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  «La buena música no se equivoca y va derecha al fondo del alma en busca del dolor que nos devora.», "Vie de Rossini", Stendhal  

[ciqares]

Mouchette ' 1967

#robertbresson #mouchette

[ratak-monodosico]

Robert Bresson. “Mouchette” 1967

[garadinervi]

Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

[masonyin]

The Day in the Life of a Violin Teacher.

[masonyin]

Chinese Classicat with Mask

[darkmacademia]

some of my favourite piano pieces + pressed flowers.

[slowdeathbyetudes]

thoughts

[themaninthegreenshirt]

“When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you’re fifty, you’ll see. I am fifty. I haven’t seen anything.“ 

Erik Satie, pic by Man Ray [1922]

[oldpaintings]

Sundown over a marsh, 1871 by Alexei Savrasov (Russian, 1830–1897)

[oldpaintings]

Mozart 1756-91 Sings His Requiem, 1882 by Thomas W. Shields (American, 1849–1920?)

[slaughterkeys]

[justanotherpiccplayer]

Ghost rep is just cage 4:33

[barcarole]

Manuscript of Chopin’s Polonaise in F Minor, Op. 71, No. 3, ca. 1828-29.

[ratak-monodosico]

ITALY - CIRCA 1865: Portrait of an old copyist and a young woman in a street in Naples, in front of a French window, seated at a table with a sign attached on which is written ‘Si traduce il francese’. The man, in a well-worn top hat and with a handkerchief tied under his chin, has a goose quill stuck behind his ear. The woman, who wears the traditional headdress, is shown in profile, looking at the scribe who is examining a small object he holds. Raised over the table, an umbrella 

(Photo by Giorgio Sommer/Alinari Archives, Florence/Alinari via Getty Images)

[bestmadeco-blog]

[ratak-monodosico]

“What good shall I do this day?”: Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule

Founding Father of the USA (and the one man most often confused as a former president), founder of the first public lending library, founder of a fire department, university, and hospital, inventor, and role model for one of this country’s greatest traits (ingenuity!)… how did Benjamin Franklin do it? To start: he had a good schedule.

Above image from And the Pursuit of Happiness, by Maira Kalman.

[barcarole]

Detail from View of Heath Street by Night, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1882.

[musicainextenso]

It’s time to wrap up this week’s celebration of the works of Sergei Prokofiev. I’ve been in a chamber music frame of mind all day, and though I’d often choose his first string quartet for such an occasion (it is one of my favorites of his work), instead, I’ll share his String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, played here by the Emerson Quartet. I’m especially a fan of its middle adagio section, which is just the perfect kind of melancholy for the end of a long and difficult week.

I haven’t been much of a musicologist during this series—life has been unwilling to accommodate the kind of long, ponderous posts I most enjoy—but I always feel that Prokofiev’s music tells each person their own individual story. I hope yours have been good ones.

Signing off - Melinda Beasi

[yes-im-a-simple-man]

When I hear someone insult Tchaikovsky

[classicliteraturehoe]

Will you marry me

[exo-orbiter-1983]

A list of things said or done in my symphony rehearsals

“Brahms is a cunt”

“I swear I’m not that shitty of a musician”

“Where are we??” “I don’t know man but we passed K a while ago” *piece ends* “Well fuck”

*maintaining intense eye contact with a cellist who’s simultaneously playing*

*whips during every impact point*

Conductor: I swear it’s like you’re all on candy or something Trombonist: I’m on something much stronger than that

*screams about star wars*

Conductor: Trumpet play at 371 Trumpet: I don’t play there Conductor: check your music Trumpet: SHIT I’VE BEEN ON THE WRONG PIECE FOR 45 MINUTES

*random kazoo-ing from the violin section*

“Trumpet Daddy”

“You guys sound like chickens”