I’m helping

SANTA CRUZ/APTOS! I hope to see you at this concert tomorrow at Cabrillo College, Samper Recital Hall. I’ll be there with a Hensel merch and info table and to help out the lovely Brianna and Olivia for their big multimedia concert

SANTA CRUZ/APTOS! I hope to see you at this concert tomorrow at Cabrillo College, Samper Recital Hall. I’ll be there with a Hensel merch and info table and to help out the lovely Brianna and Olivia for their big multimedia concert

I’ve said this before but it is both surprising and not surprising to me that 80-90% of people who cold email henselpushers are men.

as I read thru the latest draft of @henselpushers.bsky.social ‘s das jahr, I’m including fanny into my list of offenders (girl asked for a 10th interval? look at my dainty woman hands?!?!)

I went to post something and thought, wait I must have expressed this sentiment before, and yes I did, so here it is

You know how every cat has a specific human food they are weirdly obsessed with and you only find out because one day your cat tears apart the kitchen because they smelled a muffin or something?

WHAT NOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

Feeling really hashtag blessed to have a community of weirdos that potentiate each other’s weirdness instead of trying to tamp it down or avoid it

Resist the urge to talk shit about the psychedelics executive order just because it came from this administration. Ibogaine and other drugs in the EO are some of the most promising treatments for intractable mental health conditions, and more research is a good thing.

Huzzah!

For everyone who wasn't able to make it to Berkeley for my lecture-concert a couple weeks ago, From Keyboard to Quartet is available on video! Learn about Fanny Hensel and hear some great music...

For everyone who wasn't able to make it to Berkeley for my lecture-concert a couple weeks ago, From Keyboard to Quartet is available on video! Learn about Fanny Hensel and hear some great music...

I have a new video talking with Brianna Conrey about Hensel’s Das Jahr, which she will perform next weekend in Aptos, California accompanied by video art by Olivia Ting

It’s no secret that it’s hard to make it as a conductor or director in opera. But why is the career so difficult? I’m running a survey to understand how conductors & directors navigate the field—and what could make it better. Comment “survey” & I’ll send you the link when available! #operasky

i was born to meowmeow on this plane of existence and not to use highly offensive words like "epistemological questions" in my daily life what have i done to myself?

OK I've finished my juice and slept for a week and emerged from my goblin cave and I have some reflections on the lecture-concert.

I told my friend I was working on more string quartet arrangements on Saturday and she gave me a violin and viola today 🥹

Decca Classics, 6 weeks later: (They still didn’t notice, I had to email them)

I might kill to be transported to the world depicted on ikea children’s comforters

COMPOSERS: How much did your education cover form? In theory class? In private lessons? In some other context (i.e. a group composition class)? Was it ever explicitly related to use of text/poetry?

Mantissa can predict the future when the future involves her getting water from a can of tuna. Truly eerie

today's a great day to celebrate Florence Price and to let you all know about Dr. Samantha Ege's excellent book, "Southside Impresarios", about Black women classical musicians, including Price, who were active in Chicago during the interwar period www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

*Pianist-scholar and Price expert Samantha Ege has created an accurate edition, and it’s available for preorder now for delivery in August global.oup.com/academic/pro...

If you were there on Saturday and have pictures, please send them to me!

If you were there on Saturday and have pictures, please send them to me!

The calm before the storm lol.

I only got this one picture of the event on Saturday because I was busy running around all day. Huge thank you to my two volunteers David and Lily 💕

Starting rehearsals on another project the day after Easter:

Hmm seems like somebody should do something about this ……….

For some reason Angela Mace’s free edition of the Easter Sonata is not online anymore. What a tragedy

Reposting last year’s Easter Sonata thread!!!!

It’s Easter so you must listen to

Too tired to photograph dishwasher cat here is an artists rendering

Current status.

Totally agree! I am SO GLAD I went to this concert earlier today! It was just the right mix of information & music. Everyone should learn about Fanny Hensel! Follow @henselpushers.bsky.social!

It is time

You guys, this was sooooooo fabulous. Monica Chew was amazing, the Town Quartet was amazing (great to meet you @lewispatzner.bsky.social!) and the lectures from @henselpushers.bsky.social tied everything together SO well. The fact that Hensel isn't mentioned in the same breath as Schubert is a crime

When it comes to early-morning, last-minute, stressful, sleep-deprived lecture prep, might I recommend:

My treat when tomorrow is done

In the last 4 days I’ve gone from being worried that the concert would be poorly attended to worrying we might have to turn people away at the door. I’m looking into how many more chairs I can reasonably fit in the hall

April fools is banned until the jokes get way better or the world stops sucking so hard.

🛼 🦝 🎻 💐

Remind me to post hundreds of words on JS Bach’s influence on Fanny Hensel next Bach bday because my brains are too cooked today

Oof, the pressures of putting on your own concerts!

“I hope it makes them mad” —Monica Chew 💕

Check out these kicks! Bonus points for raccoon socks.

A once in a lifetime opportunity!