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opera, classical music, computers, etc
New post at On a Pacific Aisle, with thoughts on Emily Dickinson, Nicolas McGegan, Mozart, and more.
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The great Leontyne Price, born #OTD in 1927.
10.02.2026 21:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
My column today on Washington Classical Review: Independence must be restored to the Kennedy Center in order to save it - washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/02/10/i...
10.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
A demonstration of where you can find the drafts feature in the top right corner of the post composer on Bluesky.
v1.116 is rolling out now!
For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614) Workshop of El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614), The Feast in the House of Simon, Painting depicting Christ anointed by a woman in yellow, seated centrally at a crowded table of guests with long thin grayish faces in colorful robes with strong white highlights. In the background, tall grey archways, a steepled building, and city architecture.
The Feast in the House of Simon, by El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614)
Workshop of El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos; Greek, active in Spain, 1541–1614)
c. 1608–14
More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/65509
In past 36 hours, have had:
-Several "spear-fishing" and AI-enabled fake Paperless Post invites.
-Several fake/impersonation Substack accounts
All rebuffed.
Be careful out there. Enable 2FA everywhere. Hover over links before clicking. Change your important passwords now, just for the hell of it.
Arrau poses with a pile of piano scores & a metronome.
Remembering Claudio Arrau on his birthday 🎂
📷 Luis Lemus, House & Garden, 1946
"I try to play the way a cat jumps. It must be completely natural. I have promised myself that whenever I feel a kind of routine creeping into my playing, I will stop."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7sz...
The sheer pervasiveness of dissonance in Bach's music is often overlooked. Here's the introduction to his Cantata No. 54, a work in which the faithful are urged to resist sin. In just10 bars of music, there are 103(!!!) dissonances. And I'm not even counting passing tones.
06.02.2026 04:45 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
The President & the Joint Chiefs & their advisors around a huge round table.
The War Room in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, 1964, is one of Ken Adam's masterpieces. This project was a true collaboration between Director & Production Designer.
05.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
This guy actually fully get it
05.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 168 🔁 40 💬 8 📌 0
La representación de Jordi Savall es LA MEJOR representación del Orfeo y en esta colina moriré
(La fanfarria de apertura es 15/10)
youtu.be/0mD16EVxNOM?...
Ramon Subercaseaux
Ramon Subercaseaux https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/ramon-subercaseaux
03.02.2026 15:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hungarian Conductor István Kurtész recorded this with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1967.
"Symphony No. 4 in d minor, Op. 13, Movement 2:
Andante sostenuto e molto cantabile" by Antonin Dvorák.
youtu.be/lkdrVlPpYnI?...
Hoy en el 43 a. C. Cicerón pronunció su octava Filípica, criticando el apoyo incondicional que algunos senadores tenían hacia Marco Antonio.
03.02.2026 10:02 — 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight's music: The King's Singers performing the Daryl Runswick arrangement of She Moved Through The Fair. I so love this, though they altered the final chord in such an annoying, King's Singers way.
03.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
And Corelli, obviously.
03.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
🎭 This week, M.L. Rantala of the Hyde Park Herald praised Prof. Martha C. Nussbaum’s captivating program essay for Mozart’s Così fan tutte, now on stage at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
02.02.2026 22:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
#MusicSky #JSBACH
This is one of the greatest things I've ever heard.
youtu.be/jLCHaG0AEpU?...
The front of the Kennedy Center with the name of Donald J. Trump added to it
The U.S. Congress could stop this but likely won't - Trump plans to shutter Kennedy Center for two years, causing upheaval for NSO, others washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/02/01/t...
02.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Verulamium Museum, St Albans, England.
#MosaicMonday - The Shell Mosaic, a striking Roman floor panel from the Roman city of Verulamium in Britannia. It depicts a scallop shell and was designed to fit into a semicircular room, most probably the apse of an oecus, a hall for receiving guests. It is dated to around c. AD 150.
02.02.2026 17:25 — 👍 237 🔁 40 💬 2 📌 1
On this date in 1594, the composer and organist Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina died in Rome. His extensive output included both sacred and secular works, rendered in a smooth, consonant contrapuntal style that served as a model for composers over the following three centuries.
02.02.2026 04:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
An airplane being deiced at sunrise.
Winter is hard. Lots of people working long hours in less-than-ideal conditions to try to get you where you are going. Be patient. Extend grace. #avgeek #aviation #travel #airport #ATC
01.02.2026 00:52 — 👍 31 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Grand staircase circa 1905 at The Rookery building, Chicago, Illinois
Grand staircase circa 1905 at The Rookery building, Chicago, Illinois
01.02.2026 13:31 — 👍 285 🔁 61 💬 0 📌 5
A small lion cub is gently held by two people wearing blue gloves.
A small lion cub, sitting on an electronic scale, chews on a piece of grass. A person wearing blue gloves is nearby, crouched in the background.
A lion cub is sitting on a digital scale being weighed. A person wearing blue gloves is nearby, partially out of frame. The setting is indoors.
New lion cub pics just dropped for CATURDAY! The two females, born Jan 14, got a quick scale check this week—weighing in at 6.5 and 6.8lbs. They're nursing and bonding with mom Ilanga in a quiet off-view maternity den and it'll be a few weeks before they're ready to venture outside. Stay tuned! 🦁❤️
One more, from her SCTV days.
31.01.2026 15:23 — 👍 259 🔁 35 💬 5 📌 2
Max Adrian's portrayal of Frederick Delius in Ken Russell's 1968 film Song of Summer is a comic masterpiece. Eric Fenby coached Max Adrian; when he first saw Russell filming Adrian, he broke down crying, seeing the composer reborn.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy8C...
Thanks to Andrew Lindemann Malone for reviewing the concert by Davóne Tines and Ruckus last night, an alternative take on America's 250th anniversary, presented by Washington Performing Arts at Sixth and I washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/01/29/t...
29.01.2026 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
BLACKROCK: “.. U.S. trade policy again ran into an immutable economic law: the U.S.’s need for sizeable foreign investment to finance its debt ..” 🤡
@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/-...
Our Fed Meeting Day feed is live. Follow for real-time reaction & analysis as Jerome Powell's Federal Reserve makes a pivotal rate announcement under the most intense scrutiny ever. Please repost for reach 👍 bsky.app/profile/did:...
28.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
