Yvonne Frindle
@frindley.bsky.social
Harmonious wordsmith. Writer, editor, designer and speaker, specialising in classical music and dance. 🇦🇺👩🏻🎨🩰🇺🇦
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We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
May 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.
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🧪 For some lighter science news here's an intriguing story from the thawing north. I first encountered it when Leanne presented a poster with her excellent undergraduate research at a student symposium a few months ago. Now science writer Ned Rozell wrote this: www.uaf.edu/news/the-hol...
The ‘Hole-in-the-Ground Girl’
Leanne Bulger recently found a new hole in the forest floor on the west end of Fairbanks. Into it, she poked a long plastic pipe.
www.uaf.edu
May 4, 2025 at 3:42 AM
🧪 For some lighter science news here's an intriguing story from the thawing north. I first encountered it when Leanne presented a poster with her excellent undergraduate research at a student symposium a few months ago. Now science writer Ned Rozell wrote this: www.uaf.edu/news/the-hol...
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📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
April 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
🧵⬇️
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Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
April 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
Dear Concert Reviewers,
Please don’t say the concert “kicked off” when the opening work in question is “contemplative” and “crystalline”. Use your words. Use your ears!
Please don’t say the concert “kicked off” when the opening work in question is “contemplative” and “crystalline”. Use your words. Use your ears!
April 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Dear Concert Reviewers,
Please don’t say the concert “kicked off” when the opening work in question is “contemplative” and “crystalline”. Use your words. Use your ears!
Please don’t say the concert “kicked off” when the opening work in question is “contemplative” and “crystalline”. Use your words. Use your ears!
#Skype is going away & they want users to shift to Teams, even though it doesn't offer equiv. functionality. Only ever used Skype to call landlines/mobiles fr. my Mac for interviews that I needed to record with #AudioHijack. Have belatedly realised I can do the same thing with Facetime sans video.
April 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
#Skype is going away & they want users to shift to Teams, even though it doesn't offer equiv. functionality. Only ever used Skype to call landlines/mobiles fr. my Mac for interviews that I needed to record with #AudioHijack. Have belatedly realised I can do the same thing with Facetime sans video.
Freelance journalists are woefully underpaid and being exploited. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
Help freelancers at Nine Publishing win fair rates
Off the back of strike action last year, Nine management committed to engage in discussions about freelance rates and conditions with MEAA representatives.
Despite this commitment, Nine management ha...
www.megaphone.org.au
April 2, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Freelance journalists are woefully underpaid and being exploited. This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/fr...
That feeling when you find a crucial date typo in a British music journal from 1844, and in the process discover where you can download facsimiles of the Öesterreichisches Morgenblatt… #AmWriting #RabbitHoles
March 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
That feeling when you find a crucial date typo in a British music journal from 1844, and in the process discover where you can download facsimiles of the Öesterreichisches Morgenblatt… #AmWriting #RabbitHoles
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In the meantime, please check out my FREE EDITION of this score so you don't have to worry about all this jumping around--I have already puzzled it out.
henselpushers.org/h-numbers/h277
henselpushers.org/h-numbers/h277
H277 — HenselPushers
String quartet in E-flat Major (2 violins, viola, cello)
henselpushers.org
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In the meantime, please check out my FREE EDITION of this score so you don't have to worry about all this jumping around--I have already puzzled it out.
henselpushers.org/h-numbers/h277
henselpushers.org/h-numbers/h277
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Search traffic is up for Fanny Hensel's String Quartet... so I'd like to remind everyone that the most widely used edition--and therefore most performances--are wrong.
tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's
long version:
tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's
long version:
March 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Search traffic is up for Fanny Hensel's String Quartet... so I'd like to remind everyone that the most widely used edition--and therefore most performances--are wrong.
tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's
long version:
tldr: use Furore's edition or my edition, not Breitkopf & Härtel's
long version:
At a 70th-birthday tribute concert for Isaac Stern in 1990, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performed Saint-Säens’ Swan wearing a tutu, swan headdress, ballet shoes and lipstick. Pictured here with Stern and Gregory Peck
#FrivolousFriday
#FrivolousFriday
February 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
At a 70th-birthday tribute concert for Isaac Stern in 1990, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich performed Saint-Säens’ Swan wearing a tutu, swan headdress, ballet shoes and lipstick. Pictured here with Stern and Gregory Peck
#FrivolousFriday
#FrivolousFriday
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
WASHINGTON—Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distracted by the pressure of booking the Kennedy Center’s upcoming Summer Jazz Series. According to sources, the sound of his Cabinet members’ voices was essentially white noise […]
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February 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms
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🧵#BalletMusic I had reason to want to check Pugni's marked tempo for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre this evening, so I pottered over to IMSLP to check the original piano score edition and I found the most curious thing… [1/5]
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
🧵#BalletMusic I had reason to want to check Pugni's marked tempo for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre this evening, so I pottered over to IMSLP to check the original piano score edition and I found the most curious thing… [1/5]
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Some thoughts on the Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center, for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (may be paywalled. Subscribe to VAN!)
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Trump: The Opera
Former Washington Post critic Anne Midgette takes stock of Trump's sudden interest in the performing arts.
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February 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Some thoughts on the Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center, for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (may be paywalled. Subscribe to VAN!)
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🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
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Thank you @rollingstone.com You are doing the work.
The first 10 days of Trump's administration have been marked by an unprecedented barrage of barbaric policy moves and casual executive depravity.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
In many cases, these actions have flown in the face of the law, decades of tradition, and even the Constitution.
Trump's First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don't Get Numb To It
Donald Trump’s first 10 days back in office were filled with a series of “shock and awe” executive orders intended to overwhelm the opposition.
www.rollingstone.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Thank you @rollingstone.com You are doing the work.
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With the Trump Administration’s attempts to block the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D., the Trump Administration is demolishing the U.S.’s world-leading capacity and expertise—and threatening our national security, Atul Gawande writes.
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January 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
With the Trump Administration’s attempts to block the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D., the Trump Administration is demolishing the U.S.’s world-leading capacity and expertise—and threatening our national security, Atul Gawande writes.
nyer.cm/A9apOEe
nyer.cm/A9apOEe
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The funniest jokes are the ones that are true.
“Trump's furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.” - Scottish comedy writer Steve Blair
“Trump's furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.” - Scottish comedy writer Steve Blair
January 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The funniest jokes are the ones that are true.
“Trump's furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.” - Scottish comedy writer Steve Blair
“Trump's furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.” - Scottish comedy writer Steve Blair
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Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
January 1, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard.
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025
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Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
Don't Let the Enemies of Truth Ruin Wikipedia
Elon Musk and other reactionary liars hate the "last good website" because it won't go along with their distortions
www.arcdigital.media
December 27, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources.
We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.
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PRODUCER 1: What happens after the dancing?
PRODUCER 2: More dancing. Then, even more dancing. Then… Oh! The little kids dance again.
PRODUCER 1: But they’re good this time…
PRODUCER 2: No, they’re worse.
PRODUCER 2: More dancing. Then, even more dancing. Then… Oh! The little kids dance again.
PRODUCER 1: But they’re good this time…
PRODUCER 2: No, they’re worse.
A Producer Attempts to Pitch The Nutcracker
(A production office. PRODUCER 1 sits at a desk. Enter PRODUCER 2.) PRODUCER 1: Take a seat. You said you have something Christmassy for me? PRODUC...
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December 23, 2024 at 2:00 AM
PRODUCER 1: What happens after the dancing?
PRODUCER 2: More dancing. Then, even more dancing. Then… Oh! The little kids dance again.
PRODUCER 1: But they’re good this time…
PRODUCER 2: No, they’re worse.
PRODUCER 2: More dancing. Then, even more dancing. Then… Oh! The little kids dance again.
PRODUCER 1: But they’re good this time…
PRODUCER 2: No, they’re worse.
Artist bios continued… Why do artists/agents supply only long bios (e.g. 900w) with no shorter options, plus stern injunctions against editing, when they can surely SEE that no presenter in the world publishes bios that long?! Most programs allow 300w, some less. Write your bios accordingly!
December 16, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Artist bios continued… Why do artists/agents supply only long bios (e.g. 900w) with no shorter options, plus stern injunctions against editing, when they can surely SEE that no presenter in the world publishes bios that long?! Most programs allow 300w, some less. Write your bios accordingly!
Take 17 minutes to watch Ballerina on the Boat, a whimsical-dramatic 1969 Soviet animation. Music by Schnittke.
youtu.be/MeLf7EpFo5Y
#BalletSky #BalletAnimation
youtu.be/MeLf7EpFo5Y
#BalletSky #BalletAnimation
Мультфильм "Балерина на корабле" © Союзмультфильм, 1969 г. Режиссёр: Лев Атаманов
YouTube video by Retro_multiki_kino
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December 15, 2024 at 7:48 PM
Take 17 minutes to watch Ballerina on the Boat, a whimsical-dramatic 1969 Soviet animation. Music by Schnittke.
youtu.be/MeLf7EpFo5Y
#BalletSky #BalletAnimation
youtu.be/MeLf7EpFo5Y
#BalletSky #BalletAnimation
A concert artist agent once sent me a bio with this message:
“If the biography is too long for you, please try to shorten it by yourself. You know best what your audience needs to know :)”
Such a refreshing change fr the usual this-bio-must-not-be-altered-and-all-edits-must-be-approved messages.
“If the biography is too long for you, please try to shorten it by yourself. You know best what your audience needs to know :)”
Such a refreshing change fr the usual this-bio-must-not-be-altered-and-all-edits-must-be-approved messages.
December 15, 2024 at 1:31 AM
A concert artist agent once sent me a bio with this message:
“If the biography is too long for you, please try to shorten it by yourself. You know best what your audience needs to know :)”
Such a refreshing change fr the usual this-bio-must-not-be-altered-and-all-edits-must-be-approved messages.
“If the biography is too long for you, please try to shorten it by yourself. You know best what your audience needs to know :)”
Such a refreshing change fr the usual this-bio-must-not-be-altered-and-all-edits-must-be-approved messages.
I'm mystified by program note writers who submit commissioned work without the following info in the file:
Name of composer (as a heading)
Title of work (as a heading)
List of movements where relevant
Their own name as author (!!)
Year note was written
#AmEditing #ProgramNotes #WritingAboutMusic
Name of composer (as a heading)
Title of work (as a heading)
List of movements where relevant
Their own name as author (!!)
Year note was written
#AmEditing #ProgramNotes #WritingAboutMusic
December 10, 2024 at 6:26 AM
I'm mystified by program note writers who submit commissioned work without the following info in the file:
Name of composer (as a heading)
Title of work (as a heading)
List of movements where relevant
Their own name as author (!!)
Year note was written
#AmEditing #ProgramNotes #WritingAboutMusic
Name of composer (as a heading)
Title of work (as a heading)
List of movements where relevant
Their own name as author (!!)
Year note was written
#AmEditing #ProgramNotes #WritingAboutMusic