A chord change that only happens every few years. John Cage's 639-year performance of ORGAN²/ASLSP has entered its next harmonic chapter in Halberstadt. More info at moto-perpetuo.com/john-cage-ha... #JohnCage #Halberstadt
Marian Wilson Kimber
@mwilsonkimber.bsky.social
Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.
So… I don’t usually read romance, but on the plane home I read a novel where the couple fake marries in order to get a spousal hire—2 jobs instead of one at a university. Totally believable.
Ironically, here are the proofs I'm reading today. (First correction: Women.)
Marian Wilson Kimber@mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 2d agoAnd here's an Instagram post today with both an incorrect portrait and name, and a mythic story.
And here's an Instagram post today with both an incorrect portrait and name, and a mythic story.
Want to receive 2 sets of proofs, an article to revise, 3 articles to edit, 2 dissertations to review, and an invitation to speak to respond to? Just leave town for a few days.
Sigh. One more time, read this: marianwilsonkimber.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/g...
Google does it again: This is not Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Cécile Jeanrenaud Mendelssohn painted by Eduard Magnus When Felix Mendelssohn fell head over heels in love while in Frankfurt in the summer of 1836, his sisters back in Berlin begged for informatio…
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henselpushers@henselpushers.bsky.social · 3d agoCecile sighting
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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Lately, I've noticed the trend of building apts. in the midst of large shopping centers in the suburbs. It's convenient to have your grocery store, coffee shop, yoga studio very close, but it seems like fake urbanism. And why would you like your window to overlook a sea of concrete parking spaces?
The metal folks are actually a very progressive and supportive community. This is proof of that. 🤘🎸 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A concert to remember: Metal band rocks out at Ottawa hospital, granting patient's wish | CBC News
Hospitals aren't the usual venue for a high-energy hard rock concert, but that's exactly what took place at Ottawa's Bruyère Health last week, helping one longtime patient live out his dream of attend...
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Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Sigourney Weaver as First Lady in Dave
Alt: Sigourney Weaver as First Lady in Dave
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Hispanic pixie dreamgirl@bocadelperro.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
THIS SUMMER… WOMEN WILL COME AND GO TALKING OF MICHELANGELO
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
IN A WORLD WHERE TWO ROADS DIVERGE ONE CHOICE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
THYS SUMMER TWO ROADES WHICH ONE DO YOU CHOOSE?
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
Well, of course, if you choose to adapt The Odyssey into a book translated into English, rather than having it sung to you in Greek accompanied by a lyre, you're going to make compromises to make the adaptation work; it's a different art form entirely.
I didn't get where I am by doing things the smart way.
If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
Countess of Monte Fisto@slstalter.bsky.social · last wk.If you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
I’m so so honored to have my poem, “Let My Right Hand Forget” in Calul Journal’s first anniversary folio🥹❤️ As usual, Rachel Neve-Midbar’s selections are absolutely gorgeous!! This is such a special lit mag☺️ The full issue here: open.substack.com/pub/calul/p/...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Foreclosure
According to Elle@eamcatmom.bsky.social · 2w agoRuin a book by adding a word: Charlotte's Web Cam
Teaching nightmare. Maybe I should start prepping my fall classes.
Today's historical find. Federal Art Project poster for the Schomburg Collection of the New York Public Library, c. 1941-43, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
This is my favorite headline from the research I did for my new book. Now, after every boring committee meeting, I hear it in my head.
I look for info on the McConnell situation about 5 times a day, because--legitimately--as a mystery writer I have a major interest in how you hide a dead body.
Thread: @chandavanderhart.bsky.social and I are kicking off our next research project, centering on the health impacts experienced by collaborative pianists. My latest newsletter is an invitation to the survey we developed. buttondown.com/Kathleenkell...
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Announcing a new project by and for collaborative pianists Hello, Music Minus None readers: This newsletter has been a long time in the making, and I’m so...
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As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water