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I’m cramming but not for midterms 🌚

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I can’t believe they made this our All-State piece (but didn’t include the final variation).

#trumpet

Fat chance, orchestra kids!

#brass players

#nutcracker #tchaikovsky #piotr ilitch tchaikovsky #classical music #musician humor

operarox

Some of my favorite tempi markings in fachyeahoperasingers’s opera, Sweets By Kate

Shostakoffee

#Shostakovich #dmitri shostakovich

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Happy Thanksgiving!

#musicians #classical music #treble clef #bass clef #thanksgiving

cyberb1ack

I am beyond dead 😭

chasingthathigh

This nigga is not taking any shit this week lol

mayaangelique

Teaching rhythm to the less fortunate

acetaildog

The moment white people said he was too urban to listen to listen to anymore.

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See, there’s a way to handle this situation without being totally disrespectful to your audience.

#endviolajokes

#endviolajokes #viola #classical music #orchestra

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Just a few highlights from my snapchat story. Help me.

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HERE’S A THROWBACK FROM LAST YEAR BC USBANDS NATIONALS IS TODAY IN ALLENTOWN, PA!!!

#veryband

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So I found my music book from beginning band in sixth grade….

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These were the books we started on in fifth grade!!

#veryband #standard of excellence #bruce pearson #kjos music

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who needs this many reminders

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This is sort of like when young students write in the fingering for every note, even when it’s the same note repeated several times.

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mahler 6 appreciation

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#MAKE THE MAHLER HAMMER AS FAMOUS AS THE TCHAIKOVSKY CANNONS

I am clearly missing something amazing

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It’s even more awesome if you know the story behind it. See, the orchestral score doesn’t actually specify the use of a huge wooden mallet. In fact, it doesn’t specify any particular instrument at all: it just describes a completely hypothetical instrumental sound - “brief and mighty, but dull in resonance and with a non-metallic character (like the fall of an axe)” - and leaves it to the orchestra director to figure out how to actually produce it. Apart from the Big Fucking Mallet, past attempts have included custom-made bass drums, smacking a wooden crate with a sledgehammer, and dropping heavy objects onto the stage from a great height.

I don’t know if Mahler actually intended to troll entire generations of orchestras, but if he did, it totally worked.