@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Nagai’s palm tree shadows (directly underneath from midday sun) make more sense when the painting is viewed in full. The trees are much closer to the water than first impression.
Please read this & help save the State Library of Victoria, entering its 'now fully trashed' era. I didn't go to uni - for me the Library was higher education in later life, research for my job, a revelation about what ordinary people could have access to. It changed my life. Not just a building.
Matcha doesn’t have a very long shelf life
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
🧪 For some lighter science news here's an intriguing story from the thawing north. I first encountered it when Leanne presented a poster with her excellent undergraduate research at a student symposium a few months ago. Now science writer Ned Rozell wrote this: www.uaf.edu/news/the-hol...
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Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
Dear Concert Reviewers,
Please don’t say the concert “kicked off” when the opening work in question is “contemplative” and “crystalline”. Use your words. Use your ears!
I can almost understand the love-at-first-performance thing. What has always puzzled me is that he wanted to be married to someone with whom he had no language in common.
Looks like crochet rather than knitting, but so cute :)
#Skype is going away & they want users to shift to Teams, even though it doesn't offer equiv. functionality. Only ever used Skype to call landlines/mobiles fr. my Mac for interviews that I needed to record with #AudioHijack. Have belatedly realised I can do the same thing with Facetime sans video.
Freelance journalists are woefully underpaid and being exploited. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
Not blocked for me 🇦🇺 if location makes a difference.
Not a concerto, but Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy combines concertante piano and SATB chorus.
Excellent news!
That feeling when you find a crucial date typo in a British music journal from 1844, and in the process discover where you can download facsimiles of the Öesterreichisches Morgenblatt… #AmWriting #RabbitHoles
In the meantime, please check out my FREE EDITION of this score so you don't have to worry about all this jumping around--I have already puzzled it out.
henselpushers.org/h-numbers/h277
Search traffic is up for Fanny Hensel's String Quartet... so I'd like to remind everyone that the most widely used edition--and therefore most performances--are wrong.
tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's
long version:
Which movement did they use?
The story is recounted in some detail here: www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
and in Russian here:
vakin.livejournal.com/869915.html
Black and white photo. Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, dressed in white tights, huge ballet slippers, a white practice tutu, white sleeveless top, and feathered ballet headdress, smiling broadly with one arm around violinist Isaac Stern, who is dressed in a suit and also smiling broadly. To their right is a smiling Gregory Peck, also in a suit. They are standing in front of music stands and chairs in an outdoor performance space in a San Francisco park, and there is a dark hanging banner in the background with what looks like an Al Hirschfield caricature of Stern playing violin reproduced in white. The year is 1990.
At a 70th-birthday tribute concert for Isaac Stern in 1990, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performed Saint-Säens’ Swan wearing a tutu, swan headdress, ballet shoes and lipstick. Pictured here with Stern and Gregory Peck
#FrivolousFriday
Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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In a world where everything is getting faster, there's a prevailing trend of ballet variations being taken slower, invariably at the expense of musical integrity. It seems that dancers want to squeeze in more turns, higher extensions, longer poses… regardless of what the music indicates. [6/5+1]
Miharu Kikuchi's tempo does bring out the coquettishness, and a certain sprightliness, but not so much of the rest. Here's the same variation in a performance fr the Dolin Foundation YouTube channel – presumably it reflects Dolin's intention. Much faster!
Starts 7:28 [5/5+1]
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Ivor Guest cont. …a piquant, coquettish variation in which she brought her youthful grace and fascination into fullest play.
Now that's a description of Perrot's orig choreography, not Anton Dolin's 1941 revival, but the spirit still applies. [4/5]
Ivor Guest (1968) quotes descriptions fr 1845:
There followed an andante movement for Carlotta Grisi, performing "tip-toe flights" and "lightning gyrations" of "equal dexterity and number, mingled, however, with a world of little sprightly steps, which multiplied her feet into thousands"… [3/5]
So this is why I was interested in the tempo marking. This competition performance by a 17yo dancer is rather lovely (and it's a refreshing repertoire choice for a competition) but it just seemed much too slow. And indeed it is too slow for a duple-time Andante. [2/5] www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyZ4...
Piano sheet music for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre. The tempo marking is "Andante", the written time-signature is three-four (three quarter notes per measure), but the notation shows music in two-four (two quarter notes per measure). Essentially, it's a typo.
🧵#BalletMusic I had reason to want to check Pugni's marked tempo for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre this evening, so I pottered over to IMSLP to check the original piano score edition and I found the most curious thing… [1/5]
Some thoughts on the Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center, for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (may be paywalled. Subscribe to VAN!)
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This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
