Tyler Alderson

If the Sox don’t win it I’d root for the Mariners or Guardians, Reds at well because of Tito (but they’re not getting past LA). TBH, anyone but the Yankees or Dodgers would be bearable.

Meanwhile, in Worcester, MA…

Brahms’ grave

Johann Strauss II’s grave

Beethoven’s grave

Schubert’s grave

Listening to Brahms on @crbclassical.bsky.social while visiting the man himself(and friends)!

That’d be “Gmix” in the terminology, G scale with a flat 7 (Fnat). But yeah, it can get harmonically ambiguous a lot of times. It’s very common issue where a player shouts out a key for the next tune, but they’re wrong/it’s in a slightly different one. Had that happen at a gig last night actually!

Source for all this: I live in Ireland and play this music a few times a week. @lollardfish.bsky.social if you’re ever in Cork DM me, plenty of great sessions around here!

The one-row diatonic melodeon/accordion was at one time very popular due to it being cheap and fairly easy to play, and most of the music could be played on it. Nowadays though the vast majority of accordion playing is on a chromatic 2-row box, and one-row playing is a kind of specialized thing.

…which were the most popular instruments in the 19th century as the music was forming. The aforementioned tin whistles and keyless flutes can get a decent C natural, which makes those keys very easy for them.

So TLDR; it’s not in the SAME key but in various keys that are very closely related.

…D or G major and associated modes (popular ones include Dmix, Ador, Edor, and Amix). The range is *mostly* from D to the B an octave and a 6th above it. There are a variety of reasons for this but it’s mostly because it works easily on flute and fiddle (which doesn’t have to leave 1st position), …

So, Irish trad uses various instruments, most of which are fully chromatic. The notable exception is the tin whistle, which is diatonic and standardly pitched in D. You also get keyless flutes similar to Baroque flutes that are functionally diatonic.

HOWEVER, most Irish trad is in the key of…

I play in pubs here in Ireland and this happens pretty much every gig. Dealing with it is an art form unto itself, let me tell you.

Congrats! Hope they gave you a good no-show endorsement deal on the side.

There is actually a 13th tone that THEY don’t want you to know about.

Sad to read about the passing of Sheila Jordan, a true jazz legend. Also one of the most fun people I’ve interviewed; even well into her 90s she had such energy and wit. And plenty of great stories featuring a “who’s who” of the jazz world!

The Academy of St Martin in the Lawn

The answer is clearly crispy pata, most unfortunate souls just haven’t had it before. I will also accept lumpia.

View of the WGBH building in Boston with an electronic marquee reading “Local. Trusted. Defunded.”

WGBH building in Boston today

Don’t know what it’s like elsewhere but they’re coming back strong in Mass. Used to see them flying over Quinsig in Worcester all the time. Beautiful birds!

About to see Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony with POTUS at the Kennedy Center.

Me to Usha: so what’s this sound like? An introduction featuring the Dresden Amen and a finale based around Martin Luther’s Ein Feste Burg is Unser Gott?

Usha: [hysterical laughter]

You’re the Brady Feigl(s) of journalism!

I wonder what the breakdown would be undergrad vs grad. I’d imagine that there’s more diversity in undergrad but that grads get funneled into the big programs. At least that’s the case for the people I know.

Bing’s younger brother! He had his own band and radio show and IIRC a TV show at one stage.

A shirt saying 99.5 WCRB

Out playing a gig this evening, someone asked me about my shirt. Turns out they’re visiting all the way from Sharon, MA, where Leonard Bernstein used to spend his summers, and are fans of @crbclassical.bsky.social!

Did you tell them about how you used to tie an onion to your belt?

“John Tortorella is the worst coach I’ve heard of”

“Yes, but you have heard of him”

Bruins need a reset from years of being good enough to get to the playoffs but then completely folding, and isn’t that Torts’ whole MO? When he is even able to get in (when was the last time that happened?).

Mike Waltz to Jonah Goldberg:

It’s easy to win basketball games when your coach is a precog

Grew up loving “Peking ravioli” and did not know that it was a local thing until i went to college.

The flip side is “American chop suey,” also more regional than I knew growing up!

I hate that the worst person in Worcester has somehow gotten a national audience, but it is nice to see our beloved statue of a boy having a really, really good time with a turtle getting a mention.

Call me a hidebound traditionalist but I just will not accept a “Big 10” Championship contested between USC and UCLA.