Oscar Levant, colorized

B. - she/her - musicological dumpster fire

[soft-lovely]

chaotic bookshop details

[taraxippos]

Yeah that's what I meant

[caputstercoris]

oooooh I get so grouchy and hypocritical when I find a video essay about the thing im trying to write about oooooooooh im so mad but also hell yeah open access and public scholarship but oooooooh fuck you im so pissed off I gotta find a new angle now, curses be upon you but also blessings and many likes and subscriptions upon you

[therepublicofletters]

What you think archival research will be: immediate amazing discoveries about exactly what you’re working on

What archival research actually is: well now I want to know about all of the socks that the Archbishop of Florence sent to the Pope in 1512.

[flightlessartist]

a little bat lady based on an 1899 opera costume designed by Franz Gaul

✦ find me on instagram @the.flightless.artist ✦

[caputstercoris]

Disaster: Arnold Schoenberg archive is destroyed in LA fires - Slippedisc

A grim message from Larry Schoenberg, the composer’s...

[musicianrambles]

One thing that jazz has going for it above classical is that they shout out the names of the soloists on stage and everyone goes crazy. They should introduce that into classical concerts. Soloist plays a cadenza and the conductor just screams ITZHAK PERLMAN and everyone cheers. This post is about Corrado Giuffredi's performance of An American In Paris.

[threeofsswords]

Old Man Trump

Written in 1954 by Woody Guthrie, frustrated by the discriminatory housing policies of his landlord, Fred Trump (Donald Trump’s father).

[sourdough-seal]

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

[princesskuragina]

We need to start gatekeeping the phrase "video essay" just a little tiny bit. Or at least revive the lost valor of the rant review.

[sixty-silver-wishes]

hi classical music tumblr. it has come to my attention that not enough of you are aware of the fact that leonard bernstein wrote poetry. specifically a poem called “life is juicy.” from 1947. and it’s. it’s really one of the poems ever

[cogitoergodoleo]

um yeah we've been knew 🤨 haven't you heard of his ultimate masterpiece, "i hate music"?

[sixty-silver-wishes]

yes ofc lol; 10/10 song cycle

[professionalowl]

so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944. 

Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538. 

Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.

[saintmachina]

Caught myself thinking "I want to watch a video essay on a certain element of gothic fiction, but I want a very deep dive, with lots of sources quoted, I don't mind if it's a little dry, or even if I have to go hunting for it, as a matter of fact that sounds fun" and then I remembered JSTOR exists.

[jstor]

We are humbly requesting links

[saintmachina]

Thank you for the access you gave me to Jenny DiPlacidi's Gothic Incest: Gender, Sexuality, and Transgression, JSTOR, you always know exactly what a girl needs!

[lanativite]

guy who's who listened to 1 classical piece: my favorite composer is mozart

guy who's listened to 100 classical pieces: my favorite composer is Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, creator of Opus Clavicembalisticum, who also restricted the performance of his music

guy who's listened to 1000 classical pieces: my favorite composer is mozart

[masonyin]

The Maestros’ Supper

[caputstercoris]

Hmm what are our thoughts on shushing people in jazz bars

[alm-orr]

Sketches of Maria Piltz performing the sacrificial dance from Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913). Choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky.