G’nite, peeps. Have some gentle Handel from ‘Berenice’—elegance on the surface, tension just beneath, and everything contained in a convoluted plot. <sigh> Baroque opera always seems to have such impeccable manners, even as everything is quietly unraveling. #ClassicalMusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sycg... @stevewfolds.bsky.social @lisasass.bsky.social @grbenny.bsky.social @sallygibb.bsky.social #902

A fascinating non-traditional approach to the challenge of audience attraction and retention for “…bringing contemporary music to broader audiences.” 🎻🎵 youtu.be/9b8VtpDLHfc?... #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #Dogs #Composition

Looks like blinding lightning flashes are this morning’s ungodly early alarm. Too early for coffee ⛈️

Dear Wordle, I hate you. 😝 Wordle 1,747 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ok, wrapping up Bach & Haydn birthday lore. Both had happy endings to macabre grave dilemmas: 🥁 Haydn got a parade through town when he got his skull back, and 🏛️ Bach moved from the cheap seats to a fancy monumental tomb. They also left behind some incredible music… ’Nite, peeps! #ClassicalMusic

When Bach died, he was buried in an unmarked grave with others, then misplaced & lost for 150+ years. Until… 🪦 A 75-yr-old worker recalled that, 60 years earlier, a 90-yr-old graveyard gardener had pointed to a burial place of mixed bones & coffins… youtu.be/Pi0IuyTS_ic?... #BOTD #ClassicalMusic

As Paul said in another post, “Birthday boy at his most sternly uncompromising.” Warning: may get you riled up.

For the Big Guy’s birthday, this 20min 30 Bach episode may change how you think about the Goldbergs, about Bach, about music. It ties up an illuminating series like the gift it is. It doesn’t ignore our current world reality—but does deliver some non-saccharin hope. #ClassicalMusic #Bach #BOTD

#BOTD Haydn. The baryton is 18th-century cool: part viol, part lute, insanely complicated. It’s the gut-plucker for when you want to play, pluck, and confuse your audience all at once. #Haydn wrote 100+ baryton pieces for Prince Esterházy. (This video was made at castle Esterházy.) #ClassicalMusic

BOTD 1685 Supreme Master of music, Johann Sebastian Bach. I could share literally hundreds of special moments from this divine genius, but there is one that contains it all, miraculously distilled. The Chaconne from BWV 1004. youtu.be/xjYQlmpS69k?...

Made for 2AM kind of music …

G’nite, peeps. Something silky, soothing, and shimmery to ease you into night. François Couperin, "Les Baricades Mïstérieuses.” No one agrees on what those mysterious barricades are—that’s part of the charm. Couperin loved coded titles, and left no explanation. #ClassicalMusic #Baroque

Palate-cleansing read: “The Upside-Down World” by Benjamin Moser. Having a hard time kickstarting Monday, despite coffee. This is helping: Pieter Hellendaal Grand Concerto, Op. 3, No. 3 in F Major: IV. Alla breve youtu.be/TRyfPB8s_Rc?... #ClassicalMusic #needcoffee

G’nite, peeps! Have some sprightly Boismortier while I go raid the TBR shelves for another read… #ClassicalMusic youtu.be/BHmoyn8lAzk?...

It’s rare I don’t finish a book — but I’m setting aside a bio of Mary Cassatt in part because her art makes me weirdly uncomfortable. There’s a restraint that leaves nothing to push against—just containment and unfinished feeling, where tenderness can tip into dissonance, even claustrophobia.

If you want to make your bed softer, remove the hardback poetry volumes

Closing the gap between the hives and hives-not: Benadryl and coffee sound grrrreat for breakfast. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Either I’m suddenly allergic to headlines or the salon switched shampoos.

Tonight’s program is a Beethoven sammich, with Puts and Guo in-between. Víkingur Ólafsson soloist. Getting comfy (again), settling in for another night with #SLSO. #ClassicalMusic #STL

Del Cinque was “…the most prolific composer of cello music of all time, [yet] he remains virtually unknown today, even among cellists.” Video recorded where the composer himself often performed. Per liner notes, he was also a priest, poet, nobleman and painter. youtu.be/c6Y9NtNWTSY #ClassicalMusic

TGIF—Yes, weekend! #ClassicalMusic

Released in 1949, "Black Coffee" by Sarah Vaughan, #BOTD. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRyN...

Pause the scroll for 180 seconds, but keep the vibe. Have a world-weary sigh by Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745). Neither tragic nor peaceful—listen, then insert your own description for “giving all the feels.” Suite V in C Minor. André Lislevand, Jadran Duncumb, Paola Erdas #ClassicalMusic

Authentic Italian diss record. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlJ...

Getting comfy at #STL Powell Hall—Vikingur Olafsson recital. #SLSO 🎵🎹 Bach & Beethoven program sammich, with Schubert in between. #ClassicalMusic

Royer is a great soundtrack for days that are discordant, dissonant, dizzying—and maybe a bit brash. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Voltaire (allegedly) wrote that Royer “…had immolated me to his sixteenth notes.” #ClassicalMusic #Baroque

Heading to the gym shortly, considering a new metric: calories burned by preemptively bracing for outcomes that haven’t happened. Early data suggests that I might be an elite athlete. #Overthinking

Two for 1 Special! Get 13 minutes of near-perfection and your heart wrung out at the same time, thanks to this performance. Ensemble Diderot in concert last month, with Bach violin concerto in A minor, BWV 1041. youtu.be/3bXViiErFAw?... #ClassicalMusic #Bach #needcoffee

Fitting that the statue is in chains seeing as Christopher Columbus himself was brought back to Spain enchained, in disgrace, for the senseless brutality and utter incompetence of his leadership both at sea and in Hispaniola. A real American hero, to some.

Had a brief absence from the timeline for a few quiet days. So, here’s an entirely disproportionate and unnecessarily grand return. 👋 Re-entry in a manner befitting the moment: Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, anyone? And who hid my palm leaf fans? #ClassicalMusic youtu.be/XoZqO-uLrI8

My daughter (“That’s Dr. Progenydóttir to you”) thinks I need a dog. So she sends an Icelandic sheepdog pic, with CV: • smart • eager to please • < 30lbs She has no idea I have a ticket to see Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. This becomes relevant. #VikingurOlafsson #ClassicalMusic #dogs 💁🏻‍♀️🎹🐶

It’s Friday the 13th. For anyone leaning into the superstition that it’s unlucky—my counterpoint counterargument: 🎵 The bass line repeats 32 more times. The voices will work it out.* Counterpoint says everything will resolve…eventually. *Not the ones in your head. #Friday13th #ClassicalMusic

G’nite, peeps. Needed something to soothe tough and prickly nerves wandering farther than any explanation should have to follow. Hello, stylus luxurians—richly expressive, dramatic turns, emotional sighs. Oh, and the music has those too… M. Weckmann (1616-74), Toccata in E minor #ClassicalMusic

Happy Blursday—the day when you’re not exactly sure *what* day it is. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Today’s a Thursday that feels like it should be a Friday, but my mood is still in last Saturday even tho I’m starting the day catching up from Monday. ☕️ Need more coffee. #jazz #Blursday youtube.com/watch?v=Z3AF...

Mar 13, 8PM EDT. Cambridge MA Le Consort. Trio sonatas. What’s not to love?! #bemf #Boston #classicalmusic #LeConsort (Mar 27-Apr 10: Virtual/Online).

G’nite, peeps. I Understand This Light to Be My Home by MAI DER VANG I am shaped in the spaces where the light does not reach, a need for what does not shimmer but opening to the shadow to receive... www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... #Poetry 🎵 Leclair as lullaby tonight… #ClassicalMusic

Let's do this again!! People you should be following: For all things Dada, Andre Breton's Surrealist circle @gertiewentworth.bsky.social Poetry in translation, art @wordkunst.bsky.social The best pairing of Baroque music and poetry @lisasass.bsky.social Poet Kim Dorman @kimdorman.bsky.social

Bach wasn’t subtle when he wanted to make a point, like in this Magnificat. ‘Deposuit potentes de sede’ (He has cast down the mighty from their thrones) Violins slide down in rapid runs, like shoving the powerful down stairs. Once you hear it you can’t unhear it. And there’s more…1/2 #ClassicalMusic

I think Progeny misunderstood me. 🎹 I am going to see an Icelandic pianist in a couple weeks. At no point was an Icelandic dog mentioned. 🐶 This is how it began tho, getting Aidan the Wonder Dog. Cute pictures. Links. Condensing the selling points. ✨There’s one key difference this time though…

From the Bach boy who would easily pass the “Two Beers & a Puppy” test*, the quicksilver shimmer of CPE Bach’s Sonata in C Major, Wq 136. He was *such* a middle child… Bright and witty, it’s empfindsamer Stil at its most charming. #ClassicalMusic *See post below for explanation of the 🍻& a 🐶 test.

Maybe extend beyond medieval by an additional couple hundred years... #ClassicalMusic #EarlyMusic

Hey, #STL! Catch up on Seasons 1&2 of local legend Papa Ray’s Vintage Vinyl Roadshow, because Season 3 drops in Apr. His trips around the country visiting record stores are…a trip. S1 Ep 1: Our own #VintageVinyl in #UCityLoop @ninepbs.bsky.social Answers, What was up with those steak fajitas?!

There are 17 Baroque & Early Music concerts in the UK this weekend (13-15 March) 🎻 📸 @baroqueinthenorth.bsky.social (Sat 14:30 @ Gargrave, N Yorks) Full listings 👉 https://go.continuoconnect.com/whats-on

Injustice as an eternal problem (read the entire thread).

Birbynė #music

Nite, peeps. Extremely preoccupied, but hoping sleep will eventually win. “Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.” ~Frank O’Hara Telemann Viola Concerto, G Maj youtu.be/ot0c-_kjqDA?... #classicalmusic #poetry #goodnight

Sanity break from scrolling: a Beethoven triple concerto that sounds like spring, with piano, violin, cello taking turns in the sunlight. Concerto for piano, violin, cello, orchestra. C major, op.56 Renaud & Gautier Capuçon, Martha Argerich; European Chamber Orchestra #ClassicalMusic #Beethoven