After Act I of Jesus Christ Superstar the man seated next to me said to his companion, perplexed, “I thought there would be roller skating”

A mom behind me at Phantom of the Opera was trying to explain what the Phantom would have been teaching Christine in singing lessons but clearly didn’t actually know what singing lessons entail so her explanation was “when to crescendo, when to decrescendo, you know, stuff like that”

maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love

Dawn@502eire.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is a recurring prompt around what’s the best that anyone has ever looked on camera and I never have an answer but I’m watching right now and I think it’s gotta be George Clooney in Ocean’s 11

Realizing that the knowledge I have accumulated of all the beefs Classical Music Twitter people secretly have with each other, as well as the tea on who talks a good game online but is actually bad at their job/scholarship, could fill a whole compendium

The number of times I have carefully phrased a post to head off misunderstandings and then people come careening into my mentions with insane screeds because they latched on to one word in the post and didn’t parse anything else around it

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read.

Zoom has informed me that it orchestrates now, big if true

In the same way that some people don’t count fish as meat, I don’t think of bananas as fruit

Sometimes reading Victor Hugo makes you feel like Scheherazade’s king, seized by the overwhelming need to know what happens next, and sometimes it feels like being held hostage by someone with a special interest and no ability to read the room

Lil PSA that in the Odyssey movie they don’t have Odysseus doing the “Nobody” bit in the cave with the Cyclops, feel like it’s better for you to know not to wait for a joke that will never come

In my compulsion to do extra Les Misérables research I discovered that someone else on the internet decided this year to read the novel and blog one chapter per day, and they're CHARGING MONEY for it I'm over here doing this all for free like a chump

The Big Read 2026: An Entire Year With Les Miserables

A chapter per day of Victor Hugo's classic.

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🎹 sharon su@doodlyroses.com · 3w ago

I did not know that my life was missing a Fanny Hensel composer bust and then @henselpushers.bsky.social gave me one and now I can’t live without her

I did not know that my life was missing a Fanny Hensel composer bust and then @henselpushers.bsky.social gave me one and now I can’t live without her

Why do non-musicians fetishize perfect pitch to such an absurd degree when it is honestly one of the most inconsequential traits a musician can have

Book 5 of Part II begins: Valjean loses out on 6 months’ rent and a chase that was not mentioned at all in the musical begins, and I just want this poor girl dad to catch a break lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/07/06/1...

🎹 sharon su@doodlyroses.com · 8mo ago

We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...

Singlehandedly addressing the literacy problem by continuing to read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables

It’s very sweet when I’m rehearsing or warming up at a venue and my handler is like “everyone SHHH she needs quiet to focus! where’s that sound coming from??” as if every day I’m not practicing with the washer and dryer going and my husband vacuuming or making dinner and my cat yelling for attention

It’s amazing how you can be the quintessential jie jie with off-the-charts jie jie energy but the moment you are with someone else who not only has jie jie energy but is actually older than you, you immediately transform into a little mei mei like in a fantasy movie where the hero loses their powers

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The Al Capone theory of sexual harassment

We developed the Al Capone Theory over several years of researching and recording racism and sexism in computer security, open source software, venture capital, and other parts of the tech industry…

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Ran into some guy who was like "classical music is more classy than some rap stuff about guys banging lots of [women]" and it's like buddy have you ever heard a single opera

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

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On What Algorithms Don't Understand

Because people contain multitudes, dammit

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Do people not know that there are at least ten musicologists on here who want to explain the answer to your music question to you so badly that they will drop everything to do it?

Multiple people have told me they can’t watch The Bear because it’s too stressful and I feel like a total weirdo because I find it oddly soothing to see that Musician Life exists in completely different fields, that my problems aren’t special and neither am I

We're onto Book 4 of Part II! We begin with a description of a bad vibes house in a bad vibes neighborhood! lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/06/23/1...

🎹 sharon su@doodlyroses.com · 8mo ago

We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...

Sometimes Brahms has these yearning surges of pure want that I find almost embarrassing, like dude chill on the feelings! then I remember a colleague who would send me texts out of the blue like “ugh why are you so CHARMING, I can’t bear it” and I realize some guys have just always been Like That

The Les Misérables musical is a good start but what they really should do is adapt Hugo’s novel into 5 musicals and the whole thing should be as long as the Ring cycle

This is actually great for me, I’ll just send my weirdo reply guys her way

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · last mo.

miHoYo has created an AI desktop companion on Steam called Olivia Lin You can listen to her piano performances, upload your own music files, and even send her letters that she will respond to

Every once in a while I run out of a pantry/fridge staple before I can get my ass to an Asian grocery so I buy the closest thing I can find in mainstream supermarkets. Right now I am experiencing Kimchi For Americans and I cannot believe you people live like this

Amazing discussions happening in the classical radio chat

Found myself admiring the lovely inner voice countermelodies in Brahms without someone exasperatedly telling me to. Is this it for me, do I need to schedule a colonoscopy and send for my AARP card now