Flaming hydra? More like flaming Fafner!

New lifting pr (after 2 weeks of travel) of 460x3 for barbell squat.

I mean… it’s the same musical pun that goes back to Mozart: a cuckold of horns. Literally an entire aria in Cosi about it with solo horn duet. (Per pieta I think)

The sound of love is of course the combo of: horners, bratsche, and boners

Let alone what Riemann transformation the key change is

Score reading is hard as shit. Something you said sure made sense the other day: Wagner really was a freak writing all this stuff.

Bones can’t read it either

Gotta keep those troubles makers separate somehow.

That’s what I’m saying!

Oh I got to play this one when I played it 2 years ago! Principal comes in for the sword motifs later. Good spot.

I just get depressed about the whole thing. Regardless whether you use it at all, the squeeze of what is expected just crushes us all.

Speaking of writing: the more scattered brained I am; the more like Thomas Chatterton Williams I write.

Some of my peers—speaking privately—opined they wanted to be the new Rosen or Taruskin, without the work.

I am late to this but: some major discussion of Lt. Kije on this week’s @doughboys.bsky.social including multiple melodies being sung… mostly correctly!

Check those… I’ve had some students bring in some crazy transposed parts. Just warning you.

Koch undefeated

I make 5x as much teaching privately at a middle school on my own schedule.

the boys love tendies! and by "tendies," i of course mean the 1934 F Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender is the Night"

I hate the fact that I continue to teach adjunct as a reason to have a line in my CV that I am currently working in the academic field (even though I do love the students)

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

Too real

End of career Timmy. No one else can play Dylan because Timmy understands Bobby is just a weird nerd at heart.

Buried in the ballroom like Lenin in Moscow.

Occasionally at donor events.

Also, Carlos Simon’s “Holy Dance” and “Amen!” Are just the same piece, right?

21st century haymarket square event

if they start doing those mcfarmhouse teardowns in your neighborhood it is your civic duty to procure a firearm and start shooting into the sky at 4am #gentrification #urbanism #chicago

…after referencing your other best known work in a 1 hour orchestral tone poem.

Strauss: 2nd biggest wife guy of classical music after Schumann?

RIP new Kate lore