Dean Barker

Schumann: Kinderball, Op. 130 Listen to Schumann: Kinderball, Op. 130 by Adrienne Soós, Ivo Haag, Klavierduo Soós-Haag, Robert Schumann. Stream now on IDAGIO

This short work for two pianos is (unbelievably) new to me.

New release, now listening.

app.idagio.com/albums/schum...

Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 - Carnival Scenes from Vienna - Humoreske Listen to Schumann: Fantasie, Op. 17 - Carnival Scenes from Vienna - Humoreske by Nikolai Lugansky, Robert Schumann. Stream now on IDAGIO

So many great new releases today (tho Idagio doesn't have Boris Gultburg's yet). Starting here, with a hat tip to @aodhbc.bsky.social.

Appreciate how clean this recording is
(and how masterful the playing, obv). Need it to hear all the textures.

R. #Schumann

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Mr. Cole, our timber merchant, sent me five couple of ducks.

White-sheeted ghosts peer through a tall woman at a child sitting at a table. Another small child can be seen peeping in through the window, too.

To start my #PhantomsFriday, something by contemporary artist John Kenn Mortensen, also known as Don Kenn.
#ghost #ghosts #weirdart #DanishArt #artsky

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with stacks of cups and saucers Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a table with stacks of cups and saucers probably drinking coffee

Happy Friday 13th!
I am scrolling through my TL drinking some coffee.
☕ ☕ ☕

Juliana Mayerle

India,2018

The level of anti-Semitism Mahler faced in Vienna remains breathtaking. An example:

“The Jew's press will see if their tributes to their idol are washed away by the rain of reality as soon as Herr Mahler starts his Jew-boy antics on the podium.”

- Reichspost, April 14, 1897

Cadman Plaza Winter (2006)
by Scott Kahn

💿 NEW ALBUM IS OUT!

Rachmaninov’s earliest piano cycles, now out, and streaming on all platforms. Hope you enjoy it! 😀

Stream it here:
naxos.lnk.to/8574726/

Auguste Herbin

The Mirror (1910)
by Robert Payton Reid

Pepperoni and funghi squares

If it’s Thursday it must be Mama’s Too.

A photo of a sketchbook page. On the top is a single mushroom and the bottom is a painted house. Both are done in watercolor.

A photo of a sketchbook page. An up close of a single mushroom and the bottom is a painted house. Both are done in watercolor.

I need to paint more houses covered in foliage. Something about this one that I really like.

#watercolor #sketchbook #illustration

Today, February 12, is a very special day. It is the birthday of America’s greatest President: Abraham Lincoln. ❤️🇺🇸🎉

Waiting for Spring, still. 🫠
Magnolia from last May
#photography #flowerphotography
#flowers

Shadow of a winter bare tree on a red brick wall in Harlem

shadows and sun traveling across a red wall
#photography

Hmmmm… Strange reference to Oklahoma in the DHS documents Gov. Kelly Ayotte released about the planned immigrant detention center in New Hampshire. #NHPolitics

Pope supports solidarity with immigrants in US, Catholics must stand together, archbishop says - OSV News Archbishop Sample of Portland, Oregon, talks about the ongoing ICE activity and his call to build greater solidarity with the Hispanic community.

An interesting interview with Portland Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, easily one of the most conservative U.S. Bishops, who sounds like he's fully on the same page with Pope Leo in emphasizing support for immigrants and their religious liberty rights.
www.osvnews.com/pope-support...

Isabelle Huppert in THE PIANO TEACHER, looking out of a window onto Paris, from her dark studio, a portrait of Robert Schumann on her left, a Bosendorfer in the foreground.

YouTube video by The Smiths The Smiths - Girl Afraid (Official Audio)

Having a Rickenbacker night, thanks. You?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVy-...

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

How Nigerian musician Fela Kuti used music as a weapon against dictatorship Considered the father of Afrobeat, Kuti used his music in the 1970s to combat colonial values and brutal dictatorship. Podcaster Jad Abumrad tells his story in the series, Fela Kuti: Fear No Man.

#TIL about the incredible Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti and I think you may want to learn about her too.

www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...

Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quite
Too nervous to utter a word:
When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,
And the fall of a pin might be heard.

This little tune simultaneously a dense fabric and a dance party.

YouTube video by Cinabro Edits The Smiths: Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others (Dance Compilation)

And the Paganini of the Rickenbacker, of course.

#JohnnyMarr

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRV...

Less so old than you have good taste!

YouTube video by REMVEVO R.E.M. - Talk About The Passion

Not

everyone

can carry the weight of the world.

#Rickenbacker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMy...

Exceptional eyebrow work as well.

That Rickenbacker sound makes everything better.