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Just so we’re clear,
the (real!) Metropolitan Opera is selling a sleep mask that “mimics the alluring eyes of an Indian princess or Japanese Geisha girl”.
||: cool cool cool cool :||
POLL FOR MUSIC TWITTER
You can remove ONE person from their current role and replace them with a person of your choice. The other stays as is. Choose wisely:
93%replace PETER GELB
7%replace NORMAN LEBRECHT
112 votes • Final results John Hong retweeted
Verdict in Derek Chauvin trial for death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020:
- Guilty: second-degree murder
- Guilty: third-degree murder
- Guilty: second-degree manslaughter
John Hong retweeted
CALL FOR ARTICLES (Thread): @icareifulisten and @ComposersForum are launching a new 10-month initiative entitled “Casting Light,” a series of commissioned essays dedicated to the often invisible inequities in the contemporary arts. icareifyoulisten.com/2021/03…
Classical music has long treated its appeal as self-evident.
🚢= sailed
• Why is the experience special?
• What makes the experience different from others?
Too many classical music ads don't even try to answer one of those... "Brahms" isn't enough lol
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I'm sick of people who believe that we can't all be successful in our roles in the music world. I don't want to live my life feeling competitive with others, I want to live my life supporting and encouraging everyone to pursue their creative dreams.
Step 1: Commit to a "all businesses can safely reopen when X% of city/state population is vaccinated" number
Step 2: Put a thermometer on your .gov website next to your "how many vaccinated" counter, updated daily
guarantee this would be a huge motivator.
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I love on TV every dramatic conversation ends with one person just walking out after getting in their final one liner.
“Pull yourself together, John, or it’s going to be the end of this firm.”
“Alright. I will. Also I wanted to ask ab- wait you’re just leaving?”
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All the people who hate on stuff that other people enjoy can sit the fuck down. Popular is not a synonym for "inferior".
(Looking at you, classical musicians...)
Sometimes, it's a synonym for brilliant.
#ship30for30
Reading the replies here is fascinating. Specifically the freedom of speech crowd insisting that this letter merits firing bc of its “tone”
Loved chatting with Erin Paul about transitioning from conservatory training and mindset to something a lil' different :)
Doublers is a pod about musicians with "day jobs" - definitely worth a subscription :)
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Ender's Game is a book about children, but I think its popularity comes from how it speaks to the inner children in all of us.
In the book, some obsessed about winning and losing the game
Others saw through the game as a construct, imposed on them by their little society:
Two productivity lessons I've learned from #ship30for30:
1. The fear of not holding up your end of the bargain motivates like crazy (S/O to @K_Tskhay)
2. For a better creative product, forcing myself to take breaks > forcing myself to keep working
