From 2018, my favorite spring New Yorker cover by Tom Gauld. The brownstone residents are playing Beethoven Spring Sonata, Vivaldi's Primavera, and the opening bassoon solo of the Rite of Spring. The robins are singing robin songs, and the passerby listening to a folk song "One Morning in Spring." ❤️

Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

Rare aesthetic: Musicians Union Hall Why do they all smell like an underfunded public library

P.T. Barnum Museum Where you go to learn that P.T. Barnum was not a good guy, and how not to fall for a con artist. I also know one of the writers of 'The Greatest Showman' also did this field trip (but they clearly didn't pay attention)

Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.

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If the DoD bought $1.8 million worth of French Horns I would not be*that* mad

It will happen, and when it does, the days and hours leading up to it will be incredibly undignified and pathetic. It will happen in a puddle of piss.

Practiced Death of Tybalt today for an upcoming gig and decided to play along to a YT video. So mindlessly clicked the first one that came up and about halfway through saw someone who looked eerily familiar… I can’t believe I use to be a BABY

Great night at the NY Philbert-monic! Vaughn Williams vari.Thomas Talis (🥰) John Williams Piano Concerto w/Emanuel Ax (😎) Weinberg Symphony 5 (💯👏🏻)

Ain't no rule that says a dog can't cross country ski at the Olympics

Had a really fun weekend playing Reggaeton with Yandel, J Balvin and Arcángel to a sold out crowd at Radio City!

RTO

RIP James Van Der Beek You will always hold a special place in the decoupaged Dawsons Creek desk I made in 8th But seriously let’s all schedule colonoscopies fellow millennials

He's on the Hockey Team unrelated: I've finished watching Heated Rivalry

TIL my horn got a sequel 2 French 2 Horny

Where will the NSO go?

Searching the Epstein files and found a ton of emails regarding a violinist from Eastern Europe whose Juilliard tuition was being covered by Epstein. He also introduced her to Ithzak Perlman and other important contacts in the classical music world, saying he was gonna help her get her dream career

Guys, we could have had a Woody Allen movie where Mahler comes back to life to finish his 10th Symphony. This is what the woke hive mind took from us

Not to make light of the situation but the men in this video are hot af

Ain’t no rule that says a dog can’t conduct an orchestra

Trying my hardest to not take this personally

watching "Nobody Wants This" We are truly in a Hot Holy Men era

Imagine being a 19th century Russian homo and hearing this live youtu.be/2Sb8WCPjPDs?...

Your dropped your Leica king

WHO IS THIS

My HZ hot take is, not only do his horn parts suck, but he is de-valuing the craft of orchestration and the talent of studio session musicians. And his music is easily mimicked by AI What he added to Lion King and Prince of Egypt is nice though, but he’s def riding on the backs of better talents

Love to see the band kids showing up

“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”

More shots from the band car 📸 Holga 120 🎞️ Kodak 800

Now that my show has ended, it’s time to begin prepping for the 2026 audition season. Starting off strong by turning last year’s failed audition tapes into ambient music youtu.be/UBYK-U2oyKk?...

Something I truly don’t understand is when people find out you’re a musician they ask “how long have you played for?” Why do people want to know this? Do they not realize it’s a life long commitment? Do they want me to say “yeah picked it up during Covid now I’m pro”? Anyways I’m dating again

Happy January 6 - 7

106 Radio City Christmas Spectaculars in the books! This is never an easy gig but the vibe in the band car this year was so positive it made it a very fun one. What a way to bookend the year, I’m so lucky to be part of it all. Now for a much, much needed hibernation.

One thing I love about taking the NYC subway as a musician is if you spot someone else with an instrument case you can just go and start a conversation with them and it’s like not weird

There is a moment in the show where the Rockettes take a photo of each other so I decided to take a photo at the exact same spot, but in the pit. Presenting: No.7 m.162 📷 Holga 120 🎞️ 3200 Ilford Delta BW

Well duh

I only did one thing worth mentioning in 2025:

San Francisco Ball ET

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

🙏🏻 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

Good thing nobody gives a shit if the horn can play fast (they only care if it can play clean)

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

This is going to infuriate the worst kind of Trumpet players and I am 100% here for it

Band Teacher Gay In Retrospect https://theonion.com/band-teacher-gay-in-retrospect-1819566832/

I’m sure there was a time, long, long, ago, when Broadway musicians smoked in the pit. Crazy to think about

It’s christmas time in the city

Watching Cats (2019) at the Times Square AMC in a theater packed with rabid Musician Theater nerds. Shit got WILD

Wanted to take a photo of me in this sweater I got from a vintage shop in Edinburg a million years ago but only managed to get this awkward mirror selfie. Seriously, I studied photography, this shouldn’t be that hard. How do the influencer girlies manage to do it without looking like total dweebs?

Landmark British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73