov. 4, 2022)

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla - The British Project - City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon; 2021)

Sheku Kanneh-Mason - Elgar - London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Decca; 2020)

Mark Guiliana - the sound of listening (Edition; 2022)

The Muffins - Baker's Dozen (Cuneiform; due Nov. 15, 2022)

Trevor Dunn’s Trio-Convulsant avec Folie à Quatre - Sèance (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 28, 2022)

Bloodmist - Arc (5049; 2022)

Sunn O))) - Black One (Southern Lord; 2005)

Sophia Subbaya Vastek - In Our Softening (self-released; 2022)

Steve Roach - Ambient Church - Live in NYC 2022 Exclusive Edition (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022)

Michael Stearns - Chronos (Original Soundtrack Recording) (Sonic Atmospheres/Projekt; 1984/remastered reissue due Nov. 4, 2022)

Claude Debussy - La Mer; Preludes (orch. Colin Matthews)  - Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder (Hallé; 2007)

Jürg Frey - lieues d'ombres - Reinier van Houdt (Elsewhere; due Oct. 30, 2022)

Elsa Marie Pade - The Orchestral Album - Malmö Opera Orchestra/Joachim Gustafsson (Dacapo; due Nov. 18, 2022)

Etude - Christina Åstrand, Parametre; 7 Pièces en couleurs; Trumpet Concerto - Michael Frank Møller

Elsa Marie Pade - EMP1: En digter og en komponist (Dacapo; due Nov. 18, 2022)

Rued Langgaard - Symphony No. 1 (“Cliffside Pastorals”) - Berlin Philharmonic/Sakari Oramo (Dacapo; due Nov. 4, 2022)

Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz (Edición Especial) (Sony; 2015)

Grateful Dead - Radio City Music Hall, Oct. 23, 1980 (ROIO; 1980)

Bob Dylan - Verti Music Hall, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 6, 2022 (ROIO; 2022)

Weekend Arts Planner, Oct. 22, 2022.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla (Photograph: Ben Ealovega)

The latest episode of Weekend Arts Planner, my weekly chat with Weekend Edition host David Furst that airs every Saturday morning on WNYC, covers noteworthy doings presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Carnegie Hall.

Have a listen, or just read the text and follow the links, here.

Playlist (Off the beaten path I reign).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Mali Obomsawin - Sweet Tooth (Our of Your Head; due Oct. 28, 2022)

Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan - Inhale/Exhale (Other Minds; 2022)

Jim Pepper - Comin' and Goin' (Antilles; 1987)

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Winter Moons - Winter Moons Orchestra/Frank J. Toth (Azica; 2022)

Winter Moons; Spirit Chief Names the Animal People

Rick Rozie, Lee Rozie, Rashied Ali - Afro Algonquin (Moers Music; 1980)

Louis W. Ballard - A City of Silver & A City of Fire - Roberta Rust (Navona; 2022)

inti figgis-vizueta - To give you form and breath - LA Phil New Music Group (Ojai Music Festival/YouTube; 2021)

inti figgis-vizueta - Inbhir (many waters) - David Goldblatt (San Francisco Symphony/YouTube; 2021)

inti figgis-vizueta - Openwork, knotted object // Trellis in bloom // lightning ache - BGSU Graduate New Music Ensemble (YouTube; 2021)

inti figgis-vizueta - older blood - Sarah Hetrick, Kenken Gorder, Will Yager (YouTube; 2022)

inti figgis-vizueta - Imago - Attacca Quartet (YouTube; 2021)

inti figgis-vizueta - mayu (the great river) - JACK Quartet (YouTube; 2021)

Emanuele Arciuli - Selections from Walk in Beauty (Innova; 2017)

Connor Chee - Navajo Vocable No. 9; Raven Chacon - Nilchi' Shada'ji Nalaghali (Winds That Turn on the Side from Sun); Louis W. Ballard - The Four Moons Ballet: VI. The Osage Variation; Brent Michael Davids - Testament of Atom; Louis W. Ballard - 4 American Indian Piano Preludes

Raven Chacon - Voiceless Mass - Present Music (Vimeo; 2021)

R. Carlos Nakai - Canyon Trilogy (Deluxe Platinum Edition) (Canyon; 1989/2015)

Goose - Stubb's, Austin, TX, Oct. 8, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Sarah Ruth and Monte Espina - cuatro estaciones (Full Spectrum; 2022)

Sugar Vendil - May We Know Our Own Strength - Sugar Vendil, Hajnal Pivnick, Nouveau Classical Project (Gold Bolus; due Nov. 11, 2022)

Alex Weiser - Water Hollows Stone - Hocket (Bright Shiny Things; 2022)

Various artists - Mr. Stormy's Monday Selection, Vol. 1 (DGMLive; 2008)

>>> Ralph Vaughan Williams @150 (Oct. 12, 1872 – Aug. 26, 1958)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Sea Symphony - Christine Goerke, Brett Polegato, Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Robert Spano (Telarc; 2002)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony ; The Lark Ascending - Barry Griffiths, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/André Previn (Telarc; 1987)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - A Pastoral Symphony - London Philharmonic Orchestra/Roger Norrington (Decca; 1998)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4 in F minor; Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis - New York Philharmonic/Dmitri Mitropoulos (Columbia/Sony; 1958/2022)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D - London Philharmonic Orchestra/Ralph Vaughan Williams (Somm; 2007, recorded 1952)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 6 in E minor - London Philharmonic Orchestra/Adrian Boult (Decca; 1954)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Sinfonia Antartica - Ralph Richardson, London Symphony Orchestra/André Previn (RCA Red Seal; 1969)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 8 in D minor - Hallé Orchestra/John Barbirolli (Pye/Warner Classics; 1958/2021)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 9 in E minor - Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Andrew Davis (Chandos; 2017)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque for Dancing - Bounemouth Symphony Orchestra/Vernon Handley (EMI Eminence; 1984)

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Robin Holcomb - One Way or Another, Vol. 1 (Westerlies; 2022)

Ryan Carter - On a Better Filtering Mechanism - Present Music/David Bloom (Kairos; 2022)

Competing Demands; Neat Little Boxes in a Row; A Slight Shift; Concurrent Threads; Bit Rot; Mutable Arrays; On a Better Filtering Algorithm

Anthony Cheung - Music for Film, Sculpture, and Captions (Kairos; 2022)

A line can go anywhere - Ueli Wiget, Ensemble Modern/Franck Ollu; The Natural World - Ensemble Dal Niente/Michael Lewanski; null and void: music for the film "Stump the Guesser" - Ensemble Musikfabrik/Elena Schwarz

Samuel Cedillo - Estudios (Kairos; 2022)

Estudio de fenómeno I - UNTREF String Quartet; Estudio de fenómeno II - Lumina Ensemble; Estudio de contrapunto I; Estudio de contrapunto II; Estudio de fenómeno III - Ensamble Liminar

Various artists - Mr. Stormy's Monday Selection, Vol. 2 (DGMLive; 2009)

Various artists - Music from the Hearts of Space, PGM No. 1298: Shadowlands 2 (Hearts of Space; 2022)

color as time (Joshua Stamper) - soma schema (Adhyâropa; 2022)

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp with William Parker - The Art of Perelman-Shipp, Vol. 1: Titan (Leo; 2017)

claire rousay & E Fishpool - Distance therapy (Longform Editions; 2022)

Chuck Johnson & JWPATON - Tangled mirror yarn (Longform Editions; 2022)

Tatsuhisa Yamamoto - scoria (Longform Editions; 2022)

Ruven Nunez - Untitled No. 51 (Longform Editions; 2022)

Metallica - Global Citizen Festival, Central Park, New York, NY, Sept. 24, 2022 (Nugs.net; 2022)

Various artists - John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop (Strut; 2022, recorded 1965-81)

Various artists - Mr. Stormy's Monday Selection, Vol. 3 (DGMLive; 2010)

Weekend Arts Planner, Oct. 15, 2022.

Wendell Pierce and Sharon D. Clarke in 'Death of a Salesman' (Photograph: Joan Marcus)

The latest episode of Weekend Arts Planner, my weekly chat with Weekend Edition host David Furst that airs every Saturday morning on WNYC, covers noteworthy doings presented by the Hudson Theatre and The Greene Space. (Full disclosure: the latter is a venue owned and operated by my employer, New York Public Radio).

Have a listen, or just read the text and follow the links, here.

Playlist (Scorched minds and stark narration).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D; Scenes adapted from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress - BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins (Hyperion; 2020)

Jessie Cox - When You’re a Star (Unknown Tapes; 2021)

Goose - Pullman Yards, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 1, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Steve Roach - Ambient Church - Live in NYC 2022 Exclusive Edition (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022)

Howard Stelzer - Bond Inlets (Intransitive; 2008)

Goose - Pullman Yards, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Goose - The Pageant, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 4, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Various artists - The Trailhead 74 (9/25/22) (Mixcloud; 2022)

Bruno Duplant - Insondables Humeurs (Granny; due Nov. 3, 2022)

Bruno Duplant - Sombres Miroirs (Crónica; 2022)

Bruno Duplant - Élégie du temps présent (Granny; 2021)

King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend (Live in Washington, D.C. and Albany, 2021) (DGM; 2021)

Lorraine James - Build Something Beautiful for Me (Phantom Limb; 2022)

Anthony Davis - X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X - Davóne Tines, Whitney Morrison, Ronnita Miller, Victor Robertson, Joshua Conyers, Jonathan Harris, Odyssey Opera, Boston Modern Opera Project/Gil Rose (BMOP/sound; 2022)

Lucy Fitz Gibbon & Ryan MacEvoy McCullough - the labor of forgetting (False Azure; 2022)

Dante De Silva - Shibui; Four Years of Fog; Katherine Balch - estrangement

Yes - Fremont Theater, San Luis Obispo, CA, March 5, 1996 (ROIO; 1996)

Various artists - Music from the Hearts of Space, PGM No. 1327: Wandering (Hearts of Space; 2022)

Garcia Peoples - Live 2019.05.17 - Psychedelic Sangha presents - Back to Buddha Nature - A Spring Happening - @ Magick City, Brooklyn NY (self-released; 2022)

Chris Corsano/Andrew Scott Young/Ryley Walker - Belladonna Garnish (Husky Pants; 2022)

Eventless Plot - Memory Loss (Moving Furniture; due Nov. 11, 2022)

Meredith Monk & Bang on a Can All-Stars - Memory Game (Cantaloupe Music; 2020)

Björk - fossora (One Little Independent; 2022)

Lamb of God - Omens (Epic; 2022)

Amon Amarth - The Great Heathen Army (Metal Blade; 2022)

Sigh - Shiki (Peaceville; 2022)

Josh Mason - A Reliquary (self-released; 2022)

Angelo Harmsworth - Singe (Students of Decay; 2022)

Bill Frisell - Four (Blue Note; due Nov. 11, 2022)

Weekend Arts Planner, Oct. 8, 2022.

Etienne Charles (Photograph: Lawrence Sumulong for Lincoln Center)

The latest episode of Weekend Arts Planner, my weekly chat with Weekend Edition host David Furst that airs every Saturday morning on WNYC, covers noteworthy doings presented by the Museum of Modern Art, Lincoln Center, and the New York Philharmonic. Have a listen, or just read the text and follow the links, here.

As many of you might know, these posts until recently also appeared on Gothamist. They will again, soon, but in a revised and expanded format. Stay tuned…

Playlist (Trying not to miss you).

A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears…

Julian Lage - View with a Room (Blue Note; 2022)

caroline - "Peak Chroma" (Rough Trade; 2022)

caroline - caroline (Rough Trade; 2022)

claire rousay - "Peak Chroma" from a softer focus (American Dreams; 2021)

Berlin Philharmonic - The John Adams Edition (Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings; 2017)

Lollapalooza - Alan Gilbert; Scheherazade.2 - Leila Josefowicz, Alan Gilbert; The Wound-Dresser - Georg Nigl, Kirill Petrenko; The Gospel According to the Other Mary - Kelley O'Connor, Tamara Mumford, Peter Hoare, Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley, Rundfunkchor Berlin/Daniel Reuss, Simon Rattle

Alex Roth & Alice Purton - Inpouring (Original Dance Score) (Zylaworks; 2022)

Julian Brink - Utility Music (Sono Luminus; due Oct. 28, 2022)

King Crimson - Meltdown: Live in Mexico (DGM; 2018)

Richie Weeks - The Love Magician Archives - Disco - New York City 1978-79, Vol. 1 (Past Due; 2022)

John Luther Adams - Lines Made by Walking - JACK Quartet (Cold Blue; 2020)

Lines Made by Walking; Untouched

John Luther Adams - The Wind in High Places - JACK Quartet, Northwestern University Cello Ensemble (Cold Blue; 2015)

The Wind in High Places - JACK Quartet; Canticles of the Sky - Northwestern University Cello Ensemble; Dream of the Canyon Wren - JACK Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven - The Late String Quartets - Busch Quartet (HMV/Warner Classics; 1936/2008)

Van der Graaf Generator - Interference Patterns – The Recordings 2005-2016 (Eclectic; 2022)

Ralph Vaughan Williams -Vaughan Williams Live, Vol. 1 (Somm; 2022, recorded 1957-64)

The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite – Overture; Symphony No. 6 in E minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent; Symphony No. 9 in E minor - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Malcolm Sargent

Marillion - Holidays in Eden – Deluxe Edition (EMI/Parlophone; 1991/2022)

Goose - The National, Richmond, VA, Sept. 30, 2022 (self-released; 2022)

Ralph Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 in D; Symphony No. 6 in E minor - BBC Symphony Orchestra/Adrian Boult (ICA Classics; 2022, recorded 1972-75)

Tengger - Earthing (Ramble; due Nov. 11, 2022)

Steve Roach - Ambient Church - Live in NYC 2022 Exclusive Edition (Steve Roach Exclusive; 2022)