There's a shocking lack of basic structure, as well! It really makes things hard.

The most common way I see people write shit opera is by shoving lyrics into a rhythm that fights the actual pronunciation of the words. This makes simple music horrendously difficult memorize while also rendering it unintelligible, and I don’t understand why composers insist on doing it.

Oh MY GOD

I'm just a girl looking for a yellow cab driver that knows how to get to the cross streets I tell him instead of trying to take me downtown when I want to go to Harlem

I weep for the days of competent and knowledgeable cab drivers in nyc. I don't want to babysit you, sir, I want to quietly zoom up the east side in dissociative peace

From Keyboard to Quartet a Fanny Hensel lecture-concert Hensel's original works & modern arrangements featuring: The Town Quartet, Monica Chew & Henselpushers April 4th 2026, 12 noon • $20 Berkeley Piano Club • 2724 Haste St, Berkeley henselpushers.org/k2q

hear the music Felix Mendelssohn called "too much”! henselpushers.org/k2q (Too much in a speech bubble coming from a drawing of Felix and a drawing of Fanny with 8-bit sunglasses)

It’s six days to my Fanny Hensel lecture concert and I am feeling GREAT about the content and STRESSED about the attendance. We have no financial backing, and there are six performers to take care of.

That's the most ocd coded thing i have ever heard, it may be worth checking out.

The violence of this is just beyond words for me.

The Numbers Game Hugh Morris examines the rise of content creation and influencers in classical music, and asks what it means for the industry and artform.

What the rise of content creation in classical music means for the business and aesthetics of the artform, by @hwfmorris.bsky.social

van-magazine.com/mag/classica...

im sorry Anna Wintour looks like she's being held at gunpoint this is worth everything to me

Seconding the Everlasting!

If you haven't preordered yet what are you even doing?

I think you've hit the nail right on the head in that storytelling in marketing is a bit of a dead skill

It's hard to get metrics that translate to c suite speak for the kind of marketing that the moment may need and pr/marketing definitely has to court that set of people rather than the audience they're marketing to.

That's where the marketing dollars would be well spent in my opinion! The fans hunger for a real star in the genre

Truly. I also wish he were better at star making, because I think that might help the cause.

Incredible work here

From my understanding he's quite micromanagey about marketing in a way that makes the job next to impossible to do.

YES PLEASE GOD

The Met Opera’s Desperate Hunt for Money

i have an idea for fixing the met's money problems: what if we let someone besides Peter Gelb try (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/a...

It's @saramcclarinet.bsky.social's birthday today! To celebrate, preorder her book here: www.harpercollins.com/products/dec...

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Buy your ticket for the book launch at the the Strand rare book room on May 21! Sara Van Os + Rachel Harrison: Decomposition Book www.eventbrite.com/e/sara-van-o...

new met tristan

Sometimes you learn the song you want in rehearsal and sometimes you suffer for 50 minutes and then cave and let the kids give their performance of eye of the tiger for 3 recorders and treble voices.

Queeeeeen

Fanny's scream merch is now available in the store...
henselpushers.org/store/fannys...

Email from Norman Lebrecht to Yuja Wang that reads: Dear Yuja I hear from Philippa Cole that you have withdrawn from any possible opportunity for a BBC Lebrecht interview between March and June this year. I am surprised and disappointed. I thought you were a serious person who stood by her commitments. I may have to revise that opinion. all good wishes Norman" And Yuja's response (via her Instagram Stories): "@norman.lebrecht this derogatory misogynistic bullying need[s] to stop. We are human beings who grow with nourishing energy, not characters for you to abuse."

Not Norman Lebrecht pulling a Tyra Banks

Seeing snow shovelers in vests on the platform: 🤩💋🏙️😭♥️🏳️‍🌈✨✨✨

Seeing the NYPD on the platform: 💩😷🤮🤢🤬😠😾😡🗑️🚮🙈🙊🙉✋🛑

Subway ads: make ravioli the easy way | we've put cameras in the train car | say good by to dirty blush palettes

Email dated 1/24/2013 from Jeffrey Epstein (to address is redacted). tell the black girt that we are going to symphony reheasal at camegie hall for an hour , tomorow at 1130. woudl she like to join.

A message to Epstein from a redacted address sent 1/24/2013. Subject: Botstein tomorrow I have confirmed with Lynn Meloccaro will o tomorrow to Botstein's dress rehearsal as planned at Carnegie Hall. [redacted] names have been added to the list. All of you must take ID with you. What time would you like the girls at the house tomorrow to go with you (starts at 11am)? 11:00-2:00 Go see Leon Botstein at his Dress Rehearsal at Carnegie Hall (Stage Entrance on 56th ST) Lynne Meloccaro is your contact if you need anything.

JE used Botstein for pretty constant access to Carnegie Hall, usually with one or more girls in tow, and there's a few things there I still need to put all the pieces together ... but it's not going anywhere good

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Like obviously the messaging is just there to make people feel like we don't live in a sea of soulless nihilism.