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)