April 08, 2005
Desert apartment picks
My limited carrying capacity during the recent move pared down the garbage apartment library in an interesting way. Here's what I deliberately kept with me:
The Princeton Bollingen edition of Dante's Divine Comedy (six volumes)
Empire and Information: Intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870, C.A. Bayly
Reasons and Persons, Derek Parfit
Mother Nature: Maternal instincts and how they shape the human species, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
The collected works of Lorine Niedecker
The Horse Has Six Legs: an anthology of Serbian poetry, edited by Charles Simic
And the CDs:
Chopin: Favorite piano works, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Moanin'
Alex Skolnick Trio, Transformation
Dizzy Gillespie y Machito, Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
Mary Lou Williams, Black Christ of the Andes
Fela Kuti, Coffin for Head of State / Unknown Soldier
I ain't complaining.
Posted by coyu at April 8, 2005 06:51 PM"Empire and Information: Intelligence gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870, C.A. Bayly"
Sigh. Every time I think I'm done...
Posted by: Bernard Guerrero at April 9, 2005 01:25 AMHmm, why Ashkenazy ? My general attitude towards him is that he was always professional, never put in a bad performance (that Russian School training) but far from the most interesting performer, in Chopin or in anything else.
Posted by: Robert at April 9, 2005 05:51 AMRobert, while I find Ashkenazy plays solid vanilla Chopin, truthfully it's because it was in a regular CD case, and everything larger than that was in a box already. Needed the Chopin though.
Posted by: Carlos at April 9, 2005 02:20 PM