The Girl
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Reading to and with The Girl at bedtime is a constant joy: a time for discovery and sharing and, increasingly, an opportunity to gauge how her ability to read on her own is growing by leaps and bounds. One thing we especially enjoy is books about real-life women who made a substantial impact in science
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One of the new initiatives the New York Philharmonic rolled out last season, to coincide with the arrival of music director Jaap van Zweden (and Deborah Borda, the institution's president, as well) was "Phil the Hall," an unambiguously populist gesture in which first responders, volunteers, and other public-service professionals were invited to come to Lincoln
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Tiger Trio Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY January 4, 2020General admission Personnel: Joëlle Léandre, bass, vocalsMyra Melford, pianoNicole Mitchell, flute, alto flute, piccolo Back in the heyday of live jazz on New York City's 52nd Street, from the end of Prohibition in 1933 until the early '50s, the Three Deuces occupied a
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David Tudor: Forest SpeechPerformed by Lea Bertucci, John Driscoll, Ed Potokar, Margaret Anne Schedel, and Philip WhiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York, NYNovember 17, 2019 Sunday afternoon, after my daughter attended a performance of David Tudor's Forest Speech at the Museum of Modern Art with her mother and me, I asked her what she'd thought.
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. Let’s Eat GrandmaI, Gemini(Transgressive; 2016) [before I’ve said a word] “I really like this part of the music, Daddy. I really like the voices. What is this called?” [“You aren’t going to believe it, but this is a group of two young women who
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. Stevie WonderSongs in the Key of Life(Motown; 1976) [“Tonight I’m playing you one of mama’s very favorite albums, and it’s one of mine, too.”] “Who is it?” [“This is Stevie Wonder, and he’s one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time.”] “Well,
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. “You always pick the best music for bath time, Dad.” [“Well, that’s very nice of you to say. I try hard to pick things that you’ll find interesting. But if I played something that you didn’t like, it would be okay for you
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. Photograph: Peggy Harper Paul SimonOver the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective (1961-2011)(Sony Legacy; 2013) ["So, what kind of music do you feel like hearing tonight?"] "Well, Paul Simon," The Girl says. ["OK, whatever you say." "The Sound of
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. Photograph: Tony Levin King CrimsonRadical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind(DGM, 2016) [during percussion-only intro to "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 1"] "This is cool music, Papa!" [during choppy guitar transition] "I really like the music, Papa! I like the way
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. Kacey MusgravesPageant Material(Mercury Nashville; 2015) If visceral responses at times convey as much as verbal cues, and sometimes more, then tonight's soak, by turns rowdy and mellow, provides further confirmation that Kacey Musgraves is the real thing. Transcribed Observed Nov. 27, 2015.
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The Girl's continuing journey through music, with The Dad taking notes. YesRelayer(Atlantic; 1974) The Girl has basked to Berg, cavorted to Cecil Taylor, and washed to Willie Nelson. So tonight, we went deep. One-word verdict on Relayer by Yes: "Happy." Transcribed Nov. 25, 2015. ========== The above text was the first post in a series
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