Except this one time at church when I was a teenaged organist, but that doesn't count because I was a teenager.

What a fascinating feast of the philosophical fruits Foucault once farmed.

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Hey music nerds—have you ever seen the opera, The Classical Style? Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven go looking for Charles Rosen. There’s a satirical treatment of a UC Berkeley PhD student in musicology.

That was (reportedly) Mozart. I would never intentionally try to embarrass singers.

I am frequently involved with the latter, as well, but who's counting?

As big Beethoven fans, we love to see this too

Aw shoot, I wasn't really traumatized by any fictional characters. This real-life guy is the one who traumatized me as a child.

I never write a repeat without reason.

Jesus fuck and I thought it was bad when when they used AI to "finish" my 10th symphony.

Me: our neighbourhood community centre doesn't have wheelchair ramps Dad: but the people there would help you get in! Okay dad. I'll just tolerate blatant systemic discrimination.

You love to see it.

It came out last year, but circled back to BICS to read “Domestic violence & vulnerability in the Roman world: setting the scene*” by Eleanor Cowan and @senex64.bsky.social. Definitely wanted to engage after reading about Augustine’s mother Monnica’s abusive marriage academic.oup.com/bics/article...

Leaving out the repeat in the Beethoven 5 finale saves you all of 2 minutes, just saying 🙄

I'm a subscriber and I heartily endorse this message. Fantastic independent journalism. The truth and analysis we don't get from MSM.

Henselpushers is officially endorsed by Beethoven

Hell yeah!

Every screen grab of these emails makes me realize learning to read was my first mistake.

My MOST woke opinion is that a widowed noblewoman should not have to suffer the loss of her title and children if she were to marry a commoner. Just kidding, my MOST woke opinion is actually that the art market should be a socialist space.

...Pretty much

Them: Music is basically math. Me: Did not get past learning how to add and subtract.

I mean, it's ok, I guess.

A Muse concert, you say?

Hang on...they named a Gymnasium after me, the guy who dropped out of school to pursue a music career?

I don't know why, but I find this little melancholy sliver of an etude by Marie Bigot (pianist who impressed Haydn, charmed Beethoven, taught the Mendelssohn siblings, etc.) absolutely entrancing More on her - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_B... youtu.be/sQhIclbGb6A

It's true.

Music is basically a detective novel where the musicians are the suspects/criminals, the listener is the detective and of course the music is the crime. The listener tries to determine what happened and what was the motivation, while the musicians try to obscure this, so they can get away with it.

A little known fact about me is that I am a klutz of the highest order. I can't pick up anything without dropping it first. No piece of furniture is safe from me.

You love to see it.

I literally tore a hole in the paper while scratching his name out. Decided to dedicate the symphony to "The memory of a great man".

Around this time in 1808, as I was preparing for my first personal benefit concert in 5 years, the kernel of an idea for a choral fantasy for piano and orchestra (and a choir, obviously) started bugging me.

To cleanse your feeds and keep your skylines free of doom and gloom, I present to you all one of the most uniquely Canadian and frankly one of the best Sleigh Ride POVs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGm... #happyholidays #musicsky

The characters of the book are the billion species of life on earth (not just animals!) and the scientists who, over 2 millennia, have thought how we might discover how the many species of life are related. The story lines are as many and as diverse as the billion branches of the tree of life.

And so then I said, "Equalize her? I hardly know her!"

You love to see it.

The third thing listed is what's most important.

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

Has even a single Democratic Senator called for Schumer to step down as minority leader?

I'm the kind of guy who responds to any sort of challenge with SFORZANDO!

I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

That feeling when you and your friend agree that Beethoven Eroica is not one of the S-tier Beethoven symphonies

I'd never do something like this at an airport. Someone's music parlor? Maybe.

Why is she asking the minority leader if he will do something only the majority can do?

They hang the little thieves and let the big ones escape!

It took some time but I finally got around to getting off of Spotify. Me, not my music. I don't have any control over that anymore. Which is incredibly frustrating.

I’m so pissed at how all these networks and everyone are not showing white people when talking about SNAP. We’re the largest demographic of SNAP recipients yet they’re primarily showing Black and Brown people and we all know why they’re doing it!

Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.

Mamdani is going to institute Sonata law. All musical publications shall follow strict rules and formulae regarding the arrangement of their notes.

Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...