Thursday, January 27, 2022

Perfect Day for Making Soup - Split Pea with healthy veggies

Must I call a friend for help? Am making split pea soup, as I told Bernie Samuels, who said it was very healthy. Carrots, chopped celery, garlic, Luneberg Brown Rice. While eating, I sipped on Pacific Bone Broth and dipped the celery in - what else but peanut butter. My my my. Bought two new toilets today from Guy Cooper, Rich in particular. Rich Mignona. About 3 grand. 2228. AMAZON PRIME arrived with a heavy package. Games... Trivial Pursuit, plus some vitamins for Scott. We have already played SCRABBLE on his bed while he kept score. Scuse me while I check the border between Ukraine and Russia. Oh, they're just playing games. Was listening to Ellen's Bose Radio. What it should have is a button where you can see titles of previous songs. Dyou believe I forgot who sang, She loves you, yeah yeah yeah.

Monday, January 24, 2022

The Dark Ages had no portraits of Jesus 1878 - 1911

https://youtu.be/qUZdV7xL_Ds 

No one knew what Jesus looked like.

The Shroud of Turin was a fake, says our guy Janacek

whose name I can't remember. For starters, though, he was pretty. An Apollo like figure. With both male and female qualities and the suggestion of breasts. 

And if you are wondering WHY my Aqua bill was so high, it's because I had a silent leak in my upstairs toilet. 

Leslie of Illinois told me about it. 

Ah, said I, the Land of Lincoln. 


If you ask me, he had the grief of Christ, though I doubt if he was a believer.

Carl Sandburg wrote a multi volume bio about Lincoln.

Sandburg's Lincoln



New CD of Ethan Iverson will be out on February 11, 2022

 

Every Note is True comes out on February 11.

Two record release concerts

February 7 at Jordan Hall, Boston. Tix are free but must be ordered in advance. Link.

February 11 at Roulette in Brooklyn. Tix are $20 in advance, $25 at door. Link.

First set:

Ritornello, Sinfonias, and Cadenzas

“Ritornello” means “return,” a recurring fanfare in the baroque style. “Sinfonia” is a diminutive symphony, in this case three diverse sonata forms. For “Cadenzas,” soloists will rhapsodize against the ensemble. 

  1. Ritornello I

  2. Sinfonia I, “Police Woman”

  3. Ritornello II

  4. Sinfonia II, “Trumpet Canon”

  5. Ritornello III

  6. Sinfonia III, “Forgive Me”

  7. Cadenzas

  8. Ritornello and Coda

The instrumentation is modeled on Stravinsky’s Octet (with saxophones in for the bassoons) plus jazz rhythm section. The work was commissioned by the Umbria Jazz Festival and premiered in Perugia in July 2021.

Members of the NEC Jazz Orchestra conducted by Ken Schaphorst

WIll Fredendall, flute
Chris Ferrari, clarinet
Mike Cameron, alto saxophone
Shota Renwick, tenor saxophone
Mike Brem and Zoe Murphy, trumpets
Joey Dies, trombone
Weza Jamison-Neto, bass trombone
Ben Freidland, bass
Nadav Friedman, drums

Ethan Iverson, piano

Second Set:

Trio with Larry Grenadier and Nasheet Waits

Selections to be announced from the stage, celebrating the release of Every Note is True on Blue Note records. The drummer on Every Note is True, Jack DeJohnette. gracefully declined to tour…but DeJohnette suggested Nasheet Waits in his place, which was perfect as Iverson and Waits have a long history together.


Pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. The New York Times called TBP “Better than anyone at melding the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and indie rock.” During his 17-year tenure, TBP performed in venues as diverse as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo; collaborated with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and the Mark Morris Dance Group; and created a faithful arrangement of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention of Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction.

Since leaving TBP, Iverson has kept busy. 2017: Co-curated a major centennial celebration of Thelonious Monk at Duke University and premiered the evening-length Pepperland with the Mark Morris Dance Group. 2018: premiered an original piano concerto with the American Composers Orchestra and released a duo album of new compositions with Mark Turner on ECM. 2019: Common Practice with Tom Harrell (ECM), standards tracked live at the Village Vanguard. 2021: Big band work Bud Powell in the 21st Century featured on the March cover of DownBeat. 2022: The current release is Every Note is True on Blue Note records, an album of original music with Larry Grenadier and Jack DeJohnette.

Iverson also has been in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart quartet alongside Ben Street and Mark Turner for well over a decade and occasionally performs with elder statesmen like Albert “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter or collaborates with noted classical musicians like Miranda Cuckson and Mark Padmore. For almost 20 years, Iverson’s website Do the Math has been a repository of musician-to-musician interviews and analysis. Time Out New York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New York jazz icons: “Perhaps NYC’s most thoughtful and passionate student of jazz tradition—the most admirable sort of artist-scholar.” Iverson has also published articles about music in the New Yorker, NPR, The Nation, and JazzTimes.

Friday, January 21, 2022

TRAVELS WITH TRICIA

TRAVELS WITH TRICIA

Well, I declare. This is one of the BEST BLOGS I have ever come across.

View it here. 

She left Prague as Hitler was coming into power. 

No need to leave, her friends would tell her. But she and her husband knew better.


They have traveled all over the world bringing their spirited conversations along with them.

She is a pianist, a tennis player, and calls herself a minimalist in her home interiors. She has a lovely wooden metronome, which reminded me of mine, when I took piano lessons from Mrs Anne Kultti, a Christian Scientist. 

Monday, January 17, 2022

Poetry - Walking Part Two Walking Part Three

 

WALKING PART TWO


Rows and rows of Christmas lights just up the street so close

closing my eyes I stride through the window

the Pella window with the bars held in place

A whiskey for you

A beer for me

Hamms please

made from real Colorado waterfalls

ain't many left

the bison roll over when they die

of thirst

lonesome as violet eyed Liz

when her man hiccuped hisself to death.

....

WALKING PART THREE

Is this for real or is it a dream

Behind the tapestry from Peru

Ed Quispe waited too long

I stood there by the picture window

staring at films of an earlier era

Garbo in Nonotchka

sauerkraut between her teeth

dancing the hora. 

....


NEW POEM - things to remember - Lesley Stahl on 60 mins - folks over 90 - Mom was 97 when she passed

 

WALKING

In the blinding darkness last night

I arose from my bed

walked down the carpeted hallway

arms swinging

with purpose and determination

never have I felt so tall

and knew I would last

until the saints called my name

......

Things to remember

BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY realtor which I would see when I would walk around block

HONEYSUCKLE is the vine that chokes plants to death

OK to drink a moderate amount of caffeine AND of wine




Sunday, January 16, 2022

Spencer Iverson delights in the visit of brother Ethan in Duluth, Minnesota

 Spencer Iverson, Ethan's brother, looking cool in his colorful tye-dyed shirt in Duluth MN.

Time was when our vaunted Now & Then Shop sold clothing like this in New Hope PA. 

Here on Cowbell Road, snow has been steadily falling since 6 pm. 

Every half hour or so an enormous SNOWPLOUGH - and I do mean enormous - swings by, lights ablaze - like an alien ship come down on our planet.

What an honor. 


Watched a Netflix documentary about GLORIA ALLRED, a human rights advocate who I have never heard of!

Where have I been, I cried out to sister Lynn !!!


And now if you will excuse me....



Thursday, January 13, 2022

First moving day for Sister Ellen into my house

 Thank you Lynn for this photo of your lovely kitchen. 


This is from a party scene in the NY Times.

The couple is married but not monogamous. Polyamory is the name. But they seek to broaden their relationship and make new friends. 


Not a bad drawing of you-know-who. She is back and will give the proceeds to a charity of her choice. Be your Best.

Hans Robaud was a great conductor with gifts that are just being discovered. WHY does the Times have such great articles today, it was a long day, Jan 13, Margie Deming's birthday, my former mom/law. 

But this “dream figure” who would “always give the future the benefit of the doubt,” as Boulez wrote, chafed at his formidable reputation.

“I am not a modern music specialist,” Rosbaud told a German newspaper in 1956. “In Aix-en-Provence I am characterized as a Mozart expert; in Munich, I am regarded as a specialist of Bruckner. It is dangerous to classify musicians in this manner.”

Particularly so, for Rosbaud’s own fate. His public stature has never approached the private respect in which musicians held him, in part because of his advocacy for music that has never really caught on. Quiet and scholarly, this “grim, Lincolnesque” man, as a writer once described him, seemed to be the antithesis of a celebrity maestro. His major positions were not with big-name symphonies, but less-prominent radio ensembles. He made few commercial records, superb though those few were. He had no interest in fame.

Few conductors, then, have more to gain from an opening of the vaults. More than 700 of Rosbaud’s performances have been languishing in archives, most of them at SWR, the successor to Southwest German Radio in Baden-Baden, his artistic home after 1948.


Is this Salome on a platter?  No you've got your bible stories mixed up. She wanted John the Baptist's head on a platter.

Sounds rather like the wars in the mideast.

Let's go for a test drive in this ALFA ROMEO. Don't see too many in this parts.
ELLEN AND I HAVE AGREED TO GET ALONG !!!!



Ah, company !!! Donna, Ellen, Scott and me

Thanks Donna for bringing your scissors so I could FINALLY get my hair cut. 
Ellen may be my housemate. Gotta get an HVAC guy to warm up the basement. Guy Cooper?
Socializing - what fun !!!!!
This is a shirt I bought in Paris on our JAZZ CRUISE. 
Two hats. WE are symmetrical beings. Behind the arras in the background I have a signature of Simon. 


HOO  HOO  HOO

Went on back porch and snapped this photo. Could not believe I actually captured him. Then he flew away as if in a panic.

NOW I have pea soup in the crock pot along with brown rice. 

Must not forget about this delicious soup. It's been a long long time since I made it.

A family tradition. 
 

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

What a daredevil I YAM Added photo

 Got an email from my library, Upper Moreland, where I wrote down my password on a mirror I found a couple of yrs ago in the trash, that a book is ready for me.

It's by Anthony Doerr and is called CLOUD CUCKOO LAND. We had read his ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE in our Book Club. 

Had trouble starting the car, brrrr brrrr brrr, on the way there and also when I left. 

Just pressed my foot to the accelerator. 

Scott thought maybe there was water in the carburetor. 

I must eat large meals so I am not tempted to nosh. Did dat for lunch.

Now it is 4 19 pm.

Can't find those little punc marks on my battered keyboard.

Cuckoo Land is very different. Will I stick with it?

You bettah!

Somehow I had heard of a history book by Dan Jones and am on the Waiting List. So I asked Sue to help me find other Dan Jones history books. Sue had asked how I had heard of it and I said I can't remember.

THE TEMPLARS which Scott knew about THE RISE AND SPECTACULAR FALL OF GOD'S HOLY WARRIORS - Jones was also author of THE PLANTAGENTS, which I watched yrs ago on PBS. 

Also THE CRUSADERS. 

...

I am recovered from my ordeal of emptying my bowels from my colonoscopy and endoscopy. Drank three plastic bottles of diabetic Lemon Lime Gatorade.

Dr Harvey Guttmann, MD. 


When I woke up today I wanted some!

Of course there are some things wrong with my lower intestine which I will find out about.

Shall I simply lie here on Red Couch and read?

Or shall I watch Quincy or Barnaby Jones or Mannix or Frank Cannon, just learned his first name.

YOU ARE NOW ALLOWED TO SNACK.

I am drinking some herbal tea from Ada and Rich. I will heat it up now.

Mostly I read before bed.

Looks like sister Ellen will be moving in with me.

"You can have the whole basement I said." I have a comfortable mattress I bought at Sleepys about five yrs ago. The receipt is in my secretariat. They have a guarantee for 20 to 25 yrs I believe.

ALMOND BUTTER is my new favorite snack by Costco.

Dip a big spoon in there, let the almond butter drip off, and then.... eat !!!!


1266 Gantt Drive

Huntingdon Valley PA 19006

I moved in after I left my former husband Mike Deming in Austin TX.

He meant well, don't they all, but he had no idea how to love. 

Godspeed wherever you are.


Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Judi Adler Desk is going to one of the Deming children, probably Grace....

 

I just watched QUINCY, MEDICAL CORONOR

Ate my spaghetti dinner with it, very good, and also stuffed down some watermelon chunks.

How can all that food fit in my belly?

Plus hot PEPPERMINT BARK from Lynn.

Look, here it is right on the edge of my TV tray.

Scott and I took a trial run to where I will get my colonoscopy/endoscopy.

Did I tell you I walked around the block twice today? The last time was with sister Lynn. 


Warm clothes for walking, right, REE ROW?