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The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The twelfth issue of Socrates on the Beach is live. Thank you to the authors and the translator and those who helped with the issue. socratesonthebeach.com
Damn, birthday boy Mathias Spahlinger killed it with this piece. Listened twice, now I have to check out his other works.
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Mathias Spahlinger - Passage/paysage [w/score]
YouTube video by Four-hobbies-man
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October 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Damn, birthday boy Mathias Spahlinger killed it with this piece. Listened twice, now I have to check out his other works.
youtu.be/T2VQmnHq1IY?...
youtu.be/T2VQmnHq1IY?...
Some mad skills in engagement bait. Creates a weak dichotomy between 'good' taste & writing, which doesn't really make sense on its face, how can writing that's "crowdsourced" & incurious be good? Then flips the construction to say incurious isn't good, denying the viability of the initial claim.
October 12, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Some mad skills in engagement bait. Creates a weak dichotomy between 'good' taste & writing, which doesn't really make sense on its face, how can writing that's "crowdsourced" & incurious be good? Then flips the construction to say incurious isn't good, denying the viability of the initial claim.
This is the kind of counterintuitive reporting that keeps The Economist one big step ahead of their competitors in the marketplace of non-ideas.
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is the kind of counterintuitive reporting that keeps The Economist one big step ahead of their competitors in the marketplace of non-ideas.
Spending the evening on the important business of deciding which of Lucas Cranach's paintings of Melancholia is most true. I lean towards the first one, but wouldn't argue with opting for the third either.
September 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Spending the evening on the important business of deciding which of Lucas Cranach's paintings of Melancholia is most true. I lean towards the first one, but wouldn't argue with opting for the third either.
Shosty's birthday, as good a time as any to get around to this one.
(Kinda feel like 13 symphonies are too many big thoughts for anyone to really need to have. What's wrong with a nice chamber piece? But the Soviets did like the large scale, so we'll see.)
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(Kinda feel like 13 symphonies are too many big thoughts for anyone to really need to have. What's wrong with a nice chamber piece? But the Soviets did like the large scale, so we'll see.)
youtu.be/_VHrV0f8WyE?...
13 SHOSTAKOVICH Symph No 13 Babi Yar in B flat min Op 113 Dir Valery Gergiev Mariinsky Orchestra
YouTube video by Вадимович Плотников
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shosty's birthday, as good a time as any to get around to this one.
(Kinda feel like 13 symphonies are too many big thoughts for anyone to really need to have. What's wrong with a nice chamber piece? But the Soviets did like the large scale, so we'll see.)
youtu.be/_VHrV0f8WyE?...
(Kinda feel like 13 symphonies are too many big thoughts for anyone to really need to have. What's wrong with a nice chamber piece? But the Soviets did like the large scale, so we'll see.)
youtu.be/_VHrV0f8WyE?...
Dang, I just found this dude was pulled up on one of my many tabs and I have no idea why. As painter? As composer? Did someone mention him? Whatever the case, I can't bring myself to close it or navigate away from a guy with such an impressive name and bio. Just gonna open another new tab instead.
September 24, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Dang, I just found this dude was pulled up on one of my many tabs and I have no idea why. As painter? As composer? Did someone mention him? Whatever the case, I can't bring myself to close it or navigate away from a guy with such an impressive name and bio. Just gonna open another new tab instead.
Eh, it's not like news organizations need editors. I'm sure this is fine.
September 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Eh, it's not like news organizations need editors. I'm sure this is fine.
Oh, hell yeah. The Dakota, a local jazz venue, is holding a block party today for their 40th anniversary and it's adjacent to my usual hang out and read spot on the street by Orchestra Hall. A great way to spend the day.
September 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Oh, hell yeah. The Dakota, a local jazz venue, is holding a block party today for their 40th anniversary and it's adjacent to my usual hang out and read spot on the street by Orchestra Hall. A great way to spend the day.
Dang, this Marc Cuyper guy has game. He posts images of paintings and has a dedicated group of other accounts/bots respond with critical praise, all in the same fashion, but they all also are accounts that repost & occasionally comment on other, possibly connected posts. Impressive organization!
September 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Dang, this Marc Cuyper guy has game. He posts images of paintings and has a dedicated group of other accounts/bots respond with critical praise, all in the same fashion, but they all also are accounts that repost & occasionally comment on other, possibly connected posts. Impressive organization!
Virgil Thomson relating a Henry Cowell anecdote about Carl Ruggles:
September 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Virgil Thomson relating a Henry Cowell anecdote about Carl Ruggles:
Big day for the music listening, started off with Ana-Maria Avram, who would have celebrated her birthday today. Dense and somewhat foreboding music, drawing on concrete/programmatic sounds that at times suggests connection with some metal music interests.
youtu.be/AFRPAK19XUo?...
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Ana-Maria Avram - Voices of the Desert (w/ score and performance video)
YouTube video by belanna000
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September 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Big day for the music listening, started off with Ana-Maria Avram, who would have celebrated her birthday today. Dense and somewhat foreboding music, drawing on concrete/programmatic sounds that at times suggests connection with some metal music interests.
youtu.be/AFRPAK19XUo?...
youtu.be/AFRPAK19XUo?...
It's Henry Purcell's birthday today, but since I already posted Dido's Lament on that other site, I'll make oblique reference to Henry's song by posting something by another birthday boy I've suddenly become very interested in; Gordon Kampe.
youtu.be/FUBA7K2R3HQ?...
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Gordon Kampe »remember me«
YouTube video by Kampe
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September 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
It's Henry Purcell's birthday today, but since I already posted Dido's Lament on that other site, I'll make oblique reference to Henry's song by posting something by another birthday boy I've suddenly become very interested in; Gordon Kampe.
youtu.be/FUBA7K2R3HQ?...
youtu.be/FUBA7K2R3HQ?...
Just watched the Fennell Wuthering Heights trailer people are chattering about and all I can say is I'll be eagerly looking forward to all the debates on reader response theory next February.
September 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Just watched the Fennell Wuthering Heights trailer people are chattering about and all I can say is I'll be eagerly looking forward to all the debates on reader response theory next February.
By luck, I Brucknered over the weekend, so I can spend my time going through the quartets of Milhaud, which, really, is gonna tale a lot longer than a day to finish since I see they number into the 400s, but this one seems appropriate for the today, Milhaud's 133rd birthday
youtu.be/GW-x_9YEiOk?...
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Darius Milhaud: Quartetto per archi n.10 op.218 "Birthday Quartet" (1940)
YouTube video by Wellesz Theatre.
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September 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
By luck, I Brucknered over the weekend, so I can spend my time going through the quartets of Milhaud, which, really, is gonna tale a lot longer than a day to finish since I see they number into the 400s, but this one seems appropriate for the today, Milhaud's 133rd birthday
youtu.be/GW-x_9YEiOk?...
youtu.be/GW-x_9YEiOk?...
It was a Shoista Mullojonova listening day today on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
youtu.be/b1Un2-Jft7A?...
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Shoista Mullojonova - "Ba Dilbar (Beloved)" [Uzbek]
YouTube video by Dwight Swanson
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September 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
It was a Shoista Mullojonova listening day today on the 100th anniversary of her birth.
youtu.be/b1Un2-Jft7A?...
youtu.be/b1Un2-Jft7A?...
Going through the Debussy catalog & my feeling about almost every piece still remains, "Very nice, but what does that have to do with me?" but then I sometimes ask the same about some Impressionist painters as well. Not all perspectives translate readily & theirs may just be too removed from my own.
September 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Going through the Debussy catalog & my feeling about almost every piece still remains, "Very nice, but what does that have to do with me?" but then I sometimes ask the same about some Impressionist painters as well. Not all perspectives translate readily & theirs may just be too removed from my own.
Came across this aside from Virgil Thomson on the vagaries of taste just after having posted something similar on that other site and figured I'd repost it hear w/the chatter so as to rob you fine folks of my esoteric inanity. Left off the person I was replying to & the last image is my prior post.
August 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Came across this aside from Virgil Thomson on the vagaries of taste just after having posted something similar on that other site and figured I'd repost it hear w/the chatter so as to rob you fine folks of my esoteric inanity. Left off the person I was replying to & the last image is my prior post.
Just finished this nifty book that collects the writings of around 50 different Hollywood directors on the craft & sometimes art of making movies, & a great little amusement is seeing how often all the pieces make offhand remarks that use John Ford as example.
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Just finished this nifty book that collects the writings of around 50 different Hollywood directors on the craft & sometimes art of making movies, & a great little amusement is seeing how often all the pieces make offhand remarks that use John Ford as example.
Today's birthday notable is the composer, professor, and former president of Croatia, Ivo Josipović.
youtu.be/dX-5id3MG3w?...
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Ivo Josipović: Dernek, for two pianos, percussion and strings
YouTube video by Danijel Detoni - Topic
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August 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Today's birthday notable is the composer, professor, and former president of Croatia, Ivo Josipović.
youtu.be/dX-5id3MG3w?...
youtu.be/dX-5id3MG3w?...
Dang, not been a great day with the earphones, classical birthdays were largely a miss, tried the new Deftones and Ethel Cain and didn't fare much better, down to my last shot with In "Jane from Occupied Europe" from Swell Maps to save my listening day. Wish me luck!
August 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Dang, not been a great day with the earphones, classical birthdays were largely a miss, tried the new Deftones and Ethel Cain and didn't fare much better, down to my last shot with In "Jane from Occupied Europe" from Swell Maps to save my listening day. Wish me luck!
Here's an example of programmatic music, pleasant enough but doesn't appear to do anything more than capturing what is noted in the title to my hearing of it. This is the 2nd movement, the first being Dry Spell & the 3rd & final Petrichor, which complete the musical 'story'
youtu.be/3HYpdHatOQw?...
youtu.be/3HYpdHatOQw?...
Petrichor - Deluge
YouTube video by Barry Conyngham - Topic
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Here's an example of programmatic music, pleasant enough but doesn't appear to do anything more than capturing what is noted in the title to my hearing of it. This is the 2nd movement, the first being Dry Spell & the 3rd & final Petrichor, which complete the musical 'story'
youtu.be/3HYpdHatOQw?...
youtu.be/3HYpdHatOQw?...
Peaking of deserved crossover appeal, Canadian composer Nicole Lizée certainly deserves more of it. Just heard this barn burner when it pulled up after Sally Beamish's nifty Hive piece for Proms.
youtu.be/wFO1hGfi2UA?...
youtu.be/wFO1hGfi2UA?...
Nicole Lizée - Blurr is the Colour of My True Love’s Eyes (European Première)
YouTube video by fiveagainstfour
youtu.be
August 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Peaking of deserved crossover appeal, Canadian composer Nicole Lizée certainly deserves more of it. Just heard this barn burner when it pulled up after Sally Beamish's nifty Hive piece for Proms.
youtu.be/wFO1hGfi2UA?...
youtu.be/wFO1hGfi2UA?...
Sorry. Forgot the age thing, not sure who/what passes for reasonable expectation of knowledge with popular culture anymore. Just looked at RYM and saw Loverboy's hugely popular 1980 album has fewer ratings than the avant prog Familjesprickor by Zamla Mammaz Manna, so I guess all bets are off now.
August 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Sorry. Forgot the age thing, not sure who/what passes for reasonable expectation of knowledge with popular culture anymore. Just looked at RYM and saw Loverboy's hugely popular 1980 album has fewer ratings than the avant prog Familjesprickor by Zamla Mammaz Manna, so I guess all bets are off now.
Today's workday music time was spent trying to figure out some things about Pretenders, Pavement & Stefan Wolpe, not sure I found the answers, or can even decide if the questions were useful, but, hey, there are worse ways to spend a day.
August 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today's workday music time was spent trying to figure out some things about Pretenders, Pavement & Stefan Wolpe, not sure I found the answers, or can even decide if the questions were useful, but, hey, there are worse ways to spend a day.