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A badly worded poll is making vaccine skepticism look more common than it is. www.statnews.com/2026/04/17/v...
Composer & conductor go over a score together.
Leopold Stokowski and Heitor Villa-Lobos were close friends. They had a lot in common, both musically & in terms of temperament. Both were accomplished showmen, carefully cultivating their public personas. Both loved Bach.
📷 De Agostini, Rio de Janeiro, 1943
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#Gibraltar - 18/04 - a lovely view of the Rock this afternoon, from the "Cielo Skybar" #Estepona, photo thanks to MeteoGib follower Dino Chincotta - at 4pm, temperatures reaching 20C so far, while a touch warmer up the coast with Estepona at 23C.
we live at the bottom of an ocean
Modern clear glass window in an 18th century church in London,
St. Martin-in-the-fields, 1726, James Gibbs, architect
Merce Cunningham photographed in 1968 on Martha Graham's Manhattan patio (with Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Twyla Tharp, Yvonne Rainer, Paul Taylor and Erik Hawkins) - BOTD
About Last Night - Zlata Chochieva makes a stormy debut at the Library of Congress. Photo: C. Downey washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/04/16/c...
Sir Colin Davis died 13 years ago today. A great champion of Berlioz, exquisite in Mozart. Here's a wonderful documentary “Colin Davis: the Man and his Music” from 2012: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM_9...
Mount Etna in Sicily (April 2025). "Afterwards, he sailed to Sicily, and there he climbed Mount Aetna to see the sunrise, which is many-hued, they say, like the rainbow." Historia Augusta
Sunrise at Mount Etna in Sicily (April 2025). "Afterwards, he sailed to Sicily, and there he climbed Mount Aetna to see the sunrise, which is many-hued, they say, like the rainbow." Historia Augusta
Mount Casius in Syria (Jebel Aqra in modern-day Turkey). Photo taken from Samandağ in 2017. "As he was sacrificing on Mount Casius, which he had ascended by night in order to see the sunrise, a storm arose, and a flash of lightning descended and struck both the victim and the attendant." Historia Augusta
#HadrianFactTuesday - Did you know that Hadrian was an avid mountain climber? 🗻 He ascended two of the most famous peaks in his empire: Mount Etna in Sicily to witness the sunrise (AD 125), and Mount Casius in Syria, where he narrowly escaped being struck by lightning (AD 129/130).
Here’s another breathtaking piece of Roman glass work in millefiori style. Bafflingly beautiful.
🕰️ C1st BC - C1st AD
🏛️📷 Smithsonian American Art Museum
🏺 #AncientBlueSky
"His nightmares have come to life. Attila the Hun dreamt of a ghostly white figure halting his progress toward toward Rome — and suddenly, that figure appears, in the form of Pope Leo I."
Washington’s statue at Federal Hall, not far from Fraunces Tavern
Fraunces Tavern in the 1800s
April 13, 1776: George Washington arrives in New York City to take charge of its defense from looming British attack. He dines his first night at Fraunces Tavern downtown, beginning a long relationship with the public house and its patriotic owner, West Indian immigrant Samuel Fraunces. 1/2
Hoy en el 70 a. C. nació Cayo Cilnio Mecenas, consejero personal de Cayo Cesar Octaviano y después de Augusto (cuando este cambió su nombre).
After #Auschwitz, deep troubles were not over, this time courtesy of #Moscow : Ančerl chose to emigrate to #Canada after 1968 #Soviet invasion, becoming a renown director of the Toronto Symphonic Orchestra. He was badly missed in #Czechoslovakia, but 🇨🇦 gave him freedom.
See www.karel-ancerl.com
La meravigliosa mostra “Impressionisti e oltre” al Museo dell’Ara Pacis di #Roma con 50 capolavori dal Detroit Institute of Art. Van Gogh, Renoir, Degas, Modigliani, Pissarro, Bonnard, Vallotton, Picasso, Beckmann e tantissimi altri. 🖼️
Thank you @doodlyroses.com for posting this or I would have missed it. Absolutely delightful exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum.
About Last Night - NSO principal trumpeter William Gerlach has a dynamic solo turn in Haydn's evergreen Trumpet Concerto, and Noseda takes a crack at Bruckner's Seventh Symphony; magisterial outing for the brass (one flub in the Wagner tubas aside) washingtonclassicalreview.com/2026/04/11/t...
The Bakery (pistrinum) of Popidius Priscus. Pompeii. The bakery had four large millstones made from porous lava, traces of a stable, four storage rooms and a large baking oven. This bakery had no adjoining shop, so the bread was probably sold on to other shops or to street vendors (libani)
A recreation of how the bakery of Popidius Priscus might have looked like. From "Pompeii: Monuments Past & Present" (1995)
Bakery of Modestus. Oven. August 2008. Photo by Jared Benton.
Bakery of Modestus. Atrium with large tub or basin for washing the grain. October 2009. Photo by Jared Benton.
It's neat to be able to use this relief and compare it with the bakeries foudn in Pompeii and Herculaneum, to get an idea of how they would have been used.
In This Week's Banner Edition of "The Refuge":
AN ALL MAHLER EDITION!
A Rare Portrait
Coming of Age
The Plague of Interpretive Profunditis
Beethoven's Revenge
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Thousands of cases of bread sold in 10 states are being recalled, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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En ese programa también interpretó una pieza de Beethoven, que a lo mejor no era la mejor para seducir a alguien como Fozzie el Oso. #MakeEmLaugh
In this video, made a few years ago when Ken conducted a chamber version of Mahler’s 9th, he talks points out that “there is nothing else by anyone that’s quite like the first movement of Mahler 9.”
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April 8, 1926: An orchestral group of Waterford, Ireland.
Ponchieli's La Gioconda was first performed in Milan on this day 150 years ago. So here are Eva Marton and Mariana Cioromila singing (and how) the great soprano-mezzo showdown in Act II, in Berlin, in 1998. I was lucky enough to be in the audience for this ...... 😀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjMU...
Vintage ad: A picture of a young woman in a yellow sweater, with a malted milk & a straw. New Flavor Sensation! Horlicks Malt-of-the-Month "Cola Malt" Horlicks malted milk served with cola flavor at your soda fountain - Try it!
While reading about Adrian Boult online, more than once I came across this put-down of Boult by Thomas Beecham: "Boult came into the studio, reeking of Horlicks." Apparently he was making fun of Boult for being teetotal.
I had to look it up!
The composer poses at his desk. Behind him on a mantlepiece, a bust of Mozart.
Remembering Adrian Boult on his birthday 🎂
📷 Don Smith, 1972
"There is an enormous amount of bluff in conducting. The first part of that bluff is that you must pretend to know all about your score."
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Realise I failed to post the full version of this last night (I watched it via the BFI app) then just looked it up on YouTube to share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTEZ...
#onthisdate #deathday Gaetano Donizetti (1848) From L’elisir d’amore @operapoznan “Venti scudi” #loudfastandhigh
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Adrian Boult - BOTD
