Gonna join the choir of βthis happened to meβ too. It helped to tell a few key people and then gauge where to go from there
13.12.2025 05:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@andypandy.bsky.social
High school teacher. Symphony lover. Bad pianist. Tarot enthusiast. Casual Rubikβs cube solver. She/her
Gonna join the choir of βthis happened to meβ too. It helped to tell a few key people and then gauge where to go from there
13.12.2025 05:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey, one of them has slanted writing, thatβs pretty out thereβ¦.
12.12.2025 22:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0You know that feeling when youβre really excited to listen to something that youβre about to listen to? Iβm about to listen to Tubinβs 4th Symphony and Iβm really excited π
11.12.2025 20:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Close up of me with my blahaj in the foreground ominously taking up a lot of the frame.
Sharkie calls the shots around hereβ¦
11.12.2025 19:56 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ahhh I need to listen to these!
11.12.2025 19:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0yes yes yes YES YES!!!
11.12.2025 18:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You will be visited by 5 spirits.
The five spirits:
Upper text: Beware the pipeline Beneath that it says he/him, he/they, they/them, she/they, she/her Under each pronoun is a cartoon image of a young woman who gets progressively more femme
Iβm such a cliche π€·π»ββοΈ I was literally each of these in this order π€£
10.12.2025 00:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Oh Iβve not heard the schumann cycle, I should check it outβ¦
09.12.2025 23:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oooh, I like this recording!
09.12.2025 18:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Yep, Iβm definitely never seeing Antichrist again π
09.12.2025 18:11 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Honestly, it canβt be real how beautiful music can be. Like I must be dreaming this, it canβt be
#NowListening to Atterberg
Symphony No. 2
Rasilainen/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra
music.apple.com/au/album/att...
#NowListening to Aho
Symphony No. 1
VΓ€nskΓ€/Lahti Symphony Orchestra
music.apple.com/au/album/aho...
βοΈThe secret lost verse of Lennonβs famous ballad
07.12.2025 19:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Must I Monday today? Canβt I Sunday again? π₯±
07.12.2025 19:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Handley Third has the best anvil btw!
06.12.2025 22:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The utter emotional exhaustion of oscillating between a) omg Iβm so clocky, everyone is staring at me like Iβm a freak and b) screw the world, I am who I am and I love myself
Make it stop π«
Itβs a Bax day today methinks π€
My fave recordings of each symphony:
1 - Handley
2 - Fredman
3 - Handley
4 - Thompson
5 - Leppard
6 - Lloyd-Jones
7 - Lloyd Jones
Hereβs my playlist:
music.apple.com/au/playlist/...
Such a great recording!
06.12.2025 20:56 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#NowListening to Mahler
Symphony No. 9
Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (live)
music.apple.com/au/album/mah...
Rainbowsuspenderqueer
06.12.2025 02:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Still of Amy Lee from Evanescence belting majestically into a microphone. Sheβs wearing a gorgeous purple gothy dress
When I was a kid, this is who I wanted to be when I grew up. The signs were definitely there π
05.12.2025 22:37 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Would you believe listening to Allan Pettersson brings me joy. Just me?
#NowPlaying
Violin Concerto No. 2
Haendel/Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony
music.apple.com/au/album/vio...
Itβs so good - Iβve yet to pick a favourite, Iβm leaning toward 3 or 7, but honestly maybe this one will be it π
05.12.2025 07:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I mean, come on, this is SOOOO BEAUTIFUL
#NowListening to Rubbra
Symphony No. 6
Hickox/BBC National Orchestra
music.apple.com/au/album/sym...
Very relatable considering the guilt I feel when I ignore Mahler, Haydn and Sibelius because Iβm obsessing over Rubbra π©
03.12.2025 20:11 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0#NowListening to Haydn
Symphony No. 31 βHornsignalβ
Symphony No. 45 βFarewellβ
Mackerras/Orchestra of St Lukeβs
music.apple.com/au/album/hay...
I was thinking the same! One mega-symphony suggestion: the first mvt of No. 4, scherzo of no. 5, slow mvt of No. 1 and finale of No. 7 π€
02.12.2025 00:30 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Itβs brilliantly performed from top to tail
01.12.2025 23:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβve really changed my mind about Rubbraβs 9th - itβs so beautiful. At first I found it a bit off putting. It took really understanding his style (and learning more about him) to actually appreciate it. Iβm still not a fan of choral symphonies in general, but this one goes in the good pile!
01.12.2025 21:55 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0