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oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

This is extremely weird. apnews.com/article/faa-...

Of all the classes I took as an undergraduate, the three semesters I took of Music History were among those that have contributed as much to my everyday happiness as any. Hardly a single day passes without me benefitting from them.

YouTube video by EWTN News Pope Leo Flips through Italy’s most precious illuminated manuscript | Borso d’Este Bible

Anyway, here is Pope Leo asking if he needs to wear gloves to touch a Renaissance Bible and being told "no," so gently www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxNj... 📚 📜

A requiem for arts coverage I used to say I wished that newspapers would treat their arts sections the way they treated their sports sections. What I meant was that sports sections offered a balanced mix of news stories, feature...

The Washington Post has only a single arts critic left - everyone else got fired today, along with all three arts editors. (There are still a couple of excellent arts reporters.) I was so upset I dusted off my blog to have my say: annemidgette.com/blog/f/a-req...

still from Citizen Kane, where Charles Foster Kane looms in the foreground, the sole person applauding the debut of Susan Alexander, his untalented second wife, on the opera stage

big opening weekend

communism is when women

The Innocence Trap Survival should not require sainthood.

I wrote about how murders of people seen as “good” tend to galvanize the public against state violence in helpful ways. But to establish a just system in the long run, it's critical to recognize harm done to those who would never make the cut as saints.

Wolfgang Amadeus #Mozart was born #OTD, 1756. Here is a simple #map I quickly of his life’s travels a while ago (I hope to remake it soon). My maps have tended to summarize the journeys of #18c musicians. This time I went for completeness, so it is a bit crammed!

He was a good man.

as a Bach lover,

100 percent would read this but not the other

a medieval painting of a scruffy white dog with a strangely human face

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

remarkable how much contempt this white house has for the nation’s historical and artistic treasures

Yes—there are some Polish chant sources from the 14th and 15th centuries that straight up have a second voice written in!

We have just published a newly discovered 1493 Arabic letter written by Boabdil, the last sultan of Granada, addressed to the Catholic Monarchs. It is the only known Arabic letter produced after the fall of Granada and documents his attempt to renegotiate the terms of his departure to North Africa.

Just so relieved you are okay. Get home safe.

agh this is terrifying. please please please stay safe.

oh gawd, just hoping you get home soon. sending calming vibes to your bus and your freaking driver.

A page from the 1631 King James (STC 2296) showing detail of Exodus 20. including the famous line with the missing „not“.

This is just a reminder that, in 1631, Robert Barker in London misprinted a famous line of the Holy Bible, namely „Thou shalt commit adultery“.

The forbidden copies with the famous slip sold well, and a few survived in our catalogues. The edition was called the Wicked Bible afterwards. #bookhistory

an image of a small gray terrier mix asleep on the back of a couch in the sun, only her nose and one paw visible underneath her shaggy fur, with a caption in all-caps meme-style lettering reading "Die Musikwissenschaft hat zu Zeiten das recht langweilig zu sein" (or "Musicology has, occasionally, the right to be boring")

planning the semester like

Section of my Music Theory 2 syllabus, sarcastically informing them that the campus bookstore no longer stocks notebooks of sheet music paper, or indeed any books at all. Just swag.

updating my syllabus for next week

Yesterday, a federal immigration judge ruled to deport UUP Upstate member Alcibiades “Alex” Lazaro Ramírez González. UUP will continue to stand by Alex and his family as we have since he was first detained in October.

Read UUP's full statement: uupinfo.org/communicatio...

A University at Buffalo researcher was detained by ICE after he made a wrong turn on the Peace Bridge.

UUP President Fred Kowal said, “this situation is frightening because it’s clear that there are no limits on what ICE can and will do.”

Read more: uupinfo.org/communicatio...

One of the giants of harpsichord performance in the 20th century. This write-up conveys vividly the darkness and trauma of her years interned in Nazi camps, and the ways music was made and learned in such unimaginable circumstances

A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

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it's giving gated community vibes

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*