Meredith Plays Horn

Fantastic Book and also a fantastic movie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GE...

Thirty of these missiles cost as much as the national endowment for the arts annual budget

Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.

I don’t know him but yeah, happy to see a NSO musician get cut a break!

On 5th on Weinberg, principal was Robert Rearden

Great night at the NY Philbert-monic!

Vaughn Williams vari.Thomas Talis (🥰)

John Williams Piano Concerto w/Emanuel Ax (😎)

Weinberg Symphony 5 (💯👏🏻)

Who #F-ucking knows

sans gluten?

Sure hope 26% battery on that iPad is more than 6 mins

It was the best of times, its was the BLURST of times!

Ughh I liked hockey better when it was gay

Daylight savings starts in 2 weeks

The sun will be setting at 7pm in two weeks

Ain't no rule that says a dog can't cross country ski at the Olympics

JD Vance Skis in Jeans

Is RFK Jr a Never-nude?

Lunar New Year AND Mardi Gras on the same day?

I think we should all have tomorrow off to recover

also the most satisfying plagal cadence EVER

Did Sibelius know the cosmos would shift every time the trumpet gets to that that D

And I’m very grateful for it all. And it’s helped keep my unwavering faith in humanity, cause despite the horrors, people will always make and enjoy music. AI will never take away the feeling of people in a space sharing music together. Music is cool 😎

Hasidic Jewish Weddings, Chinese Funerals, Korean Churches, Mass in Harlem, Gospel in Flatbush, Sol in Cuba, Reggeaton at Radio City, Mariachi, so much Hawaiian music, not to mention session work recording music by musicians of all stripes from all over the globe etc etc

A wonderful surprise of my freelance career has been getting to play music of a wide range of styles far beyond the Orchestral Cannon and getting to be a fly on the wall at community cultural events that I, a basic bitch from CT, wouldn’t normally get invited to

Had a really fun weekend playing Reggaeton with Yandel, J Balvin and Arcángel to a sold out crowd at Radio City!

RTO

RIP James Van Der Beek

You will always hold a special place in the decoupaged Dawsons Creek desk I made in 8th

But seriously let’s all schedule colonoscopies fellow millennials

Fun fact: my grandparent's house was likely part of the Underground Railroad. In the basement there was a cobblestoned secret passage and room with bunk beds carved into the stone walls. The house is adjacent to a Congregationalist church, known for being active in the abolitionist movement

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Other choices:
4th mvt. of Beethoven 5
Ending of Mahler 2
Ending of Mahler 1
4th mvt. of Shostakovich 5
Shostakovich Festive Overture
Fanfare for the Common Man

YouTube video by Carnegie Hall Tracy K. Smith Reads her Adaptation of Schiller's "Ode to Joy" #GlobalOdeToJoy

There are so many good choices!
But the correct one is the 4th mvt of Beethoven's 9th with Tracy K. Smith's text

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aBm...

Like just to translate the lyrics of the part Ricky Martin sang “They want to take my river/ and my beach too/ they want my neighborhood/ and for grandma to leave/ Don’t let go of the flag/ don’t forget the lelolai / Because I don’t what for you / What was done to Hawaii”