Strange experience. Never before do I recall being in an orchestra seated by height.

rule no. 1 of the orchestra is don't wear white socks to a concert. rule no. 2 is don't ask what's in the thermos.

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The Lady came back to another concert, sitting on the front row reading James Patterson. I hope I am that cool one day.

Spooky. youtu.be/b756FPiLlp8?...

I walk into the music store. There is a new clerk at the desk. She says hello. I wish her good morning. It is 3 p.m.

when you get back late from rehearsal (exhausted) but it's 10 p.m. and Hozier is on the radio and you have a honeycrisp apple and suddenly life isn't perfect, but it is very, very good.

[enter, pursued by trombone]

@bookmarkedone.bsky.social : (stabs hand) oh I should write some music this is *not* the inspiration for stabby song we requested

Heard someone mention "jack of all trades/master of none" recently. ... clearly whoever invented this phrase never met bards.

Me: (works three jobs, is a member of two performing ensembles +gigs, produces my own music, runs a blog, designs album art, writes) Me: idk I'm just lazy

I think we should make a habit of saying nice things about different music fandoms. Swifties could overthrow empires with the power of friendship bracelets. Hozier fans have a solemn respect for porridge and moss. Classical music listeners have the dedication to loop one song for 275 years.

Vague music update? Posted. Outer space? Scored. Stay tuned…something new is coming. ;)

So after an accidental month-long blog hiatus (blame the misadventures of @celanimori.bsky.social ), I find not only have you lovely nosy readers kept yourselves busy by reading the archive of old posts, someone dredged one up all the way from 2021 that I'd entirely forgotten.

#Musician Life: me: yeah, so I listened to one of my recordings today and I didn't hate it! :3 literally any sane non-musician, crying: what is wrong with you?

'tis the season for "hey do you want to play a concert? it's tomorrow" messages.

don’t mind me I’m just drinking tea and listening to a piano trio composed for a long-dead teenage prince and wondering if it made him happy.

overthinking an audition outfit it’s a blind audition literally zero of the jurors will even see my shoes during the selection process why do we do this

playing “is that phantom flute music or a pre-audition stress-induced auditory hallucination” for once, phantom musicians are more likely.

ALBUMMMM (I finally got to listen to it 😊)

“Your Idol” is frankly genius for the way it describes the comfort we find in music. “Every time it hurts, play another verse…” Losing ourselves to it, bit by bit, until it’s all that matters and we’d do anything to follow the music isn’t so far fetched.

albummm :)

one of my current favorite bands releases an album this week, and throughout the day my brain has been chanting album album album album :)

just quietly contemplating how do I compose outer space????

I know what my face looks like. But sometimes I forget until I’m seeing my own burning glare in a camera… my personality “hey!! let’s make something beautiful :)” my face “your regime is dead and you will fall with it. there will be no mercy even if you beg for it.”

today we would like to apologize to: cellos for: having to sit across from my Performance Mode Scary Face.

-profession mandates a dark wardrobe -only appear at night -highly skilled -paid by contract -know everyone else in the business -sometimes receive job offers from complete strangers -operate on a need to know basis (learn location, objective, and compensation, but no names of other players)

there actually are a remarkable number of similarities between assassins and orchestral musicians

"No, I'm not going to clean my violin at midnight by the light of the full moon" is not something I imagined having to say this week, but here we are.

noticing the similarity in movement between knife sharpening and applying rosin to a violin bow

getting to that point when I wake up and my brain fits the rhythm of my thoughts to the fast passages of Mozart this is either a sign of progress or madness possibly both

I just got a notification about a new album from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. …eh?

Friend caught me playing the new project today and responded with "what is that?? :D :D :D" so apparently it's going well.

tonight’s concert was for the baby girl who brought her soft doll and plush bunny and the white-haired lady who sat alone at the very front with a book to keep her company and blew a kiss to the orchestra at the end and everyone else, I guess.

Getting ready for two upcoming violin things, so have no time, but pulled out a new composition and played it for the first time today anyway and gang. it's good. you're not going to know what hit you ;)

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” #ThoreauThursday

someone compliments my music taste: 🥰 someone asks about my music taste: 🙁

comparing rosins like swapping lipstick brand names with the girls

when you write a post and think "I should maybe not post this. People are going to be concerned" but art must embrace all emotions, even painful ones, and you cannot back down--

so I might have the flu sorry for getting disconcertingly poetic about my instrument. it will happen again.

To be a violinist is to hold back your tears. Because if you should cry, you must stop playing, lest your tears fall on the instrument and damage it, the expression of your sorrows removing your one means of escaping them.

Where do you all keep coming from? :) 100 celani mori followers on Spotify! Thank you for listening. :) #Spotify #Distrokid #violin #newmusic #celanimori

For my fellow folklorists who wish to run away with the fairies . . . this is a special musical treat from my dear friend @celanimori.bsky.social 💕

Surprise! A few special people have heard this one before, but now it’s available on all major music platforms with a shiny new cover image. “Fairy Fruit: Caprice for Solo Violin” is live! #musicsky #spotify #originalmusictracks #nowplaying #violin #classical

did we do anything different with marketing to make this happen? nope. no idea what sparked the sudden interest, but I am very curious...and pleased. ;)

we did not remain calm about 1,000 Spotify streams.

Um. Hello world, I suppose. Thanks for streaming "Unexpected Encounters of the Melodic Kind" on Spotify.

"Unexpected Encounters of the Melodic Kind" is back on Distrokid's Wheel of Playlist, this time at no. 2! Here's to this little book-inspired instrumental overture finding more listeners. 💙🎵 #newmusic #nowplaying #Spotify #classical #bookmusic

why do we memorize music? so we can watch the baby foxes while we practice, that's why.

and that brings the 2024-25 orchestral season to a close. looking forward to carving out some time for more celani mori music soon ;)