Holst: St. Paul's Suite Performed by The Going Home Project led by Svetlin Roussev Holst dedicated this music to the St. Paul's Girls' School Orchestra. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7M7...

If you are teacher and assign one of our stories for your students to read, our EiC is happy to video conference in to your class to facilitate the story and discussion questions with your class! buff.ly/rxWfDSV

Mark calendars and bookmark, fam! cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602...

Awesome morning chore tune from a Bach boy. Pair with a triple espresso and biscotti. Crank up to 11, mebbe dare to start the day with a noise complaint by waking neighbors hearing it through double courses of bricks & fist-deep horsehair plaster. 😁 music.apple.com/us/album/mag... #ClassicalMusic

if we allow trillionaires to exist, then we have failed as a civilisation and as a species

Millions of dollars in federal grants have been terminated, throwing cutting-edge research at American universities into crisis. On this week’s On the Media, meet the two men at the center of the fight over the future of academia. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

By exploring the works of various poets and their diverse styles, you'll not only enrich your understanding of language and rhythm but also gain new perspectives and insights into the human condition. #PoetryLovers #poems #poetry #PoetryCommunity #PoetrySky

I recently used a utility to move everything over to Apple Music and Classical dream stream IDAGIO. Surprisingly easy. With my heavy early-adopter Spotify habit, the change has taken a bit to get used to—thanks for a good reminder that default should be some other platform. 🎵

Sometimes a hero is, in fact, just a sandwich.

Damned if ya do, damned if ya don’t…

Oldest selfie on your phone

Wednesday post-election greetings with coffee! xo ***** 'I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.' Miles Davis ***** Reuven Dattner· Morning coffee. Morning coffee

G’morning peeps. No, I didn’t go back to sleep. You may want to give me wide berth on the roads today. 🤷🏻‍♀️ #needcoffee

So, what are the cool kids doing at 3 AM? #insomnia — Paris Combo “Sous la lune” youtu.be/bcse4sp7zfo?... from “When You Are Old” WB YEATS “When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once…”

Ballot #92 submitted for my local elections in Massachusetts today! Please go vote for your community 🗳️

Come join us tonight at 6pm and see how volunteering can also be your workout! New volunteer tour + Q+A from 6-7pm on the first Tuesday of each month.

Off to sweat, jet, and steam. Normally that would be describing my brain functions. Today, it’s a circuit-n-soothe at the Y to keep my mind off stuff.

yes, you have a right to privacy in the library! the mission of public libraries is to afford everyone, in the broadest sense of the word, free access to the products of culture, in the broadest sense of the word—where “free” means both “you don’t have to pay” and “you are left the fuck alone.” 📚

Nite, peeps.

Quick question for y’all musicology PhDs from a humble composition MusDoc: what‘s the consensus on the Jan Swafford bios?

Stew makin’ season, so dropped off part of a batch for my neighbors. If history holds, brownies may appear tomorrow (I can’t bake…so this is significant value!). Mutual aid, but delicious—and possibly a prototype for the post-capitalist casserole economy if civilization keeps trending weird. 👩🏻‍🍳🍲

On this day, November 4th 1918, a week - almost to the very hour - before the Armistice, the poet Wilfred Owen was killed in action. He was 25. Here is my recording of one of his most famous poems. Dulce Et Decorum Est #warpoetry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

“[Kiefer] had a long love affair with the STL Art Museum and #STL itself.” His work first arrived in US in 1983. SLAM acquired first of its Kiefers in 1987. Had an amazing time at this exhibit with @ianfjanssen.bsky.social. SLAM has made it crazy easy to go—accessible, expansive, memorable.

“To be a good citizen of a bad state, one has to do scary things. It is weighing leaving against staying, moral obligation against fear, flying under the radar against taking a risk — and opting for the risk.” — Gift link (no paywall) How to Be a Good Citizen of a Bad Country

Memory brush passes the face like light rain. This is not a peaceful image. Slow water is the most violent of creatures. It hits you time and again. It's relentless in its unwanted caress. No man has yet invented an umbrella for love memories.

Aw, thanks—with all the gems you’ve shared, I’m glad I could finally return the favor!

"moon past full the beginning of a little more darkness" — Matsuo Basho, from Basho: The Complete Haiku, trans. Jane Reichhold (Kodansha USA, 2008) *** Joseph Mallord William Turner

Larry Levis essay: “I was honored to drive, more or less regularly, the poet Zbigniew Herbert just about anywhere he needed to go. I was twenty-four… In Zbigniew I had found a friend who was almost a classical isle of sanity.” @poemakontsa.bsky.social share.google/RAelB85C5yvH...

Calmest part of my day might be this Zelenka. Sinfonia à 8, A minor ZWV 189: Andante. Cold, rainy, and a very full day ahead. #classicalmusic music.apple.com/us/album/sin...

A poet from the “What a time it was…” #WUSTL writers-program golden era: three centuries dead & still flirting better than *your* dept chair. “To Professor So-and-So” is sort of an academia bodice-ripper with a metaphor, a ghost, and (ahem) aghast at the tension between knowing & feeling. 😉 #poetry

#STL BTW, major exhibition of Kiefer’s work just opened at SLAM: “[The] first comprehensive survey of Kiefer’s work in US in more than 20 years…SLAM’s largest single exhibition in decades.” You really should go—important enough that it’s free. Oct 18,2025-Jan 25,2026 www.slam.org/collection/o...

Nite, peeps. It’s a mood tonight, so have an aria to end the day that’s like the tide pulling it out to sea. Dream of distant shores… Handel, “Convey Me to Some Peaceful Shore” Efrat Alony #jazz #classicalmusic

I sacrificed, THE ROOOOOOOK! #chess is there any kind of chess BlueSky community? Thinking of doing a 100 days of chess type of thing

Don't be a content creator, be a portent creator. It's much more dramatic.

‘Nite, peeps. A little looser Pathétique that’s mixing well with tea, grapes, and reading “The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s” by Alexander Nemerov. Hiromi, Beethoven Piano Sonata, Op 13 No 8 “Pathétique” lynkify.in/song/beethov... #jazz #classicalmusic #amreading

Would’ve been Mum’s birthday today. “Alcione” is a variant of her name—from the myth—passed down to women in my fam. When a girl-child is born: “Here’s yer Marais opera, some research vessels, yer bird, three myths, a video game, and a coupla nice weeks in midwinter in yer honor…” #ClassicalMusic

I am so captivated by this track, and it does indeed defy conventional genre descriptions— That’s so wonderful you got to team up with your son, and I love the result. Recommended listening! #ClassicalMusic #jazz

Awful news - if anyone can help Sascha:

The Paris Review unlocked the Krasznahorkai interview! Grab a fresh cup and get comfy—here’s the free link: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi... #booksky #amreading

The real poetry prize is not the NBA is not the Nobel or the Pulitzer or the NBCC or whatever it’s did you stop in the middle of your kitchen and read a poem aloud to someone you love.

‘Nite, peeps. This is as good a place as any to find your soft landing after *quite* a week—William Lawes, Harp Consort No. 5 in D major. It’s your four-minute breather away from everything, and a dose of calm distilled from order, light, and grace. youtube.com/watch?v=FioL... #ClassicalMusic

“Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls…” Reading a fascinating & peculiar book by Charles Simic: Dime Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell. Best read slowly, occasionally aloud. #amreading #poetry Janácek “In The Mists” youtu.be/8BV7EVUIQwA?...

Something quiet and contemplative for those like me feeling unwell tonight. open.spotify.com/track/5JWcdW...

Some days there’s just not enough coffee

All is well in Pajamastan tonight—staying in and settled in with 🫖 tea, 📚 a pile of books thishigh, ✉️ letter writing, 🎻and this exquisite Leclair sonata, which is a fine distraction from doomscrolling (highly recommend!). #ClassicalMusic #TGIF youtube.com/watch?v=omep...

This week in counterpoint class, I described partimenti as the “instant ramen” of Western music: everything you need for a delicious meal is right there in the package 🍜

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