Carolina Chocolate Drops rock the Rialto, Tucson
On a visit to Tucson I tore myself away from the U of Arizona --- USC game to go hear the Carolina Chocolate Drops at the Rialto downtown. Incredibly high-energy show---you can get an idea of the...
View ArticleDomaine La Millière 2006 Châteauneuf-du-Pape Rouge Vielles Vignes
Not much on wine recently, so here's a quick one on a wine I had with my parents recently: the 2006 Domaine La Millière Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Old Vines, Red). Simply put, this is delicious wine with...
View ArticleEthan Iverson, Paul Motian, Larry Grenadier: It's Easy To Remember, live at...
Excellent piece from 2011 by Ethan Iverson on the late Paul Motian. Discusses a lot of music I need to check out, and unexpectedly includes a superb live version of Rodgers and Hart's It's Easy to...
View ArticleIverson/Motian/Grenadier It's Easy To Remember, II: a deeper appreciation
Since first posting on the topic, I've now played (in my halting way) the solo piano ad lib introduction to the live Ethan Iverson/ Paul Motian/ Larry Grenadier performance of It's Easy to Remember in...
View ArticleIsole e Olena 2005 Chianti Classico
A half-bottle of the 2005 Isole e Olena Chianti Classico, consumed a few days ago, was superb. Medium-bodied, with a fair bit of fine but fairly grippy tannins, this was elegant, and for a somewhat...
View ArticleViet Cuong, Moth
For at least a few more days you can stream Moth, by classical composer Viet Cuong, performed, at the Midwest Band Clinic, by the Brooklyn Wind Symphony conducted by Jeff Ball, on Performance Today....
View ArticleDes Américains à Paris
Via Ned Rorem, a really nice photo and audio montage promoting a program of a cappella choral music by some of Nadia Boulanger's American pupils: Ives, Copland, Bernstein, Barber, Stravinsky, Copland,...
View ArticleOxford Kitchen
I've eaten at least twice---once tonight, and once or twice last June or so... at The Oxford Kitchen on Banbury Road in the heart of Summertown in North Oxford. Extraordinarily good food. Nice...
View ArticleDuke Ellington Sacred Concerts---Oxford University Jazz Orchestra and Schola...
Just came from an extraordinary concert at the Sheldonian Theatre in which the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra and the Schola Cantorum of Oxford performed a version of Duke Ellington's Sacred...
View ArticleITFP, Perimeter: selective guide to talks. #1: Brukner on quantum theory with...
Excellent conference the week before last at Perimeter Institute: Information Theoretic Foundations for Physics. The talks are online; herewith a selection of some of my favorites, heavily biased...
View ArticleQuantum Information PhD studentships, University of Warwick
Animesh Datta informs me that there are three quantum information PhD studentships available at Warwick. One looks theoretical, on "sources and signatures of quantum enhanced information processing",...
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Martin Idel: the fixed-point sets of positive trace-preserving maps on...
Kasia Macieszczak is visiting the ITP at Leibniz Universität Hannover (where I arrived last month, and where I'll be based for the next 7 months or so), and gave a talk on metastable manifolds of...
View ArticleHannover wine roundup I: mostly French wines from Jacques'
Now that I'm living in Hannover, Germany for a while, I'm observing that the quality of life here is very high, especially so in the areas for which this blog is named. I've already posted a little on...
View ArticleAnthony Aguirre is looking for postdoc at Santa Cruz in Physics of the Observer
Anthony Aguirre points out that UC Santa Cruz is advertising for postdocs in the "Physics of the Observer" program; and although review of applications began in December with a Dec. 15 deadline "for...
View ArticleDeutsch, Popper, Gelman and Shalizi, with a side of Mayo, on Bayesian ideas,...
A few years back, when I reviewed David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity for Physics Today (see also my short note on the review at this blog), I ended up spending a fair amount of time revisiting...
View ArticleBach, Johannes-Passion, Bachchor und Orchester Hannover, Marktkirche
I attended a performance of J.S. Bach's Passion according to St. John (Johannespassion) by the Hannover Bach Choir and Orchestra last night at the Marktkirche in the central market square of...
View ArticleEd Dolan on the case for a universal basic income
Ed Dolan suggests that claims that social safety net programs on average don't disincentivize work much may depend on the current relatively limited coverage of such programs (especially compared to...
View ArticleLocal Scene: Leaves and Trees, Hannover
Great to be somewhere that has a local music scene. Hannover indie-folk band Leaves and Trees released their first EP on April 23rd. The release show/party at LUX was full by the time we arrived...
View ArticleOrion Weiss with the Salzburg Marionettes: Schumann, Debussy
Not sure why this has been sitting around as a draft, but I'm belatedly posting it now; good music is always relevant: Really glad I finally decided to go see and hear the Salzburg Marionette Theatre...
View ArticleSchumann: Papillons, Blumenstück, Novellette; Novaes, Arrau, Sokolov
Since my last post involved some Schumann piano pieces, I thought I should link to some performances of them: Papillons, Op. 2, Guiomar Novaes, piano: Blumenstück, Opus 19 in Db major, Claudio Arrau,...
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