Charles T. Downey

About Last Night - Baritone Quinn Kelsey returns to Vocal Arts DC for a masterful night of English song. Photo: Courtney Ruckman washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/03/02/b...

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

Lift high the colors

Filled up the gas tank yesterday - but have I mentioned recently how much I love that i walk to work these days?

"Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art." -Chopin
The Fryderyk Chopin Institute

Happy birthday, Chopin! The great pianist and composer was born on this day in 1810 in Żelazowa Wola, Poland.
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George Sand drawing 1841

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

Epstein's ranch. (Gift Link.) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

San Francisco Ballet Pulls Out of Kennedy Center Performances

Latest domino to fall at the Kennedy Center: San Francisco Ballet withdraws www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/a...

Everything gets stripped down and simplified during Lent - except, somehow, the music

Also - motet "Meditabor in mandatis tuis" by Aiblinger

We are singing it in the mixolydian mode, by the way

Got a cab near the Department of Education. Hadn’t seen the Charlie Kirk banner before.

Re-upping from yesterday: If you're in DC-land today, it's the final day of a phenomenal exhibit at National Gallery, treasures of Aboriginal art. You won't regret it.

Our Ordinary today: Ockeghem, Missa cuiusvis toni (Kyrie and Agnus)

How the Mighty have fallen

Happy Second Sunday of Lent, fellow choristers

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

"O nation miserable,
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again"
---Shakespeare, Macbeth.

Daffodils in flower.

Happy St David’s Day and first day of Spring. I feel we each deserve a badge saying “I survived winter.” xx 😊

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei could be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say In the run-up to the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Saturday, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency assessed that even if Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the operation, he would...

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Exclusive | Washington Post Losses Topped $100 Million in 2025 The paper, known in part for its coverage of the Watergate scandal and the Pentagon Papers, has struggled to find a sustainable business model.

I'm trying to figure out how @washingtonpost leaders were SO horrible they managed to lose $100 million despite the 450 people laid off or bought out from 2023-205. That's a 20-percent payroll reduction -- yet they lost even more $?? And had to fire one third of staff? They crashed the plane.

I guess when they started calling it the Department of War instead of Defense they did it for a reason.

La caricature de Côté La caricature du jour d'André-Philippe Côté.

La caricature de Côté

Discussion of WWIII not allowed on #Caturday

> @covie93.bsky.social

Updated:

Pentagon Names Iran Mission ‘Operation Epic Fury’ The Defense Department posted on social media that the Iran mission’s name is “Operation Epic Fury.” It was the first public statement from the U.S. military since the beginning of the U.S. and Israel...

"Operation Epic Fury." Because a dumb war deserves a dumb name.

Whoa - if true