They put CPE in the fine print?! Grr! Bach Society season closes with JS Bach’s Magnificat, and I was kinda “Meh!” about it. Then I noticed the fine print. CPE, too?! My favorite Mag ever? Well, duh. 😍 Heck yes, I’m going! #ClassicalMusic #STL 🎵Sing along on my drive: youtu.be/T5DXyvE5Q1E?...

At Powell Hall in #STL with @ianfjanssen.bsky.social enjoying Isata Kanneh-Mason. Programmed from dark into light, it is also my third Beethoven sammich this season and enjoying every bit! #classicalmusic

Braque came from a family of house painters. He made his own paint, he knew how to create a variety of faux finishes, from marble to wood. No one has ever put more delectable stuff on canvas.

MUSICOLOGY/THEORY HIVE: Anyone have recommendations for good sources on the history, form, and analysis of trio sonatas?

In searching for “Music for after you smash your thumb with a hammer,” I narrowed it to two choices: • Acknowledgement: Mahler. Symphony 6, Finale. Too obvious. or • Comfort: Alessandro Stradella. Sinfonia D Minor I chose comfort, because “Ow!” #ClassicalMusic youtube.com/watch?v=A3tD...

Highly recommend this episode of the Sinica podcast with @kaiserkuo.bsky.social and translator Eleanor Goodman, about the brilliant poetry of Zheng Xiaoqiong, the Chinese labor poetry movement generally, and the joys and challenges of poetry translation: www.sinicapodcast.com/p/the-poetry...

Holy hockey pucks. Boston Fleet just scored 3 goals in 93 seconds. 🏒🏒🏒⏱️ Outstanding pro hockey that happens to be played by women. Playoff season is going to spike my blood pressure. #BostonFleet #PWHL #hockey

#MothersDay My mum’s life was full of mystery & loss, but she never gave up, and never lost her joy, a battle or a friend. When I read her letters and journals, I was stunned by long-overdue explanations & how much she’d gone thru— appreciated even more how brilliant and resilient she was. Miss her.

3AM wake-up, not by choice. Compelling reason to get out of bed—coffee—is not quite compelling enough yet. Not unless it halts that brain-loop of, “Well, I guess we live like this now, AND we’re out of biscotti...” Gentle, repetitive, oddly comforting: Opening, by Philip Glass. #ClassicalMusic

The story about this album is one the most touching and delicate I have come to know in the history of Jazz

Another Jarrett recording that just showcases in detail his brilliance, clarity, and precision in playing: youtu.be/So3Q25v4cMc?...

A peek at our family traditions for celebrating Mother’s Day (US). Our campy favorites: 🦋 👯‍♀️ Mother’s Day Eve (Saturday) is “Mothra’s Day.” Watch the movie classic “Mothra,” featuring Godzilla universe’s giant matriarchal moth protector of civilization. #kaiju #MothersDay #Mothra #Godzilla

On Keith Jarrett's 80th birthday I'm listening to his beautiful 1999 solo album The Melody At Night, With You. The cover photo is by Daniela Nowitzki album.link/y/OLAK5uy_n2...

I used to have “Rise, Glory, Rise” as my morning wake-up. When Dame Emma’s voice shocked me awake snd I literally fell out of bed a couple times, I changed it to a more sedate Arne cantata. ⏰ ☀️ Streaming options: lynkify.in/song/rosamun... #GoodMorning #NeedCoffee #ClassicalMusic

A dozen female Palestinians are working to save and preserve medieval and early modern manuscripts 📕 from the Al-Omari mosque’s library. Hang this picture in the Louvre (and the Met). www.newarab.com/features/ins...

Nite, peeps. Me and my popsicle toes are calling it a night—and it’s downright chilly! Best places to park-n-thaw freezing phalanges: slippers, blanket burrito, warm thighs, SmartWools, fireplace. youtu.be/GqvBF3SHd-M?... #jazzpop

Seriously: Telemann “Canary Cantata” TWV20:37 Full title: “Cantata of Funeral Music for an Artistically Trained Canary-Bird Whose Demise Brought the Greatest Sorrow to His Master” “Oh, alas, my canary is dead! To whom can I bemoan my misery, To whom can I bemoan my bitter pain?” 1/2 #ClassicalMusic

Wordle 1,783 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Very, very green.

Just…😍👏🥂 My old hometown now has #PWHL! 🏒 As rabid as the Detroit fans are for NHL, I’m sure they’ll have outstanding fan support. 🐙 No octopi tho, probably… www.thepwhl.com/en/news/2026...

Unpleasant medieval drinking games ...

Arco Gas Stations imply the existence of Pizzicato Gas Stations.

‘Nite, peeps. Coltrane shutting down the day. #jazz open.spotify.com/track/2JQqfV...

Joseph Cornell Untitled (Bébé Marie), early 1940s A wonderful short video of Orhan Pamuk talking about two Cornell boxes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4T...

Sic Scooby on SCOTUS.

Let’s get this party started for a new week, peeps. More from extraordinary cellist Abel Selaocoe, who says of this piece: “This is a West African rhythm that I decided to celebrate; sitting in the chair of another African country. It's also about finding your home.” #ClassicalMusic #WorldMusic

Good Morning! It is Mon May 4.On this day in 1916, Jane Jacobs was born.She was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. She argued that "urban renewal" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers. #Herstory #WomeninSTEM 🧪

Happy Positivity Monday. Play music. Reach for the stars. Beloved pianist, composer, and music teacher (NYU), Seymour Bernstein (1927-2026) passed away last week at 99. May he rest in peace. (Quote from the film, "Seymour: An Introduction.")

After Bach By Wm. BRONK In cello suites we learn the way despair, deepest sadness, can and must be phrased as praise, thanksgiving. Of course we knew this anyway but mightn't have dared it on our own. And the way the sadness can be in part to accept the absence of One to say it to. #classicalmusic

Lowering the lights a bit with a little something to soften the evening: Couperin. Les Concerts Royaux. Premier Concert: Prélude - Gravement (1722) Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall youtu.be/UWKotlSI_N0?... #ClassicalMusic

#May1 Haydn: a hint. Rzewski: a movement. Blitzstein?! Zero subtext. A work stoppage, scored. Directed by Orson Welles, The Cradle Will Rock is a pro-labor musical that was shut down for being too pro-labor—so they performed it anyway. No set. No orchestra. No permission. youtu.be/M1d2XcgEARA?...

Wordle 1,777 3/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Hey, it’s the little things…

#May1 Haydn’s “Farewell” Symphony isn’t just charming—it’s labor history. Musicians were into overtime at Esterházy’s summer palace. Haydn has them snuff their candles & walk off mid-performance to signal: we’d like to go home now. Polite? Yes. Effective? Also yes. #ClassicalMusic Finale (8 min)

Dear Lord. The lyrics and arrangements to this song... it's like Communist Manifesto meets tragedy opera.

Your long read, must-read for today. Pour a fresh large cup. Sit. Now, read. “There is often a sweetness to nostalgia, a sugar coating that, left unchecked, thickens until it obscures the painful kernel. The longing for a past purified of its faults—or a past we never knew firsthand…”

The Boston Fleet took game one as the Ottawa Charge fall short in a tight 2-1 decision. More: thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #PWHL

Waiting for tonight’s program with Isserlis and Shih to begin. 🎻 This is my second Beethoven sandwich in a bit over a month—not unwelcome, just an observation. 🎹 OK, for this I would skip PWHL hockey playoffs #WUSTL #WashU #STL #classicalmusic

Excellent advice. “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.” ~St. Catherine of Siena

This is a tough one. The choice is: 🎻 Steven Isserlis in recital at 7PM or 🏒 #PWHL for @bostonfleet.com playoff hockey at 7PM. 🫣🤔 I do not have the intestinal fortitude to be making such decisions this morning. Coin flip? #ClassicalMusic

Happy Birthday to the very efficient Progeny. Left, one week before wedding in 2024: “I wanted the funny hat.” Right, one week after wedding. Best combination of humor, smarts, and hockey fanaticism I know. #BOTD #HappyBirthday 👩‍🔬🧬🧫🏒❤️ @thalia.bsky.social

Ghosts Graphite on paper - 7x10 inches - 2026 #graphiteOnPaper

Sat, June 6 at 8PM San Francisco Composers CHAMBER ORCHESTRA —Wish I lived closer and could go Old First Church 1751 Sacramento Street San Francisco, CA #SanFrancisco #SF #SFArts #NewMusic

This series of poems by Jan Zwicky which have Beethoven's Opus 95 as an excuse... you'll bawl your eyes out... An apology, first: I did not guess the moodiness of my middle years would bring, unschooled as I was in the varieties of frustration

Light-hearted serious music for #5DebutAlbums7579 Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music from the Penguin Cafe (Editions EG, 1976) Chamber Music / Experimental

Render unto Little Caesar …

Me, after retrieving laundry done while sheltering during tornado warnings 😁 youtu.be/FWFnaDyuJIs?...

From Canadians Jan Zwicky and James Campbell. Thanks to @poemakontsa.bsky.social for a wonderful musical afternoon.

More Celebration of the Music of Giovanni Henrico Albicastro! (c. 1660 – 26 January 1730) … another most remarkable musical movement. Here, the Adagio from his Op. 7 n. 4 — Concerto a quattro for oboe, strings & b.c. in C minor: youtu.be/-8a1wfYBEGc?...

From “Alcione” by Marin Marais: Airs pour les Matelots et les Tritons IV. Tempête. youtu.be/Jb115dvqLO8?... Seemed appropriate for the winds and hail of the t-storms about to find & liberate every single weak branch on my 120 yr old sycamore tree. #classicalmusic #stlwx