I sent a note to Institution Y to inquire about graduate study. Then I rewrote it to send to Institution M. When I reread them, I saw I had not quite said Y in my email to M, but instead "I plan to apply to [] this fall", with a blank in the text. I imagine these departments have seen it all

Many will celebrate the early tonal and free atonal work, and rightly so. But I have a few favorites from the serial period too.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQL0...

Schoenberg: Trio for Strings, Op. 45

YouTube video by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

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7/4@sevenfour.bsky.social · 6d ago

Arnold Schoenberg was born on September 13, 1874.

“Dolores” is impressive in small doses and remarkable in a historical sense, but not the most interesting Swinburne to read now. The occasional comic polysyllabic rhyme is one flaw in the tone, and it’s punishingly long…

Vance Maverick@vancemaverick.bsky.social · 7d ago

Those lie where thy foot on the floor is, These crown and caress thee and chain, O splendid and sterile Dolores, Our Lady of Pain. (i.e. Dolores is stepping on the signs of virtue and wearing the signs of vice)

So, uh, how did that work out for him? www.marsyastrio.com/bio

[“I was not familiar with your game” meme]

Litbowl@litbowl.bsky.social · last wk.

Poem for Rosh Hashanah. From Sharon Olds's book Arias. #poem #booksky #writing

I too have come to find the little 3/7 indicators obtrusive. I think what I’d prefer is just a mark showing a post is part of a thread, maybe that it has a predecessor or successor.

Did a human write this phrase? (“closely associated with the movement…”). Such an abstraction of lived history (next to an electrically specific image). It appears to come from this anonymous page: artistarchives.hosting.nyu.edu/DavidWojnaro...

Arthur David Spota@adaspota.bsky.social · last wk.

American artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz, closely associated with the art movement that developed in NYC's Lower East Side during the 80s. History Keeps Me Awake at Night #DavidWojnarowicz #ContemporaryArt

Ah, Bluesky....

Tonight was the board meeting for a little composer co-op that runs chamber orchestra concerts. One of us recently decided to write up a set of notation standards (comparable to mostlymodernfestival.org/institute/mu...). ...

RT with your home river. This is the river in its normal state, but I can remember driving across one of those bridges when it was in spate, and churning violently.

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · last wk.

I grew up a bit spoiled, where "river" meant something two miles wide with a world-famous mountain gorge a short drive from our house (Columbia R., Portland)

A no-joke no-qualification hot day in SF, but not for long.

Choosing a title for a piece recently, I went with "Kingfishers" -- arbitrary in a sense, but between this and Olson's kingfishers, they triangulate an area of poetic meaning. Plus they look good! www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54310/...

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last wk.

Pausing doomscrolling to read Gerard Manley Hopkins has been found to decrease heart rate and increase life expectancy by 15-20 years

It's well past midlife over here, but I'm changing career direction after 40 years as a computer programmer.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · last wk.

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

I've posted at least one Sol LeWitt video before, but I think this might be the best. (I do wish there were more detail at the end.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnKg...

Sol Lewitt

YouTube video by ConcentrateTV

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I was not previously aware that Franco Moretti and Nanni Moretti are brothers.

Emerges from oblivion (though famous in the US)

Matthew Cobb@matthewcobb.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Mary Cassatt exhibition has just opened at the Musée d’Orsay.

I see my cat post was approved by Federico da Montefeltro and Cattista Sforza en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diptych...

I think my cat and I may have figured out how to play with real reciprocity. 1. Nobi hides 2. I fling out one end of the worn audio cable 3. I slowly reel it back 4. At some point, he bursts out of his hiding place and kills the cable Repeat as necessary. theonion.com/war-on-strin...

War On String May Be Unwinnable, Says Cat General

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Not sure who needs to hear this, but the death of the author wasn’t an irrevocable event that happened fully and decisively because one Parisian decreed it

Turning on the radio, I realize how deeply the distinction between a step and a skip has been burned into my ear

Let me know when that well-known historian poster stops posting long threads of insults to the appearance of administration figures

Did Bluesky just add automatic numbering of posts in threads? 🎉

Vance Maverick@vancemaverick.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've been thinking about the poetic trope that animals are like us, but better -- that they don't suffer from certain human defects.

I see that one of the movies the San Francisco Symphony is presenting with a live soundtrack is The Ring. No, not that Ring. Nor that Ring either....

I hate the sentiment “you have to know the rules before you break them”, or the variant claim that artists must excel in traditional styles before they have the standing to attempt experiments. But you know who would have passed with flying colors?

Rabih Alameddine@rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 2w ago

Piet Mondrian, Red Dahlia, 1907. Watercolor

I've been thinking about the poetic trope that animals are like us, but better -- that they don't suffer from certain human defects.

While I've got Fauré on the brain, this is pretty great: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9lA...

Fauré - Piano Quintet No.1 in D minor, Op.89 (score)

YouTube video by お宮 Omiya

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Heard something pretty good on the radio -- the website said it was Brad Mehldau, Nocturne no. 4 in Eb. The playing wasn't smooth in the way classical pianists try to perfect, but it was a pleasant surprise. Then the announcer came on and clarified that the composer was actually Fauré.....

My vestigial perfect pitch means sometimes being able to hear specific familiar pieces in the right key in my head. Before clicking “play” on this, I paused to audiate the first note (in context, the raised fourth degree) as clearly as possible, and was right on

Dean Barker@deanbarker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Myra Hess (born 1890) outstanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAD...

Submissions are anonymized. With one score PDF, though, the composer's name appears briefly on the title page and then fades to white. (Reload and it does it again.) How? and Why?

Vance Maverick@vancemaverick.bsky.social · 3w ago

The occasion is that I'm judging submissions to a call for scores. I'm currently at the stage where they all sound bad, including my own. (Yes, the judges overlap with the submitters. We're supposed to refrain from voting on ourselves.)

The occasion is that I'm judging submissions to a call for scores. I'm currently at the stage where they all sound bad, including my own. (Yes, the judges overlap with the submitters. We're supposed to refrain from voting on ourselves.)

Vance Maverick@vancemaverick.bsky.social · 3w ago

I find it annoying and antimnemonic that the opposite of "concert pitch", in musical scores, is "transposed". Because either way is transposed -- the sounding notes of the horn are a fifth down from the written part, or the written part is a fifth up from what we see in the score.