Marian Wilson Kimber
@mwilsonkimber.bsky.social
Musicologist, writer, half of Red Vespa, author of The Elocutionists: Women, Music, and the Spoken Word and the forthcoming Clubwomen Activists and the Making of American Music. Posts in no way associated with my employer.
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Today's historic find: 1923, Mrs. Frank Hoffman, music chair for the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, complains that the average woman "doesn't know a trombone from a steamboat."
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Getting ready to present a program for local piano teachers and their students. Not easy to settle on a program but here it is.
January 2, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Getting ready to present a program for local piano teachers and their students. Not easy to settle on a program but here it is.
Starting out the new year by leaving voice mails for my senators. I am so tired.
January 1, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Starting out the new year by leaving voice mails for my senators. I am so tired.
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Happy New Year, BlueSky...
...and enjoy your evening.
[via @YoYo_Ma X]
...and enjoy your evening.
[via @YoYo_Ma X]
January 1, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Happy New Year, BlueSky...
...and enjoy your evening.
[via @YoYo_Ma X]
...and enjoy your evening.
[via @YoYo_Ma X]
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Hey you know what this year fucking sucked.
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Hey you know what this year fucking sucked.
I was told I would do well in the military.
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 31, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I was told I would do well in the military.
It's depressing to discover an excellent dissertation about women composers from 1999 that never appeared in any published form.
December 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It's depressing to discover an excellent dissertation about women composers from 1999 that never appeared in any published form.
I have just submitted an article to a leading journal in another discipline that relies heavily on another discipline that is not musicology. Here's hoping the peer reviewers do not laugh too hard.
a couple of cartoon squirrels are laughing in the snow .
Alt: Cartoon chipmunks laughing in a snowy landscape
media.tenor.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I have just submitted an article to a leading journal in another discipline that relies heavily on another discipline that is not musicology. Here's hoping the peer reviewers do not laugh too hard.
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I don't want gen AI in my software
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my browser
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my pc
I don't want gen AI in my art
I don't want gen AI in my games
I don't want gen AI in my music
I don't want gen AI in my movies
I don't want gen AI in my books
I don't want gen AI in my cart
I don't want gen AI in my life
December 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I don't want gen AI in my software
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
I don't want gen AI in my phone
I don't want gen AI in my email
I don't want gen AI in my recipes
I don't want gen AI in my safety documentation
I don't want gen AI in my schools
I don't want gen AI in my healthcare
I don't want gen AI in my life
You will be visited by three spirits.
December 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
You will be visited by three spirits.
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I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
I've got a feeling / This year's for me and you | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wrote a little thing about "Fairytale of New York" and about hope for a better year, but mostly I wanted to share the rendition of the song played at Shane MacGowan's funeral in 2023 because it's so beautiful. Happy Christmas, I love ya baby. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."
ICE Detains Undocumented Parents, Newborn
They await deportation proceedings.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"ICE officials are also investigating the couple for other crimes. They were found with a substantial amount of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. 'What are those luxury goods doing in their possession?' asked the ICE spokesman, taking a moment to adjust his mask."
I have braved the mall and found it to be a very strange place.
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I have braved the mall and found it to be a very strange place.
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I imagine Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and the graduate instructors at OU are not unionized - if they happen to be they should all go on strike as soon as possible
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I imagine Oklahoma is a right-to-work state and the graduate instructors at OU are not unionized - if they happen to be they should all go on strike as soon as possible
The old man talking loudly in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin about how being there was like time travel.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The old man talking loudly in the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin about how being there was like time travel.
Two older women brought me the compositions their mother had written out of the basement in laundry baskets.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Two older women brought me the compositions their mother had written out of the basement in laundry baskets.
It’s that time of year again. Time for the festive grumpy Beethoven ornament.
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
It’s that time of year again. Time for the festive grumpy Beethoven ornament.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
Historic find. I got this 1924 report from an archive yesterday. Somehow the "Department of Organized Good Will" seems appropriate for the holiday season.
December 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Historic find. I got this 1924 report from an archive yesterday. Somehow the "Department of Organized Good Will" seems appropriate for the holiday season.
I was on Iowa Public Radio yesterday talking about music and Jane Austen.
www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...
www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...
The world of Jane Austen fanatics
We talk all things Jane Austen in celebration of the 250th anniversary of her birth. First, Iowa City-based artist Sonja Strathearn began making Regency-era attire three years ago to attend The Jane A...
www.iowapublicradio.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I was on Iowa Public Radio yesterday talking about music and Jane Austen.
www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...
www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...
In honor of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, my favorite sentence: “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
December 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
In honor of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, my favorite sentence: “Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Happy Jane Austen’s 250th birthday! Here, Sarah Hachtman and Katelyn Peterson sing Samuel Arnold at our birthday bash concert of music from the author’s collection last February.
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Happy Jane Austen’s 250th birthday! Here, Sarah Hachtman and Katelyn Peterson sing Samuel Arnold at our birthday bash concert of music from the author’s collection last February.
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Did you see this? It’s amazing bsky.app/profile/laur...
Take a few minutes to listen all the way through. Delightful pastiche, wry commentary, great playing. It will brighten your morning! youtu.be/yZi4Z1e5KO8
"All I want for Christmas is you", but in the style of 6 classical composers 🎹🎄
YouTube video by Josep Castanyer Alonso
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December 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Did you see this? It’s amazing bsky.app/profile/laur...
Christmas ornaments: Mozart, Beethoven, and… Celine Dion?
December 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Christmas ornaments: Mozart, Beethoven, and… Celine Dion?
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This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
www.aaup.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is one of the most important documents produced this year.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance.
I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!