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when you remember an old tune

A long time ago two of us were spending a lot of time at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  They decided to throw us a small private concert.  One of the pieces was Gassenhauer by Carl Orff.  I had forgotten about it until yesterday when it popped out of long term memory.  A delightful little piece and suitable for dancing.

rhiannon giddens at tdc

It seems amazing she hasn't been on.   well .. that's been fixed.  One of the best new historically based composers who happens to have an amazing voice (she studied opera at Oberlin).  She also has a MacArthur

The first two songs are powerful mediations on the slave trade, the third that the banjo is African, and then a peaceful benediction.

 

 

wow!

Turkish rap encouraging the youth to get involved and do something.  Where is this here.

 Tips of the hat to Greg and Zeynep 

 

victory verticals

When Steinways went to war.

a tip of the hat to Sukie

 

statistics and ourselves

Greg notes Hannah Fry's very clear explanation of p-values that recently appeared in The New Yorker. 

snip

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Statistics, for all its limitations, has a profound role to play in the social realm. The Shipman inquiry concluded that, if such a monitoring system had been in place, it would have raised the alarm as early as 1984. Around a hundred and seventy-five lives could have been saved. A mathematical analysis of what it is to be human can take us only so far, and, in a world of uncertainty, statistics will never eradicate doubt. But one thing is for sure: it’s a very good place to start

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a music list

lots of genres and interactive with a spotify playlists (I don't use Spotify .. so)

It's sparse in the genres I know, but it might be fun.

a tip of the hat to Jason

 

music as resistance

Music as a form of resistance for women in the Civil Rights Era

a tip of the hat to Linda

 

 

rhinnon giddens on music, culture and Other

An interview with Rhiannon Giddens on WBUR's OnPoint.

just listen!

 

happy birthday and complexity

Nahre Sol, Happy Birthday, and exploring complexity

where marbles go

The Wintergatan Machine - featured before, but why not