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I hope everything is OK. That sounds terrible.

19.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Klassik | SWR Kultur Kaija Saariaho: Orion | Christoph Eschenbach | SWR Symphonieorchester

Happy International Women’s Day:

youtu.be/7LgG9uj9S-w?...

08.03.2025 16:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

25.02.2025 13:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anger, despair, and defiance from a voice within the US federal research system People around the world are watching with disbelief as the new US government closes down its aid programme, withdraws from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris agreement on climate change...

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18.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No pasarán.

02.02.2025 21:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Western Fronts (a) - Curtis Institute of Music Western Fronts (a) for solo horn was written for Ben Goldscheider and for Curtis’s 100th anniversary. The impetus for the…

Here’s a piece I wrote on a commission from the Curtis Institute for their 100th, and for the amazing Ben Goldscheider, who plays it wonderfully here. 100 circumspect notes for 100 years.

www.curtis.edu/100-for-100/...

01.02.2025 10:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Madison, 27 January 2025, c. 915

27.01.2025 15:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 26 January 2025, c. 1045

26.01.2025 10:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brief trip to Murka (till the 30th) today.

I find all of this unutterably sad.

26.01.2025 09:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Berlin (Mitte), 23 January 2025, c. 1650

24.01.2025 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I must often think more than I say, without showing how, or in what direction my heart pulls. Pretending to smile when I am very unhappy, I must often think more than I say, etc. Coughing, I sigh to secretly hide my torment; it is a private suffering. I must often think more... etc.

21.01.2025 07:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent,
Sans monstrer comment
N'à quoy mon cueur tire.
Faignant de soubzrire,
Quant suis tresdolent,
Plus penser que dire
Me convient souvent.
En toussant, souspire
Pour secretement
Musser mon tourment.
C'est privé martire,
Plus etc.

Charles d’Orléans

21.01.2025 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Berlin (Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), 17 January 2025, c. 1345

17.01.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

12.01.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Berlin (Mitte), 12 January 2025, c. 1655

12.01.2025 16:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

and Nikolaus's and Manuel's!

12.01.2025 11:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Mingzhe Wang James Helgeson Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano (2019)

More of Ming's marvellous playing (my 'Kegelstatt'--clarinet, viola, piano) trio, done this last spring in Berlin. The first, longer movement is quiet night music, and the second is faster and more mischievous, although they are closely related under the surface.

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

10.01.2025 08:25 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Berlin (Tiergarten), 9 January 2025, c. 1915

10.01.2025 07:01 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Excellent Mahler 1 at the Philharmonic tonight, with a new viola concerto by Donghoon Shin, and Lili Boulanger’s ‘D’un matin du printemps’. Tugan Sokhiev conducting. (Berlin.)

09.01.2025 22:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

09.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by James Helgeson James Helgeson, 'Aus einem April', for solo clarinet (2024)

youtu.be/hXajeIfBUTw?...

09.01.2025 17:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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