I have really impressed the ever living shit out of myself this week. I got through the wildest three days of the fall while on my period and only had to bribe myself with chicken tenders from Popeyes once :)

They should make a vape that can be loaded with saline cartridges for singers to use on long days

My spouse is the funnier half of the relationship

…I guess it should not be at all surprising that the theater district walgreens has portable nebulizers in stock 🫠

I was tossing and turning past 2 AM until my sweet cat came over and sat on my chest and I fell asleep. Unfortunately this same cat also had a sneezing fit on my chest at 5:30 AM and I have been awake ever since 💀

Gandalf for his advice, sass, and weed 💨

no brain, only alison@alisonborealis.bsky.social · 7d ago

I'm watching a ridiculous tv show which has led me to pondering this question: If you could bring any fictional or historical character/individual into your every day life, who would it be? What would you do?

Because of this post I have been offered another requiem with orchestra and now have to figure out if I can get another two day release 💀

bitch-king of angmar (her)@wetropolitan.bsky.social · last wk.

Booked solid on an equity contract through November, and one of the best perks is that I don’t have to decide if I’m going to accept work on things here or there. It simply will not be possible. Heaven’s will is clear 🙏🏽

The theater gods saw me scarf down a few potato chips with cottage cheese for breakfast this morning before dashing out the door and put out a whole coffee, pastry and fruit spread for first rehearsal 😭💕

Booked solid on an equity contract through November, and one of the best perks is that I don’t have to decide if I’m going to accept work on things here or there. It simply will not be possible. Heaven’s will is clear 🙏🏽

Enjoyed my last evening off watching Practical Magic with a bowl of soup, and now winding down for the night watching old school hockey fight YouTube compilations

Would God’s pussy be impenetrably tight or all-encompassingly huge?

RIP Anton Bruckner. You would’ve loved hearing your loudass garbage choral music at 9 AM, you tasteless schmuck

My mom got me into a period drama that only has subtitles in Chinese, which means these ancient legal and economic concepts go whooshing right over my head, but there’s always a servant around to say “sorry milord, this lowly maiden is simple-minded and lacks schooling” and then they explain it 💀

It is hilarious that my husband did this while I was asleep, but how am I supposed to cook this guy now? 😹

I’ve learned over the past year that picking a Korean movie at the box office is pretty much guaranteed to be a great time

Diagnosis: soup season 🍲

In honor of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins’s birthdays today, I will be leaving my house 🫠

Finally cleared my inbox after being haunted by unread emails all Phil Opening/Hi-Ho week. It took twenty minutes 💀

A5 this can be interpreted as a joke, but it’s not really a joke, because making a living in this field is extraordinarily difficult and increasingly rare, especially if you’re a soprano: Marry rich #musochat

Storm Surge Gainsbourg@wesflinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Q5. What is one piece of advice you would give to someone who wants to do what you’re doing? #musochat

I used to think it was crazy that babies could get too tired to sleep, and now I deeply relate 😭😭😭😭😭

A3 I pivoted away from traditional opera and took an MD position at a large church in Brooklyn conducting two choirs, cantoring, and playing the organ… in January 2020. That eventually led me to my current career doing more of the new music and choral and chamber work I loved in school. #musochat

Storm Surge Gainsbourg@wesflinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Q3. Related - at what point did you decide to go down your current path, and what was the plan before, if any? #musochat

A2 I started taking voice lessons halfway through college because I wanted to conduct children’s choirs. Turns out I preferred singing to conducting. Ended up with a contract with the San Diego Opera my last year of undergrad and have been a singer ever since #musochat

Storm Surge Gainsbourg@wesflinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Q2. How long have you been doing what you’re doing in music, and is it what you set out to do? #musochat

A1 I go by Zen Wu onstage, but most people call me Jen (her). I’m a soprano in NYC out here singing every genre and period of classical music there is, but most of my bread is won in new music, oratorio, choral music, chamber, and experimental opera/theater #musochat

Storm Surge Gainsbourg@wesflinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Q1. What’s your name? Pronouns if you wanna give ‘em, location if you wanna give it, and what you do in this ephemeral thing we call music. #musochat

I had a very slow, relaxing day making soup and doing my nails while watching a drama, but it’s occurred to me that I have to get ready to go to work now?!?! I did this to myself 😿

I love being a classical musician. I love serving head to toe black velvet and red lip in line at Trader Joe’s on a Friday night

Plenty of university presses, too, are clamoring to "not get left behind" and respond to the "inevitability" of AI, rather than, y'know, standing on business and saying "No, we actually have a stake in stopping this."

Normies: wow I can’t believe he wrote that symphony while deaf!!! 🤩 Musicians: yeano, I can 😒

H-Mart opening a store four blocks from Lincoln Center is the best thing that has happened to me since the day I got married 🥲🙏🏽

As for me, the artsy shitposter microblogging community will have to be pried from my cold, rigid fingers. I see the offline millennials turning full boomer, and I refuse to let that happen to me 🔪

I have my reasons for wearing a sweater vest tonight. Unfortunately i have been forced to wear a staff nametag by security so now nobody else knows that reason isn’t “I’m a slutty Mormon.” 🥲