Thomas Keith
@1714tak.bsky.social
A proud Canadian flâneur in London ON. Sarcastic, satirical, and a bit of a cynic. A Classical music Mr. Know-It-All-Smarty-Pants. 😳🇨🇦🤪🐝
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#NowSpinning Bartók’s First String Quartet with the Hungarians. I have not heard this cycle before and will probably compare with others today. Anyone got any thoughts on their favourite Bartók’s Quartet sets?
October 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
#NowSpinning Bartók’s First String Quartet with the Hungarians. I have not heard this cycle before and will probably compare with others today. Anyone got any thoughts on their favourite Bartók’s Quartet sets?
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GO train conductor, announcing extended train times for the baseball game, "As we cheer on the Toronto Maple Leafs in the World Series..."
Even I, a non sports fan, recognize that something is wrong with that sentence.
Even I, a non sports fan, recognize that something is wrong with that sentence.
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
GO train conductor, announcing extended train times for the baseball game, "As we cheer on the Toronto Maple Leafs in the World Series..."
Even I, a non sports fan, recognize that something is wrong with that sentence.
Even I, a non sports fan, recognize that something is wrong with that sentence.
@phronk.bsky.social
“You see a few of them at every funeral. They try to blend in, dressing in culturally appropriate attire. They act solemn enough, but stick out like gangrenous thumbs if you know what to look for.”
(Putting together a bit of a Fall reading list.)
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“You see a few of them at every funeral. They try to blend in, dressing in culturally appropriate attire. They act solemn enough, but stick out like gangrenous thumbs if you know what to look for.”
(Putting together a bit of a Fall reading list.)
🫨🤦♂️🇨🇦
September 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
@phronk.bsky.social
“You see a few of them at every funeral. They try to blend in, dressing in culturally appropriate attire. They act solemn enough, but stick out like gangrenous thumbs if you know what to look for.”
(Putting together a bit of a Fall reading list.)
🫨🤦♂️🇨🇦
“You see a few of them at every funeral. They try to blend in, dressing in culturally appropriate attire. They act solemn enough, but stick out like gangrenous thumbs if you know what to look for.”
(Putting together a bit of a Fall reading list.)
🫨🤦♂️🇨🇦
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#NewReleases2025 This punchy, dynamic, dramatic music grips from first note to last in these top-notch performances. If you've not yet discovered the symphonies of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979), one of the foremost Czech composers of the 20th century, then don't delay - listen today!
September 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
#NewReleases2025 This punchy, dynamic, dramatic music grips from first note to last in these top-notch performances. If you've not yet discovered the symphonies of Miloslav Kabeláč (1908-1979), one of the foremost Czech composers of the 20th century, then don't delay - listen today!
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I used to feel the same way. The last movement felt a little inauthentic to me, like a big payoff we hadn't yet earned through the other bizarre movements. I love the piece now, but I get it.
August 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I used to feel the same way. The last movement felt a little inauthentic to me, like a big payoff we hadn't yet earned through the other bizarre movements. I love the piece now, but I get it.
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Don't forget to check all the stuff on your neighbor's yard that's going to blow onto yours during the hurricane. 🙄😜
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Don't forget to check all the stuff on your neighbor's yard that's going to blow onto yours during the hurricane. 🙄😜
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Ya'll ready for Hurricane Erin? Charge everything!
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August 21, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Ya'll ready for Hurricane Erin? Charge everything!
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#NowSpinning I’ve always *liked* but never *loved* this Mahler 7. But now I am going to listen again with open ears and an open mind. Recent comments from someone whose views I respect a lot suggest I might be missing something.
August 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
#NowSpinning I’ve always *liked* but never *loved* this Mahler 7. But now I am going to listen again with open ears and an open mind. Recent comments from someone whose views I respect a lot suggest I might be missing something.
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Busoni's straddling between traditionalism and modernism can make his music a bit incoherent. But the scope of his imagination was remarkable. His 5-movement, 75-minute Piano Concerto includes a finale in which an offstage 6-part male chorus sings a hymn of praise to...Allah.
July 27, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Busoni's straddling between traditionalism and modernism can make his music a bit incoherent. But the scope of his imagination was remarkable. His 5-movement, 75-minute Piano Concerto includes a finale in which an offstage 6-part male chorus sings a hymn of praise to...Allah.
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#morninglistening to #FranzKonwitschny & the gewandhausorchester Leipzig playing #LvBeethoven 4 Fidelio overtures, Coriolan & Prometheus. Woof! We forget how charged Konwitschny's Beethoven is. Gruff, ripping playing from the Leipzigers under the GDR's GMD.
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July 21, 2025 at 9:41 AM
#morninglistening to #FranzKonwitschny & the gewandhausorchester Leipzig playing #LvBeethoven 4 Fidelio overtures, Coriolan & Prometheus. Woof! We forget how charged Konwitschny's Beethoven is. Gruff, ripping playing from the Leipzigers under the GDR's GMD.
Amzn: amzn.to/45l6PTJ
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UpsideDown #Weidringer[TM] at the Musikverein Wien for the Australian Youth Orchestra w/the fabulous David Robertson
July 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
UpsideDown #Weidringer[TM] at the Musikverein Wien for the Australian Youth Orchestra w/the fabulous David Robertson
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"I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years."
- Arnold Schoenberg, speaking to a colleague in 1921 about his 12-twelve method.
(OK, so he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...)
- Arnold Schoenberg, speaking to a colleague in 1921 about his 12-twelve method.
(OK, so he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...)
July 13, 2025 at 3:57 AM
"I have made a discovery which will ensure the supremacy of German music for the next hundred years."
- Arnold Schoenberg, speaking to a colleague in 1921 about his 12-twelve method.
(OK, so he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...)
- Arnold Schoenberg, speaking to a colleague in 1921 about his 12-twelve method.
(OK, so he wasn't exactly Nostradamus...)
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July 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Now listening to Janáček's extraordinary and rather beautiful opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček conducted by František Jílek. Leoš Janáček born on this day in 1854.
July 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Now listening to Janáček's extraordinary and rather beautiful opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček conducted by František Jílek. Leoš Janáček born on this day in 1854.
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Did you enjoy it? I have Furt's own recording of the 2nd and I have to say that it's his only good composition. I genuinely like the 2nd. I don't know why his other works are so bad when he could write like this.
June 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Did you enjoy it? I have Furt's own recording of the 2nd and I have to say that it's his only good composition. I genuinely like the 2nd. I don't know why his other works are so bad when he could write like this.
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Schoenberg loved Gershwin. They played tennis together. youtu.be/8Cn1L_cgHPY
Gershwin films Schoenberg
YouTube video by Jack Gibbons
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June 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Schoenberg loved Gershwin. They played tennis together. youtu.be/8Cn1L_cgHPY
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Totally agree.
“The Last Action Hero” was a charming and fun movie that was ahead of its time
June 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Totally agree.
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126 years ago today, the French composer Ernest Chausson died in north-central France. He ranks highly among composers who shed this mortal coil in odd ways, meeting his demise while riding his bicycle and ending up in a confrontation with a wall at the bottom of a hill.
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
126 years ago today, the French composer Ernest Chausson died in north-central France. He ranks highly among composers who shed this mortal coil in odd ways, meeting his demise while riding his bicycle and ending up in a confrontation with a wall at the bottom of a hill.
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The manuscript of Mozart's 12 Variations for Piano on the French folk-song "Ah, vous dirai-je maman" ("Oh, shall I tell you, Mama?"). In the English-speaking world, the tune is best-known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 AM
The manuscript of Mozart's 12 Variations for Piano on the French folk-song "Ah, vous dirai-je maman" ("Oh, shall I tell you, Mama?"). In the English-speaking world, the tune is best-known as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
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#NowSpinning the colossal masterpiece that is Symphony No.5, with Oramo in Stockholm.
June 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
#NowSpinning the colossal masterpiece that is Symphony No.5, with Oramo in Stockholm.
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Yes, and the 90s Philharmonia/Salonen is a thriller. Kirov/Gergiev too.
June 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Yes, and the 90s Philharmonia/Salonen is a thriller. Kirov/Gergiev too.
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I liked the Shostakovich but not the Stravinsky! 😇
June 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I liked the Shostakovich but not the Stravinsky! 😇
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I heard a bit the other day. Not really rushing out to get it….
June 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I heard a bit the other day. Not really rushing out to get it….
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If only Bluesky did polls.
June 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
If only Bluesky did polls.