I don’t really care about the personal convictions of a man in a… button-up bomber jacket and a zipper shirt? What?

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I wrote about Luna Composition Lab, Missy Mazzoli and Ellen Reid's amazing mentoring program for teenage female, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming composers: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/a...

I don’t feel enough people realize that the dark haired guy looking up all the way on the top left, the one whose eye is basically all you can see, is Norman Rockwell putting himself in this painting.

Nearly 60% of arts workers in Chicago report earning less than $40,000 per year, according to a new survey of more than 1,200 people across a variety of arts disciplines.

The Chicago Sinfonietta will pause artistic and educational activities at the end of its 2025-26 season this month amid financial challenges, the organization announced Thursday. A spokesperson confirmed that the group will lay off its seven administrative staffers.

The Chicago Sinfonietta will pause artistic and educational activities after the end of its current season in order “to stabilize and grow its finances,” the orchestra announced Thursday. https://to.wttw.com/4tlDmCI

Remember, remember... my coffee this morning... #MourningCoffee™

May the Force be wyth You, Alwayes

#MayTheFourthBeWithYou John Williams (b.1932) - #StarWars: The Fourths Awaken (arr. Phillip W. Serna) Phillip W. Serna, #ViolaDaGamba youtu.be/MrElMdZ5Fxg Filmed & recorded by Phillip W. Serna May 3-5, 2020 at Midwest415, Plainfield, IL. #Viol #PeriodInstrunents #JohnWilliams

#TONIGHT! Don't miss The Naperville Winds at Plainfield East High School at 7:30pm performing music by Archer, Persichetti, Gorb, Mackey, Alarcón & more! events.ticketleap.com/tickets/the-... #LiveMusic #Naperville #Plainfield #WindOrchestra #SupportTheArts

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope.

With the increasing variety of horrors in the news landscape, the fact that our institutions cannot & will not hold sexual predators to account in any meaningful & substantive way is a critical & fundamental failure of our civilization.

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A440?!?! In THIS ECONOMY?!?!?!?!

Seems legit...

$5.00 per gallon for Regular here.

The birth of the World 1941. Joan Miró

Happy @bandcamp.com Friday! midwest415.bandcamp.com #Bandcamp #BandcampFriday

#Remixed & #Remastered! ffm.to/eastfancya2n... #NowPlaying/ #NowStreaming from Midweſt415 on ALL #Music #StreamingServices: Phillip Serna performing I as well as thou, Fancy à2, No.2 by Michael #East (ca​.​1580​-​1648). Watch in 4K: youtu.be/47qjSMDc5w4?...

Organum

@theonion.com for the win...

👇 Who is the absolute worst composer or musician who could meet this challenge of the current political moment? #RhetoricalNonRhetoricalQuestion... * makes jazz-hands gesture *

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

#Monday #Mood...

Wait, why does Oxford get one? We want a comma.

A little Fauré Requiem for a sublime start the day in sunny Milwaukee...

Flight Attendant: Is there a doctor on this flight? Dad: *nudging me* should've been you. Me: Not asking for a #ViolaDaGamba player, are they? Me: There's a medical emergency happening right now. Dad: See if they need to hear Marais' Gall-Bladder Operation ('Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille')

Just ruminating upon how the #USSR suffered political & economic collapse under the weight of their military-industrial complex. #NoReasonAtAll...

Looks like I picked the wrong week to...

#CurrentMood - Queen's #TheShowMustGoOn youtu.be/7TIR7vu9ZTk In 1991, my world was upturned w/ the loss of my father. This anthem of #Hope emerged. Later, I became aware of its much greater significance - what it meant to the band, to communities affected by the AIDS epidemic... #Music & #Memory

New Philharmonic bassists Phillip Serna, John Tuck & principal Michael Meehan closing out the season with Michael Daugherty's Harp of Ages & Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition at the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage #DoubleBass #StringBass #Bass

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2026 or alternate 1985? You decide!

give me that old time viola da gamba

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A440?!?! In THIS ECONOMY?!?!?!?!

Our #DoubleBass section celebrating 50 years of the Naperville Chorus at North Central College's beautiful Wentz Concert Hall!

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Is it weird of me to be Oxford-comma agnostic?

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"Space Spot" by Max Fatchen c/o "A Very First Poetry Book" compiled by John Foster (Oxford University Press, 1984). #DoctorWho

Join the #IllinoisPhilharmonic #TONIGHT - April 18, 2026 @ 7:30PM! Enjoy #LegendaryMusicOfTheMovies from #FilmScores by #JohnWilliams! #MoreInfo from @ilphilharmonic.bsky.social @ ipomusic.org/2025-26-seas... #IPO #ClassicalMusic #Music #Film #FilmScores

That's Wile E. Coyote, SUPER-genius to you!