i know, my time over there was a breath of fresh air.

torn apart? no i don’t think so, not by this, it’s the system at work.

the united states has a near zero interest in instrumental/creative/improvisational music, and i THAT could spell a problem in the future.

few/no musician i know would encourage a student to get a performance degree today.

There is a stark difference between musicians in the united states and EU

Last year in a major orchestra, a man turned to me and referred to the conductor (a woman) as a bitch, before she even stepped the podium.

I had a conservatory teacher tell me that queer people don’t deserve equal rights

As you are in London (or Dublin? jealous!) the context will be mostly lost

There are musicians in major orchestras bragging about voting for this administration, its violence, and/or genocide.

I think that has zero place in our art and should be rooted out.

i hope it all goes down the wrong pipe and the ceo is coughing whipped cream all over the dash

it’s crazy the amount of bullshit you have to sift through to find info on this! i’m just an average person fascinated by a mountain hauling ass through space for eons colliding with our solar system and all the new science we have to study it.

i’m not familiar with his recordings with chicago, i’ll have to check this out. i imagine it has the potential to sound huge!

for a wind player, that’s piano followed by an uncontrollable cough!

skill issue 😏

“i’m going back in the basement for thanksgiving”

and i think the incredible intonation is stemming (pun intended) from cellist Soo-Kyung Hong

there live shostakovich is also incredible, they’ve appeared on Front Row Washington at least once before