Philip Glass Withdraws Premiere of New Symphony from Kennedy Center The legendary composer says "the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony." consequence.net/2026/01/phil...

#WeRemember Aus einem kleinen Zufallsfund in einer Augsburger Zeitung des 19. Jh. wurde durch weitere Recherche von @bckaemper.bsky.social & mir diese Webpräsenz für Emilie Goldberger, Clara Schumanns jüdische Studentin aus #Wien, die in Theresienstadt umkam... goldberger.susanne-wosnitzka.de

Violinist Franziska Ovitz was born #OTD 1889. As part of the Lilliput Troupe, Franziska played on a quarter-sized violin. She survived Auschwitz and Mengele's experimentation and lived in Haifa until 1980, aged 91. www.theguardian.com/...

Hungarian Jewish composer and pianist Géza Frid was born #OTD in 1904. During the WWII he was active in the resistance forging IDs and coupons and organised 50 clandestine concerts in the Netherlands. He escaped detention and survived the war. www.forbiddenmusicre...

Reminder for the weekend: If you plan to release new singles or albums, or hold an online event (listening parties, concerts, etc) NEXT WEEK, January 26th to Febuary 1st, tell me about it! I'm putting this list together every SUNDAY evening. Artists, bands and labels of all genres are welcome! 👍

German operetta composer Leon Jessel was born #OTD in 1871. He was beaten to death in 1942 for writing, "I can not work at a time when Jew-baiting threatens to destroy my people, where I do not know when the terrible fate will knock on my door." dirkdeklein.net/2017...

song of the day 📢 youtu.be/2VsJTVksIaw "A Pierre" for Bass Flute, Contrabass Clarinet and Electronics by Luigi Nono

#WomenComposers Mel Bonis - Femme de légendes ~ Cléopâtre Orchestre national de Metz, David Reiland www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3f...

#WomenComposers Mel Bonis - "PAPILLONS" | Diana Sahakyan – piano www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-0X...

#WomenComposers Mel Bonis was born #OTD in 1858. As a woman composer, she faced courageously many obstacles. Initially influenced by Romantic composers, her musical writing gradually opened up to modernity, under the influence of Fauré and Debussy. beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2025/01/08/m...

They just don’t make goth bands the way they used to 😪

As musicology is having a moment today on Bluesky, and the take up of AI is failing to meet its creators’ expectations, I would like to suggest that the CEO’s of all the major tech companies would do well to read Christopher Smart’s ‘Musicking’. Art is not just ‘content’:

David Tudor’s centenary today. 20th century music (and beyond) would certainly have charted a very different course without his gifts and vision…

If I have covered your music, or maybe you are considering asking me to, can I ask a little favor? I also appreciate folks checking out *my* music, and you don't even have to review it to make me happy! So if you haven't before, give it a listen today? etherdiver.bandcamp.com/album/the-me...

Okay, can we skip the part where fascists kill everybody to when they just kill each other or bite the cyanid?

⭐ www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6RF...

🎶 New MUSIC by Blue Sky artists! Jan. 19 - Jan. 25 🎶 SINGLES bsky.app/profile/flor... ALBUMS bsky.app/profile/flor... ONLINE EVENTS bsky.app/profile/flor... 👉 If something is missing from these lists, please feel free to drop the links under the appropriate threads! 👈

(192) Jonathan Powell plays Morton Feldman's 'Palais de Mari' - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR_p...

Pierre Boulez’s handwritten copy (short score) of movement 2 from Anton Webern’s Variations for piano, Op. 27. via clavierissimo

Klaus Schöning, gestorben am 6. Januar 2026 Per Zufall habe ich heute mitbekommen, dass Klasu Schöning am 6. Januar 2026 gestorben ist. Mehr als eine Personalie. Klaus Schöning war wirklich eines meiner radiophonen Vorbilder. Was er im Studio Akustische Kunst der Öffentlichkeit anbot, war…

Composer, pianist, music teacher and writer Friederike Schwarz (born #OTD in 1910) committed suicide together with her sister during the uprising in Prague on May 5, 1945. www.laurentius-musik...

Born #OTD 1927, Zuzana Růžičková began playing the piano age 9. During WWII, she was excluded from school. In Jan 1942, she and her family were interned in the Terezín, then deported to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She survived and went on to study music. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

Cui bono?

Good morning Butterflies! Contemplating life and such with coffee

Cui bono?

We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.

No new pictures, where are you mentally?

This is a fantastic article and a new artist to me. I like the idea that the debate on who ‘stole’ from who has moved on to a more nuanced and frankly adult one as art rarely exists in a vacuum www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Good morning BlueSkyPilots! We're starting the day here with Robyn and coffee ☕☕☕

For Morton Feldman's 100th birthday, revisiting one of his most beautiful pieces, Coptic Light (1986), inspired by Coptic textiles at the Louvre. This 1998 version with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony Orchestra will do just fine

Ok, where has this symphonic poem been all my life? Amazing music. Substantial and epic and powerful. Miloslav Kabeláč Mystery of Time. <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XAH...

The Ghost of Debussy’s “Des pas sur la neige” in Morton Feldman’s Final Work – The Listeners' Club thelistenersclub.com/2018/01/24/t...

Starting the sixtieth Starter Pack with all the bands, orchestras, independent labels, and musicians I can find on Blue Sky! Please have a look, follow some or all of them, and share this pack here and in other places! This is a work in progress and will be updated! go.bsky.app/Fpn2Qwm

Hey you! Yes, you! 🫵 You're into this whole "making music" thing? You're a solo artist or you're in a band? Then this is for you! It's not much and will not launch you into super-stardom, but here are three simple things you can do to get your music heard; all of it for free, no obligations! 🧵 1/4

The new Nazis should pay attention for what is coming:

Alfred Rosenberg (born #OTD in 1893) wrote Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts (The Myth of the 20th Century) in 1934, which argued for the supremacy of the 'Aryan' race and the threat posed by Jews. He was found guilty of crimes against humanity and executed. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

I love this photo. Chavela Vargas looks beautiful, and they both look so happy… Frida Kahlo & Chavela Vargas, photographed by Tina Modotti, 1950.

Good morning Bluefairies! It's Monday We're going in But not without coffee

At age14, Ilse Weber (born #OTD in 1903) wrote and published her first Jewish fairy tales and plays for children. On 6 Feb 1942, she was sent to Theresienstadt where she wrote further poetry including, I was wandering through Theresienstadt. holocaustmusic.ort.o...

World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam

@elizamarshall.bsky.social British flautist and composer Eliza Marshall joins me to celebrate her new album Eternal Birth. Eliza shares stories from her wide-ranging career as well as reflections on creativity and risk-taking: www.leahroseman.com/episodes/eli...

Reminder for the weekend: If you plan to release new singles or albums, or hold an online event (listening parties, concerts, etc) NEXT WEEK, January 12th to January 18th, tell me about it! I'm putting this list together every SUNDAY evening. Artists, bands and labels of all genres are welcome! 👍

Good morning Butterflies! Have a most rejuvenating weekend! Going in with coffee ☕️☕️☕️

If you had a Billion $ Even if you would spend 10000$ a day it would take you more than 27000 years to spend it all.

Only a dead billionaire is a good billionaire.

The news is all shit well here is some music I made last year working on more

"Another bout of inspiration from 3.12 to 4.07 pm. From 4.27 to 6.47 pm various occupations (fencing, reflection, immobility, visits, contemplation, dexterity, natation, etc.)" - from 'Memoirs of an Amnesiac', Erik Satie

Morning Bluesky! Waking up and contemplating coffee. ☕ ☕ ☕

After a sleepless night: Good morning Butterflies! Maybe coffee will help. ☕️☕️☕️