Needed good thinking music, so Buxtehude’s been on a loop this evening. This trio sonata is restless and a little wary, pointedly avoiding false cheer. Compelling translation of structure into sensation. Yup, perfect for thinking things thru. #ClassicalMusic youtube.com/watch?v=l76I...

Here! The original.😀 cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602...

Wordle 1,650 2/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩The great gods of Wordle definitely smiled upon me today…

One of my faves for this time of year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6m4...

Noëls sur les instruments by Marc‑Antoine Charpentier share.google/fCRB9oXEKkQA... #classicalmusic

Merry Christmas, peeps. This one always earns a spot. #Christmas2025 youtu.be/j9jbdgZidu8?... #FairytaleOfNewYork

Kind of a big deal, #STL! Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to take over former Caleres [Brown Shoe] property in Clayton. “#OTSL has plans to transform the 6.67 acres located at 8300 Maryland Ave. into a state-of-the-art performing arts center, according to a release….”

Right then, no one asked for it (everyone seems quite happy with last year's!) but here we are anyway, your #DuvetKnowItsChristmas 2025 bingo card! Some returning classics, some we missed last year and some new ones. Enjoy team, donation link below once Rhodri posts it!

Checking weather for final leg of road trip—a dense fog advisory for the middle of the country. 🌥️ I wanted weather conditions. 😶‍🌫️ I got the national mood. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Visibility: low. Context: alarmingly high. Safe holiday travels, peeps. Rebel “Le Cahos” youtu.be/p6Ht0xPqjYQ?... #ClassicalMusic #USwx

This brilliant. I've experimented with making similar simulators before, but this from Giving What We Can is so well executed and needed right now... some perspective, and just how lucky we (some of us) are. #charity #wealth #redistribution #fairness #equity #equality

When the only passenger on a road trip is your thoughts, ya kind wish they weren’t so loud and talkative. #NY2026 #ClassicalMusic open.spotify.com/track/6GkqL7...

Road trip tunes while deciding on my road trip tunes…somewhere in PA. open.spotify.com/track/3cc1Bp... #ClassicalMusic

Another Zamboni for your collection! youtu.be/MiurUZaTM2Q?...

Now you can have composer Zamboni’s fab lute sonata, PLUS a decorative Zamboni to groom ice-y holiday decor. At Warrior Ice Arena waiting for Progeny’s women’s league hockey game puck drop. G. Zamboni (1664-1721) Lute Sonata No 3, Op 1: II. Giga lynkify.in/song/lute-so... #Boston #Hockey #lute

Happy Winter Solstice! As we slowly tilt towards the sun, every day will bring us more daylight to enjoy. Later, buds, green leaves and a warm breeze. Until then, take another run down that hill. Art: Norman Rockwell, Sledding, 1959, Norman Rockwell Museum.

Well, peeps! We’re at that point in Dec when time begins to stretch. Volume increases on both carols and perils, emotions don’t stay in their lanes, and grace means being braced without being brittle. Let’s endure together thoughtfully, and try not to make it too weird 😁 #ClassicalMusic #NY2026

Kinda met him today…

Happy Solstice weekend, peeps. #solstice

I’m awake in that late-early hour when thoughts are blown thru unguarded gaps by a heavy, uneven winter wind outside. Dark and wind lay things out and persuade me to look. Nothing is wrong, exactly. But not everything is settled, either—especially at this hour. #insomnia #ClassicalMusic

#otd Joseph Martin Kraus (aka the Swedish Mozart) died at the age of 36 in Stockholm. #NowSpinning some of his surviving symphonies. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightment is conducted by Anthony Halstead. #music #musicsky #classicalmusic

“History is not a popular subject of study for the young, is not an incentive to the actions of pragmatic individuals at the age of adulthood; it is at most a melancholy consolation for the elderly.” Zbigniew Herbert, “The Presence of History” Oh, harsh. True, but harsh.

Snowy day tracks with Herbert essays: open.spotify.com/album/0GOgHT... #ClassicalMusic

Saturday waiting-for-a-snowstorm track: open.spotify.com/track/3fc6uc... #classicalmusic

Good light, better conversation, best companion; solid migratory instincts and hoping the same for the birds! #BombayHook National Wildlife Refuge, DE @ianfjanssen.bsky.social

My road trip audiobook was “Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers.” Fascinating, tragic, takes on a LOT between art and the artist(s), a complicated family, events often unfolding—and sometimes unraveling—during some turbulent times in history. #artsky Gift link/no paywall:

Dear Pittsburgh, thanks for a much-needed good nights sleep, but I’m still not forgiving you for the 6-3 rout of the Blues by the Penguins back in October. Back on the road #needcoffee

Checking out the apartment-hunting landscape in metro Boston west & south—in December?! Peak chaos energy, but life lined up, so why not scout it out in the slush? So excited at the prospect of heading back to New England. ❄️🗝️

#indieauthor #amwriting #author #author #writerslife

Just spin the globe ... Find the coolest shit ever radio.garden/visit/yonker... @grbenny.bsky.social @stevewfolds.bsky.social @lisasass.bsky.social @gregolear.bsky.social

LUTEMUSIC.ORG "Here you will find more than 17,000 settings of lute pieces (70,000 files) in French tablature" ... More at wp.lutemusic.org ========================= #earlymusicnewsorg #earlymusic #earlymusicnews #historicallyinformedperformance

Congratulations to @jessicaduchen.bsky on having her new book “Myra Hess, National Treasure” named Book of the Year by Presto Music. This well-researched book is full of insights on the great pianist and features a foreward by her student Stephen Kovacevich. What a great holiday gift idea!

Latest episode of Classical Muse uploaded to YouTube. The graphic spelled Farnaby wrong, but, hey, people make mistakes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tk...

Miles Davis and Elizabeth Bishop Fake the Break by CHARLES WRIGHT Those two dark syllables, 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯 offer no sustenance, […] From the top... Beginning in ignorance, we stick to the melody— Knowledge, however, is elsewhere, a tune we've yet to turn to, Its syllables scrubbed in light #poetry

“Walk out onto the planet tonight. Even the moon is giving back your share of borrowed light and you take it back, in the name of everything you can’t take back in your life.” -David Clewell “New Year’s Eve Letter to Friends” poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/d... #poetry

If you are in Edinburgh, I’m wildly jealous because you could go to *this* this weekend. • Cantata Series IV Sat, 6 December 2025 St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh 3:00pm £15 (£10 concession) www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...

Shocking!

Put a sincere note of apology on your neighbors’ doors, re: volume level. Take your blood pressure meds. Secure fragile items. Maybe rend a sleeve. Then turn this stunner from Música d’Outrora up to 11. Six minutes of “holy sh…” You’re welcome. @continuoconnect.bsky.social #ClassicalMusic

hey music mutuals, any leads on this?

Music mail! 🐌 However…Presto Music is not living up to its tempo marking. Ordered these & some vinyl back in September, just arrived today. Regardless, listening spree ahead! A sample: Música d’Outrora performing Albertini. Sonatinae: Sonata No 10 youtu.be/3_IPFiGCmmk?... #ClassicalMusic

Herschel’s track record: Discovered Uranus, 000’s of stars & nebulae Bus station design inspired by one of his experiments (thanks, Slough!). Introduced the word ‘asteroid.’ Day job: Court astronomer. And, he composed a lot with all that leftover free time. Kid sister was no slouch, either.

Why yes, I did wake up stupid-early and fell down a rabbit hole of lute music. Been a while. Question, gut-pluckers: Who’s made a decent recording of Daube?! In the meantime, have some Baron with your sunrise. #needcoffee youtu.be/wZrqc8iiZZA?...

The Best Thing About Each Amendment […] In Haiku by JORDAN CALL 1. Leaving a voicemail On your Senator’s phone line Calling him “spineless” 2. How would we settle Our disputes if it weren’t for Duel by combat? 3. My AirBNB, While open to our dear troops, Still charges full price #poetry

Find you someone who reacts to losing you in the produce section like Orfeo losing Euridice*: tragic devotion, wild-eyed searching, and yes—absolutely delivering the Gluck aria with full drama at full volume, right over there by the on-sale avocados. #ClassicalMusic *without the dire consequences

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Thinking again, or being thought by, one of my obsessions. The Orpheus and Eurydice story. Here is one of my favorite poem versions of the story. Orpheus and Eurydice Jean Valentine What we spent, we had What we had, we have What we lost, we leave

Overheard in checkout line just now, and I’m stealing it: “I have a punch card for her drama calls. One more panic spin and I get a free latte.” (In an excruciatingly loooong line, and the couple behind me have been immensely entertaining for eavesdropping.)

another one for those with insomnia - lovely song www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKU...

#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic As the continuo player for Ensemble Diderot, Grisvard probably doesn't get much chance to show out. But these concertos are more than ample opportunity, and these composers were at the top of the keyboard pile in Berlin, so very nice result! 🤠