The Heart Beats in Three

Music Education | Clarinet Performance Spanish | Mu Phi Epsilon | Piano | INFJ

[shit-my-music-professors-say]

My brother made a christmas tree out of his drums

[classical-crap]

music school: *has a “women in jazz” day

music school: *lets approximately two women join the jazz program*

[fleurison-deactivated20190824]

may you get a sign this week that shows you that you’re on the right path and that things are flowing and moving in your favor. may the sign be evident, clear, and direct

[count-di-luna]

belcanto opera plots be like

soprano: I love you!

tenor: I love you too! Nothing can possibly separate us!

baritone:

[andhetakesandhetakesandhetakes]

friend: what’s wrong? do you wanna talk about it?

me:

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

a gentle reminder that you’re still young and there’s still plenty of time to figure things out, become who u want to be and create a comfortable life for yourself

[mendelssohn-kin]

[no-man-an-island]

whO GAVE YOU THE RIGHT

[tomhardysteeth]

have i ever told y’all about the greatest moment of my academic career

i was a freshman in college and i had this history teacher who was ~edgy~ and his hotness level on ratemyprofessor was off the charts and he was the first teacher i ever heard use the word “fuck.” anyway he would do this thing every so often where we’d have a “quiz” and the first two questions were always really easy and the last one was hard - they were all similar questions, and the point was to show what you learn about history and what you don’t. 

so one day he’s like okay kids time for a quiz and the first question was who killed abraham lincoln. the second question was who killed JFK. third question was who killed william mckinley. 

we all take a few minutes and write down our answers, and then the teacher asks the questions again so we can shout out the answers. everybody answered the first two with really no problem.

now, keep in mind that this class was at 9 a.m. and i was exhausted All The Time during my freshman year of college so i sat in the back in my sweats and never said a word and the teacher definitely had no clue who i was. 

so you can imagine his surprise when he asked the class who shot william mckinley and without missing a beat i said, “czolgosz,” pronounced correctly and everything. 

my teacher froze and in a very stern voice asked, “what was that? what did someone just say?”

i repeated: czolgosz.

my teacher: “who said that?”

i raised my hand, and my super cool history teacher glared at me. he then asked me how the hell i knew the answer. he said that in the TWENTY YEARS he’d been teaching this stupid class, nobody, not A SINGLE PERSON, had ever known the answer to that question.

i then had to quietly explain to a room full of people that there’s a musical called assassins and there’s a song about czolgosz shooting william mckinley at the great pan american exposition in buffaloooooooo (in buffaloooooooo)

[kamicokrolock]

The arts are important.

I shocked a teacher once because I could recite the preamble to the US Constitution (got bonus points to), She asked why I’d taken it upon myself to memorize it. I had to explain it was in a School House Rock song….

[sparringwoodpecker]

I shocked church with my ‘math skills’ when they were asking how many seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a year, now how about minutes in a year - and I call out five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes without pausing to think, cos Rent

[housetohalf]

Once aced a religion class pop quiz that asked me to list all of Jacob’s sons since they’re the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. The one and only time I’ve been thankful for Andrew Lloyd Webber. I even got points for getting the birth order correct.

[secretstradivarius]

Music college is first to appoint lecturer in musicians' wellbeing

Royal Northern College of Music aims to help students deal with career pressures

[arabwife]

[mediokurrr-deactivated20200405]

Can i get a step by step on how to do this?

[catastrofries]

So far for me it’s been something like:

1. Become aware of how and when you tearing yourself down.

2. Now that you can catch yourself doing it. Offer counters to the negative self talk. A really useful thing I read was to talk to yourself almost the way you would child. Gentle and patient. Even when they fuck up.

3. Take time to celebrate your small accomplishments. You’ve been attacking yourself for every little mistake. Apply that same fervor to the positive things in your life. Did the dishes even though you didn’t want to? Fuck yeah! Got up and took shower? YES!!! You are taking positive steps to feeling better. Celebrate it.

4. Make lists of things you’re good at/ like about yourself. The first time I did this the only two things in my list we’re that I liked my hair and I had good friends. It was start.

5. Don’t beat yourself up if you screw up steps 1-4. It’s counter productive. When I catch myself calling my self stupid for some mistake or other my response now is,“We don’t talk to ourselves like that anymore. What’s something constructive that could actually help solve the problem.”

Most of the time that seems to work. Not always. But more and more Everytime.

I hope any of that made sense.

[absolutely-walnuts]

oh my goodness there are instructions!!

[kittenkat-and-kirby]

Omg I was doing this without knowing

[hockyeah]

*blows a kiss under the stage* for the pit orchestra

[galacticpasta]

*blows a kiss behind the stage* for the run crew

[vintagedad]

*blows a kiss to the rafters* for the phantom

[guitarbage]

[shiveringandstunned]

Nothing, literally nothing could make me laugh harder than this did.

[water-pony-deactivated20140108]

WHY DID HE THINK THAT WAS HOW GUITARS WORKED

[fuckyeahsexanddrugs]

I AM LAUGHING SO HARD

[theflowermaker]

MY BROTHER WAS IN THE ROOM WHEN I WATCHED THIS AND ALL HE SAID WAS “I BET HE’S GONNA ELECTROCUTE HIMSELF”

[mign0nfishy-deactivated20190516]

THIS CHEERS ME UP ANY DAY

[empty-p0cket-deactivated2020082]

This makes me want to cry

[aseriouscomedian]

His name is Mehdi Sadaghdar. He’s an electrical engineer who definitely knows exactly what he is doing to himself in the name of teaching people the dangers of playing with electricity.

He has a YouTube channel here. He actually has some really informative content if electric current is something you care to learn more about!

[greenekangaroo]

oh thank god he knows what he’s doing 

[oneboredjeu-mashup]

Welcome To The Christmas Parade

All I Want For Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey vs. Welcome To The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance.

[oneboredjeu-mashup]

merry november 1st

[biscuitsarenice]

imagine… Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella

Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.

Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.

[lukethestudent]

[scienceshenanigans]

Good afternoon, the academic culture of “if you’re not overworking, you don’t deserve success” is unhealthy.

[beachdeath]

tag yourself i’m e minor

[note-a-bear]

@aka14kgold

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

you had me at cruel and hard

[e-minor-mental-breakdowns]

Funny how I’m Bm yet my favorite key is Em

[thescientificviolist]

C minor and b minor

[bangdoot]

I’m Eb major. I’m a real menace