You can't spell progressive without progress and we've made a lot of it since we started this campaign. We’ve climbed more than 12 points in the polls in just a few months — and when voters hear about the campaign, we actually beat Pelosi by 6. And we have nine months until the primary!

Besame Mucho. If you live in San Francisco, you actually have a good choice for Congress; Saikat Chakrabarti. His platform is very aligned with SF values! @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #latinjazz #sanfrancisco #sf #2026elections

Footprints by Wayne Shorter. W/ Michele Walther, Shaina Evoniuk, and Keith Lawrence. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio. #jazz #cello #stringquartet #jazzstrings #jazzstandard

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. To my neighbors in San Francisco, you have a rare chance to elect someone not chosen by the Machine. That person is Saikat Chakrabarti. @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #sanfrancisco #sf #2026elections #blueskymusic

Clara Schumann: Warum willst du and’re fragen w/ Town Quartet. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio. #cello #violin #stringquartet #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #claraschumann #femalecomposers

Wave by Jobim. W/ Michele Walther, Shaina Evoniuk, and Keith Lawrence. Sheet music for sale! Link in bio. #cello #violin #stringquartet #jazz #latinjazz

Star Trek Theme from The Original Series. We can have a better future! If you live in San Francisco, vote for Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress in 2026! @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #startrek #startrektos #2026elections #saikatforcongress #SanFrancisco #sf #sfelections

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

O mio babbino caro by Puccini. Sheet music available for purchase! Violin and viola versions available! Link in bio. #cello #opera #aria #outdoors

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

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

Big Pimpin by Jay Z. Sheet music available for sale! Link in bio. With Michele Walther, Shaina Evoniuk, and Keith Lawrence. #cello #violin #stringquartet #hiphop #rap

Etude 1, original piece by me! To my friends in SF, you have a chance to vote for someone with a great platform that more accurately reflects your values. Vote Saikat Chakrabarti for Congress in 2026! Spread the word! @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #saikatforcongress #sanfrancisco #politics

@henselpushers.bsky.social is an absolute legend

I'm biased but I think this kind of work harnesses the transformative potential of the internet in the most exciting way possible - way to go @henselpushers.bsky.social!

"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!

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

Etude 6. Original piece by me! Sheet music available for free on my website. Link in bio. #cello #oakland #fog #originalmusic #slowmusic

Big Poppa by The Notorious B. I. G. Samples from Between the Sheets, with Michele Walther, Shaina Evoniuk, and Keith Lawrence. Sheet music available for purchase! Link in bio. #cello #violin #hiphop #hiphopstrings #90s

F (BL)U(ES) for all my San Francisco friends. Say F U to the status quo that got Trump elected and vote for Saikat Chakrabarti for congress in 2026! @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #blues #jazz #activism #political

Discorporated. Original piece by me! Free sheet music available at my website, link in bio. #cello #harmonic #originalmusic #peaceful

"Der hoelle rache" (queen of the night aria) from Mozart's The Magic Flute w/ Town Quartet. Sheet music available for purchase! Link in bio. #cello #violin #opera #classicalmusic #stringquartet

Chameleon by Herbie Hancock W/Michele Walther, Shaina Evoniuk, and Keith Lawrence. My arrangement is for sale at Sheet Music Direct. #stringquartet #jazz #funk #violin #viola #cello

Bach Gigue from the 2nd Cello Suite in D Minor. San Francisco voters, vote for Saikat Chakrabarti for congress in 2026! Check him out at @saikatforcongress.bsky.social and take a look at his platform. I think it’s a vast improvement over Pelosi and the Democratic Establishment. #cello #sanfrancisco

Come Together by The Beatles. San Francisco voters, vote for Saikat Chakrabarti @saikatforcongress.bsky.soci al Congress in 2026. Do you really think establishment Democrats are representing your interests? You can do much better than Pelosi! #cello #beatles #2026elections #SanFrancisco #SF

Enter Sandman. SF voters, elect Saikat Chakrabarti for congress in 2026! Unseat Pelosi and send a message that we want a different kind of politics! Follow @saikatforcongress.bsky.social #cello #metallica #metal #metalcello #2026elections #sanfrancisco #saikatforcongress #sf

A Foggy Day. San Francisco, vote Saikat Chakrabarti for congress in 2026! Follow him @saikatforcongress.bsky.social to join the movement. Do you think the Democratic Party needs to change? Few things will have more of an impact than unseating Pelosi. #gershwin #cello #sanfransisco #saikatforcongress

RIP Ozzy, thanks for the immortal music and message!

Ok sharing my other favorite account of a pianist's ascent up Mt. Vesuvius... Fanny Hensel, her husband, and their son Sebastian climb the mountain in the summer of 1840, as she describes in a letter back to her family in Berlin. [long 🧵]

Glenview Classical Series Presents: Magdalene Nuxia Peng 影昱琴 In Concert Saturday July 19th 7:30PM St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland 1658 excelsior ave Playing music by: Debussy- Ravel - Strayhorn - & original compositions $20 NOTAFLOF

Milonga de San Francisco cello solo w/ Musical Art Quintet #cello #jazz

I have very exciting news! I will be giving a Henselpushers lecture-concert on Sunday September 7 in Oakland, California! This is my first Henselpushers event, and I hope everyone in the area can make it!

The Final Countdown #cello #europe #rockmusic

Practicing my string quartet piece for this Sunday’s concert, New Music by Local Composers, 4m at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Oakland. #cello #newmusic #oakland

The US senate just declared war on the American public. A bill that destroys Medicaid while cutting taxes for the wealthiest at a time when we already have record income and wealth inequality is societal suicide.

Jamming with Jamie Moore #cello #drums #improvisation #jamsession

Drop G metal riffs. #cello #metal #metalcello #alternatetuning

Brahms allegretto quasi menuetto from the cello sonata in e minor op. 38

GI’ve Peace a Chance by John Lennon. For a week & a half, I’ve been going down to Oakland City Hall everyday to protest war with Iran. I’m hopeful the current ceasefire will hold, so today, & hopefully for many days, I’m not going to protest. It’s time to give peace a chance #cello #peace #antiwar

All is Fair in Love by Stevie Wonder. NO WAR IN IRAN! #cello #antiwar #nowarwithiran

Song of the Birds by Pablo Casals. NO WAR WITH IRAN! Casals was an incredible advocate for peace, sometimes at the expense of his own career, when he refused to play in countries that embraced fascism. #cello #oakland #antiwar #peace #nowarwithiran #cellistsoftheworld 

Bach Prelude for Peace. NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #peace #antiwar #nowarwithiran #classicalmusic

Ballet of Angels by Anonymous, from Terpsichore, edited by Praetorius. NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #antiwar #nowarwithiran #baroque #rennaissance #cellistsoftheworld

Aria from Atys by Lully. NO WAR WITH IRAN! Though I love the art produced under Louis XIV’s patronage, the members of our government shouldn’t behave like they’re in the court of Versailles. #cello #nowarwithiran #antiwar #baroque #versailles #oakland #cellistsoftheworld

War Pigs by Black Sabbath. NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #antiwar #nowarwithiran #protestmusic

Lament by J. J. Johnson. NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #jazz #jazzcello #oakland #antiwar #nowarwithiran #cellistsoftheworld

Don’t Get Around Much Anymore by Duke Ellington. NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #oakland #jazz #jazzcello #antiwar #nowarwithiran

War (Edwin Starr) NO WAR WITH IRAN! #cello #war #oakland #nowarwithiran #antiwar #protestmusic #cellistsoftheworld