Really not having a good day and being "jumped" on this seemingly kind place makes me just want to retreat back into hermit mode again.

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Music by Agnes Zimmermann, Paul Ladmirault and Gloria Coates has been featured on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com during the last few days, in case you'd like to listen.

Oh, fudge... #C19 #FeverBeItFarenheitOrCentigrade #CovidEarsAreRinging

I've stayed up for so long pre-setting posts on the blog the post for "tomorrow" is already up. So if you'd care to listen to music for cello and piano by August Nölck head over to AOAD. I'm going to call it a night. 🎵 anopusaday.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/a...

How about enhancing that #FridayFeeling by rocking out to a fragment of music by Sappho? Intrigued? AnOpusADay.wordpress.com

If you need two mins of something beautiful in your day today look no further than this nocturne by Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Exquisitely played by @aoyarzabal.bsky.social

An eclectic mix of recommendations for #BandcampFriday joquail.bandcamp.com/track/agnus-... justinajmusic.bandcamp.com/album/silhou... corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea... katemoore.bandcamp.com/album/the-op... pax-music.bandcamp.com/album/eponym... mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent...

Oh dear... that's a lot of thunder...

L'ange gardien by Mel Bonis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4T1...

SO gorgeous!

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Please have a listen if you haven't already, and hopefully some of you will join me in the full-throated obsession with Florence Price's Fantasie nègre No. 1 which, if I had my way, would be as overplayed as Chopin's First Ballade in music schools

Music by Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com today. 🎵

Music by Nina Senk, Lotta Wennäkoski and Avril Coleridge-Taylor has been featured on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com lately and there are at least a few more pieces to come over the next few days. Welcome!

Listened to @cellocorb.bsky.social's brilliant "Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello" on Bandcamp yesterday. Highly recommend it. Nice to meet another fellow champion of #FemaleComposers and #EqualityInMusic! corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea...

A recording from 2001 with the late, great Brian Asawa is broadcasted now. Gone too soon.

Again I have that sinking feeling that leads to the givvyuppy state. Nothing I've tried, clearing out, reading, writing, resting and letting be, has stopped the sinking so far. I know there are a few leaks I can't really plug but I think I need to find sth that lifts or at least keeps me afloat.

@manuscriptacademy.bsky.social Would you mind if I DMed you a question?

There's actually another update on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com. Today it's music by Slovenian composer Nina Šenk and more (works by female composers) to come during the next few days. #FemaleComposers #EqualityInMusic

Maarten Inghels, I Used To Be A Mountain

This morning I was reminded of how wonderful it can be to read something that really is a joy to read while you are reading it, to the point of not wanting it to end and not wanting it to last forever but just reading it thoroughly in the here and now. #booksky

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

If someone has the link to a comprehensive guide to using commas in BE/AE (VERY different from the Swedish use), I would be most grateful.

“the kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker is a mensch.

Today I watched another cinematic masterpiece that I've been meaning to watch pretty much since it came out: Sally Potter's "Orlando" based on the novel by Virginia Woolf. Timely and timeless at the same time.

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Thanks to @juhaiivarinen.bsky.social there is a new post on AnOpusADay today: Sunrise by the Finnish composer Ida Moberg. Welcome! anopusaday.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/i...

Creativity can be a funny thing. Sometimes you try to steer it in a direction without it cooperating at all. It seems to be somewhat like sailing. You can set a bearing and raise your sails but you'll have to cooperate with and ajust to the wind and the weather.

One of my favourite speeches. Ever. #booksky www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuS...

Recently I have been listening to this: Valborg Aulin, Ida Moberg and Elfrida Andrée - three Nordic women composers I have never heard of before. Specially I like Moberg’s Sunrise which I will be hearing in concert later in the fall…

I today I finished another magnificent movie I've watched in small sections: At Eternity's Gate. I can hardly find words to describe the movie but when I think of it I see a bright yellow light and the wonderfully open, expressive face and intense blue eyes of Willem Dafoe.

I thoroughly recommend the great movie Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa. I had to watch it a small section at the time to not be overwhelmed by it but it's quite remarkable.

When you think you had your phone in the pocket of your robe but it's actually been a kiwi fruit you didn't have the energy to eat at breakfast you know your sinus infection is messing with your perception.

Reposting to 🙏@mainewitch.bsky.social for her work on the British composer Kalitha Dorothy Fox (1894-1934). @mainewitch.bsky.social also has a great thesis on the “Forgotten Tales of Women Composers” who studied at the RCM in the interwar years. So important to excavate these unknown women.

For those who have a special interest in #children'slitterature I can recommend reading the lesser known collections of short stories that Astrid Lindgren wrote: Kajsa Kavat/Brenda Brave, Nils Karlsson Pyssling/Simon Small and, above all, the heartbreakingly beautiful Sunnanäng.

Done. And now I'm done.

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@letterappsoc.bsky.social Have you been to this museum, D? www.antibesjuanlespins.com/antibes-prat...