Claudio M.
@greenmountainmusic.bsky.social
Monteverdi and contemporaries, early opera, renaissance and early baroque music.
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This makes me sad. He was a hell of a writer. His 'Arcadia' is one of my favorite plays ever.
Tom Stoppard, Award-Winning Playwright of Witty Drama, Dies at 88
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This makes me sad. He was a hell of a writer. His 'Arcadia' is one of my favorite plays ever.
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This is pleasing.
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is pleasing.
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"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis
There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.
September 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Don't Engage, Just Block" is praxis
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I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.
September 8, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I see some of you dragging a shit take from the fascist site over here to dunk on it, a) why are you still on the fascist site to find that shit, b) why are dropping shit onto this site, c) when you dunk on it you just give it a new audience. Leave shitty fascist takes on the shitty fascist site.
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Hell this morning has another deeply surprised soul
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89
August 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Hell this morning has another deeply surprised soul
I have never been! Look at that crowd!
A sizable crowd in front of Boston's Old State House for the annual reading of the Declaration of Independence
July 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I have never been! Look at that crowd!
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I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
One of my favorites #MosaicMonday
🎭It’s theatre time this #MosaicMonday with a troupe offering a comedic performance (the smiling masks are the giveaway!). The play itself we’re not sure about but the tambourine, small cymbals, and the double flute share a connection with the goddess Cybele.
#AncientBluesky🏺 #AncientRome
#AncientBluesky🏺 #AncientRome
June 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
One of my favorites #MosaicMonday
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Keiser’s OCTAVIA at the Boston Early Music Festival!
Always fun to hear a new (to me) opera. Can’t wait!
Always fun to hear a new (to me) opera. Can’t wait!
June 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Keiser’s OCTAVIA at the Boston Early Music Festival!
Always fun to hear a new (to me) opera. Can’t wait!
Always fun to hear a new (to me) opera. Can’t wait!
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Babel: A Brief Review
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not 'disqualified' it. It's ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be…
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not 'disqualified' it. It's ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be…
Babel: A Brief Review
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not 'disqualified' it. It's ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be translators. Except translators are kind of magicians in this world.
stevenvlad.com
June 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Babel: A Brief Review
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not 'disqualified' it. It's ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be…
Babel by R. F. Kuang Wow. I'm not sure what I expected but it wasn't this. This is a Nebula-winning book and probably would have won the Hugo too if the Chinese government had not 'disqualified' it. It's ostensibly about a group of young people who are trained at Oxford to be…
One of my favorite places in the World.
More layers of history here.
The Cathedral of Syracuse incorporates into its structure substantial parts of the Doric Temple of Athena built by the tyrant Gelo to celebrate his defeat of the Carthaginians at Himera in 490BC.
Here, we see vast columns supported the nave and west wall.
📷 mine
The Cathedral of Syracuse incorporates into its structure substantial parts of the Doric Temple of Athena built by the tyrant Gelo to celebrate his defeat of the Carthaginians at Himera in 490BC.
Here, we see vast columns supported the nave and west wall.
📷 mine
May 27, 2025 at 1:16 AM
One of my favorite places in the World.
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(it also ignores that people, particularly young people, can change, sometimes radically, and quickly. That rule-follower you admit can become a rule-smasher overnight, and good for them when they do)
May 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
(it also ignores that people, particularly young people, can change, sometimes radically, and quickly. That rule-follower you admit can become a rule-smasher overnight, and good for them when they do)
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Well, shit, I wouldn't have made it into the University of Chicago under this policy, and considering that I became the editor of the school newspaper and then the student ombudsperson for the university, maybe that would have been their loss.
Some of the most elite colleges in the US are making “civility transcripts” part of the admissions process.
Tone-policing as university policy.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
Tone-policing as university policy.
www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
May 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Well, shit, I wouldn't have made it into the University of Chicago under this policy, and considering that I became the editor of the school newspaper and then the student ombudsperson for the university, maybe that would have been their loss.
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I went to the opera this weekend! Here's a very short review of John Adams' "Antony and Cleopatra".
This weekend I went to the opera! A short review of ‘Antony and Cleopatra’
The wife and I went to New York this weekend to see the new production of John Adams' "Antony and Cleopatra". Here's the blurb from the Metropolitan Opera web site: The most recent opera by preeminent American composer John Adams—a glorious adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal drama—has its Met premiere. Following her debut in the company premiere of Adams’s El Niño in 2024, soprano Julia Bullock stars as the irresistible Cleopatra, one of theater’s most complex and captivating characters, opposite bass-baritone Gerald Finley as the conflicted Antony.
stevenvlad.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I went to the opera this weekend! Here's a very short review of John Adams' "Antony and Cleopatra".
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A long-awaited labor of love, essay collection by me and Jo @bluejo.bsky.social collecting essays on the history of science fiction & fantasy, the craft of writing, and what genre is and does. A rich read for anyone who enjoys thinking about what makes the books we love so great!
Trace Elements a collection of essays from @adapalmer.bsky.social and me, coming next March from Tor, now has a cover and back cover copy (and I am really close to finishing checking the proofs) www.amazon.com/Trace-Elemen...
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Amazon.com: Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy eBook : Walton, Jo, Palmer, Ada: Kindle Store
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May 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A long-awaited labor of love, essay collection by me and Jo @bluejo.bsky.social collecting essays on the history of science fiction & fantasy, the craft of writing, and what genre is and does. A rich read for anyone who enjoys thinking about what makes the books we love so great!
Awesome.
For #WorldBeeDay - Attic Black-Figure amphora, ca. 540 BC, showing the four men who attempted to steal honey from the hives that fed the infant Zeus - Laios, Keleos, Kerberos, and Aigolios - being punished by the bees! 🐝
Image: BM (1847,0716.1). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Image: BM (1847,0716.1). Link - www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
May 20, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Awesome.
Reading about the first Italian madrigals today and stunned to find that Machiavelli wrote the very first texts, purposefully for music to be sung as intermedi between the acts of his comedies 'La Clizia' and 'La mandragola'. @adapalmer.bsky.social.
Here’s the opening music for 'La Clizia' 1525:
Here’s the opening music for 'La Clizia' 1525:
PHILIPPE VERDELOT - MADRIGAL "QUANTO SIA LIETO IL GIORNO"
YouTube video by Simone Gomes Arte e Música
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May 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Reading about the first Italian madrigals today and stunned to find that Machiavelli wrote the very first texts, purposefully for music to be sung as intermedi between the acts of his comedies 'La Clizia' and 'La mandragola'. @adapalmer.bsky.social.
Here’s the opening music for 'La Clizia' 1525:
Here’s the opening music for 'La Clizia' 1525:
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Via a mailing list I'm on: an academic dispute over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...
Head to head: medieval experts clash over exact number of penises in Bayeux Tapestry
In a new blog post, a scholar in Anglo-Saxon nudity doubles down on his belief that the mystery appendage is a phallus, not a scabbard
www.theartnewspaper.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Via a mailing list I'm on: an academic dispute over the number of penises depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...
www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...
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I have no doubt the lecture fell on unlistening ears and an unwilling mind. Our vice president was there purely for a photo op with the Pope. He got it, and sadly for our vice president, that's all he will take away from meeting a better man than he. It's all he was capable of taking away from it.
I appreciate that one of his last acts was to have a cardinal lecture a sitting vice president about empathy.
April 21, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I have no doubt the lecture fell on unlistening ears and an unwilling mind. Our vice president was there purely for a photo op with the Pope. He got it, and sadly for our vice president, that's all he will take away from meeting a better man than he. It's all he was capable of taking away from it.
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For #MosaicMonday we travel to Herculaneum and the gorgeous fresco that gives its name to the location: the House of Neptune and Amphitrite. The divinities pose while elegantly draped in light blue cloth while surrounded by stunning patterns.
#AncientBluesky🏺
#AncientBluesky🏺
April 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
For #MosaicMonday we travel to Herculaneum and the gorgeous fresco that gives its name to the location: the House of Neptune and Amphitrite. The divinities pose while elegantly draped in light blue cloth while surrounded by stunning patterns.
#AncientBluesky🏺
#AncientBluesky🏺
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#MosaicMonday - A mosaic of theatrical masks - one tragic, the other comic. A pair of flutes lean behind them, casting delicate shadows on the wall. Discovered on the Aventine Hill: ca. 2nd Century AD. #Roman #Art 🏺
Image: Musei Capitolini (MC0392). Link - museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/...
Image: Musei Capitolini (MC0392). Link - museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/...
April 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
#MosaicMonday - A mosaic of theatrical masks - one tragic, the other comic. A pair of flutes lean behind them, casting delicate shadows on the wall. Discovered on the Aventine Hill: ca. 2nd Century AD. #Roman #Art 🏺
Image: Musei Capitolini (MC0392). Link - museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/...
Image: Musei Capitolini (MC0392). Link - museicapitolini.org/en/percorsi/...
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#MosaicMonday - The masterful 'Aion Mosaic' from Arles. Surrounded by Tritons, Nereids, and Erotes, Aion - holding a zodiacal wheel - dominates the central panel of this triclinium floor: ca. Early 3rd Century. #Archaeology #Art 🏺
Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques
Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques
March 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#MosaicMonday - The masterful 'Aion Mosaic' from Arles. Surrounded by Tritons, Nereids, and Erotes, Aion - holding a zodiacal wheel - dominates the central panel of this triclinium floor: ca. Early 3rd Century. #Archaeology #Art 🏺
Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques
Image: Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques
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www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...
Very talented young musicians. Cheers to the retired musicians who helped make it happen.
Very talented young musicians. Cheers to the retired musicians who helped make it happen.
What musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration
After an executive order ending DEI initiatives, the U.S. Marine Band canceled a concert featuring young musicians of color. Veterans stepped in to mentor the aspiring musicians.
www.cbsnews.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
www.cbsnews.com/news/concert...
Very talented young musicians. Cheers to the retired musicians who helped make it happen.
Very talented young musicians. Cheers to the retired musicians who helped make it happen.
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AncientBlueSky
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Ancient Egyptian burial chamber in the tomb of Nebenmaat and his wife.
at Deir El Medina.who They lived sometime during the reign of Ramesses II during the New Kingdom (1279–1213 BC).
#Archaeology #History
#TombTuesday #Egypt #art #painting
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Ancient Egyptian burial chamber in the tomb of Nebenmaat and his wife.
at Deir El Medina.who They lived sometime during the reign of Ramesses II during the New Kingdom (1279–1213 BC).
#Archaeology #History
#TombTuesday #Egypt #art #painting
March 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
AncientBlueSky
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Ancient Egyptian burial chamber in the tomb of Nebenmaat and his wife.
at Deir El Medina.who They lived sometime during the reign of Ramesses II during the New Kingdom (1279–1213 BC).
#Archaeology #History
#TombTuesday #Egypt #art #painting
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Ancient Egyptian burial chamber in the tomb of Nebenmaat and his wife.
at Deir El Medina.who They lived sometime during the reign of Ramesses II during the New Kingdom (1279–1213 BC).
#Archaeology #History
#TombTuesday #Egypt #art #painting