Thursday, February 11, 2010

February 11, 2010



Just programmed on Radio Roofscape ... Music for meditation, featuring: Anoushka Shankar with minimalists John Cage, Terry Riley, John Adams and Steve Reich.
John Cage - In a Landscape
Anoushka Shankar - Beloved
Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
Anoushka Shankar - Naked
John Adams - Shaker Loops
Anoushka Shankar - Slither
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint (Slow)
Anoushka Shankar - Raga Shuddha Sarang
This was a fun set to program. I love the John Adam's piece Shaker Loops. Tha video is of a German dance company rehearsing the piece.

The storm somehow blew off Boston leaving behind no more than a dusting of snow and warmer temperatures, but it's still blustery.

The newly released photos of the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11/01 are just astounding.

They were taken by Greg Semendinger, a New York City detective, flying in the only helicopter allowed in the NYC airspace near the towers that had a photographer on board.

They went up to search for survivirs on the rooftop and, of course, found none.
We didn’t find one single person. It was surreal,” he told The Associated Press on Wednesday. “There was no sound. No sound whatsoever but the noise of the radio and the helicopter. I just kept taking pictures.

Working on Dr. King in Boston. Writing about the South End and Boston of the 1950's. Used an Allan Rohan Crite painting, Tire Jumping, a street scene of kids playing in the South End, to illustrate the period.

Also have an article on Mr. Crite himself in the works, just begun.

His townhouse at 410 Columbus Avenue, opposite Charlie's, is under renovation. Stopped and checked the building permits in the window. It was pulled by Jackie Cox-Crite, his widow. I wonder if she's going to reopen the Institute?

Image ... Vase in the window of On the Park restaurant. The South End, Boston.

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