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LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing @LK_Sass@mas.to "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." ~Howard Nemerov #ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm
#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic
If you haven't run across Ian Page & The Mozartists, and you have a taste for concept albums, you would be doing yourself a solid to give this a listen. The 1765 London music scene was very fine indeed. 🤠
This is treasure—and so many first-time recordings!! Sitting here in chills listening to Abel. Context of what Mozart heard so young is fascinating.
(Presto music is going to love me this week with how many things I’ve ordered…)
Listening: app.idagio.com/albums/mozar...
I used to get stuff like this all the time in my 20s. It’s been decades since one this bad!
06.08.2025 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Anytime today’s news hits only slightly better than last night’s dream‑life horror show, something has to fill the happiness void. Hmmm. 🤔
Cherubini’s Anacréon overture, an ode to love, revelry, and *not* being strangled in your sleep. 🤪 🎶
#ClassicalMusic open.spotify.com/track/5PJ17H...
Whoa! Worst dream‑drama in eons: estranged-sibling‑strangle special. Lucid, struggling to wake, whisper‑croaking ‘Help’ 🫣 is not a good start to the day. Eek.
Hey, subconscious?
Less Hitchcock 🎥, more Miyazaki 🌸.
(Now out the door for IRL funeral. Cheery day /s)
open.spotify.com/track/6X2LYZ...
Stop trying to please people that already don't like you. Instead embrace the idea of being the most annoying person in their lives.
Tuesday
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Some days my TBR pile looks less like ‘reading future’ and more like a structural engineer’s nightmare—it may be a load‑bearing wall by now. Hope may spring eternal, but apparently it also stacks vertically and may require a building permit. 📚
(Then there’s how Bach built stuff) #ClassicalMusic
That is a crazy interval, and I have a hard time remembering breakfast yesterday…!
05.08.2025 19:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0That sounds suspiciously like my TBR pile, but on a much larger scale!! 🙀
05.08.2025 19:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Oh that is totally insidious!! 😅😂👍
05.08.2025 18:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0BE STILL MY HEART—What?! I just went over and ordered the
CD. How did I miss this?!?!
No but holy crap this is good. youtu.be/3KsYXFuCgaM?...
05.08.2025 14:04 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1Yes! And from the very opening bars of that movement, I had a definite “Whoa, this is different in the best possible ways…” reaction. Incredible!
05.08.2025 18:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wow, sounds like I’ve got some reading to do!
05.08.2025 16:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pink
05.08.2025 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😩🤯
05.08.2025 16:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Eeeks, shut the door—did he really?!
05.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt. In the work, Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to a group of doctors. Some of the spectators are various doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting.
Handel & friends cosplaying in Renaissance garb, practicing excisions for their next heartbreaker premiere: “Yo, Telemann, you done with that viola concerto? Otherwise we can get Zamboni off the ice with one of those lute sonatas that makes you weep into your mead…”
open.spotify.com/track/4diNOh...
That was astounding…!
05.08.2025 15:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Handel fun fact: He was part of an elite cadre of Baroque composer/cardiothoracic surgeons. He could rip your heart out with pieces like this, then put it back in and patch you up so you’re ready for the next heartbreakingly gorgeous something.
(Joking about the surgeon part…)
#ClassicalMusic
Beautiful! I see lots of egrets and herons when kayaking at Creve Coeur park. Wish we had bigger water in closer proximity tho…
05.08.2025 12:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I love this subtler interpretation of the Arioso movement from Wq 136—you might enjoy it also. Reiko Ichise, one of my fav gambists, performing a fav CPE Bach that I’ve got far too many hard media recordings of…
youtu.be/-cxWPsDViuA?...
Note, peeps! Have some sheer joy and exuberance with your GMT coffee or EDT/CDT insomnia. It practically elbows you in the ribs and says, “Lighten up, you’re allowed to enjoy this!”
André Lislevand, viola da gamba
Emil Duncumb, fortepiano
Jadran Duncumb, lute
#ClassicalMusic
OMG, best thing ever! Watch games live on their YouTube channel or websites. It’s tough pro-level play that’s great to watch. I love that the fans have broadened out to including your Average Guy fan, too — good hockey is good hockey! 🏒
#PWHL
The wry humor! Serious feel-good vibes!
05.08.2025 04:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Say, heav’n-born Muse, in what ill-fated hour,
Did Christian zeal thus waste its venom’d pow’r?
What crowds, devoted to the Church’s cause,
Burn secret fires, yet wear Religion’s laws?
How many Serpents lurk beneath the flowers,
That deck the bosoms which the Altar powers?
😁
French (Boileau, Canto I of VI)
Tant de fiel entre‑t‑il dans l’âme des dévots?
Ciel! de tant de chrétiens assemblés pour des vœux,
Combien, dans le secret, brûlent d’indignes flammes!
Que de serpents cachés sous les fleurs de leurs âmes!
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5158
For #Poetry, Nicolas Boileau‑Despréaux’s mock‑heroic masterpiece, “Le Lutron” it satirizes petty church politics around where to put a lectern (seriously)
05.08.2025 04:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
As promised, Baroque and poetry for the feed cleanse:
A Marais Chaconne as a graceful gentle glide into night—recent video from André Lislevand. #ClassicalMusic
youtu.be/C5bYnWYUai8?...
OK, one more #STL good news, then I promise to do a Baroque chaser & a poetry shot to restore feed balance!
Music That Reclaims is a new NFP org that serves children in foster & adoptive care. Kids attend performances, meet musicians, learn to play in lessons & camps, get #musictherapy access.
