Khach me if you can

Felicia, 22. This is my music blog. Full disclosure, I hardly ever post here. My regular everyday blog (for memes and animals) is [email protected]

[namiharinezumi]

1148 ホルン

a horn

[four-flats]

piano from my lessons

[sometimesapianist]

I just realized that the whole “I like everything but country and rap” thing that people do is like.... kinda classist and racist. It’s like saying “I don’t listen to/ I don’t appreciate music associated with socioeconomically disadvantaged Americans because I see those art forms as unintelligent and I am Above That.” Like sure there is DEFINITELY something to be said about current country music being the soundtrack to white conservative America but when people state “I like some of everything! Oh but not country and rap”, they’re not necessarily thinking “I don’t like country music because it’s associated with racism and nationalism” (if you are, fantastic!). And as for rap (Cough COUGh OBVIOUS RACISM?) there’s a certain disparaging of the language that’s used in rap music. I had a lot of high school friends who would say things like “I hate listening to music that just talks about bitches and drugs.” BUT there is a LOT more to rap and hip hop than that, and reductionist statements like the above are used to discredit it as a really powerful genre both musically and lyrically. it is a SUPER complex genre that reflects a lot of the cultural struggles of Black America.

lots of mainstream music sux. so why single out country and rap?????? listen to old time country and Americana. It’s great! if you don’t like t-pain or whatever, explore beyond that and listen to different rap & hip-hop artists. I totally get that there are musical preferences but like Analyze Them Please Ok

[johann-sebastian-bitch]

me: can I please copy your notes music student: notes??🎶 there’s WAY more to music 🎼🎧than just NOTES 🎵phrase🙏🏻 accent💥RIP Beethoven😔👴🏻🎻Brahms 3 mvt 3✨

me: do you know the angles of this triangle music student: the only🙅🏻 triangle 📐that I know🙇🏼is the orchestral triangle 📐🎻🎶 Mahler 1 mvt 4 🙏🏻✨

me: look at that iceberg music student: iceberg?❄️🗻I think you mean 🙇🏼 SCHOENBERG👴🏻🎶 retrograde↔️inversion↕️😩 retrograde inversion ↕️↔️💯

[holmesianscholar]

Person: it’s getting warmer, spring is here Music student: The only way to celebrate spring is The RITE of Spring☀️Le Sacre🌷du printemps🍀Sacrificial 🔪💥🔪Dance💃🏿⚡️additive➕rhythm🎼🎶🎵bitonality2️⃣💞Premiere1️⃣▶️🆕✳️❗️29 May: 1913💯🙅🙅‍♂️👎☠️💤💩👻😵😱😩😤😰😞😑👽👏🏻😡

[composersillustrated]

Astor Piazzolla by Vladimir Marcos Merchensky Arias

[sometimesapianist]

Me: why am I stll single I don't wanna be alone

Also me: *experiences a deeper connection with Beethoven's piano concertos than with most people"

[musicmajor]

I actually ate mushrooms picked by John Cage

my music theory professor today

did you know John Cage was into mushrooms

(x)

[theangryviolinist-deactivated20]

lang lang is literally one of the most musically expressive pianists i’ve ever listened to. i’m convinced that 99% of the hate that he receives about being “robotic” and “unmusical” is because he’s asian. there’s literally no doubt in my mind. 

yes, sometimes the tone that he produces isn’t what i’d really call pretty, but robotic is the very last adjective you could ever use to describe his playing.

[thetrippytrip]

thank you Mr. Lewis for paving the way in classical music

[symphonicseauxl]

my hero

[masonyin]

Run! musicians, run!

[bandgeek-orchestragirl]

This takes tripping over notes to a whole new level

[averageblackteen-deactivated201]

Reblog if Black Lives Matter to you

Where are those woke white people at!?

[arse-thetic]

#justiceformuslims

[csidesuicide]

I love every single person who reblogged this

[achromatiq]

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

[ello-bby]

Have a great day x

[writing-prompt-s]

Go unfollow this blog all you want, I am reblogging this. 

[edeneye30]

I am aware this does not follow this blog’s style, however, I find it necessary to reblog this

[composersillustrated]

W.A. Mozart and Antonio Salieri by Artbashev

(Happy birthday, Mozart!)

[msdisdain]

WE NEED 3 SENATORS TO CHANGE THEIR VOTES TO PREVENT DeVos FROM BEING CONFIRMED!!!

The vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as Sec of Education was delayed. The hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions will now be held at 10 a.m. Jan. 31, according to an advisory from the committee. And now to act (esp my ME, GA, NC and SC friends)! Betsy DeVos is up for confirmation as U.S. Education Secretary, and many, many educators have expressed strongly that she is not qualified to ensure quality education in this country.

Please consider calling one of the following Republican Senators (key in the confirmation vote) to express your opinion on the appointment. At least 3 of these need to be convinced in order to block DeVos’ nomination. Don’t email. Don’t tweet. Don’t complain on Facebook. Call them!

Then, PLEASE SHARE WIDELY:

If you live in one of the states represented below, PLEASE call YOUR Senator, If you don’t, pick one and call him/her:

Susan Collins (ME) 207.622.8414..&..202.224.2523 Lamar Alexander (TN) 615.736.5129..&..202.224.4944 Lisa Murkowski (AK) 907.586.7277..&..202.224.6665 Johnny Isakson (GA) 770.661.0999..&..202.224.3643 Orrin Hatch (UT) 801.524.4380..&..202.224.5251 Richard Burr (NC) 336.631.5125..&..202.224.3154..&.. 910.251.1058..&..828.350.2437 Michael Enzi (WY) 202.224.3424 Dr. Bill Cassidy (LA) 202.224.5824 Pat Roberts (KS) 202.224.4774 Tim Scott (SC) 202.224.6121 Rand Paul (KY) 202.224.4343

[northray]

Battlestations, my Yankee Activist peeps

[jedi-muaddib]

gonna call lamar alexander tomorrow

[sweeter-than-cynicism-deactivat]

Booooooost

[sophaoat]

CALL YOUR DANG REPRESENTATIVES

Susan Collins (ME) 207.622.8414..&..202.224.2523 Lamar Alexander (TN) 615.736.5129..&..202.224.4944 Lisa Murkowski (AK) 907.586.7277..&..202.224.6665 Johnny Isakson (GA) 770.661.0999..&..202.224.3643 Orrin Hatch (UT) 801.524.4380..&..202.224.5251 Richard Burr (NC) 336.631.5125..&..202.224.3154..&.. 910.251.1058..&..828.350.2437 Michael Enzi (WY) 202.224.3424 Dr. Bill Cassidy (LA) 202.224.5824 Pat Roberts (KS) 202.224.4774 Tim Scott (SC) 202.224.6121 Rand Paul (KY) 202.224.4343

[eveningrelics]

IF the state is one you live in call. They don’t really have reason to listen if they don’t represent you. 

If your state is not listed here, signal boost.

[sometimesapianist]

my rep already voted no so voters in states with reps listed above Please Do the Thing!! :)

[princerosalium]

[sometimesapianist]

Hey US followers!

I want to take a sec to share THIS with you: http://networkforpubliceducation.org/2016/11/tell-your-senator-to-vote-no-for-betsy-devos/

Betsy DeVos is dangerous to the educational system. If you’re a registered voter, would you mind taking a minute out of your day to fill this out? DeVos is all for making US education more and more privatized, which lowers school accountability and makes education even LESS accessible than it already is! I really don’t want to see students of future generations struggling more than my peers have. Everything starts with education. Education should not be a business. I’m going to stop now before this becomes a rant but please, please please sign this.

Video of Senate hearing, for good measure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mWOgN460wM

[sometimesapianist]

i kind of wish I was hildegard von bingen

[sometimesapianist]

She was 1) SO CREATIVE! A GENIUS! A musician, botanist and architect (among other things), she even invented her own language 2) was pretty sexually progressive, wrote about how fucked up it is that the church imposes guilt on people (WOMEN) for expressing/enjoying sexuality 4) started her own fucken convent!!! Which she designed!!! Seriously when will your fave ever