AWN Responds to the Tylenol & Autism Announcement

My mother took Tylenol during pregnancy, and now you can access free PDFs of Fanny Hensel’s complete solo piano and chamber works:

Me when I infodump

Just got my covid and flu shots and the pharmacist was like “omg what is your workout routine your arms look incredible” and I will be riding this compliment all week.

Happy dishwasher Sunday from Mantissa! The dishwasher seems to have fixed itself, so she is very happy.

This qualifying is incredible

Baku might be my favorite circuit

Our brand-new edition brings Cécile Chaminade’s piano works back to life, many for the first time since their original publication. Hear them performed by @evameitner.bsky.social , who curated the selection & wrote the foreword. 🎶 📍 Piano Centrum Leipzig 📅 Sept 19, 2025 – 7:30 PM

Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19! It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺 youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY

what a morning for news.

I added this piece to a playlist in our car's media library that has all the "classical" standards, and now my husband--who knows nothing about classical music--goes around humming this melody thinking it's a famous piece.

Louise Farrenc died 150 years ago today. One of my top 5 favorite composers ever.

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

Concerning news this dishwasher Sunday: the dishwasher has been on the fritz all week. To her dismay, Mantissa is not allowed inside as we attempt to diagnose and fix.

Comments are open on the site because I do sometimes make mistakes in my editions! But if you’re gonna correct something, it either needs to be really obvious or you have to explain why your interpretation is the right one. And if you’re a dick about it, you’re gonna be waiting a while.

My brother Sean McCann’s first work in 6 years and first opera is available for preorder from his label (Recital) via Bandcamp: recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/the-le...

THANK YOU everyone who made it to the concert yesterday!! Thank you especially to @lewispatzner.bsky.social for the invitation to collaborate. This was literally my dream concert and people really seemed to enjoy it!

A special birthday edition of dishwasher appreciation Sunday: Mantissa and her very own dishwasher, which I made for her first birthday.

GP and Max gossiping about mclarens bullshit is actually great

Fantastic article by Samatha Ege and @leahbroad.bsky.social in this month’s @prospectmagazine.co.uk on the life, career and legacy of Avril Coleridge-Taylor (usually ££ but free for a limited period). @arusbridger.bsky.social

Bay Area friends, there's a concert in Oakland tomorrow with multiple Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel world premieres and talks by @henselpushers.bsky.social herself! Someone go on my behalf please and thank you

Who is Fanny Hensel? A very interesting figure in classical music! “She found a way to put music and art into her life, even though she wasn’t supposed to, and we have maybe 450 surviving works by her, and she only lived to be 41 years old, so, a very prolific composer.” - @henselpushers.bsky.social

Haircuts are expensive! But not showing up for my lecture looking like a medieval ghost of the lake is worth it

Reposting for the not-early birds

Excerpt from the Hensel String Quartet, movement 4, with Town Quartet. Come see us live Sunday September 7th at 4pm at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland. All music by Fanny Hensel, with Monica Chew and a lecture component by Hensel Pushers. @henselpushers.bsky.social #classicalmusic #stringquartet

New score today: Fanny Hensel's unfinished sonata in E-flat major (H246) 🎹 It was written 196 years ago, but this appears to be the first publication!

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

If you’re looking for stuff to listen to this weekend, there’s a ton of gems in this thread:

September's easy piano arrangement is on Patreon for benefactor-level subscribers! This month's easy piano arrangement is based on Hensel's song Die Spinnerin, or “The Spinner” (H93). www.patreon.com/posts/monthl...

Rehearsal footage of Hensel’s string quartet! Come hear the whole thing on Sunday!

Mantissa has been presented with her dishwasher! I added some fairy lights to the top rack with the tiny dishes

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

In 2023 I bought the only available edition of this work and made some unpleasant discoveries I then spent 6 months painstakingly correcting the score against Price's manuscript Along the way I wrote a big piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social that may have caused drama in the publishing industry

New video of me playing most of Fanny Hensel’s Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh', is as good an excuse as any to remind everyone of my collaboration with @henselpushers.bsky.social on arrangements last month!

Congratulations @doodlyroses.com I cannot imagine how many hours of work went into this project…

It’s Mantissa’s birthday! 🎂 Now that she’s an adult (1), she is allowed to do drugs. We gave her some silvervine and she had a great time cleaning/battling her own feet.

Mantissa’s dishwasher is almost ready for her birthday tomorrow! Bamboo dowels installed to hold the top rack

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...

T minus 2 days to Mantissa’s birthday

Full interview available on the Glenview Classical Series YouTube, Substack, Spotify, & Apple Podcasts. Sunday Sept. 7th 4PM at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland 1658 Excelsior Ave, Glenview Classical Series presents a groundbreaking lecture-concert w/ Hensel Pushers, Monica Chew & Town Quartet.

"Hensel wrote more than 466 numbered works, that we know about, and when I started looking at her, only a couple dozen of them were available online. … I think, now, I have something like 185 of my own editions of the scores on there (henselpushers.com)." - @henselpushers.bsky.social Incredible!

🎼🎂 #ComposerBirthday Alma Schindler Mahler was born #OTD in Vienna in 1879. She has been one of the most vilified figures of classical music. Her career was cut short by the sexism of her time and her marriage to Gustav Mahler. Highly talented, she left 17 beautiful lieder.

Manti and the dishwasher drips

Be there and be square!

I had a great conversation with @lewispatzner.bsky.social today about our concert next weekend! Listen here: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Is it good? I don’t know! But it really does still upset people and I think that’s amazing

I'm just learning now, as I'm trying to speak them aloud in a single breath, that my sentences are far too long.