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The Symphohohonist
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Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
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The Symphohohonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Mar 31
#A-Haydn-A-Day is back! As before, I'm putting my favourite recording of each work on a playlist. It's more justified to call Haydn The Father of the String Quartet than of the symphony, as in this case he more-or-less invented the medium.
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Nerds of the world, unite! ❤️
andypandy.bsky.social Andy K 🏳️‍⚧️🌻 @andypandy.bsky.social · 14h
I’ve been on a very monotropic binge of Robert Simpson symphonies over the last few days and tbh it has been the most enjoyable part of my Christmas. These are works only a nerd could love, and I’m a big nerd babyyyyyy

music.apple.com/au/album/sim...
Simpson: The Complete Symphonies by Vernon Handley, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Apple Music
Album · 2006 · 47 Songs
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December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 1d
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967).
#filmsky #musicsky
A black and white photo of Franz Waxman seated, looking down, with sheet music standing up behind him.
December 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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My mental jukebox has been playing Bond movie themes ever since I saw that we were having our Christmas lunch next door to John Barry's childhood home.
Blue plaque reading "John Barry (Prendergast) born York 1933, died New York 2011 lived here as a boy. Composer and Musician. Academy Award Winner for his film music."
December 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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GEEEEEEEEETTTTTTT DRESSED, you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay!
For it is Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day!
IIIITTTTT’S Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day!
It is Chriiii-i-i-i-i-istmas Day Christmas Day!
It is Chri-HI-HI-HI-HI-HI-HISTMAS DAY!
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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It's time.
#NowListening
Album cover. Michael Praetorius: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning. Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh. DG Archiv 4392502. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7930877--praetorius-m-lutheran-mass-for-christmas-morning
December 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Oh litmus tree
Oh litmus tree
I know your precise acidity
December 16, 2023 at 12:07 PM
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A splen-did
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I re-com-
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deeplyclassical.bsky.social The Symphohohonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Oct 25
It's time to
staaaart

Rea-ding this
booook

#NowReading
A photograph of the front of the book "The first four notes: Beethoven's fifth and the human imagination" by Matthew Guerrieri.
December 24, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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I've had this on my shelf for ages. Finally, I'm ready to get stuck in #NowReading
A photo of the book Sonata Forms (Revised Edition) by Charles Rosen
December 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is the best Bluesky account I have followed this year. You'll follow him too if you know what's good for you.
dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Nov 19
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent trees I have met on walks.

You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
A man I met high in the Peak District who, due to crimes he would not disclose to me, had been turned into two conjoined Sycamore trees by a coven of witches and condemned to spend eternity waving his useless branch hands at the cold, cruel sky.
December 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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“The conductor John Andrews seems to have an unerring touch when approaching music which is little known, having been little performed. Samantha Ege is a most persuasive soloist, and she makes light of the formidable technical difficulties. All those involved are to be congratulated” 😍🎁
AVERIL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Piano Concerto | Orchestral Works - British Music Society
Avril Coleridge-Taylor has been overshadowed by her father Samuel, but also by her heritage as the daughter of someone regarded as being of mixed descent...
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December 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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deeplyclassical.bsky.social
I'm making a list
I'm checking it twice
I'm gonna recall
What's naughty and nice
Santa Symphonist's coming to town

I whittled down 200+ symphony & orchestral #NewReleases I listened to this year to a shortlist of 25. I'm now bingeing them to choose my Top 10 #SymphonistsChoice2025.

Me right now ⬇️
a close up of a raccoon wearing headphones on its head
Alt: A close up of a raccoon wearing headphones on its head, appearing to move its body in time to the music it's hearing.
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December 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
deeplyclassical.bsky.social
I'm making a list
I'm checking it twice
I'm gonna recall
What's naughty and nice
Santa Symphonist's coming to town

I whittled down 200+ symphony & orchestral #NewReleases I listened to this year to a shortlist of 25. I'm now bingeing them to choose my Top 10 #SymphonistsChoice2025.

Me right now ⬇️
a close up of a raccoon wearing headphones on its head
Alt: A close up of a raccoon wearing headphones on its head, appearing to move its body in time to the music it's hearing.
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived
Radio Kent on BBC Sounds: Walking from Tankerton to Whitstable
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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2026 starts with an amazing opportunity! 🎶

Launching on 5 January, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six to learn William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices with one of the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles:

choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd...

Director, Owain Park has a message for us!✨
December 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Erik Satie predicts:
Kent Live caption (originally above an article about bank holidays): One key change is happening in 2026 with most others remaining the same as 2025
December 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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You Gotta Be Fuckin’ Kidding, Charlie Brown
December 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Cartoon of a typical Stonehenge-style arch, except the top stone is hinged and lifting upwards. Caption: Stonehinge
December 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
December 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Please be real
phillipwserna.com Phillip W. Serna, Double Bass, Baryton & Violas da Gamba @phillipwserna.com · 29d
Celebrate any time of the year with #AlbanBerg's #Wozzeck...on ICE! 'Weh! Weh! ich wasche mich mit Blut! Das Wasser ist Blut...'
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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deeplyclassical.bsky.social
Ok, from today it's acceptable to play Christmas music.
#NewReleases2025 #261 #NowListening
Album cover for ¡Feliz Navidad! - Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens. CPO 555742-2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9802139--feliz-navidad-mexican-baroque-music-for-christmas
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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they should make classical music fun and by fun i mean hardcore drugs and violence you know something for the ladies
December 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
deeplyclassical.bsky.social
Ok, from today it's acceptable to play Christmas music.
#NewReleases2025 #261 #NowListening
Album cover for ¡Feliz Navidad! - Mexican Baroque Music for Christmas Kölner Akademie, Michael Alexander Willens. CPO 555742-2. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9802139--feliz-navidad-mexican-baroque-music-for-christmas
December 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM