Dean Barker

Many thanks 🙏

Yes!

Maybe I'm overthinking it.

Measures 10 & 11 of the Theme of Robert Schumann's Symphonic Études

Also, too, actual pianists out there (I'm just a hobbyist): am I crazy to think this trill might be best achieved using *both* hands?

This theme to Robert Schumann's Symphonic Études is putting me under a spell. Feels more like meditation than piano practice.

Photo of a dark brown pony with white mane and tail, and pale brown spots covering his coat. He is looking up from a pile of hay that he's eating off the ground outside.

We love Dewey's beautiful spotted coat!

Boomboxes with built in keyboards.

Sanyo KBX-7, Sharp MR990, Casio CK-200, Fisher SC-300.

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A white bowl full of French fries covered in fallafel, chopped cucumber and tomato, and drizzled in tzatziki sauce.

My loaded falafel bowl is better than yours.

Incoming Fog (1952)
by Andrew Wyeth

The Floor Scrapers (1875)
by Gustave Caillebotte

The Hunters in the Snow (1565)
by Pieter Bruegel

I laughed.

Almost 60°F in DC today.

Ein schwarz-weiß Foto von ihr. Sie hat dann eben mäßiges, ovales Gesicht, halb lange Haare und schaut in die Kamera.

Eine Foto Arbeit von ihr. Zwei ineinander gelegte Gesichter.

Eine Frau in einem langen Abendkleid, sie hat die Arme erhoben, und der Kopf wird von einem Stern gebildet

Dora Maar (22. November 1907-16. Juli 1997) war eine französische Fotografin, Malerin. In den 1930er-Jahren war sie ein festes Mitglied im Kreise der Pariser Surrealisten. Sie konzentrierte sich auf die Strassenfotografie und lichtete den Alltag ab.1936 traf sie Picasso und wurde

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Wanted tuna salad, was out of mayo, tried Greek yogurt instead. Not only did it work, but I think I'm never going back.

FM of Lithuania makes a very good point that I’ve been repeating for over a year: it’s not only about Ukraine, Putin is set to dismantle NATO.

It's settled: "whensoever he lapsed into a smile, was checked by a frown" to be the title of my memoir.

Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee Politician reportedly taken from his villa into custody at a federal police base about 7 miles from presidential palace

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

evergreen

Tchaikovsky’s house destroyed by Russian army in north-east Ukraine One of Russia’s most famous composers once called Trostyanets home. Now the city lies in ruin.

My great wish is that after the war, Russia's vaunted Tchaikovsky Competition continues to be boycotted so long as Putin remains in power, and instead a new one is celebrated on the site of the composer's home in Ukraine that was destroyed.

www.classicfm.com/composers/tc...

Looping back on this to say that the playing on this is WOWOW.

Tchaikovsky chamber works becoming for me a nice bridge for my twin loves of R. Schumann and Rachmaninoff.

"her catch-and-kill operations on [RFK Jr.'s] behalf, the campaign strategy memos she wrote him, and the other journalistic transgressions that have still not been disclosed"

...demands accountability for the many Americans who will needlessly suffer under RFK-led public health.

a man in a harley davidson shirt is loading logs into a truck behind a treadmill ALT: a man in a harley davidson shirt is loading logs into a truck behind a treadmill

Also, this is hilarious and INGENIOUS.

a girl with a red bow on her head is standing next to a pile of logs ALT: a girl with a red bow on her head is standing next to a pile of logs

Cold and wet November means we could be getting our first meaningful snowfall sooner than later, so: my Saturday is filling every available spot inside the house with firewood.

Died in 1762. Right up my alley, but I'll confess, I never heard of him either. New Grove compares him to Georg Monn and maybe Hasse. I'll surely check him out, 👍

A gorgeous sound, and so many varieties depending on the instrument!

speaking as one dodo to another, you're doomed

A chamber trio, each holding a bunch of wheat up to their noses, the pianist's bare and fit arms bordering the stalks.

Whole wheat for all in the liner notes.
#GrainJustice

Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio Op. 50 | Stream on IDAGIO Listen to Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio Op. 50 by Paloma Kouider, Julien Dieudegard, Louis Rodde, Trio Karénine, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Stream now on IDAGIO

The piano too big to fit into the photo. Here, have an armful of...wheat?

Listening now to a 😍gorgeous😍 adagio from a Rimsky-Korsakov piano trio (the rest is Tchaikovsky).

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Umstatt: 3 Harpsichord Concertos & 2 Flute Concertos | Stream on IDAGIO Listen to Umstatt: 3 Harpsichord Concertos & 2 Flute Concertos by Maja Mijatović, Jennifer Lippl, Dimitris Karakantas, Karol Gostynski, Pavel Serbin, Herwig Neugebauer, Sieglinde Größinger, Ensemble K...

Delightful new release of a composer I've never heard of.

So much music in the world, so much of that so much never heard!

app.idagio.com/albums/umsta...

Kaamos alkaa hiljakseen hivuttautua Luovtâsmâksen rinteille. Kotirannassa on onneksi niin kovin helppo unohtaa, kuinka sekaisin koko loppupallo tuntuu olevan.