Entry #121
- Listening to:
- Brahms, sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat, op. 120 no. 2.
This is beautiful music for the clarinet. Swafford reckoned
that (the sound of) the clarinet was Brahms's last great love.
Up until that point he was in the habit of swooning over
beautiful singers, but upon being exposed to the playing of one
Richard Mühlfield, Brahms waxed lyrical about this
instead. In the recording I'm listening to, the clarinettist,
Keith Puddy, is playing one of Mühlfield's surviving
clarinets.
David Chess is treading on my turf in his
web-log. He has
linked to
this
article about the way Quake was used to provide a virtual reality
environment for people to look around
our new building. But I forgive
him!
In important news about a game I haven't played in years, Kasparov has
lost a/the World Chess
Championship to Vladimir Kramnik. My indecision over pronoun in
the previous sentence is due to the uncertainties in the chess scene.
Kasparov is undeniably the strongest ever player in the history of the
game, but he refuses to have anything to do with the "official"
international chess body, FIDE.
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