MUSIC

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Senegalese musician Sallilou on the Cas Cas, also known as Kashaka, which is an instrument made by connecting two small, bean-filled gourds with a string. [x]

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Ella Fitzgerald singing at The Royal Roost in New York, 1948, for an audience that includes Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington. Photo by Herman Leonard.

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oh good

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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it” - Kurt Vonnegut || Photo by Nathan Head.

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(via William Short, principal bassoon, Metropolitan Opera)

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can’t connect w my mutuals anymore… kpop this kpop that… can’t we all just listen to gregorian chant again :(

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*Stefon voice*

“There is this new for 1987 opera out there called Nixon in China and it has everything

Singing.

Carolann Page.

Henry Kissinger as the villain in a Communist ballet?

now if your child is terrible, terrible with names, and has an unhealthy sense of stranger danger

Madam Mao introduces herself for 7 minutes straight as artistic dissidents are beaten into submission

A new friend of the family for all

But if the straight edge lifestyle has you looking for an escape that your weekly sip of communion wine no longer provides: become a professional third and enter the marital bed of Richard and Pat Nixon in a quasi-surreal act-long exploration of their personal histories

There’s even a shout-out for you fans of James Goldman’s “Follies”

an older couple (Chairman and Madam Mao)

argues

about the past

as spectral representations of their youthful selves foxtrot around the stage

You can get all of this (and more!) at the low, low, bar to meet basic standards of racial sensitivity and human decency of

reflecting and debating whether your support and enjoyment of Nixon in China makes you complicit in the marginalization and discrimination of people of color in the Arts, with particular focus on that of Asians in the opera community, as a result of the work’s frequent casting of white performers in Chinese roles

and the additional complication of a vital moment in modern Chinese history being related by both a white composer and white librettist”

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Some things I’ve learnt about perfect pitch from studying music psychology

Also disclaimer: many of these are still theories, but at the current point in time are widely accepted

I also don’t have perfect pitch, I just find it interesting tbh

(Absolute pitch is just another name for perfect pitch)

First of all, everyone is born with perfect pitch. Everyone. Over time, our brains process that this isn’t necessary, so we instead process pitch relatively. Only those who have made use of their absolute pitch (through early musical training or whatever) keep it

As fantastic as perfect pitch may seem, it can be an obstacle for musicians. Because melodies are defined by pitch and duration relations, relative pitch is the more musical way of processing music. That’s why we can all sing, for example, happy birthday, in different keys but still be able to recognise it as happy birthday. Because of the different ways people with absolute pitch process music, this is much harder and more abstract for them

By extension, while it may not be harder, aural skills would definitely be processed very differently for someone with perfect pitch. My guess is that, when recognising intervals, while someone with relative pitch, once trained, can hear and intervals and recognise it for what it is, someone with absolute pitch would probably identify the note names and then figure out the interval the same way you would if you were reading the interval in sheet music.

Anyway that’s just all I read about in my psychology text, feel free to add on/ comment or whatever

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Lady Gaga on the cover of V Magazine 118 by Jean-Paul Goude

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Where is the lie ?

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this is the funniest thing I have ever seen

https://youtu.be/t8m4-Qgtu3o 

from https://www.facebook.com/pg/transsiberianmarchband

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Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings, Op.11

Often described as the “saddest classical work ever”, Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings has an almost inexorable quality in the slow, steady upward movement of the haunting melody towards the hair-raising climax, before finally settling back to the subdued sorrow of the opening. The piece was famously featured in the film Platoon, and was played at the funerals of Albert Einstein, Princess Grace of Monaco and during the announcements of the deaths of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.

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““It’s not that I have this butch attitude and women turn me on,” says Bonney, “but there is something uniquely exciting about being on stage in front of 5,000 people with opera glasses as this tall, slender, mezzo soprano grabs you, looks deep into your eyes and kisses you on the mouth.”

— barbara bonney …. honey….. thats kinda Gay™ ….. and def problematic but also…..Gay™ (via turnoutthedark)