Linda Cheung

had a dream where mozart’s ghost was an ambulance driver and he drove right past my car accident cause the stereo was still playing salieri

‘Music is never fixed in me’ … cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason on surviving a ‘volcano of racism’ A remark about Rule, Britannia! led to uproar but the star musician is concentrating on the joy and power of classical music. As his first book is published, he talks to Charlotte Higgins• Read an exc...

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Blues music deserves to be studied academically on par with classical music and jazz.

every time i do something embarrassing and have to live it down i think of this tweet

imagine if he brought his pet starling and got it to sing the melody to piano concerto no. 17

ugh it’s hard to pick just a few but lately it’s been debussy children’s corner, saint saens cello concerto 1 and rach piano concerto 2

Debussy: Children's Corner; Suite bergamasque; Images Claude Debussy · Album · 2007 · 18 songs

I love listening to debussy to study/get work done! Children’s corner is my favorite open.spotify.com/album/4shOmw...

The way I literally ran out of toothpaste this morning too lmao

Good to know that even fully grown composers like Benjamin Britten still asked their mom for stuff like I do. A day late but Happy Mother’s Day 💐

I keep seeing all this news about Mahler and a video game on my classical music feed on Bluesky and I’m like “since when did Mahler make a video game?” 😭😭😭

lowkey i wholeheartedly believe this lmao

A photo from 1908 of the youthful Igor Stravinsky and others with the man he called his "second father", his teacher Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. L-R: Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rimsky's daughter Nadezhda, her fiancé Maximilian Steinberg, and Stravinsky's first wife Yekaterina.

From playing music in residential halls to searching for ‘good sound,’ four Columbia-Juilliard musicians discuss their music-filled lives Every afternoon, Ari Freed, CC ’28, sets up his cello in his dorm room and plays a melody that fills the corridors of John Jay Hall.

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idk if this counts but twosetviolin because I only listen to classical music 😭

there should be a law against going into the youtube comments of a really difficult piece of classical music and saying you're playing it for a high school audition

ravel and debussy going crazy over stravinsky's the rite of spring while everyone else was in an uproar......

my goal in life is to create a musical cryptogram of my name

True. When I listen to Beethoven's "Eroica," a "radical" symphony from 1805, I'm reminded of what that first audience must have thought. Also, Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," which caused a ruckus at its premiere in 1913, but in that case the orchestra wasn't up to the difficulties of the work.

reading testimony right now and every two seconds I’m like 👀

my interesting fun fact is that solomon volkov and laurel fay are both still alive and live in nyc like what would happen if they ran into each other on the street