Bagel Bar for April 23, 2022: Philip Glass marathon
🥯 This week in bagels 🥯
TL;DR: Bagel Bar is back this Sat, 11-2 at the QC Farmers’ Market. See you there if you’ve avoided the covid!
During today’s baking I did a Philip Glass marathon. I got to listen to this double-length album of piano etudes – the maximum dose of 20 – played exceptionally well by Vancouver-based Leslie Dala. Thank you for the music! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You can find this satisfying listen on Bandcamp via Redshift. My fave is Etude 16. There’s something perfect about those three rising chords…
I don’t usually choose music to stream based on its function (playlists for studying, sleeping, performing surgery, having a coffee with a new coworker, etc.) But the perpetual motion of this album happened to be a good match for the repetitive actions of kneading and shaping 100+ bagels. I sometimes crave more periods of rest, or silence, from Philip Glass’ music, but this was a really nice experience.
This week’s bagel menu:
- sesame seed
- poppy seed
- everything
- spruce tip salt
- Dog bagels too
(At David Archer, composer, etc., the etc. now includes bagels.) Usually I just post these journal-style updates to Facebook and Instagram, but why shouldn’t I build up some of that delicious bagel SEO? Anyway, have yourselves a good weekend. Make sure you find you and your bagels some nice music to listen to.