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Comparative spirituality, history, AI, meaning. How do we make the internet a nourishing place to be?
Happy Easter⦠Kommt eilet und laufet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=62fa...
20.04.2025 22:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Great day for the Seven Last Words of our Savior on the Cross www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBsZ...
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ChatGPT is actually very helpful as a tour guide for appreciating the crazy gyrations of tone and style in Bach's Mass in B Minor
10.04.2025 06:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Louis X proclaiming "France signifies freedom, and any slave setting foot on the kingdom becomes free by that very fact."
Origins of emancipation: ca. AD 1315 Louis X, proclaims that any slave who steps foot in France is emancipated ipso facto.
This was the basis of many emancipations of slaves in the 18th century, and famously provided James and Sally Hemmings leverage against their owner, Thomas Jefferson
Reading today was the prodigal son! Like a lot of people I often identified most with the older goodie two shoes son, but I've also come to recognize that the prodigal son is my shadow.
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Happy St Patrick's Day everyone!
17.03.2025 17:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
β¦and here's what I get for O1-pro, honestly I don't think this is $200 worth of pelican
05.02.2025 21:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
o3-mini's SVG rendition of a pelican riding a bicycle.
Have you tried O3-mini or O1-Pro yet? Here is what I get for O3-mini:
05.02.2025 21:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
"yeah you're welcome you load of ingrates!"
19.01.2025 03:20 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
TIL specifically Ptolemy invented the 60 second minute and 60 minutes hour
19.01.2025 03:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Today we celebrate the Christ's baptism.
"This Is My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased."
Hits different now that I'm a dad too!
Actually I should say that for his string quartets I found the Robert Greenberg lectures super useful: www.audible.com/pd/The-Strin...
The piano sonatas one was also cool but I felt like I was more able to grok them without assistance
Another chunk of his I hadn't repertoire I hadn't listened to much out was his cello sonatas, cello is such a gorgeous instrument, here's yo yo ma doing op 69 www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9pi...
07.01.2025 19:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Or if you want to see the birth of modernism here's op 135 no 2 Vivace, he does a lyric thrumming theme out of a Haydn andante then suddenly **record scratch** and then crazy atonality www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Ep...
07.01.2025 19:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
He was never a big quartet guy but at the end of his life he only did quartets and produced some of the greatest music in history. I'd say they're probably not the best place to start if you're new to the genre but if you want a taste try op 130 mvt 2 presto: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOB4...
07.01.2025 19:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
I think our modern ears are less attuned to string quartets so it took me a lot of listens to appreciate his quartets, I think Razumovsky op 59 no. 1 might be the best place to start, the opening sounds to me like Frodo heading off on his adventure www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG89...
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His last public performance was playing the piano concerto #4 in 1808. Movement 2 is thought to depict Orpheus (piano) taming the furies (orchestra) at the gates of hell.
I think I love this piece more than any of his symphonies. The piano concertos are so underrated, no 5 is also incredible
β¦parts of that one sound to me like two pianos being smashed together.
One thing I haven't mentioned was that in addition to being a composer, he was considered one of the greatest piano players of his day . Some of his pieces like the Hammerklavier were considered simply unplayable at the time.
I always knew about Pathetique and Moonlight mvt 3, but Waldstein is such a headbanger. The opening theme 1 is hammering 5th notes so basically a 90s grunge sound, then a wild virtuosic bridge breaking into slow stately harmony like church bells, and it keeps going⦠www.youtube.com/watch?v=Quvq...
07.01.2025 18:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Happy epiphany! Enjoy one of Bach's great epiphany cantatas, BWV 65 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzr...
06.01.2025 00:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
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People love the hero's funeral movement in Symphony #3, but he sketched out the idea in his op 26 mvt 3. Is this the first time someone made a piano do a military drum roll followed by a cannon shot? And yet it's not even my favorite movement in that sonata www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo9l...
19.12.2024 21:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
His early work gets condescendingly labeled "influenced by Haydn and Viennese classicism"... But does this majestic largo from op 7 sound like Haydn or Mozart? Listening to this is like staring for minutes at a Degas it is stunning and it's not even famous youtu.be/vxdutquL_Kg?...
19.12.2024 21:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
One of my biggest discoveries this year was the piano sonatas. Beethoven was considered the greatest pianist of his time, so this is his native instrument. If his symphones are big lavish oil paintings, his sonatas are sketches. He could work out his craziest ideas freely
19.12.2024 20:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Continuing thread here bsky.app/profile/jvm....
19.12.2024 20:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Continuing the thread here! bsky.app/profile/jvm....
19.12.2024 20:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Beethoven thread! He hit the ground running. The Op 1 piano trios were the first music he gave an opus number to, in 1795. Even this first work is awesome and worth listening to www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY_r...
19.12.2024 20:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1Sad to say
19.12.2024 20:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yeah I didn't want to use AI but all the original portraits of you are so overused and when I saw this one I just thought it was awesome
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