Latest episode uploaded to YouTube of Classical Muse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZDo...

Let’s see how far I can get with a theme of ‘glass’ today, in honor of my car window (R.I.P.). Surprise! Philip Glass composed a Concerto for Harpsichord. “…I have always been an admirer of the literature for harpsichord and have played a bit it myself,” Glass wrote. #ClassicalMusic

Neighborhood thugs stopped by to say good morning by breaking into my car. Plus side, first time that I’ve ever had an incident—and lived here a long time. I did have other plans for today that didn’t involve police reports & glass repair, tho... 🤬 #STL open.spotify.com/track/4CcSw8...

💿 NEW ALBUM RELEASE | Still Life Congratulations to Música d’Outrora and their Artistic Director Pablo Devigo on the release of their debut album STILL LIFE on Deux-Elles Records! Listen now 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/still-life ⭐ Supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation

Oh, this is a perfect pairing for my 3AM insomnia mood (and tea)…

#STL Helping hands are needed for the BWorks (bicycle works) team on Sep 27. Shifts: 8-11 or 11-3. • Volunteer signup, more specifics plus general info: tinyurl.com/mr2ys87h Carve out a couple hours and help if you can. Good people doing good work...

Nite, peeps! Chosen by the Stars by Zbigniew Herbert “Oh if he could break from the gravity of clay he would dwell in the stars' nest he would leap from ray to ray he would... but at the thought they would be the earth for him the stars fall down in fright…” #poetry

STL Symphony and STL Blues hockey have had a season opener conflict (for me) on the same day just once. They did have the decency to schedule 5 hours apart, tho, so I had time to run home and change out of a jersey and into a dress. (It’s my happiest time of year again!) #NHL #SLSO #STLBlues

🎵 #STL UCity Sept 18 7:30 PM. Free. Chamber music by Beethoven and Schumann. Celebrate the opening of the ‘25-26 Cathedral Concerts series. Our Lady of Lourdes in UCity (Clayton). 7148 Forsyth, west of Big Bend. #ClassicalMusic #STL

Benedict Anton Aufschnaiter: 'Concors Discordia' Serenade à 5 in A minor Op.2 No.4 L'Orfeo Barockorchester, Michi Gaigg #ClassicalMusic music.youtube.com/watch?v=n5wm...

Needed a headache fix at 1:30, so made tea, downed tablets. 💁🏻‍♀️ Sleepy idiot then puts on Clérambault’s Léandre et Héro—cute couple doin’ long-distance across a deadly strait. She lights a lamp, he swims nightly til storm hits & drowning ensues. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Eeks! for French Baroque trauma drama. #ClassicalMusic

#BOTD William Carlos Williams Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field […] sweating in the sun that melted the wings' wax unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

#STL 🎵 🎻 Tonight’s the night! The symphony continues its half-century+ tradition of season kickoff with a free concert, festivities, fireworks in Forest Park. It’s so much more than a blanket on Art Hill, tho. If you’ve never been, GO! A wonderful annual gift from #SLSO: slso.org/get-tickets/...

The images in this biography do not do his art justice. I saw a retrospective of his work at the Vancouver Art Gallery in the 1990s. He designed a bookmark for Duthies Books (remember them?) in 1959. Takao Tanabe turned 99. www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ta...

A perfect distillation.

Nite, peeps. Out of wit, out of words, humid night air getting thick, patience getting thin. My cue that it’s time for tea & a book! 🫖 📚 #goodnight #jazz lynkify.in/song/it-neve...

Let the scroll go for 180 seconds and bask in this haunting ariette by Baroque composer Mlle. Guesdon de Presles—radiant, fine-spun, unforgettable. Performed by Sophie de Bardonnèche with Lucile Boulanger and Justin Taylor. #ClassicalMusic youtube.com/watch?v=s0t4...

The only ICE we want to see in St. Louis

there are two types of poetry book titles: ones that work between the words “Holy” and “Batman!” and ones that do not, and generally everything you need to know about the book comes from how well the title works in this context

Any Evening by JAMES RICHARDSON A far bird sings again, a little further. There is less and less difference between your shadow and the shadow inside you and all the shadows, and the evening softly… www.theparisreview.org/poetry/8324/... —- Couperin, Les Ombres errantes #ClassicalMusic

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski

Another gem by a 17 year old Mozart! Mozart: String Quartet K 169 I. Molto allegro #Orchestra version by Nurhan Arman Sinfonia Toronto / Nurhan Arman, Conductor Recorded live on January 25, 2013 in CBC Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto, Canada #classicalmusic youtu.be/6vhTaKhO1bc

I went to the coffee shop/used bookstore and only bought coffee?! No, I’m not feeling ill 🤔 Now off to kayak and paint poorly with pride… #STL

🌙 ‘Nite, peeps. John Schneiderman shutting down this day with a jubilant lute concerto by Kohaut. He totally owns this piece. open.spotify.com/track/5fzWRa... “When He Holds Out His Hands, Bees Stream from His Fingertips” by REBECCA ELLIOTT #poetry #ClassicalMusic

Take a breath. Longing for disputes to be resolved in a civilized—even delightful—way? Here you go: J.G. Graun. Trio sonata in G Major “Melancholicus & Sanguineus”, GWV A:XV:11. II. Allegro non troppo youtu.be/mqIVr4Rppcw?... Complete piece open.spotify.com/album/60z9PA... #ClassicalMusic

Headed to breakfast at one of my favorite spots for misfits & malcontents—which means I probably know a lot of them 😁. Today’s kickoff mood: Telemann’s La Bizarre suite. It’s got that stretched-thin surface politeness, with an undercurrent of elegant exasperation. Perfect! #ClassicalMusic

‘Nite, peeps. Allegro by Tomas Tranströmer (Tr. from Swedish) I play Haydn after a dark day and sense an honest warmth in my hands. — I push the hands deep into my haydnpockets, mimicking one who… modernpoetryintranslation.com/poem/allegro/ Pedro Lopes Nogueira (1686-1770) #ClassicalMusic

Winding down from a much better day than yesterday. Kosabei tea still hot, and I’m aiming for one more essay from Badkhen’s Bright Unbearable Reality. The 442s—my longtime local favs—are in the background with chamber jazz: half-scripted, half-spontaneous, and wholly and wildly luminous. #jazz

It’s an excellent middle-of-the-night to be sipping tea in dim light, wrapped in Willem de Fesch, Concerto Grosso in C Major, Op. 3: No. 1. Dutch-born, London-based, with both fire & poise. I slept off a bad day earlier, so of course I’m wide awake now—steeping instead of sleeping. #ClassicalMusic

#STL Cathedral Concerts are free, and in venues around town. Fri Sept 12 in Cottleville, Sun Sept 14 in Kirkwood (See you there!) cathedralconcerts.org #ClassicalMusic

#STL #SLSO “This album celebrates the SLSO's dynamic partnership with Stéphane [Denève] through commissions and dedications composed by Puts, who…will serve as the SLSO’s Composer in Residence for the 2025/26 season.” outhere-music.com/en/news/delo...

Another night sleep just isn’t anywhere to be found. I’m getting sooo much extra reading time this week. 🥱

‘Nite, peeps. An exquisite Mascitti sonata, full of yearning, to carry you into a new week. #ClassicalMusic #poetry #goodnight Salute by A. R. AMMONS May happiness pursue you, catch you often, and, should it lose you, be waiting ahead, making a clearing for you youtube.com/watch?v=NP9S...

I can relate. I found this on Instagram.

One of my favorite pieces by Pisendel. Only a handful of his works survived, but they’re exceptional. He studied with Torelli, was close friends with Vivaldi, hung out in the same circles as Bach, Telemann, and other musical glitterati. #ClassicalMusic music.youtube.com/watch?v=J_-N...

‘Blue Room’, Sonny Rollins pandora.app.link/z5RaM2wetWb

95 today. One of the best ever to do it.

‘Nite, peeps. Sliding in to the wee small hours, reading “All the Beauty in the World” about the Met Museum, tea long gone cold, and hoping I fall asleep in the middle of a page... #jazz #goodnight open.spotify.com/track/5gtIMC...

This is a beautiful version of “describe your job as weirdly as possible” 😄💙

Sorry to learn this. His book, “The Game,” is a great read—and re-read—even if you’re not a die-hard hockey fan. Absolute unit of a goalie, as well. (Hockey is a religion in my house—right up there with getting judgy about proper realization of ornaments in French Baroque keyboard music.) #NHL

Sure, why not throw a pot of coffee on at 11PM. Gonna be that kind of night. 🤷🏻‍♀️

🌙✨‘Nite, peeps. #jazz #goodnight open.spotify.com/track/0IaFIf...

🎵 There are 75,730 notes in the Goldberg Variations to distract you from doomscrolling or whatever else might be plaguing you. Here’s a fraction of them: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: No 26. Trevor Pinnock on harpsichord open.spotify.com/track/7fMvBD... #ClassicalMusic

Regret lives where timing and choice collide—the thing missed, the time passed, the chance unclaimed. — Enigma of the Hour, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1912

‘Nite, peeps. Mieczysław Weinberg, Aria, Op. 9. #ClassicalMusic —- from “The Wonder of the Imperfect” by W.S. MERWIN I am made whole by what has just escaped me as it always does I am made of incompleteness the words are not there in words merwinconservancy.org/poems/the-wo... #poetry #goodnight

Hope for more sleep kept me from making coffee at 3AM. Hope for more sleep not being fulfilled has me making coffee at 4AM. “The small bones of the wrist / balance against great skeletons of stars…” From WRITING by Howard Nemerov www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42697/... #jazz #poetry #needcoffee

‘Nite, peeps. Much earlier than usual day tomorrow, much later night than usual last night (did I sleep…?), so—to bed. #goodnight —- Agnes Obel, “Riverside” youtu.be/vjncyiuwwXQ?...

Today’s doom scroll break is from Aidan the Wonder Dog’s favorite recording ever. Seriously. This is the only one where he’d whimper if I turned it off. When you work from home and your dog controls the playlist, that means you’re going to listen to a *lot* of this! #ClassicalMusic

Music mail arrived—mostly natural horns binge edition—so morning is starting with Madeuf performing Molter on a natural trumpet with an historically correct mouthpiece (much larger in size than modern ones). Fun last mvmt from 3rd trumpet concerto: open.spotify.com/track/6FerrV... #ClassicalMusic

#NowPlaying Alfred Schnittke string quartets. It's like being attacked by a swarm of wasps, and each of wasp is being attacked by its own swarm of tiny tiny wasps.