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We all know most social media is a cesspool of horrible takes these days, but there’s truly nothing more toxic than the live chat during the Chopin competition. People be airing out their piano lesson trauma and casual racism and sexism and suddenly, bam, the world’s armchair rubato expert shows up
October 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We all know most social media is a cesspool of horrible takes these days, but there’s truly nothing more toxic than the live chat during the Chopin competition. People be airing out their piano lesson trauma and casual racism and sexism and suddenly, bam, the world’s armchair rubato expert shows up
This is a very unfortunate time in history to be teaching students the difference between natural, harmonic, and melodic minor. Any hint of mentioning scale degrees 6 and 7 and all hope is lost
October 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
This is a very unfortunate time in history to be teaching students the difference between natural, harmonic, and melodic minor. Any hint of mentioning scale degrees 6 and 7 and all hope is lost
So I’m teaching a section of class piano for music major non-pianists, and they have to pick a repertoire piece from a list of five that I gave them. And I kid you not, literally every she/they and they/them picked the Florence Price. Iconic
October 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
So I’m teaching a section of class piano for music major non-pianists, and they have to pick a repertoire piece from a list of five that I gave them. And I kid you not, literally every she/they and they/them picked the Florence Price. Iconic
There’s no feeling quite like accidentally running into one of your students in public. Like what tf you doing at the grocery store, you just failed your class piano midterm, go practice
October 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There’s no feeling quite like accidentally running into one of your students in public. Like what tf you doing at the grocery store, you just failed your class piano midterm, go practice
Commenting “but how will this affect Lebrun’s legacy?” under every classicfm post (referring, of course, to German 18th-century female composer Francesca Lebrun)
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Commenting “but how will this affect Lebrun’s legacy?” under every classicfm post (referring, of course, to German 18th-century female composer Francesca Lebrun)
Early-career classical musician bio starter pack:
-starts with loosely attributed quote that makes you seem important
-“innovative programming"
-“dynamic performer”
-lists competition from high school (without the year, of course)
-way-too-long paragraph
1/
-starts with loosely attributed quote that makes you seem important
-“innovative programming"
-“dynamic performer”
-lists competition from high school (without the year, of course)
-way-too-long paragraph
1/
October 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Early-career classical musician bio starter pack:
-starts with loosely attributed quote that makes you seem important
-“innovative programming"
-“dynamic performer”
-lists competition from high school (without the year, of course)
-way-too-long paragraph
1/
-starts with loosely attributed quote that makes you seem important
-“innovative programming"
-“dynamic performer”
-lists competition from high school (without the year, of course)
-way-too-long paragraph
1/
“We should start a piano trio!” feels like a classical musician’s version of “let’s start a podcast”, except upstart chamber groups don’t usually last quite as long
June 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
“We should start a piano trio!” feels like a classical musician’s version of “let’s start a podcast”, except upstart chamber groups don’t usually last quite as long
No one:
Cliburn competition semifinalists choosing their “free choice” concerto:
Cliburn competition semifinalists choosing their “free choice” concerto:
May 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
No one:
Cliburn competition semifinalists choosing their “free choice” concerto:
Cliburn competition semifinalists choosing their “free choice” concerto:
Literally what the fuck is this
May 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Literally what the fuck is this
Alternative date idea: we read all of the Cliburn competitors’ cheesy quotes and laugh at them (we’re really just envious and wish we were that good)
May 26, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Alternative date idea: we read all of the Cliburn competitors’ cheesy quotes and laugh at them (we’re really just envious and wish we were that good)
Date idea: we look through the Cliburn competition semi-finalists’ programs and take a shot for every composer who’s not a dead white male (we’ll still be sober at the end of the night)
May 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Date idea: we look through the Cliburn competition semi-finalists’ programs and take a shot for every composer who’s not a dead white male (we’ll still be sober at the end of the night)
When you attend a piano trio concert and the program is the two Schubert trios:
January 31, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When you attend a piano trio concert and the program is the two Schubert trios:
When you’re playing with una corda and need to turn the page and can’t decide between temporarily forgoing soft pedal and sacrificing notes to turn the page with your hand:
January 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
When you’re playing with una corda and need to turn the page and can’t decide between temporarily forgoing soft pedal and sacrificing notes to turn the page with your hand:
Obsessed with forScore links. Need a portal to every movement on page 1? No problem. Need to make a cut in a concerto reduction? Absolutely. A button back to the beginning to repeat the exposition that I know full well I will never use? Hell yeah.
January 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Obsessed with forScore links. Need a portal to every movement on page 1? No problem. Need to make a cut in a concerto reduction? Absolutely. A button back to the beginning to repeat the exposition that I know full well I will never use? Hell yeah.
The forScore generation will never know the struggle of three hole punching and taping your music to dilligently avoid page turns, only for the page turner to find a way to fuck it up anyway
January 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The forScore generation will never know the struggle of three hole punching and taping your music to dilligently avoid page turns, only for the page turner to find a way to fuck it up anyway
POV: you’re a pianist finally getting to take a bow all to yourself at the end of a recital, 513,407 notes later:
the name brennan lee is on a sign
ALT: the name brennan lee is on a sign
media.tenor.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:26 AM
POV: you’re a pianist finally getting to take a bow all to yourself at the end of a recital, 513,407 notes later:
Pieces collaborative pianists want cancelled this year:
-Every Hindemith sonata (except viola op 11 no 4)
-Tchaikovsky violin concerto
and also Rococo variations
-Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
-Fin ch’hal dal vino from Don Giovanni
-Every poorly made baroque oratorio reduction
-Every Hindemith sonata (except viola op 11 no 4)
-Tchaikovsky violin concerto
and also Rococo variations
-Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
-Fin ch’hal dal vino from Don Giovanni
-Every poorly made baroque oratorio reduction
January 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Pieces collaborative pianists want cancelled this year:
-Every Hindemith sonata (except viola op 11 no 4)
-Tchaikovsky violin concerto
and also Rococo variations
-Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
-Fin ch’hal dal vino from Don Giovanni
-Every poorly made baroque oratorio reduction
-Every Hindemith sonata (except viola op 11 no 4)
-Tchaikovsky violin concerto
and also Rococo variations
-Saint-Saens Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
-Fin ch’hal dal vino from Don Giovanni
-Every poorly made baroque oratorio reduction
Composers getting cancelled this year:
-Paul Hindemith
-Richard Wagner
-Louis Moreau Gottschalk
-Camille Saint-Saens
January 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Composers getting cancelled this year:
-Paul Hindemith
-Richard Wagner
-Louis Moreau Gottschalk
-Camille Saint-Saens
Composers about to be making a big comeback in 2025:
-Joseph Marx
-Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
-Mel Bonis
-Henriette Bosmans
-Louis Vierne
-Alice Tegner
-Sergei Bortkiewicz
-Maurice Ravel (it’s his 150th birthday year)
-Joseph Marx
-Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
-Mel Bonis
-Henriette Bosmans
-Louis Vierne
-Alice Tegner
-Sergei Bortkiewicz
-Maurice Ravel (it’s his 150th birthday year)
January 2, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Composers about to be making a big comeback in 2025:
-Joseph Marx
-Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
-Mel Bonis
-Henriette Bosmans
-Louis Vierne
-Alice Tegner
-Sergei Bortkiewicz
-Maurice Ravel (it’s his 150th birthday year)
-Joseph Marx
-Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
-Mel Bonis
-Henriette Bosmans
-Louis Vierne
-Alice Tegner
-Sergei Bortkiewicz
-Maurice Ravel (it’s his 150th birthday year)
When you show up to your Messiah gig and the church proudly shows you their beautiful harpsichord (it hasn’t been tuned since the 1970s):
December 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM
When you show up to your Messiah gig and the church proudly shows you their beautiful harpsichord (it hasn’t been tuned since the 1970s):
Collaborative pianists finally wrapping up a December full of Messiah harpsichord gigs and Nutcracker celesta gigs:
December 24, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Collaborative pianists finally wrapping up a December full of Messiah harpsichord gigs and Nutcracker celesta gigs:
No feeling in the world better as a celesta player than being told by the conductor that you’re too loud. Or, rather, I’d imagine that’s the case, as it’s never happened in recorded human history
December 24, 2024 at 6:07 PM
No feeling in the world better as a celesta player than being told by the conductor that you’re too loud. Or, rather, I’d imagine that’s the case, as it’s never happened in recorded human history
You haven’t been truly alone with your thoughts until you’ve played the celesta for the Nutcracker and have to just sit there quietly like an NPC 95% of the time
December 24, 2024 at 6:04 PM
You haven’t been truly alone with your thoughts until you’ve played the celesta for the Nutcracker and have to just sit there quietly like an NPC 95% of the time
New drinking game idea: Kapustin or jazz? In which you shuffle a playlist with half Kapustin and half real jazz, and every wrong guess takes a drink
December 20, 2024 at 3:08 AM
New drinking game idea: Kapustin or jazz? In which you shuffle a playlist with half Kapustin and half real jazz, and every wrong guess takes a drink
Nobody:
Classical musicians trying to reach a younger, more hip audience by programming more Kapustin:
Classical musicians trying to reach a younger, more hip audience by programming more Kapustin:
December 20, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Nobody:
Classical musicians trying to reach a younger, more hip audience by programming more Kapustin:
Classical musicians trying to reach a younger, more hip audience by programming more Kapustin: