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Composer and pianist, NYC https://linktr.ee/jonathanhowardkatz

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NYFA. There's a strong NYC focus, but there's a decent number of listings from elsewhere.

24.09.2025 12:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

subtly downgrade a band

Followed Zeppelin

22.09.2025 14:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Slightly diminish a book

Ulysses S. Grant
2665
Crime and Contrition
A Charcoal Sketch of the Artist as a Young Man
Extended Jest

08.09.2025 11:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Adobe keeps offering AI summaries of my own scores. I never take them because, well, obviously, but I'm honestly curious how it thinks (or rather "thinks") it could create a prose summary of a piece of music.

29.06.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŽˆ๐Ÿฅ‚๐ŸŽ†

29.05.2025 22:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Our other album covers have been really down to earth, so for this one we'd like something more heady."

13.05.2025 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's what I'd assume, yes. It's such a weird concept to begin with, though, and only works because they shared a similar degree of baldness.

13.05.2025 00:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Their pre-Photoshop graphics department was really working overtime.

12.05.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A dark image of the head of a cicada, with the headline "In An Unexpected Turn Of Events, Some Cicadas Just Performed Pachelbel's Canon In D" and a footer indicating this is an image of a link to an IFLScience article.

A dark image of the head of a cicada, with the headline "In An Unexpected Turn Of Events, Some Cicadas Just Performed Pachelbel's Canon In D" and a footer indicating this is an image of a link to an IFLScience article.

Okay, now I understand why the collective noun for cicadas is "a tired cello section."

11.05.2025 15:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You used to be able to play his piano at Montfort-l'Amaury, but apparently they don't let you anymore. But that's probably about as close as you can get now . . .

17.04.2025 23:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hang in there. I've heard it's awful, but it does pass.

11.04.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a thing, don't worry.

07.04.2025 02:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Feel better!

19.03.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I see this all the time, and the quote is usually attributed generically to Shakespeare. The farewell speech to Laertes, in full, was carved in stone inside one of my undergrad university's dorm cafeterias.

16.03.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have something based on Mozart's starling, as he dictated its song, with some invented birdsong and incorporated Mozart quotes alongside it. A little hard to describe . . .

01.03.2025 05:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They started the performance in 1977, and now they're almost to the end of act II.

27.02.2025 21:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater.

24.02.2025 00:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Merde!

15.02.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A gray-brown cat with green eyes, slightly out of focus, on a tiled floor, looking up at the camera.

A gray-brown cat with green eyes, slightly out of focus, on a tiled floor, looking up at the camera.

I took this picture of my neighbor's cat last night while he was roaming the hallway unattended, a minute before he followed me INTO my apartment and I had to (gently) chase him around till he let me get close enough to scoop him up and deposit him back in the hallway.

04.02.2025 03:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hi! Feel free to ask about piano writing.

31.01.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band you would love to see live (these two tied)

27.01.2025 02:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wrote him a letter once, and he wrote me back!

22.01.2025 12:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is real. I just turned it off. They track you everywhere, because they can.

20.01.2025 08:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 142    ๐Ÿ” 86    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

@rhizomatic21.bsky.social

16.01.2025 12:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Andrea Cohen is a favorite living poet, and I've set a bunch of her poems to music, too!

28.12.2024 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Those were the editions I grew up with.

27.12.2024 02:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's-a me, Stockhausen.

(Dreamt that I said that to a friend and we both laughed uncontrollably for minutes.)

19.12.2024 12:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh no! Hope it fully clears quickly!

18.12.2024 05:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yikes! Glad you're okay.

15.12.2024 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

With a seventh (and ninth still in the pedal)! The first one is also really lovely to play. We'll surely do the full set soon.

15.12.2024 00:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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