The only love affair I have ever had was with music

They/he - aroace - married to Ravel Maestro of @classical-music-offical Assorted nerdery

[leonardbirdstein]

Hello! I’m Lenny :)

They/he || 17 || British || married to Ravel

My three big passions:

+ Classical music + Literature/the arts in general + Birds

Fandoms:

+ BBC Sherlock + Pacific Rim + Lockwood & Co. + Pokémon + Whoniverse + Good Omens + The Magnus Archives + Shakespeare/Hamlet/RAGAD

+ MORE!

Socials:

+ Colors Live

+ Instagram

+ Art Fight

[witless-winion1]

@theres-pansies @pearl-in-vinegar tumblr dashboard doing incredible things

[pearl-in-vinegar]

AHHSDHDJJHF FIRST TIME IN A LINED UP TUMBLR SCREENSHOT KIND OF NERVOUS

[distant-screaming]

there really is nothing better than getting asked an innocuous question and being like

[classical-music-offical]

Classical Piece of the Day - day 36

Maurice Ravel’s Boléro

Apologies for the repeated Ravel (he’s not featured again in the Proms so there won’t be any more of his music until September or so!) but I’m at this Prom right now (with Ravel himself 🩵)

Ravel’s Boléro has always received mixed reviews; some people view it as merely an exercise in orchestration, or, at worse, boring!

This piece reveals a few things about Ravel. Firstly, his obsession with the miniature and the mechanical; the clockwork repetition of Boléro has been linked to this, and Ravel’s father was a mechanic who passed his love on to his son. The repetitive nature of this piece has also been attributed to Ravel’s declining mental health (just as in the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand). Finally, its origins in the Spanish bolero dance lie in Ravel’s Basque heritage.

In case you can’t tell by the sheer amount of knowledge I have on this, Boléro is one of my favourite pieces of all time. I am stressfully anticipating it at the end of the next half. Wish my teary self good luck 🥲

Edit: I definitely didn’t cry so hard that my nose ran…

But in all seriousness, Boléro is SO clever. Many critics have focused on the musico-sexual (one of my favourite words despite its meaning) elements, but my personal favourite part is when the first of the two melodies is orchestrated so that the piccolos play the first harmonic above the fundamental pitch. The level of knowledge of music theory and orchestration needed to pull that off is just incredible (sorry I’ll shut up about Ravel now it’s just been a long day and I’m feeling all the emotions).

[leonardbirdstein]

Two Ravel memes a day might keep the depression away?

pahahahaha not really, but thank you anyway, these made me giggle :)

[the-east-art]

Useful image for when your internet friends have rain in their cities and you don’t

[leonardbirdstein]

Being THIS obsessed with Ravel and then having to be normal about him when people ask is agony.

[junglejim4322]

Be so completely yourself that everyone wants to kill you

[leonardbirdstein]

If I’m not too invasive, might I ask why you choose to semi-parody Leonard Bernstein?

also you should give a quick listen to Je te veux by Satie trust

- Satie Anon

HELLO SATIE ANON

Sorry for the wait - it's been a crazy few days!

It's not invasive at all! Essentially, I thought of the pun one day and, being in the midst of a HORRENDOUS Bernstein obsession at the time, adopted it as my user for Colors Live. Since it encompasses 2 things I like (classical music and birds), I've kept it for lack of any better ideas.

I will listen tomorrow! (I've added it to my liszt-ening playlist tee-hee)

[leonardbirdstein]

HIII LENNY <3

just want you to know that everytime i listen to 'Its The End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)' i think of you at this lyric!!!!!

mountains sit in a line - LEONARD BIRDSTEIN!!!

GOODBYE LENNY <3

Aaaaaaa yaaayyyy yippeeee <3 I adore it when moots tell me things that remind them of me ^^

Did you know they used that exact segment of it in Maestro (Bradley Cooper's SHIT Bernstein "biopic")?

[nyx--the--moth]

I keep forgetting to post my art here (｡T ω T｡)

anyways I made this attack for my friend @leonardbirdstein !

honestly I'm kinda surprised I haven't posted this here yet like I think I finished this like a week or two ago

better late than never I suppose :p

[messsssmer]

"Whimsy" is truly a wretched term. What maketh thee so carefree?

[fireknightqueelign]

thy mother

[messsssmer]

Art thou for fucking real

[spaghettihell]

Reblog to hug prev

Please

[finelythreadedsky]

why is it that the dissertations that actually should have been turned into books are the ones that never were???

[pearl-in-vinegar]

this. this guy

[comeandrockmeamadeusxx]

They're so small they only need one popcorn😢

[leonardbirdstein]

hello lovely wonderful lenny!!!!!!!! it's been a while how are you ive missed u

i have stumbled across another musical you might enjoy (when you've got the chance ofc no rush ever)

it's called next to normal and ivr mentioned it before but now ive had Thoughts and i believe you'd like a lot of the stuff they do with the music,, the story doesn't get fully across when you just listen to it because there's dialogue between some songs but that's like. i don't think? you would care that much? it's still neat and the story's cool but i just. think you'd like the way they work with the music in particular. really good stuff..Themes

idk. words aren't really on my side rn

would recommend the london cast recording if you end up getting around to it!!!!!!

xxxxx ily ily have a great summerr

Hello my dear <3

I'm finally free of school! I will absolutely give it a listen and let you know what I think (after I get through Falsettos... I PROMISE I WILL)

Thank you for the recommendation! Xxx