practicing julius eastman with the recording of the man himself i first heard this piece sometime my first year (i think) of grad school and was a) absolutely floored, particularly by the last 7 or so minutes, from which this video comes and the part that comes after. this piece, like the bach chaconne, the rodrigo invocacion y danza, mahler 2, etc. is one in which im not really sure what one could possibly say after hearing it. it's something that deserves a hearty serving of silence after and b) legitimately upset that at no point in the course of my musical upbringing was i ever exposed to this music that for my money is way, way cooler than what they teach you about minimalism in school. kinda randomly in the spring @moncketeer texted me asking if i had ever heard of julius eastman (how she knows so much i'll never really understand) and so i listened to the piece again. my obsessive ass thought "maybe i could play this on guitar" and so i asked @cwclassicalgtr something like "he...