I fear I can only classify the peasant chorus from the first act of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin as a “booty-shaker.” This is the correct musicological term
#opera
Posts by Weston Williams
Sorry I’ve been away from Bluesky for so long I’ve been listening to Schreker orchestral lieder #sigmamindset
Very excited that I’m approximately 15 minutes and an eyeroll at a cybertruck away from being an enemy of the state
To the minivan with the “Moondog” vanity plates in front of my yesterday with no alphanumeric replacements whatsoever, how does it feel to be the coolest cat in Illinois
Negative reviews of The Listeners are why we, American opera audiences, can’t have nice things
Once again I must insist that we just don’t do what Trump says ok thanks bye
The new Andris Nelson recording of Lady Macbeth of Mtensk with Opolais and Groissböck slaps way harder than I expected
You know, if everyone simply didn’t do what Trump wanted us to do, there’s nothing he could do about it, and I feel like people are really forgetting that. Let’s not be banal with the evil or whatever it was that Arendt said
Lmao back of my head cameo youtu.be/14d3qTMK_So?...
Serialism only produced bops you guys are just mean
When people ask where I stand politically and whether I am good at garage band I show them this youtu.be/5n4_YhuSU3A?... #music #badcomposer
Regietheater core
Is it just… leaning up against a fence?
Just sit ‘em down in front of Wozzeck so they can hurry up and get traumatized like the rest of us
When I grow up I want to be in the classical music Bluesky starter pack
I postulate that the Tristan chord is to classical musicians as the lick is to jazz musicians
Boy howdy do I hate capitalism
Bop
Gute Nacht mit Hans Werner Henze & ‹Nachtstücke und Arien› nach Gedichten von Ingeborg Bachmann youtu.be/61bsW1uJKqw (1957)
Tonight’s mood #AlbanBerg
I’m sorry to break it to you, but you’re under 6’2”, you don’t know how dusty the top of your refrigerator is
Willing to spend a truly irresponsible amount of money on a CD of the Warsaw Autumn 2010 performance of the introduction to Russian mystic composer Nicolai Obukhov’s Book of Life pls help I yearn for theosophical and aesthetic destitution
Classical composers from the 1920s truly Could Not Stop adding air raid sirens to their orchestrations and I respect the hell out of that
Employees at 98.7 WFMT, Chicago’s classical music station, announced their intent early this month to unionize with SAG-AFTRA, the union representing broadcast media professionals.
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Le Lamento della Ninfa de Monteverdi, "Non avea febo ancora", par Lea Desandre & l'Ensemble Pygmalion de Raphaël Pichon
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Have some content you depraved lunatics
Finally on twitter I guess