Jonathan Howard Katz

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

subtly downgrade a band

Followed Zeppelin

Slightly diminish a book

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

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.

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

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.

Their pre-Photoshop graphics department was really working overtime.

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."

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 . . .

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

It's a thing, don't worry.

Feel better!

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.

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 . . .

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

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater.

Merde!

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.

Hi! Feel free to ask about piano writing.

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

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

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

@rhizomatic21.bsky.social

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

Those were the editions I grew up with.

It's-a me, Stockhausen.

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

Oh no! Hope it fully clears quickly!

Yikes! Glad you're okay.

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.