Kirsty Matheson

You do realise you mentioned The Nutcracker and now the entire 🤬thing is now playing on loop in my head
#musicianscurse

My hot Chalamet take: just because someone’s famous and successful in one area of the arts, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll have anything sensible to say about other art forms - especially more niche ones like opera. It’s not terribly surprising!

This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK.

In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is.
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20 anti #ICE activists have entered #Target in downtown #Seattle in protest of ICE and the occupation of US cities like #Minneapolis. Their demands are listed on the banners. "Target is Minnesota's largest corporate citizen, where Target goes, others follow.

I hear ya!

Donald Trump just announced breaking news. The legacy media ignored it. Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponen...

Trump said this: "The 2020 U.S. presidential election [was] rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. That’s probably breaking news."

I explain why it was, in fact, breaking news.

Crying parental tears both in sympathy & future anticipation. My two musicians will also fly their musical highways.

Good luck to your daughter in her studies. As a pro musician I know how tough a road it is but in contrast with authoritarianism, it is good for the soul & playing will keep her sane.

Like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in its initial release, I am lowkey banned everywhere.! If you like this article, please share it. If you *really* like it and would also like my children to stay housed and fed, please subscribe! Thank you

It’s a pop song - Sunny Side Up by Paolo Nutini (it’s the engaged couple’s song … that’s who the painting is for)

New Commission

Karma … 🤞

Janacek The Makropulos Affair - commission

Painting for sale!! ✨ … of Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 bagpipe tune Lochinside
Message me if interested.
30x30cm acrylic on board.

Yes to this. Strong memories of regularly watching Newsnight Review with my dad circa 2000-2003. Quite a few books and films I can roughly date form memories of discussions of them

Please respond - they need to know that unpaid work is not ok.

@sarahkendzior.bsky.social look what was just delivered to my door!! Your book has reached Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Eh … Shostakovich surely!!!! 😁

I can hear this 🥰

Oops I didn’t proof read my words - I meant timpani “gliss”!

It’s the timpani gloss that really makes me smile

Truls Mørk is my favourite recording of the suites. I got to play Dvorak cello concerto with him - he was amazing.

I would have fainted! 🤣

I’m so sorry 😔 (my youngest (13yrs) is a horn player & obsessed with the horn this would break his heart)
This will impact school instruments everywhere - double basses for school are all Chinese made.

I’m planning an online studio sale with some prints & paintings at greatly reduced prices … only for my email subscribers. Sign up here: landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/lan...

Oh my!! Are there American made horns beyond bespoke ones? No Alexs for the US 😥 … well affordable ones, the billionaires will buy them …

I’m not surprised by your order 😉 … mine would have Shosty & Bartok for 1 & 2

The scary point in all this is will America just put up with a failed president & limp along instead of doing anything about it. He’s undoubtedly failed already by many normal standards.

He watched it frustrated from the barbican balcony totally jealous that he wasn’t playing 😂 (his brother was playing in the basses)

I will find out …
He’s got loads of excerpts from this for NYO audition this year. So when I say I’m hearing it a lot, I mean a lot!! 😂