Really not having a good day and being "jumped" on this seemingly kind place makes me just want to retreat back into hermit mode again.
a dog is standing under a blue tarp
ALT: a dog is standing under a blue tarp
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Music by Agnes Zimmermann, Paul Ladmirault and Gloria Coates has been featured on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com during the last few days, in case you'd like to listen.
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I've stayed up for so long pre-setting posts on the blog the post for "tomorrow" is already up. So if you'd care to listen to music for cello and piano by August Nölck head over to AOAD. I'm going to call it a night. 🎵 anopusaday.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/a...
August Nölck – Fünf Stücke für Violoncell: II. Liebeslied (1911)
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How about enhancing that #FridayFeeling by rocking out to a fragment of music by Sappho? Intrigued? AnOpusADay.wordpress.com
If you need two mins of something beautiful in your day today look no further than this nocturne by Avril Coleridge-Taylor. Exquisitely played by @aoyarzabal.bsky.social
Antonio Oyarzabal - Pianist@aoyarzabal.bsky.social · 11mo agoLovely to meet you! In case you’d like to watch :) youtu.be/Vq3Xf2J2yHg?...
An eclectic mix of recommendations for #BandcampFriday joquail.bandcamp.com/track/agnus-... justinajmusic.bandcamp.com/album/silhou... corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea... katemoore.bandcamp.com/album/the-op... pax-music.bandcamp.com/album/eponym... mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/silent...
Silentium, by Arvo Pärt
4 track album
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Please have a listen if you haven't already, and hopefully some of you will join me in the full-throated obsession with Florence Price's Fantasie nègre No. 1 which, if I had my way, would be as overplayed as Chopin's First Ballade in music schools
Florence Price: Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E Minor, performed by Sharon Su
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Music by Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com today. 🎵
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Music by Nina Senk, Lotta Wennäkoski and Avril Coleridge-Taylor has been featured on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com lately and there are at least a few more pieces to come over the next few days. Welcome!
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Listened to @cellocorb.bsky.social's brilliant "Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello" on Bandcamp yesterday. Highly recommend it. Nice to meet another fellow champion of #FemaleComposers and #EqualityInMusic! corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea...
Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello, by Corbin Keep
15 track album
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A recording from 2001 with the late, great Brian Asawa is broadcasted now. Gone too soon.
World Concert Hall@wconcerthall.bsky.social · 11mo agoRight now, historical recording: #Britten's 'Death in Venice' with Johnson, Wilson-Johnson and Asawa from #Amsterdam www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/... #wch
Again I have that sinking feeling that leads to the givvyuppy state. Nothing I've tried, clearing out, reading, writing, resting and letting be, has stopped the sinking so far. I know there are a few leaks I can't really plug but I think I need to find sth that lifts or at least keeps me afloat.
@manuscriptacademy.bsky.social Would you mind if I DMed you a question?
There's actually another update on AnOpusADay.wordpress.com. Today it's music by Slovenian composer Nina Šenk and more (works by female composers) to come during the next few days. #FemaleComposers #EqualityInMusic
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This morning I was reminded of how wonderful it can be to read something that really is a joy to read while you are reading it, to the point of not wanting it to end and not wanting it to last forever but just reading it thoroughly in the here and now. #booksky
If someone has the link to a comprehensive guide to using commas in BE/AE (VERY different from the Swedish use), I would be most grateful.
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