Oksana Nesterenko

Any colleagues attending ASEEES25? See you there!

has he seen Mamdani's wife?

YouTube video by IgorLevitVEVO Igor Levit - Rzewski - The People United Will Never Be Defeated! Thema. With determination

From pianist Igor Levit, the opening of Frederic Rzewski's "The People United Will Never Be Defeated!" (1975)

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YouTube video by Astor Walk this my mayor #mamdani #zohranmamdani #newyorkmayor #gwenstefani #hollabackgirl #edit #foryou

have you seen this? www.youtube.com/shorts/4gRey...

a lot of Jews in NYC are from the former Soviet Union. most of them are so scared of the words socialism and communism that they would vote for anyone other tham Mamdani. fear makes people blind, even some free-lance musicians I know voted and vigorously advocated to Cuomo. very sad

we should organize a party "Jewish New Yorkers celebrate Mamdani's victory"

there were a lot of children too. why are they no counted?

New York in November! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/31/n...

What a delightful conversation about writing history as an art. i've been thinking about this a lot and now get a specific advice on how to do this.

Arvo Pärt indeed figured out how to draw audiences to new music. From young to old, hipsters to fashion ladies to real music connosieurs. His avant-garde opuses stood the test of time. The most amazing were the violinints, Midori and Hans Christian Aavik, they showed that Tabula Rasa has future.

we were just talking about this book at Columbia today...

Best protest music ever!

#NoKings

Great show - the costumes, the spirit the humor!

NYC today!

It felt like there were at least twice as many people this time

We are going to reuse our previous signs this time

NYC Calendar October 2025 WEDNESDAY, October 16:30 pm Friends of Klangforum ViennaProgram:Misato Mochizuki (1969) Pas à pas Georg Friedrich Haas (1953) Nach-Ruf… ent-gleitendPerformers: Klangforum WienVENUE: Austrian Cultur…

October in New York! extendedtechniques.com/2025/10/01/n...

philharmonia.lviv.ua/en/event/kon...

The best way to celebrate a composer’s birthday is to listen to their music the way they intended it. Pauline Oliveros’s 80th, Terry Riley’s 90th, and Valentyn Sylvestrov’s 88th (yesterday). It's impossible to find a point of comparison. One thing I can say for sure, at the latter I cried the most.

Join us tomorrow for a book talk by our Executive Board member, Svitlana Biedarieva! Organized by the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute as part of the Decolonizing Ukrainian Studies event series. www.huri.harvard.edu/event/svitla...

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities There’s a German word for everything, and today’s example is Gebrauchsmusik – meaning ‘utility music’. This is music that exists not only for its own sake, but was composed for some specific, ident…

Okkyung Lee ~ just like any other day (어느날): background music for your mundane activities

acloserlisten.com/2025/09/13/o...

What you need today: Arvo Pärt is 90 Years Old, the latest at KillYrIdols open.substack.com/pub/killyrid...

YouTube video by Roman Mints Victoria Poleva. White Interment for Oboe and Strings

Today is the birthday of Theodor W. Adorno, Arvo Pärt, and Victoria Poleva. Since most here are familiar with the men, I will be posting some of Poleva's music! www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBfL...

Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/17/b...

because there is something in us more powerful as long as we continue placing freedom, justice, and universal happiness at the center of our commitment to life, even as we live through nightmares."
Happy birthday, Victoria, and thank you for the music that helps us live up to Beethoven's dream!

"This was Beethoven’s stubborn, sacred point — the reason he never gave up on Schiller’s dream, even as he lived through nightmares: this unassailable insistence that although the Napoleons and Putins of the world will rise to power again and again over the centuries, they will also fall,

Ода к радости

It was a delight to run into a mention of Victoria Poleva's Ode to Joy in this essay on Beethoven by Maria Popova. Referencing the concert commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, she concludes:
(a thread)
soundcloud.com/victoria-pol...

crime is in the eye of the beholder

With a new teaching load and other projects, I finished the calendar only on September 3rd! Luckily, there were no events before today, so this can count as the official start of the month for new music listeners!