update: my mom has officially weighed in on the last 24 hours of Decca developments

You know who I really feel bad for in all this is Cécile

I swear to god I scheduled posting this specific clip for this morning like two weeks ago, it is not an intentional subskeet at Decca Classics…

Here are some of the comments that disappeared from Deccas instagram post overnight

Excellent analysis here of the lack of representation on recordings.

Whenever this day/month shows up I’m always reminded of how Amy Beach was first arriving on the American music scene only for Eminent European Composer Dvořak to show up saying that women don’t have what it takes to write serious music. Some things don’t change without major pointing and mocking.

Going to bed in disgust - but sharing this great piece from @henselpushers.bsky.social before I do. www.patreon.com/posts/decca-...

this is honestly getting embarrassing for decca like maybe invest like 5mins into a bit of research before making your performative little posts

Incredible work here

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel wrote a shitload of music, most of which was not published in her short lifetime. This trio is a real fire-breathing monster. It makes an interesting comparison to her better-known brother's trio in the same key. I'd love to play this some day when I have time to learn it

I’m so mad at Decca that the Met is catching strays today

This IWD I've been listening to women colleagues in classical music describing the constant abuse they still have to swallow to be allowed in the room, and then watching the big institutions pat themselves on the back for doing nothing, or worse than nothing.

You want to know just how ingrained and casual misogyny in classical music is? Decca published a picture of the WRONG WOMAN for Fanny Hensel SIX DAYS AGO, were corrected by multiple colleagues and asked to change it, replied to none of them, then shared it again today. Who cares, right?

Fanny Hensel has only one string quartet and it is in E-flat major.

Decca update: that posted this story TODAY:

A follower has just informed me of a Decca Classics album to celebrate Pauline Viardot on her 200th birthday that had… 0 of her compositions.

Hey, read this. Happy International Women's Day. And thank you, Henselpushers!

Happy international women’s day to everyone except Decca Classics

Stop talking about Timimmiy Chalamet, it’s boring. Who gives a shit. Please move on

it's not your right to quiet the world. you as a human being are obligated to be in the world with other people even if that sucks shit sometimes. my neighbors listen to loud music and sometimes it's annoying but i also feel safe knowing my neighbors are okay and that if i need them they're there

Cuando lo que importa es el postureo y no la reparación real de las compositoras se hacen cosas como subir a Instagram una foto de la mujer de Félix Mendelssohn diciendo que es Fanny Mendelssohn (Hensel). Alertan los @henselpushers.bsky.social y piden que #deccaclassics rectifique. Me sumo.

I've got a new Youtube video with composer and pianist Monica Chew, who will be performing Hensel's unfinished piano sonata at our April 4th concert.

Inspired by Decca this morning to make some posts honoring the Great Composers

Perfection

Inspired by Decca this morning to make some posts honoring the Great Composers

Women’s history month thoughts: Societally, when we talk about marginalized or “forgotten” composers, what we typically talk about is the composer’s life story. These stories are important and often fascinating and compelling…

PUT. HER. IN. FUCKING. JAIL.

Another part of my conversation with @lewispatzner.bsky.social of the Town Quartet about our April 4 lecture-concert in Berkeley. Some of the pieces you’ll hear at the concert have still never been recorded!

I saw the tiniest bird of my entire life today, it was so cute

Classical music traditionalists sometimes bray that being inclusive destroys our understanding (false, of course), but then the torch bearers of the classical music mainstream turn around and do lazy shit like this shows they have hardly any concern for historical fact

Spending this morning making a spreadsheet of stats about Decca’s releases of the women composers whose images they used (or tried to) on Instagram. It’s bad!

Bartok and Vaughan Williams: "field recordings" Hensel: "watch this"

Get yourself a field--or at least a garden--because it's the 200th anniversary of Hensel's Feldlied (Field song, H169) composed March 4, 1826.

Kurze Schulstunde, falls ihr mal wieder das Bildnis der rechten Dame auch auf klassischen Musikkanälen herumgeistern seht, die als Fanny Hensel oder Fanny Mendelssohn bezeichnet wird: NEIEN, das ist NICHT Fanny, sondern ihre Schwägerin Cécile, die Frau ihres Bruders Felix 💡

They also got Florence Price’s birth year wrong … there was some confusion for a while but it’s definitely 1888.

I’m so fucking tired guys

HOOO BOY Decca Classics epically fucking up their women’s history month Instagram post …

People need to know her Montgomery Variations. They're pretty amazing: youtu.be/ereaXUDie-A?...

I have just been informed it is Margaret Bonds’s birthday! The most famous piece from her excellent Spiritual Suite is Troubled Water, but my favorite is The Bells youtu.be/_xt7XP8HJ8c?...

New-to-me recording of Felix op. 80 that I found thanks to Lewis mentioning it the other day... Well worth your time! youtu.be/7epVd81pc5U?...

Talking about Hensel’s quartet and standard rep with @lewispatzner.bsky.social of the Town Quartet. The string quartet is the centerpiece of our lecture-concert on April 4 in Berkeley CA

happy 200th anniversary of Fanny Hensel composing Der Rosenkranz (H168) - March 3, 1826. This was one of her few published pieces (posthumously), op.9, no. 3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1t7...

Hey Bay Area,

Home Depot absolutely struggling on the staffing front.

My book (and a lot of other writing by me) was. There's still time to make a claim in the Anthropic settlement: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Hey, we're doing her Overture in C this week in New York! www.centresymphony.com/concertstick...

Weirdly, it was Hey Ya.

Fanny had invented computers and secretly wrote Gesang der Jünglinge 100 years before Stockhausen.