Rob Deemer
@robdeemer.bsky.social
Composition professor, Chair of Theatre & Dance, & Senate Chair at SUNY Fredonia, Director/Founder of the Institute for Composer Diversity (www.composerdiversity.com)
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Rob Deemer
@robdeemer.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Here are six highlighted charts from our recently launched ICD Orchestra Repertoire Report. You can read and download the entire report below!
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Not bad for a first day!
Some news — George Santos has fled NYC due to Zohran Mamdani.
January 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Not bad for a first day!
It’s as close to a sacred tome as composers have today.
January 2, 2026 at 1:38 AM
It’s as close to a sacred tome as composers have today.
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There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
January 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
There are 242 working days in 2026. If you write just one page a day - just 250-300wds, roughly 5 Bsky posts - you will have two full scripts or a novel by New Years Eve.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
If you write just two pages a day - just 500-600 words - you will have five scripts or one epic novel.
Just. Keep. Writing.
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Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️
🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
January 1, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Welcome to the Public Domain, ARCTIC ANTICS (1930) ❄️
🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
🐧 Another 10 Silly Symphony shorts join the public domain. No rattling bones like last year's THE SKELETON DANCE, but we do get up to some Arctic Antics 🐻❄️
Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
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BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 AM
BREAKING
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
Zohran Mamdani has been sworn-in as the 112th Mayor of New York City.
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[very monty python voice] WE’RE NOT DEAD YET
January 1, 2026 at 2:32 AM
[very monty python voice] WE’RE NOT DEAD YET
A good trend for 2026, I hope…
BREAKING: After legal setbacks, President Trump says he's dropping push for the National Guard in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland for now.
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Chicago, LA and Portland, Oregon, for now
President Donald Trump says he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon.
bit.ly
December 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
A good trend for 2026, I hope…
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Wonderful ending from back when things ended.
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wonderful ending from back when things ended.
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I’m giving to The Sameer Project, Palestine Legal, Harlem SGL-LGBTQ Center, and a few others. Suggestions welcome 🙏🏾
dear fellow u.s. beings,
in these last hours of the year, please reply or qp with your suggested charitable donations to divert money away from this genocidal regime and bring aid to its victims here and abroad.
here's to a better 2026. love & solidarity - v.
alamkhan.bandcamp.com/track/new-day
in these last hours of the year, please reply or qp with your suggested charitable donations to divert money away from this genocidal regime and bring aid to its victims here and abroad.
here's to a better 2026. love & solidarity - v.
alamkhan.bandcamp.com/track/new-day
New Day, by Alam Khan, Vijay Iyer, Nitin Mitta
from the album Sanctuary
alamkhan.bandcamp.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I’m giving to The Sameer Project, Palestine Legal, Harlem SGL-LGBTQ Center, and a few others. Suggestions welcome 🙏🏾
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Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
Boycotting Constitution Hall because the DAR won’t let Marian Anderson sing has costs. It may end opera. Is that worth it? By Megan McArdle, 1939
December 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Earlier this year, Republicans tried to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities in their 2026 budget, while proposing a 13% increase in defense spending. The Institute of Museum and Library Services just got their funding back through courts.
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I am hugely excited about this new book. It is a tour de force of archival and analytical work, such an important topic, and beautifully produced. Congratulations, Catherine! @universitypress.cambridge.org #earlymodern
December 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I am hugely excited about this new book. It is a tour de force of archival and analytical work, such an important topic, and beautifully produced. Congratulations, Catherine! @universitypress.cambridge.org #earlymodern
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oh my god
Literally had to go double-check, after seeing the reference to “dismal ticket sales” alongside the demand for $1 million in supposed damages, to confirm: It was a free concert.
December 28, 2025 at 4:26 AM
oh my god
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I know it's all just bullying.....but hypothetically, if the Kennedy Center were in any way, shape or form setting things up so that the cancellation of a single free jazz concert in a 500-seater can cause them a million dollars in damages, they are fucking things up on an unimaginable level
December 28, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I know it's all just bullying.....but hypothetically, if the Kennedy Center were in any way, shape or form setting things up so that the cancellation of a single free jazz concert in a 500-seater can cause them a million dollars in damages, they are fucking things up on an unimaginable level
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This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
December 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is the logical and inevitable conclusion of the last decade of elite media "free speech" discourse.
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please send me funny skeets to set to music !!
December 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
please send me funny skeets to set to music !!
Sabbatical of Solace
Make a Bond movie academic:
Meetings are Forever
Meetings are Forever
Make a Bond movie academic:
Dr. No… wait…
Dr. No… wait…
December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sabbatical of Solace
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It’s actually German for The Hard
Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It’s actually German for The Hard
This year’s Xmas tradition did not disappoint 🎄⭐️
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This year’s Xmas tradition did not disappoint 🎄⭐️
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The new Gallup presidential favorability poll
December 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The new Gallup presidential favorability poll
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A new year’s wish that we all start framing paying taxes as positive and patriotic contribution to a better world for all. Thank you Anthony Joshua! I’ve just paid mine too. They were quite a lot less than yours, but for some reason most historians don’t earn £68.5m.
He isn't "losing" this money. This is called "paying tax like a responsible citizen and not hiding your money offshore" and we need to start recognising and applauding it.
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 AM
A new year’s wish that we all start framing paying taxes as positive and patriotic contribution to a better world for all. Thank you Anthony Joshua! I’ve just paid mine too. They were quite a lot less than yours, but for some reason most historians don’t earn £68.5m.
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I aspire to this level of Dadness. I will never make it. But I will keep trying.
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I aspire to this level of Dadness. I will never make it. But I will keep trying.
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So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov):
18% approve, 66% disapprove
18% approve, 66% disapprove
December 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So we may have found the single most unpopular thing Trump has done in 2025 - the vainglorious renaming of the Kennedy Center after himself (via Economist/YouGov):
18% approve, 66% disapprove
18% approve, 66% disapprove
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