Steve Berlin
@EthicsSteve
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Atty/ExecDir @ChicagoEthicsBd, Past President @COGELinfo /dad/mugwump/piano/baseball/cooking/hiking+flâneurie/film📷+pinot noiriste. Opinions mine unless noted.
Chicago, Illinois
Joined September 2011
This sentence struck me: there is a "catalog of worlds" maintained by the International Astronomical Union.
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Hearing Marc Andre-Hamelin play Schumann’s Fantasiestücke so exquisitely a few days ago, I’ve revived my long dormant interest in them. I played at #2, Aufschwung, once. Robert Schumann: favorite lawyer composer, for sure. And Martha Argerich is, well, just wow here, as ever.
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LvB’s Sixth Symphony in F, the Pastoral, is ever a gem. I’d never heard this fine piano four hands recording, with Martha Argerich. Brava.
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Reasons to love Chicago #165,568-69. Viva Chicago. City on the make—even on a gray, gelid January Sunday. Here building a new casino. {This isn’t intended to be a commentary on whether a casino is a net + or -. It just is.} Homo ludens. Homo talis iactor. 🎲 Home Chicagoensis.
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A Lisbon funicular/tram cable car adventure. This is the Elevador da Gloria, along the steep Calçada da Glória. Other moviemakers had the same idea. I took 4 district videos.
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The pleasure of seeing the cerebral @MarcAndreHam . The Ives is a difficult listen, very complex piece. I savored the Schumann and Scriabin. He graced us with two encores: Ravel’s sublime Jeux d’eau and a Rachmaninoff piece I didn’t recognize.
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Reason to love Chicago 1,941–sometimes it’s so noirish. The Grand Ave. bridge, and W. Chicago Ave. + Greenview.
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This is a difficult puzzle. I’m stuck with 5 words left, including 1 of 6 pangrams.
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So Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony was also in this concert. The finale/fugue of the Jupiter is one of the most sublime of human creations. I like this Sir Simon Rattle recording—especially the very end.
It is also uplifting to see such young talent during the time of the Winter Olympics.
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The perfect thing to hear at this moment: the scherzo from LvB’s 9th. I’ve never seen the joking-ness of it really. Just some of the most memorable, dramatic, percussive music any of us will ever hear. I have a hundred associations with it. Thank you @VoiceCandy
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So the universe isn’t universally hostile. I’m enjoying my 🥚🍳 and ☕️ while the experts concur they’re healthy.
news.harvard.edu
Caffeinated tea also found to slow cognitive decline in study.
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RIP—truly one of the most compelling actors I’ve seen (and seen and seen). My favorite role of his: Frank Hackett in Paddy Chayefsky’s/Sidney Lumet’s brilliant Network, opposite William Holden (another beloved actor).
washingtonpost.com
In “The Godfather” and “Apocalypse Now,” he became one of the most respected acting talents of his generation.
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It is also uplifting to see such young talent during the time of the Winter Olympics.
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It was cool to see the world’s finest musicians see a prodigy perform before them. I’d guess seeing the young Heifetz, Oistrakh, or Menuhin might’ve been similar. Being a prodigy must have its challenges though. Still, wow. I want to hear her rendition of Sibelius’s concerto.
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It was humbling and astonishing to see. The entire concert was a 💎. The intro piece by Joel Thompson had more percussion than I’ve ever seen. And I learned—even after hundreds of listenings—that Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony has no clarinets in its instrumentation.
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Reason to love Chicago #121: seeing a 14-year old violin prodigy with the CSO. Himari played Bruch’s 1st concerto in g. I was transfixed. She and the violinist on the far R then played a duet from Prokofiev’s Love for 3 Oranges Suite, for their mutual teacher, Ida Kavafian.🎻
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Good stuff! This was a cult film and LO when I was an undergrad in the late 70’s. Island Records. Great soundtrack!
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I’m still going to imagine it was Abe Lincoln who said “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”🫖☕️🎩 https://t.co/TKJU7njr4W
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