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composer | author | director | mentor dancing w/ photons since 1972 SHE/THEY; proud child of an IMMIGRANT; MyBodyIsMINE; tree hugger; magicalfairyqueen; MUSICisGODisLOVE *lions&swamp monsters, oh my!* www.amybethkirsten.com 📕 🌈 ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽 🌱🌍 ☮️ 🧬 ❤️ 📕🇦🇺

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Amy Beth Kirsten’s Multidimensional Storytelling is on Display in "Infernal Angel" Yaz Lancaster sits down with Amy Beth Kirsten ahead of the Curtis premiere of her new work, "Infernal Angel," on May 10.

"[Kirsten] employs what she calls an “anti-grand opera” approach. “Everyone is involved from the beginning and we influence each other.” When working on a libretto, she is simultaneously workshopping the music and revising along the way, rather than setting the text after the fact."

08.04.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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I made a scale model of Gould to help me design some of the staging

#infernal_angel2025
World premiere: May 9-10, 2025, Curtis Institute, Philly

13.04.2025 15:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“ - my brain

12.04.2025 12:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Careless People and Barbra Streisand | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books Amazon iconAudible iconAutographed iconBook Bub iconBooksprout iconBuy Me a Coffee iconEmail iconFacebook iconGoodreads i... Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Wait.

So all I have to do to undermine Zuck and Meta a little bit is...talk about a book?

OK

15.03.2025 21:57 — 👍 784    🔁 152    💬 22    📌 7
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ready.

02.03.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Their Album Is Wordless. Will Their Protest Against A.I. Resound? Musicians including Kate Bush and Billy Ocean released a “silent record” in outrage at a proposed change to British copyright law.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

25.02.2025 22:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Okay, they should follow their own logic and insist that billionaires pay higher taxes - bc isn’t that also patriotic?

23.02.2025 12:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally! Glad to see folks finally reporting on this!

18.02.2025 22:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

and boots to boot! 🤣 ♥️

18.02.2025 14:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

seems like now would be a good time to freeze credit. I mean. Right? This way if “someone” has our info it can’t be used without our permission.

18.02.2025 14:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
woman wearing glasses in front of a piano keyboard

woman wearing glasses in front of a piano keyboard

keeping the external chatter at bay so I can hear the music inside

17.02.2025 19:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
woman in large sweater with cuddly cat peering out

woman in large sweater with cuddly cat peering out

I’m part kangaroo and this is my joey

15.02.2025 18:51 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love this @joelcallaway.bsky.social thank you for your wisdom

15.02.2025 18:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two books overlapping each other. “44 Poems on Being with Each Other” an anthology, and “Kitchen Hymns “ by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Posting this as and admonition to read good books an share good poems with the broader community

Two books overlapping each other. “44 Poems on Being with Each Other” an anthology, and “Kitchen Hymns “ by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Posting this as and admonition to read good books an share good poems with the broader community

It’s important to be informed but it’s equally important to be nourished. Let’s make sustainable spaces for our souls. Let’s feed our imaginations and then use them to cultivate generative communities and beautiful futures. #44PoemsOnBeingWithEachOther #KitchenHymns #OnBeing #poetry

15.02.2025 18:03 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

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