When my happy place worlds collide* 🎼 or 🏒 “NHL Goalie, or Composer?” www.instagram.com/reel/DUrU9b8... *and then one happy place me wants to advocate for much more music ed & #classicalmusic in schools, while the other happy place me wants to encourage more girls taking up #hockey…

It continues. Resist and unsubscribe.

Rip Robert Duvall A master .

Reflections on the horrific mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge. @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOfH...

Bad Valentines, Baroque Style: 4/n 🥀 Médée (Charpentier) Emotional devastation, but in French. 🚩 Mythic breakup revenge energy. Let’s don’t bring up the kids. Arson. Sorcery. 😱 Dating review 🚫 ☆☆☆☆☆ “Not over the ex. Hard pass.” “Barely survived first date.” #ClassicalMusic #opera #valentinesday

I appreciate how Zbigniew Herbert frames hope without sentimentality. The heroes in his poems aren’t conquerors—they’re the people who refuse to become cruel. “we will keep for them in our trembling beaks a drop of love until the end of the world” -From “Composition With Birds” #poetry #resistance

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

This is significant. Canada is the only non-European country to sign on to a program that allows access for low-interest loans for the joint procurement of military gear and weapons. It gives Canadian companies access to bid on European projects. #byebyemoncowboy www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

"They went into Minneapolis with the assumption that we'd see the equivalent of George Floyd...they wanted to provoke this. And the discipline that freedom-loving Americans have shown in this—I think it's been incredible." Adam Kinzinger on Minnesotans refusal to take the bait.

Don Lemon: “I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will fight these baseless charges. And I will not be silenced.”

"People are trying to politicize this. It's not about guns. It's not about transgenderism. It's about mental health. It's about a lack of resources. I truly believe that she did everything she could to try to help." - Maya's Mom speaking up for the shooter's mother. #Prayersfortumblerridge

Hey there Pam Bondi if you have nothing to hide why were you tracking what congressmen were searching on the Epstein files? Why uh…. Why…. Why so nervous?

I had a 2.27 GPA at UCLA.

Mark Carney versus Donald Trump. links.profgmedia.com/4axQMEE

Thoughts on the terrible tragedy in Tumbler Ridge.

Prayers for Tumbler Ridge. I don't know what else to say at this time in the face of this immense tragedy and crime.

@acoyne.bsky.social As always you're analysis is always astute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziz3...

For the classical music world, the original is still the best when it comes to a Bad Bunny performing a halftime* show on Super Bowl Sunday. 🦉🏈🎵 #ClassicalMusic #BadBunny #Superbowl youtube.com/watch?v=WqGE... *And we’d call it ‘cut time.’

Not that anybody asked, but the Northern Arctic is just Ocean. So Santa’s North Pole Workshop has only ever existed on a floating sheet of ice. No fur trees. No hills. Occasional seals. And polar bears — for now.

Not that anybody asked, but If you accumulated all the flora, fauna, and metal that your True Love gives you each day in the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song, you would own 12 Trees, 40 Gold Rings, 140 Humans, and 185 Birds of 6 different species.

William Shat-ner. The one and only. An Audio Original — Just Published. “Cosmos Confidential” Bill & Neil’s Excellent Bromance neildegrassetyson.com/books/2026-0... Video trailer [80 sec] of the Audio Original

The Winter Olympics start today, and we will feel pride and honor for our country. But when we see our criminal, delusional President, we feel none of those things. I’ve faced off with him before, and now I’m ready to take him on in Congress.

To weaken Trump, stop buying iPhones.

The 10 companies to boycott during February: - Microsoft - Apple - Amazon - Google - Meta - OpenAI - Netflix - Paramount+ - Uber - X

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Re-reading a marvelous little gem, “Marcel Proust: Letters To His Neighbor” translated by Lydia Davis—a collection of letters exchanged with his noisy upstairs neighbor. Some faith that books, letters, and words—properly sent—can make a small-ish world feel more habitable... #booksky #insomnia

We need to get tactical. If OpenAI’s revenue falls by 2%, it will make a difference. The best way to ignite positive change is to carry out an economic strike the tech CEOs can’t ignore.

ICE has an unbelievable radar and canny for finding really good people. Resist ICE and unsubscribe. bit.ly/45LX8yC

Stanley Kubrick's multi Academy Award nominated Cold War black comedy “DR. STRANGELOVE” starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Peter Bull, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens and Tracy Reed premiered #OnThisDay in 1964 at the Columbia Theatre, London 🎬 Columbia Pictures

Sadly, this is terribly relevant today thanks to the Trump regime.

The First Amendment guarantees our freedom of speech & of the press & right to peaceably assemble. Don Lemon, a journalist, is arrested for covering a protest in a Minnesota church .Don is my friend, a good man doing his job. We are America 🇺🇸 We do not accept the imprisonment of our journalists.

Mark Carney is the man 🇨🇦.

An even better video featuring this haunting piece. Sunwoojungka so captures the emotion of the piece that it leaves me breathless in tears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRYS...

Caught up: RISE, RISE is a haunting work from Black Desert that just recently released to promote a new character class in the game. Sunwoojungka brings so much to the piece. Wicked www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCbl...

One of the finest scored MMROPG's is Black Desert. Here is the Keplan Theme one of the most heartbreaking pieces I've ever heard. Fits the mood of the place it reflects to a tee www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nR...

Earl Grant established himself in the late 1950s as one of the go to guys for the hammond organ. This little piece, Ebb Tide, features his penchant for bird song effects on his organ www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRzy...

Sometime around 1938, this Tlingit Paddling Song was recorded by the Mt. Edgecumbe boy's chorus in Alaska. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj8j...

Next up: Honey in the Rock recorded and released in 1927 featuring Blind Mamie Forehand and her husband Asa C. Forehand. Another brill example of gospel from the 1920s and 1930s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWY...

Well I guess I'll start of with the first song of the new year. Its from 1929. Blind Wilie Davis and I Believe I'll Go Back Home with his bottleneck slide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkvE...

Jan 30 (Fri): Minnesota Orchestra will live stream their concert for free. See their YouTube channel @minnorch. Also, they’ve made a program change—adding Mahler Symphony No 5 to honor Good and Pretti. Website www.minnesotaorchestra.org YouTube youtube.com/@minnorch #MN #ClassicalMusic

Been a while. Dealing with the old PC bust-up but back again and ready to share some awesome sauce music when I can.

Despite the threat against democracy the work of reconciliation goes on. Canada continues to be a light in dark times. @meidascanada.ca checks out the Indigenous law program at University of Victoria for lessons in building a stronger and more balanced country. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BKF...

Finally to end my listening journey tonight the rock-a-billy performance, quintessential to the Christmas season, Bobby Helms' Jingle Bell Rock with the Anita Kerr singers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqJW...

King Sunny Ade and his Green Spot Band recorded sometime between 1970 and 1972 for African Songs. The Juju sound at its best. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kD2...

Switching up the sound to listen to a little Prokofiev performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy in 1950. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPNz...

The miracle of recorded music. Fanny Cochrane Smith, the last living member of the Tasmanian Aboriginal ethnic group speaks and sings a timeless song of her culture (dated between 1899 and 1903). www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjX-...

One of the three "Great Smiths" of the 1920s. Here is a 1925 recording of Trixie Smith with the Fletcher Henderson orchestra. How easily classic blues and jazz worked together like butter on scones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8zb...

Enjoying a little of the Ted Lewis Jazz Band in 1919 with Jack Kauffman singing. Lewis and Paul Whitman were the creme of jazz music at this time and part of the reason jazz was such a popular style for the listening public. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QTo...