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Grad School Help

Hey Tumblr Community!

I hope all is well with you and that you are all finding some time to practice and also take sometime to yourself! I know the winter and spring seasons tend to be busy for us musicians and students so I just want to make sure y’all are doing well.

That being said, I’m not doing to well, financially that is. As you can see I have grad school auditions coming up and there is one that I need help with. My ultimate dream is study at the University of Hartford with Carry Koffman come this fall. However, I’m having some financial difficulty with getting a flight and physically getting to Hartford. However, as a small glimmer of hope, I’ve put together a GoFundMe to help afford the finances for this trip. You seriously don’t have to donate a lot, even the smallest amount helps and makes a way bigger impact than you think. I would appreciate it if you took the time to help me out and to help a fellow musician achieve his dreams and try to accomplish what he wants most.

If you have literally any other questions please don’t be afraid to ask! I love talking about myself (sometimes ;)) and I want you to feel comfortable if you just don’t know who I am and what I’m about before you donate. You help is SO appreciated and loved.

GoFundMe Link: https://www.gofundme.com/afz8m-grad-school-help

Also I have an Instagram now! I would love for you all to go check it out and see some glimpses of the stuff I’m working on and what I’m doing in school. Currently I’m trying to accomplish the #100daysofpractice challenge and if you wanna follow that journey, it will be over there! 

Instagram: nelsonsaxandclarinet

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27/12/18: 100 days of productivity #2 day 54 🔮

Not quite as productive as I hoped, but it’s better than nothing! I’m trying to get all my IA’s out of the way now but it’s proving harder than I hoped. I also had some pretty good music practice sessions! Pictured are two Bach fugues I’m working in, my first fugue on both instruments! Although you know you’re bad at piano when you find the piano fugue as hard as the violin one 😂

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Composers and their dads

Johann Ambrosius Bach

Giovanni Bautista Vivaldi

Johann Georg Leopold Mozart

Johann van Beethoven

Franz Theodor Schubert

Louis-Joseph Berlioz

Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Friedrich August Gottlob Schumann

Johann Gottlob Friedrich Wieck

Mikołaj Chopin

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(Correct me if there’s any errors!)

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Additions!

Adam Liszt

Ludwig Heinrich Christian Geyer (biological dad or not)

Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky

Dmitri Boleslavovich Shostakovich

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Vasily Arkadyevich Rachmaninoff

Fyodor Ignatyevich Stravinsky

Bernard Baruch Mahler

Nikolai Alexandrovich Scriabin

Samuel Joseph Bernstein (with wife and little Lenny💞💖💝💕♥💞💖!!!!!)

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Blessed post

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I don’t know what expression Franz Theodor Schubert carries upon his face, but I feel that emotion constantly

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Stravinsky and sacrifice?

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Berlioz and hallucinate?

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Shostakovich and mock Stalin

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Philip Glass and Philip Glass and Philip Glass and Philip Glass and Philip Glass and…

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John cage and sit in silence

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Mozart and mock divas

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Schubert and stay at our respective homes

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I love historic lesbians

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Queen

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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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Y’all still really be sleeping on classical saxophone, huh?

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Bass Clarinet: *makes awful, half-squeak, half-fart sound*

Clarinet: When was the last time you switched your reed?

Bass Clarinet: Six months ago because I ate chocolate and now every time I play it tases like chocolate.

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Mood

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Visit Original Link

marimba-ing at home

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MORE OF THIS PLEASE

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Piano genius Martha Argerich.

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Okay does anyone know how to learn a language and stick to it???? I really really enjoy learning languages but I suck at learning them. Help me plz

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So I just got back from Italy and I just wanna know WHY SCHOOL IS SO MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE THERE??? AMERICA, HONEY, LETS GET ON THAT SHIT!!!!!!!!!!

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Singing in the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran

The acoustics  in the 400 year old mosque are amazing & notes hang in the air with crystal clarity. The singer is a student from northern Iran visiting Isfahan & had always wanted to sing in the mosque because of its unique acoustic resonance qualities. You have to stand on the tiled square for perfect effect.

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Somebody please tell me what he’s singing, I’m in tears

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It’s a classical Iranian song by Dariush Rafiee called Be Sooye To. It’s a love song. Here’s the original it’s so ancient it’s literally older than my parents. Lots of covers have been made too 1, 2, 3.

Here are the lyrics (the English translation doesn’t really do it justice):

به سوی تو، به شوق روی تو

Be sooye to, br showghe rooe to - to your direction, desiring seeing your visage.

به طرف کوی تو

To the direction of your location,

سپیده دم آیم

sepidehdam ayam - I will be coming in the dawn,

مگر تو را جویم

Magar to ra jooyam - so that I might find you,

بگو کجایی

Bego kojaayee? - tell me where are you? نشان تو گه از زمین گاهی

neshane to gah az zamin gaahi.. - once from the earth do I search for a sign from you,

ز آسمان جویم

ze aaseman jooyam - [ and once I seek to find a sign of you] from the skies

ببین چه بی پروا

bebin che bi parva - see how fearless I am,

ره تو می پویم

rahe to mipooyam - as I am walking down the road that takes me to where you are,

بگو کجایی…..

bego kojaayee? - tell me where are you?

کی رود رخ ماهت از نظرم

key ravad rokhe mahat az nazaram - Would the picture of your beautiful visage that resembles the full moon ever be wiped off my mind?

به غیر نامت کی نام دگر ببرم

be gheyre namat key name degar bebaram? - what other name would I call out but yours?

اگر تو را جویم

Agar to ra jooyam - If I ever find you,

حدیث دل گویم

Hadise del gooyam - I would tell you the stories that weigh on my chest,

بگو کجایی؟

begoo kojaayee? - Tell me where are you?

به دست تو دادم

Be daste to dadam - I handed you

دل پریشانم

dele parishanam - my desperate heart,

دگر چه خواهی

degar cheh khahi? - What else do you require?

فتاده ام از پا

fetadeh am az pa - I am so hurt in my feet for walking so long in search of you بگو که از جانم

bego ke az janam - tell me that from my life,

دگر چه خواهی

degar cheh mikhahi - what else do you require?

یکدم از خیال من Yekdam az khiyal-e-man - not even a moment from my dreams

نمی روی ای غزال من

nemiravi ey ghazaal.. - you ever depart my gazelle,

دگر چه پرسی ز حال من

degar cheh persi ze hale man - Why on earth do you ask about my well being,

تا هستم من

ta hastam man - as long as I am alive

اسیر کوی توام Aseere kooye to-am - I am being taken as a hostage to where you reside,

به آرزوی توام be aarezooye to-am - I live desiring you,

اگر تو را جویم

حدیث دل گویم بگو کجایی؟

اگر تو را جویم

Agar to ra jooyam - If I ever find you,

حدیث دل گویم

Hadise del gooyam - I would tell you the stories that weigh on my chest,

بگو کجایی؟

begoo kojaayee? - Tell me where are you?

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TIME TO START STUDYING FARSI

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clarinets are a renewable resource

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please explain

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so many

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an introduction to women composers

Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Maddalena Casulana (1544-1590) from Italy 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Francesca Caccini (1587-1641) from Italy  📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP She was friend with Artmisia Gentileschi

Barbara Strozzi (1619-1977) from Italy  📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP

Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665-1729) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Marianna Martines (1744-1812) from Austria 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Maria Szymanowska (1789-1831) from Poland 📚Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Fanny Mendelssohn [Hensel after marriage] (1805-47) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Sister of Felix Mandelssohn

Clara Schumann [nee Wieck] (1819-1896) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Married to Robert Schumann

Elfrida Andrée (1841-1929) from Sweden 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Terea Carreño (1853-1917) from Venezuela 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) from France 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP She was the first female composer to be awarded the Légion d’Honneur in 1913.

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) from England 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Not only a suffreagette, but also a lesbian who was involved with Virginia Woolf and Violet Gordon-Woodhouse, among others

Adele aus der Ohe (1861-1937) from Germany 📚 Wikipedia    🎵IMSLP She studied with Franz Liszt. She was friends with and performed Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with him conducting. 

Amy Beach (1867-1944) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵IMSLP

Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) from Croatia 📚Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP

Rebacca Clarke (1886-1879) from England 📚Wikipedia   🎵IMSLP    🌀Rebecca Clarke.org (I have access to almost all her published works, let me know if you want me to email scans of something to you)

She studied with Lionel Tertis and briefly sang under Vaughan Williams. In 1919 her Viola Sonata tied in the Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music with Ernest Bloch’s Viola Sonata. She was also friends with Frank Bridge. In 1912 she was one of the 6 female musicians allowed into the Queen’s Hall Orchestra (later became the LSO)

Florence Price (1887-1953) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP She began studying at the New England Conservatory after she graduated high school at 14. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra premiered her Symphony No 1 in E minor on June 15, 1933, making Price’s piece the first composition by an African-American woman to be played by a major orchestra

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) from France 📚 Wikipedia   🎵 IMSLP She was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome when she was only 19, in 1912.

Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901-1953) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎵 IMSLP Became the first women to be granted the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1930

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) from England and Ireland 📚 Wikipedia    🌀Biography

Sofia Guabaidulina (1931-present) from Russia 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube

Joan Tower (1938-present) from the USA 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube She has 3 Grammy Awards and and she was a member of the Da Capo Chamber Players who won the Naumberg Award.

Kaija Saariaho (1952-present) from Finland 📚 Wikipedia    🎼 YouTube

Nicole Lizée (1973-present) from Canada 🌀 Nicole Lizee.com    🌀 CMC

Cheryl Frances-Hoad (1980-present) from England 📚 Wikipedia    🌀Cheryl FrancesHoad.co.uk

Dobrinka Tabakova (1980-present) from Bulgaria  📚 Wikipedia    🌀 Dobrinka.com

Caroline Shaw (1982-present) from the USA 📚Wikipedia    🌀Caroline Shaw.com (listen to Entre’act, I’ve played it, so GOOD!) She won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013, the youngest ever, at only 30.

Hannah Kendall (1984-present) from England & the Caribean  📚 Wikipedia    🌀Hannah Kendall.co.uk

Fjóla Evans from Iceland & Canada 📚Fjiola Evans.com    🎼 SoundCloud

Add any other women composers that you know of to this post!

#WomenInMusic   #WomenComposers

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Nannerl Mozart (1751-1829)

Wikipedia 

Sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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When I hear my my favorite excerpt in concert