Chris Walton ❌👑
@philocrites.bsky.social
Preoccupied with music, culture, religion, and liberal democracy. Practicing composition in Greater Boston.
Whenever a 21st-century composition pops up on GBH radio, my ears perk up. Joby Talbot's "Hovercraft" came on while I was driving my kid to a Tufts Youth Philharmonic rehearsal last week, so now we've each wandered down our own Talbot rabbit hole! @crbclassical.bsky.social tidal.com/track/140922...
Joby Talbot - Hovercraft
Listen to Hovercraft on TIDAL
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November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Whenever a 21st-century composition pops up on GBH radio, my ears perk up. Joby Talbot's "Hovercraft" came on while I was driving my kid to a Tufts Youth Philharmonic rehearsal last week, so now we've each wandered down our own Talbot rabbit hole! @crbclassical.bsky.social tidal.com/track/140922...
Excellent literature rack in a coffee shop in Middletown CT
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Excellent literature rack in a coffee shop in Middletown CT
🎻🪗 Electric (but all-acoustic) show by the New England contra dance pros Pine Tree Flyers, touring the east coast this month. Check them out: www.pinetreeflyers.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
🎻🪗 Electric (but all-acoustic) show by the New England contra dance pros Pine Tree Flyers, touring the east coast this month. Check them out: www.pinetreeflyers.com
🎶 Finally made it to a Boston Community Chamber Music open mic night at Somerville Music Spaces. On the program: quartet by Korngold; Paganini on two violins; arrangements of Telemann, Busoni, and Bartok for bassoon; and Bach on piano. Great org! bostonccm.org
bostonccm.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
🎶 Finally made it to a Boston Community Chamber Music open mic night at Somerville Music Spaces. On the program: quartet by Korngold; Paganini on two violins; arrangements of Telemann, Busoni, and Bartok for bassoon; and Bach on piano. Great org! bostonccm.org
Great interview with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider about her new Hildegard opera, "music written in the cracks" between pop and classical, the New Amsterdam label, and migraines and mental health. I hope I get to hear her opera someday!
Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider loves music so much, she might just eat it
Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles.
www.npr.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Great interview with composer Sarah Kirkland Snider about her new Hildegard opera, "music written in the cracks" between pop and classical, the New Amsterdam label, and migraines and mental health. I hope I get to hear her opera someday!
🎶 Today’s concert outing: marvelous chamber music by Mozart performed by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players with guest pianist Inon Barnatan.
November 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
🎶 Today’s concert outing: marvelous chamber music by Mozart performed by the Boston Symphony Chamber Players with guest pianist Inon Barnatan.
What an intense, compelling World Series. Wow.
November 2, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What an intense, compelling World Series. Wow.
Tonight’s concert outing: the fantastic Québécois band Le Vent du Nord at the Somerville Theatre!
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Tonight’s concert outing: the fantastic Québécois band Le Vent du Nord at the Somerville Theatre!
Stayed in the car last night after we arrived home just to let the kids listen to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for their first time, on a WERS Halloween special.
October 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Stayed in the car last night after we arrived home just to let the kids listen to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for their first time, on a WERS Halloween special.
Can you make an automated Bluesky account more annoying with each new post?
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Can you make an automated Bluesky account more annoying with each new post?
Never has there been a better or more loved cat toy than this blue ribbon. He expects me to play a ferocious game of ribbon with him multiple times a day. 😸
October 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Never has there been a better or more loved cat toy than this blue ribbon. He expects me to play a ferocious game of ribbon with him multiple times a day. 😸
🎶 I can’t pass up Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and here it joins a program of recent pieces by Mexican composers, arranged for the Kalliope Reed Quintet!
October 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
🎶 I can’t pass up Ravel’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” and here it joins a program of recent pieces by Mexican composers, arranged for the Kalliope Reed Quintet!
🎶 Streaming concert: At noon ET today, the Tufts Composers New at Noon series resumes, with a lot of us contributing to the theme "Sonic Geo-Detection: Recovering Time and Place." Bonus: Hear mechanical engineering PhD student Leon Li, who is a harmonica virtuoso and expert instrument builder!
Events Calendar | Department of Music
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October 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
🎶 Streaming concert: At noon ET today, the Tufts Composers New at Noon series resumes, with a lot of us contributing to the theme "Sonic Geo-Detection: Recovering Time and Place." Bonus: Hear mechanical engineering PhD student Leon Li, who is a harmonica virtuoso and expert instrument builder!
Adventures in poorly targeted marketing: I got a postcard today—addressed to me “or current resident”—asking if I could be the next rector of an Episcopal church. “Could” is doing a LOT of work in that sentence…
October 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Adventures in poorly targeted marketing: I got a postcard today—addressed to me “or current resident”—asking if I could be the next rector of an Episcopal church. “Could” is doing a LOT of work in that sentence…
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You could plausibly say the No Kings movement started in Lexington in 1775, so it was a great pleasure to be on the Battle Green today with thousands upon thousands of good people unafraid of the fight ahead
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
I returned to the site of the original "No Kings" protest
A letter from Lexington’s Battle Green.
www.motherjones.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
You could plausibly say the No Kings movement started in Lexington in 1775, so it was a great pleasure to be on the Battle Green today with thousands upon thousands of good people unafraid of the fight ahead
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Greetings from this morning’s #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photos… 🧵 @indivisible.org @universalhub.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Greetings from this morning’s #NoKings rally on the Lexington MA Battle Green, which was packed with patriots once again to stand up against a corrupt and capricious would-be ruler. More photos… 🧵 @indivisible.org @universalhub.com
Who’s excited for #NoKingsDay? This churchgoing married dad who believes in liberty and justice for all. 🇺🇸🚫👑
October 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Who’s excited for #NoKingsDay? This churchgoing married dad who believes in liberty and justice for all. 🇺🇸🚫👑
Good news! Tufts has funded the position that administers the Community Music program and private lessons for Music students. Apply for the newly announced position: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/22426?l...
October 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Good news! Tufts has funded the position that administers the Community Music program and private lessons for Music students. Apply for the newly announced position: jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/22426?l...
Great insight from composer Bruce Adolphe: “[I]nspiration is a lifestyle, not a phenomenon… The most extraordinary things happen to everybody… It’s the person who receives the inspiration who makes it happen, not the outside object or condition. Inspiration is an awareness & a readiness to respond.”
October 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Great insight from composer Bruce Adolphe: “[I]nspiration is a lifestyle, not a phenomenon… The most extraordinary things happen to everybody… It’s the person who receives the inspiration who makes it happen, not the outside object or condition. Inspiration is an awareness & a readiness to respond.”
Composer Michael Daugherty reads that Ligeti loves jazz & rock. “I went to Hamburg, found his apartment, & said, ‘I want to study with you.’ He asked me, ‘Do you like Milton Babbitt?’ & I said no. Then he asked, ‘Do you like Thelonious Monk?’ I said yes, & he said, ‘Then you can study with me.’”
October 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Composer Michael Daugherty reads that Ligeti loves jazz & rock. “I went to Hamburg, found his apartment, & said, ‘I want to study with you.’ He asked me, ‘Do you like Milton Babbitt?’ & I said no. Then he asked, ‘Do you like Thelonious Monk?’ I said yes, & he said, ‘Then you can study with me.’”
20,000 to 30,000 vinyl records collected by the late classical music critic Richard Dyer are for sale Sat 10–3, Sun 10–12 at 61 Garfield St #3 in Cambridge.
“I doubt there’s an opera recording made between 1930 and 1980 that he didn’t have,” says nephew.
“I doubt there’s an opera recording made between 1930 and 1980 that he didn’t have,” says nephew.
Critic Richard Dyer’s final gift to the Boston music community: an astounding library of records - The Boston Globe
Dyer’s nephew, who is managing the estate, is offering the collection for sale this weekend.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
20,000 to 30,000 vinyl records collected by the late classical music critic Richard Dyer are for sale Sat 10–3, Sun 10–12 at 61 Garfield St #3 in Cambridge.
“I doubt there’s an opera recording made between 1930 and 1980 that he didn’t have,” says nephew.
“I doubt there’s an opera recording made between 1930 and 1980 that he didn’t have,” says nephew.
Game 5 is Groundhog Day?
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Game 5 is Groundhog Day?
Looking forward to the 14th inning stretch
October 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Looking forward to the 14th inning stretch
Did not expect to see this much intense baseball after a full length tragic opera. Wrung out!
October 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Did not expect to see this much intense baseball after a full length tragic opera. Wrung out!