Daniel Dorff

I love playing bcl because it makes my ribs resonate ❤️ 🦴

First visit to the Statue of Liberty - striking to touch the poem that greeted my 8 great-grandparents in 1890s, and stand where they stood as "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
I told a friend this poem matters even more now than in the 1890s, she answered these days it matters much less.

Electric blue for Morii Duo's last-minute surprise efx performance of selections from COSMIC MENAGERIE for Two Bass Clarinets 💙

Looking forward to seeing all my clarinet friends this week

Kidnap would be a euphemistic understatement for their plans that day.

COSMIC MENAGERIE for 2 Bass Clarinets is a 20' suite on the Chinese zodiac; 4 mvts (12 scenes); preview at youtube.com/watch?v=CQPyc4i0Ens
SLIPPERY SLOPES for Mixed Clarinet Sextet (+opt extra parts), A misty chorale intro leads to a driving jazzy 7/8 scene.

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In 2nd grade, I marked up a Monkees piano-vocal songbook, correcting all the wrong notes compared to the record. I still have that book.

Really Inventive Stuff’s Sara Valentine rehearsing @danieldorff.bsky.social ‘s action-packed, family favorite with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in the beautiful Dewan Filharmonik PETRONAS hall.

Congratulations!!

Likewise with closed-captioning on regular Zoom when it's not needed.

Actually, during the pandemic I did that ;-) photodocumentation to follow.

and homogenized milk.

Agreed, and so is a one-day moratorium on shopping, followed by shopping the following day.

It does work as a handy alibi though...

#clarinet

Count me in.

Time to start custom designing some :-)

My experience is different - the "ForYouPage" default is bad, but it learns your preferences quickly. If you start liking live concerts of 1970s rock bands or 1990s sitcoms or SNL, it will learn to feed you that. I started and quit a few times, but then I tried again with that approach :-)

It looks like the wikipedia page for that song needs some more contributions.

Nice analogy 🤣

That in turn is one of my favorite things about your podcasts. I already know a lot of the individual dots, but you connect them and suddenly the tides make more sense.

👍🏻 from one of your subscribers who has performed Ionisation and Hyperprism 😃

omg that means Gerry wasn’t a pacemaker 😵‍💫

So many questions about this cool-looking piece! Specific fx or up to the performer. I'm looking at those 2/4 silent bars for acoustic player that could be heaven for efx :-)

See you at LCF, will this be performed there?

You are *totally* clear to all of us who are listening; you're an amazing presenter and clarifier - both about the content and your approach.
Some people autotranslate others' words into how they think, and some have unfocused anger or translation with any kind of authority. So it's them not you.

William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97 He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

Hi Betsy, in case you haven't seen the Times obituary, here's the link:
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

I don’t remember much from 1978 except that he was a great presenter and joke teller, and very insightful about communication and culture.

I took a linguistics class as an undergraduate at a different school that talked about his study of dropping final R’s at three department stores to contrast diction and social strata in NYC, where I’m from.

A few years later I was at UPenn (not for linguistics) and took his intro course.

I took his sociolinguistics intro course in 1978, amazing!