Drew Swatosh

Absolutely! Also, being open to flipping the octave for roles makes your company inclusive of trans/non-binary singers who might feel uncomfortable with the pervasiveness of binary gender stereotypes in opera

Yay! Yay! Yay! 💜 I love this! Congratulations, friend!🎉

As singer, my body is my instrument, so I don't want to get sick. Additionally, one of my best friends is immunocompromised, so masking makes it so I can see her in person without getting her sick

While I haven't tried Lily Pond, I think the concept of creating sheet music using just text is really cool and offers another open and accessible way for someone to create sheet music. 3/3

For those unfamiliar with Lilly Pond, they describe it as "a text-based music engraver; it is more similar to a programming language than a graphical score editing program" such as Dorico (my preferred choice), Sibelius, Musescore, or Finale (RIP). lilypond.org/introduction... 1/2

At rehearsal last night, the music notation software nerd in me was delightfully surprised to see that the digital edition that tablet users are using of Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium, for our Portland Symphonic Choir Wintersong concert, was engraved using Lilly Pond. 1/3

I got a flu booster today and it made me reflect on the sense of national accomplishment I felt when I drove to a public facility, waited in my car until my number was called on an app, and got my first covid jab. It's fucked the right gets to erase what a moment of technological liberation that was

Absolutely! No lies detected here

Last night I submitted my third grant application this year, and, even with the possibility of rejection, I think the act of grant writing is a form of self love because it shows that you believe in yourself enough to ask for money from someone to help put an idea, project, or art out into the world

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

Events Check out the events we have coming up, as well as links to programs, texts, photo galleries, and more from our past events!

Details & Tickets: newwaveopera.org/events

*If you are planning to attend tonight, try to arrive early as there is a women's soccer match at the Clive Charles Soccer Complex next door

You know you're a composer when you type part into your phone and Pärt is one of the options for autocorrect 😂

Recitals in your studio, I usually perform memorized, but I'm aware that's not the same as a learning a whole role or performing music that I wrote from memory where I'm likely to be inside the music on a different level than with another composer's music

Thank you!

Yes! I love vocal chamber music, and wish there were more opportunities to write for singers that included more than just piano for the accompaniment.

That's an excellent point! Especially since the choral singers can be unpaid volunteers

It's the same with classified staff at my public school job. All of the certificated teachers are required to go to weekly staff meetings. While sometimes it might be helpful to attend, as a paraeducator it's not part of my compensation on my contract

How would you prefer that folks send recordings for you to review?

Composers check out this opportunity!

Last chance to support the amazing work that @newwaveopera.bsky.social does bring opera and art song by living Composers to life!

Bids close at 11:45 PM Pacific

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Friends! Check out this amazing silent auction by the friends @newwaveopera.bsky.social (co-founded by @lisaneher.bsky.social & @lindseyraejohnson.bsky.social) so they can bring the fabulous music of living Composers of opera and art song to the city of Portland, OR!

Composers, have you ever written something that you were like that could live rent free in my for a little while? That happened while setting Emily Dickinson's Hope is the thing with feathers for choir tonight and now really I'm looking forward to hearing a choir sing it someday

Welcome! I have found that many of the folks from #newmusictwitter have wound up migrating here

This baseline pattern is really similar to the baseline on Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes. You're just missing scale degree 7 before scale degree 6 in natural minor.

More people need to understand the massive negative externalities - and huge bloody bills - imposed on the entire world wide web by LLMs.

The sense of entitlement to other people's labour and other organisations's hugely increased monthly overheads of the tech bros is nothing short of depraved.

NEW WAVE OPERA New Wave Opera - Official Website | Welcome to New Wave Opera! New Wave Opera performs opera and vocal music by living composers for audiences in engaging, intimate, and innovative productions.

Check out newwaveopera.org to learn more!

Welcome @newwaveopera.bsky.social to Bluesky! New Wave Opera is all about performing opera & vocal music by living composers by PNW vocalists & was co-founded by amazing friends & colleagues @lisaneher.bsky.social & @lindseyraejohnson.bsky.social 💜🎶🌊

A sparkly vinyl sticker reading “vigilante librarian” in blackletter font

get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.

#libsky #booksky

This is a friendly reminder that library cards are free, and your local public library will never make you pay extra so you don't have to watch ads.

I’m just so miffed that we’re collectively reliving the bits of history I have no interest in