“are you a singer?” (this is complicated) “who’s your favorite composer?” (i don’t have one) “is there music you don’t like?” (i mean…sure?) & not a question but “i played clarinet in middle school!” (cool. 😑)

it is the first sunday of Advent so i, as i do every year, welcomed in the season by listening to Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols by candlelight. may this Adventide fill us with a joy & hope for a future that is possible & a future that is free, alleluia 🕯️❤️

NORTH: Reykjavík, Iceland SOUTH: Aswan, Egypt

has Lane Kiffin just been sitting in a room thinking all day

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

i don’t really start doing “Christmas” for another couple of weeks but tomorrow is the first day of Advent so i went out & bought a bunch of yummy candles (all local) & changed my decorations in preparation for A Ceremony of Carols tomorrow

so as i mentioned, i made 16 key lime pies for yesterday & saved two for myself. i’m finally eating one now & MY GOD it’s so good 😍

honestly right now i can only think of one and it was (what would be) Rostropovich’s last concert 😫

i hope all of my Raleigh friends had a wonderful Ham Jam Day!

Thanksgiving Guests Freeze In Disbelief After Teenager Informs Them Of Native American Genocide https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-guests-freeze-in-disbelief-after-teenager-1848076742/

me talking to my mom: “i’m wearing my ribbon skirt today. you know, i’m eating with white folk & i need to remind them that thanksgiving is about a genocide”

well my fridge is now full of 16 small key lime pies, my bowl & beater (to make whipped cream), two very large containers of punch (alcoholic & non-alcoholic), & a homemade pomegranate grenadine — i think i’m ready for tomorrow

also cause i’ve always wanted to ask: does anyone remember the Captain Planet AIDS episode?

not Defunctland dropping his highly anticipated second part to his Disney animatronics video while i’m at Disney (& giving a talk on AI)

did i get in the lazy river with a full beat on? damn right i did, take me swimming 😉

Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions To all musicians, appear and inspire: Translated Daughter, come down and startle Composing mortals with immortal fire

I want to read a review of Bad Bunny's Global Appeal: P FKN R by Vanessa Díaz and Petra R. Rivera-Rideau—any musicologists up for doing this review for me (reviews editor) and the Journal of Musicological Research?

i am losing my mind (also the first photo goes unbelievably hard)

SCENES

BREAKING: UK did "too little, too late" in early response to Covid, leading to thousands more deaths, inquiry says www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

just for fun, ask your college students if they back up their documents, just to see the panic in their eyes 😂

i love you say it back

today was extremly rough but i’m thankful for my friends, for my students & the doofy pictures they put in their presentations, & for RHOSLC & bao for dinner

my two baroque harpsichord students worked on recitatives today & i gotta say that i was in extremely fine voice today & am honestly made for singing Handel 😉

i love how Death by Lightning drops phrases meant to scratch that long-dormant 11th grade APUSH part of one’s brain

Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur is god-tier casting

Tierney and McLean send Scotland to World Cup with thrilling win against Denmark

As ICE moves into the American South, I really wonder how they plan to make this work. Because that line between Black and Native and Latino is a full-on smudge. The advantage? As we were hidden in others, we can hide within us.

this Beauty World is not that far from my old apartment, a place i went to regularly for hair supplies, in my neighborhood that was primarily Black and Latino (probably one of the most heavily populated Latino neighborhoods in Durham) -- i could tear my guts out

FUCK. i mean i figured this was coming but i’m not prepared for ICE in my hometown

the AMS Accountability Archive has been updated with new information, namely a new memo from the Program Committee (with new information) that was sent out to Council today & that we have archived with their permission amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

my phone has not stopped going off for the last over two & a half hours & while it’s not bad, i am in sensory overload so the phone is going on silent for now

friends, please share widely, on & off social media. let’s get this in front of as many musicologists and AMS members’ eyes as we can. if you’ve ever been a member of the Society, in any capacity, please consider taking a look & signing (& you can sign anonymously!)

I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...

i am an academic (lol sigh) but i am incredibly aware of what i know & don't know; i am so glad & grateful that i've had the ability to learn from community organizers, labor organizers, & activists over the years & i will continue to learn

i had a whole dream last night about befriending & caretaking a wounded grackle & i feel like that must mean something

today is the 85th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz, the night when St. Michaels, Coventry was bombed and destroyed. i thought i would share my remarks on Coventry from the speech i gave at the Battle of Britain Dinner this past September ❤️

First, I want bring you conversations with other Hensel/historical women composers nerds. And guess what, I just posted one of those this morning. Here's my conversation with @doodlyroses.com about her brand new Hensel sonata recording: youtu.be/wqOckYYwUuU?...

On this day 85 years ago, nearly 500 Luftwaffe bombers devastated the city, destroying the medieval church of St Michael’s and taking hundreds of lives. Today is a powerful reminder of Coventry’s resilience and remembrance.

As of this morning, North Carolina SNAP recipients should see full benefits loaded on their EBT cards.

i was so busy with meetings today that i didn’t even see that SHE arrived today! 😱🕊️

everything is terrible but Gainesville is getting a Bonchon, so…

damn these epstein emails are crazy

to the person who used my bank card information somehow to spend hundreds of dollars at a walmart in Homosassa: you’re lucky i was already awake when my bank contacted me this morning or else i would’ve been angry

it’s not much but in florida i’ll take it

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Trump spent hours at his house with one of Epstein’s victims

Damn me, but all things are queer

god damn it, Minneapolis, you couldn’t do this like three days ago? 😫

i have so much work to do, work i'm behind on, work that will not take me long, but i'm struggling because so much of my mental & emotional bandwidth is caught up with all of this AMS stuff. i'm really frustrated -- not about having to do it but once again thinking about who does academic labor