my weekend project involves improving my little rowhouse patio because my timing is great

and everyone said Damien Chazelle's Babylon was too unsubtle

Why are people getting so worked up about the Delco bear, he’s just trying to get to Wawa and he’s using the crosswalk

today I found a 1915 Italian-language operetta about the evils of feminism called La candidata by Ruggero Leoncavallo and the later-extremely-fascist Giovacchino Forzano, containing a Dance of the Seven Veils for no reason I can grasp and set in the distant future of.... 1990

private library complaint: the current jigsaw puzzle is too hard

oh no I'm in danger of going somewhere safer and with a better healthcare system than the country where I live

after years of anemia I have achieved “normal” iron levels!! please congratulate my hardworking red blood cells on this achievement

recommend this play, it is relentlessly nasty and very funny, the security guard knew exactly what he was doing

the security guard is telling everyone “welcome to Mamma Mia”

Someone mentioned Prezi at the pedagogy conference

Do you think I’ll still be able to hear Lise Davidsen at this distance lol

It’s time for the Teaching Music History Conference and my game is the first presentation. It involves a live performance of Schoenberg op 19 and also a large number of 12 sided dice. You may be called upon to impersonate an obscure Viennese music critic. See you there!

Apparently I’m supposed have a World Cup team so I decided Italy because Italian-American and then like 24 hours later I discovered that Italy didn’t qualify lmao Someone tell me who my team is

Look who has been freed from the cone of shame!

the SEPTA Pride shirt lmao shop.septa.org/products/lim...

When I was at Opera American I overheard two marketing people talking and one was like “we did all our next season’s graphics with AI” and the other was like “do you have a plan for a backlash” I got their season announcement and it looks like ass (plagiarized ass), I’m the backlash

when you go to Leipzig with the boys

excuse me, deciphering secret musical messages and conversing with ghosts are obviously jobs for a musicologist, not a conductor

FYI for Teaching Music History Conference attendees: we could see Phoebe Bridgers on Thursday and Lise Davidsen on Friday! stereogum.com/2500886/phoe...

I refuse to learn what a nano banana is and don’t tell me

you hear roleplaying game and you think "fun! but is that really academic?" and just so you know I am currently sitting on the floor of the Penn library trying to figure out exactly what Schreker thought of Pfitzner and also whether Marie Soldat-Roeger's quartet rep changed over time

My mom does this with books and it drives me crazy, I loaned her The God of the Woods and made her promise to read it in order and she didn’t and then told me she didn’t like it

I'm working on my presentation for the Teaching Music History Conference in New York next week. If you'll be there and want to do a leading role in my Schoenberg role-playing game, let me know! www.amsmusicology.org/events/2026-...

on a whim I decided to only watch foreign films this summer, here are some recommendations, all bangers IMO

Philadelphia is a city with no mercy and we're going to kill all the robot cars www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Brian Large, the pioneering British television director who helped shape the visual language of opera and classical music broadcasting, has died at 87. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/brian-large-...

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“I’m in Cape May, I can’t help” -woman rifling through dresses at the South Philly Goodwill

We had an interesting morning and now we are incredibly mad

excuse me?

The historical performance practice people of Philadelphia are celebrating the 250th with… the piece that brought us Rule Britannia lmao

The article is extreeeeemely clear that she just rented the place out and she’s still like

FYI my Met Tristan review is still happening but I wrote it for an academic journal and moreover one whose review section I edit myself, which simplified the commission but complicated the editing (lol). but it will be around at some point.

My family was Cornell for multiple generations which sounds fancy but all except one of the degrees were in Cows

Honestly I think music schools have an unfair advantage at this particular requirement (our grads’ names are read by a choral conductor who I think can pronounce every language that is spoken and probably some that aren’t)

Unfair how it went from too cold to be outside to too hot to be outside without a stop in between

new frontiers in opera merchandising: apparently the Bayerische Staatsoper has come out with a soap and it's called, of course, "Soap Opera"

I finished writing for the day so I went to the bookstore and scored the Böhm Bayreuth Ring on CD for $25 and also saw Dr Pickles

If you want to know how things are going at the private library, the guy sitting across from me just pulled out a pot of ink and carefully refilled his fountain pen

I joined a private library for writing space and feel slightly guilty about being like a Victorian gentleman going to the club and not using the plebeian Free Library but it turns out that private clubs rule

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“The theater doesn’t have any fly space because there’s a Masonic temple above the auditorium” is some A+ quality American regional opera stuff

“we, uh, tell ourselves stories to live” -around 50% of directors hired to stage Wagner operas

Andrea Chénier at Opera America

So tempted to do a heist on the Boosey booth at Opera America

Shaggy will 100% sing more performances at the Met than every classical singer who introduces themselves as “Metropolitan Opera [soprano, tenor, etc]” in every bio they ever write

I have fled the opera administrators in favor of checking on my alma mater

Depending on a donor class is so great (article about the fate of the UArts endowment)

No one ever notices my Tower of Babel pencil case but here’s your opportunity

I need the millennial song prompt to go away because it gave me an earworm and it won't--- AND I DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME CUZ I DON'T THINK THAT THEY'D UNDERSTAND