CDs listened to today:

• Frederic Chopin: Polonaises, disk 2
• Debbie Gibson: Out Of The Blue
• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 4

CDs listened to today:

• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie, Volume 7
• Luciano Berio: Différences
• Crowded House: Woodface
• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming

CDs listened to today:

• Zwan: Mary Star Of The Sea
• Feist: Let It Die
• Maurice Ohana: Tombeau de Claude Debussy
• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Trios, disk 3
• Louis Armstrong: Volume II, The Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
• Bill Evans: Bill Evans Trio With Orchestra
  

CDs listened to today:

• Dmitri Shostakovich: The String Quartets, disk 1
• The Jungle Brothers: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
• The Blow: Paper Television
• Various Artists: ProjectHuman, disk 1
• François-Bernard Mâche: Andromède
• Maurice Ohana: Tombeau de Claude Debussy
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
  

CDs listened to today:

• Poe: Haunted
• Spoon: Gimme Fiction
• Ronald Roseman: Double Quintet for Woodwinds and Brass
• Skinny Puppy: Too Dark Park
• Mauricio Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
• Maurice Ohana: Tombeau de Claude Debussy
  

CDs listened to today:

• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Arthur Lourié: Concerto da Camera
• Fats Navarro: The Fats Navarro Story, disk 2
• Pascal Dusapin: a quia
• The Musgrave: Chamber Concerto No. 2
• Maurice Ohana: Tombeau de Claude Debussy

I had another long, brutal drive home today in wintry conditions to a hometown still buried by the blizzard and another storm is predicted! Not an ideal Christmas, but I got to spend part of it with A--and that's enough.

CDs listened to today:

• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Trios, disk 2
  
• Louis Armstrong: Volume I: The Hot Fives
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• Luciano Berio: Continuo
• Marshall Crenshaw: Life's Too Short
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7
• Frederic Chopin: Polonaises, 1
• Garbage: Bleed Like Me
• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
• Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 3
• Korn: Issues
  

I made it to see A yesterday! The drive was brutal and I actually spun the car on a crowded freeway (misjudged some black ice and my brakes). A's out of the hospital, of course, but I spent the better part of the last week in mortal fear. I wouldn't have even attempted such an arduous, dangerous drive (a longer route with more mountains, but my first-choice route is closed) if it weren't for how eager I was to see her.

And it's good to see her and feel like she's OK.

CDs listened to today:

• Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years, disk 3
• Mauricio Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
• Dmitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2
• Travis: The Man Who
• The Blow: Paper Television
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung
• Various Artists: Only for the Headstrong
• Maurice Ohana: Tombeau de Claude Debussy
  
• François-Bernard Mâche: Andromède
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever To Tell
• Feist: Let It Die
  

I spent today stuck in Denver due to the blizzard. The streets were impassable and I spent my outdoors time shoveling the snow and wandering around a bit, seeing the amazing transformation of our city. I was supposed to drive to see A! Very frustrating!

CDs listened to today:

• Spoon: Gimme Fiction
• Ned Rorem: An Oboe Book
  

We had a major blizzard! I was planning to drive to see A, but I'm trapped here with two feet of snow and no TV (satellite dish is obscured by the snow--no signal).

CDs listened to today:

• Pascal Dusapin: a quia, disk 2
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41
• Pixies: Surfer Rosa
  

Last night, A was admitted to the hospital after nearly dying. I was trying to coordinate assistance for her from 700 miles away as she stubbornly resisted help. I don't recall ever being so afraid for another person's life, while also trying to manage getting help to watch her kids and get transport to the hospital from a nasty cab-driver while A wouldn't call an ambulance. As the sun rose, I had precious little sleep and nothing but worries.

CDs listened to today:

• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
• Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 1
• KMFDM: Naïve
• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Nikolai Lopatnikoff: Concerto for Wind Orchestra
• Fats Navarro: The Fats Navarro Story, disk 1
• Pascal Dusapin: a quia, disk 1
  

CDs listened to today:

• XTC: Oranges and Lemons
• Feist: Let It Die
• Ludwig van Beethoven: The Piano Trios, disk 1
• the apples in stereo: Fun Trick Noisemaker
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• Marshall Crenshaw: Field Day
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7
• Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes, disk 2
• Garbage: Beautiful
  

CDs listened to today:

• François-Bernard Mâche: Andromède
  

CDs listened to today:

• Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years, disk 2
• Mauricio Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues for Piano, disk 3
• Trash Can Sinatras: Cake
• The Blow: Paper Television
• Feist: Let It Die
• Various Artists: One A.D.
  

CDs listened to today:

• Fats Navarro: The Fabulous Fats Navarro, Volume 1
• Pascal Dusapin: a quia
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 38
• Pixies: Bossanova
• Spoon: Gimme Fiction
• Ned Rorem: Diversions
• Feist: Let It Die
  

CDs listened to today:

• Frederic Chopin: Nocturnes, disk 1
• Garbage: Version 2.0
• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
• Georg Friedrich Handel: Sound An Alarm
• KLF: The White Room
• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Gyorgy Ligeti: Drei Phantasien nach Friedrich Holderlin
  

CDs listened to today:

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Octet
• Fiona Apple: When The Pawn…
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• Alban Berg: Wozzeck
• Elvis Costello: When I Was Cruel
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7
  

CDs listened to today:

• Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues for Piano, disk 2
• Train: Drops Of Jupiter
• The Blow: Paper Television
• Various Artists: Northern Exposure: Sasha & John Digweed, disk 2
• François-Bernard Mâche: Andromède
• X: Los Angeles/Wild Gift
• Various Artists: Oriental Dancefloor
  

CDs listened to today:

• Mauricio Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
  

CDs listened to today:

• Frank Sinatra: The Capitol Years, disk 1
  

CDs listened to today:

• Charlie Musselwhite: One Night In America
• Pascal Dusapin: a quia
• Wolfgan Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 36
• Pink: Missundaztood
• Spoon: Gimme Fiction
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade

CDs listened to today:

• Frederic Chopin: Études
• Garbage: (eponymous)
• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
• Sofia Gubaidulina: Seven Words for Cello, Bayan and Strings
• Kinky: (eponymous)
• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Gyorgy Ligeti: String Quartets and Duets
  

CDs listened to today:

• François-Bernard Mâche: Andromède
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
• Aphex Twin: Richard D. James Album
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• Alban Berg: Neun kurze Stücke für Quartett, Sextett oder Violine und Klavier
• Elvis Costello: All This Useless Beauty
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7
  

CDs listened to today:

• Frank Sinatra: The Best Of The Columbia Years, 1943-1952, disk 4
• Spoon: Gimme Fiction
• Dmitri Shostakovich: Preludes & Fugues for Piano, disk 1
• Touch And Go: I Find You Very Attractive
• Mauricio Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
• Various Artists: Northern Exposure: Sasha & John Digweed, disk 1
• The Blow: Paper Television
• World Party: Goodbye Jumbo

CDs listened to today:

• Gyorgy Ligeti: Nonsense Madrigals
• Gerry Mulligan: Compact Jazz
• Hold Steady: Separation Sunday
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
• Edith Piaf: The Very Best Of Edith Piaf
• Pascal Dusapin: a quia
• Terry Riley: In C

CDs listened to today:

• Zbigniew Bujarski: Quartet for a House-Warming
  

CDs listened to today:

• Sofia Gubaidulina: Offertorium
• The Kills: No Wow

CDs listened to today:

• Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics Ensemble: Signs of Life
• Various Artists: Oriental Dancefloor
• Alban Berg: Lyric Suite for String Quartet
• Elvis Costello: Brutal Youth
• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger: Concerto in D for Trombone
• William Childs: Concerto for Solo Percussionist
• The Futureheads: (eponymous)
• Billie Holiday: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 7