Tommaso Lonquich, clarinet; Erin Keefe, Ida Kavafian, violin; Yura Lee, viola; Nicholas Canellakis, cello, perform the Menuetto: Capriccio presto ...
15 November 2020
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- Rob Firchau
- "A man should stir himself with poetry, stand firm in ritual, and complete himself in music." -Gary Snyder
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- Hits.
- Knew.
- Happy Birthday, Churchill
- Happy Birthday, Palladio
- Byrd, "Ne Irascaris Domine/Civitas Sancti Tui"
- Atmosphere.
- Happy Birthday, Strayhorn
- Technique.
- Dare.
- Gate-latch.
- Protection.
- Silence.
- Bassano, Fantasia Ottava
- Happy Birthday, Lewis
- Rachmaninoff, Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
- Pat Metheny Group, "Last Train Home"
- Done.
- Styx, "I'm O.K."
- Better.
- Singing.
- Honour.
- Happy Birthday, Lully
- Happy Birthday, Blake
- Delbert McClinton, "Victim of Life's Circumstances"
- Nether.
- Beethoven, String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
- Recalling.
- Excellent.
- Stepping-stone.
- Building.
- Excellent.
- Technique.
- Revolt.
- Action.
- Knighted.
- Zestful.
- Hal Ketchum, Rest In Peace.
- Dreamer.
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- Evacuated.
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- Pile.
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- Became.
- Until.
- Fatuousness.
- Excellent.
- At.
- Sense.
- Marais, Suites for the King’s Sleep
- Uncrating.
- Blindly.
- Autumn.
- Undissected.
- Sustaining.
- Ravel, Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
- Done.
- John Denver, "This Old Guitar"
- Holborne, Muy Linda
- Continuous.
- Excellent.
- Liquor.
- Listen.
- And.
- Excellent.
- Happy Birthday, Sorum
- UFO, "Lonely Heart"
- Done.
- Stare.
- Consecrated.
- Nakai.
- Jimmy Buffett, "I Have Found Me a Home"
- Happy Birthday, von Weber
- Holborne, "The Night Watch"
- Dignitaries.
- Treehouse.
- Excellent.
- Ages.
- Excellent.
- Happy Birthday, Bronzino
- Borrowing.
- Swinging.
- Excellent.
- Done.
- Appetizers.
- Reality.
- Sparkling.
- When.
- Neck.
- Exuberant.
- Loyalty.
- Actions.
- Endless.
- Reveal.
- Trabaci, Gagliarda Seconda detta La Scabrosetta
- Enduring.
- Undissected.
- Weber, Quintet in B-flat major for Clarinet and St...
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CARL R. FIRCHAU (1884-1973)

"The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions but by his habitual acts.” Blaise Pascal

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Cold Maker, Winter, 1909

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."

JIM HARRISON

"Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs."
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

SAMUEL ADAMS

"It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions."
TAO TE CHING, Lao Tzu

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."
RICK LEACH (1975-1978)



RICHARD ADAMS

"One cloud feels lonely."

WINSLOW HOMER

The Lone Boat, North Woods Club, Adirondacks, 1892

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULEY

And how can man die better / Than facing fearful odds / For the ashes of his fathers / And the temples of his gods

Waterhouse, Boreas, 1903

WHITE HORSES Far out at sea / There are horses to ride, / Little white horses / That race with the tide. / Their tossing manes / Are the white sea-foam, / And the lashing winds / Are driving them home- / To shadowy stables / Fast they must flee, / To the great green caverns / Down under the sea. Irene Pawsey
UMBERTO LIMONGIELLO

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” This Side of Paradise
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."
ROBERT PLANT

GARY SNYDER

"There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”

IMMANUEL KANT

"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! Sapere aude. 'Have the courage to use your own understanding,' is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
DAN CAMPBELL

"We’re gonna kick you in the teeth, and when you punch us back we’re gonna smile at you, and when you knock us down we’re going to get up, and on the way, we’re going to bite a kneecap off. We’re going to stand up, and it’s going to take two more shots to knock us down. And on the way up, we’re going to take your other kneecap, and we’re going to get up, and it’s gonna take three shots to get us down. And when we do, we’re gonna take another hunk out of you."
THOMAS HUXLEY

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."
JOHN DRYDEN

"Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.”

WILLIAM BLAKE

"Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."
HERMANN HESSE

"Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours."
GEORGE MACDONALD

"Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected."
REV. DR. CORNEL WEST

"You have to have a habitual vision of greatness … you have to believe in fact that you will refuse to settle for mediocrity. You won’t confuse your financial security with your personal integrity, you won’t confuse your success with your greatness or your prosperity with your magnanimity … believe in fact that living is connected to giving.”
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

"You see George, you've really had a wonderful life. Don't you see what a mistake it would be to just throw it away?"
WOODIE
"There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is, but I've got it."
MIGGY

"Exuberance is beauty." (William Blake)



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JOHN RUSKIN

"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Spitzweg, The Bookworm, 1850

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.” Fernando Pessoa
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
SYRINX

TINA WEYMOUTH

WALT WHITMAN

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes)."

H.L. MENCKEN

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. But this business, alas, is fatal to the placid moods and fine other-worldliness of the poet."
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
DUDLEY

"We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting."
HERMAN MELVILLE


"We're just dancing in the rain ..."
LEO TOLSTOY

"If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
HAROLD BLOOM

"It is hard to go on living without some hope of encountering the extraordinary."
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Unlikely General: "Mad" Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America
CURRENT MOON
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
"I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; Garlands from window to window; Golden chains from star to star ... And I dance."

RUMI

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
Shunryu Suzuki, "Beginner's Mind"

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."
JIM HARRISON
van Eyck, Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban

"The Poet is the Priest of The Invisible." Wallace Stevens
Atget, Notre-Dame de Paris, 1923

Technique.
"Technique is the proof of your seriousness." Wallace Stevens
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W.B. Yeats


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NICHOLAS HAWKSMOOR
THOMAS PAINE

"Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess."
BRAZEN

"...the imprisoned lightning"
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR.
"The best defense against a usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."

SIR PHILIP PULLMAN

"We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence."
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THOMAS MERTON

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