@jeremydenk.bsky.social
Pianist writer author of “every good boy does fine” nonesuch recording artist lover of many different sorts of music and New Mexican food
honolulu hotel room 546 am … thinking about the history of the diminished seventh chord
16.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0On a groggy morning the allemande of the b flat partita felt so good
15.10.2025 16:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Writing about Beethoven and fear
14.10.2025 22:56 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
After the storm, sf
14.10.2025 19:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
lol
13.10.2025 21:30 — 👍 25 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0i decided to take on the bach jig! you’ll be relieved to know i did not name my essay “the jig is up” (link in thread)
12.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Walking around gorgeous Portland Maine this afternoon is like ingesting concentrated essence of fall
02.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I wrote some stuff I liked about Bach and getting out of bed (link in thread)
24.09.2025 21:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0i wrote about one of the most beautiful pieces i know (link in thread)
18.09.2025 20:41 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0lol, ok
17.09.2025 00:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0lol whatever you’re the dude who doesn’t understand what a proverb is
17.09.2025 00:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0lol someone with “Doge” in his username is calling me obtuse
17.09.2025 00:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0What condition
16.09.2025 21:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0we had fun creating a zany ives band chorus playlist, 70 minutes of who knows what will happen!
14.09.2025 19:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0still makes me happy to run into fans of the book ! i worked hard on it
07.09.2025 19:05 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0this is so dangerous and terrible and disgusting
15.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Pride Month! We're celebrating with our newly updated playlist of Nonesuch recordings by LGBTQ+ composers, performers, and allies, including k.d. lang, Magnetic Fields, Caroline Shaw, Ringdown, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mountain Man, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, and more: nonesuch.lnk.to/Pride
01.06.2025 15:14 — 👍 20 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
If you're going to write a bad review, you should do it in grand, slashing style ("Chernow's new biography of Twain is enormous, bland and remote--it squats over Twain's career like a McMansion" wow wow wow).
13.05.2025 18:03 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Based on this mornings open rehearsal so far you should make every possible effort (short of committing a crime) to hear Giulio Cesare tonight at Carnegie hall
04.05.2025 14:40 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hey Substackers, we posted our latest Substack with @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social, @stevereich.bsky.social, @jeremydenk.bsky.social, Randy Newman, @philharmonie.bsky.social news and more. You can read it and subscribe for free at nonesuch.substack.com/p/rhiannon-g...
02.05.2025 15:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Still life: late Beethoven, coffee, sloth, capybara
03.05.2025 12:15 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It was fun and what’s cool is a lot of the commenters seemed to grasp the existential dilemma of choosing a piano the compromises and questions
25.04.2025 20:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1couldn't disagree more...
21.04.2025 19:41 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I hate to criticize a great thinker like Edward Said, but what the f@#k is he talking about … ? op 110 is one of the most perfectly paced and designed pieces of the entire western canon
19.04.2025 18:34 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
“This list may not reflect recent changes”
09.04.2025 11:36 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0not many people (like Beethoven) can turn their anger issues into great art
06.04.2025 19:24 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
honestly, this is my favorite publicity photo of all time
03.04.2025 12:14 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
