You ever had a shared spreadsheet with 20,000 rows and too many volunteers?

i'd like to see AI try and replace this work

Today is Fanny’s son Sebastian’s 196th birthday. He was a little guy, born very premature, and was not expected to survive. But he did. He was Fanny and Wilhelm’s only surviving child.

I have been taking her with me all day lol I love her

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

Look at this gift I received!

Seems like 90% of cat harnesses on the market are kitten sized

Going through the copy edits of a forthcoming article. This is my favorite sentence: "Hearing a work by a woman was a routine event, and thousands of clubwomen were deeply familiar with music by women composers."

Dishwasher Thursday 🫧🍴🥣✨

A quick post on Fanny Mendelssohn, giving a signal boost to @henselpushers.bsky.social . garymcgath.com/fanny-mendel... #classicalMusic

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Fascinating! And highlights why original source material research is important.

THIS IS WILD read the whole post

Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that Fanny’s father sent her as a teenager? “Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.” Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!

"Making Abraham (and later Felix) the “bad guy” in the story of Fanny’s life does an injustice to the complex nature of existing with intersectionally marginalized identities in an oppressive society." @titachico.bsky.social @drbibliomane.bsky.social this blogpost made me think of you both.

Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that Fanny’s father sent her as a teenager? “Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.” Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!

Everyone’s slander of Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy has driven me to writing on my blog and I’ll never forgive any of you for it.

Oh no all the baking recipes google returns are slop now

Reading through/analyzing everyone’s favorite Liszt transcriptions at the piano now. Can someone knowledgeable about Liszt speak to the role of improvisation in his compositional process, especially for the transcriptions? Anyone know about this??

On a plum harvesting sidequest

Pianists! 🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 What are your favorite Liszt transcriptions of works that were originally lieder, solo piano, or some other small format? (i.e. not opera/orchestral/etc) (e.g. Erlkönig not Robert le diable)

Anyone else’s parents always have pickleball-related drama going on?

There’s a few Hensel pieces where the first/only/most prominent edition of the score had errors, and so now most or all recordings of those pieces are wrong.

Give Vivacious a show—scripted, unscripted, talk, variety, cooking, makeover… any format whatsoever—and I will watch every second of it

Hey Berlin!

HENSELFEST 2027

New easy piano arrangement on patreon today! The introduction of Hensel’s Easter Sonata for intermediate pianists

I can’t practice because the neighbors are grilling and I’m distracted by how good it smells

Where am I supposed to come down on correcting confidently stated Fanny Hensel misconceptions from well-meaning people/orgs? I’m seeing so much of this recently

Feral turkeys attacking people in Alameda

Many such cases

I'm doing an informal survey for my next blog. PLEASE REPLY if you know anything about Fanny Hensel (Hensel scholars excepted)-- off the top of your head (no googling/wikipedia), tell me what you know about her father and/or her relationship with her father, Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Would love to know if there are any recordings of opera singer Matilda Sissieretta Jones - though can’t locate any as yet? I see her father had been enslaved. She sang for 4 consecutive presidents (but had to enter the building through the back door for the first 3…) [wiki] #opera

Boston bolide boom

I'm doing an informal survey for my next blog. PLEASE REPLY if you know anything about Fanny Hensel (Hensel scholars excepted)-- off the top of your head (no googling/wikipedia), tell me what you know about her father and/or her relationship with her father, Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

I posted a silly thing to my friends whining about not wanting to work on my blog post and strangers started replying weird about it so I deleted it

RETVRN

Just posted a new Youtube video--an excellent rendition of Allegro molto in E minor (H410) performed by Mélanie El-Khoury. Take 4 minutes and listen:

Every single time I think “I should go practice” my brain runs through the entire Allen Iverson practice rant verbatim

Just posted a new Youtube video--an excellent rendition of Allegro molto in E minor (H410) performed by Mélanie El-Khoury. Take 4 minutes and listen:

Is it summer now? Is that how this works?

<starts chronograph> ORIKtajferPLONKonegerMILO omg I can't remember the sixth aaaaaaa</stops chrono in SHAME and googles> Dyré. So many seconds beyond "quickly" that I am ashamed.

Name all members of Les Six. Quickly.

Should I make some custom Fanny Hensel Beat Saber levels?

Thank you, we got there. Submissions are now closed

Thanks to the @doodlyroses.com bump last week I’m at 1599 followers. Can I get one more?

Very exciting - The Easter Sonata is now available (for free) in braille! www.brailleorch.org/en/bor1280/

I’ve been slacking on dishwasher Sundays. Here’s a nice steamy one

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...

Getting messages from several friends since yesterday saying they read through the Easter sonata and absolutely love it. “great work!” “Hard to figure out the person who had the score and wouldn't show it to anyone. WTF??”