Nico Muhly
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Alright, thanks for listening, now I have to get back to work.
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Alright, thanks for listening, now I have to get back to work.
I love this. It's like...
December 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I love this. It's like...
I don't know if it's what ur grandma wants, but that final reharmonization is pretty outrageous and great. Also is it me or was Dean 🍒 ready to rock before the last chord finished? #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I don't know if it's what ur grandma wants, but that final reharmonization is pretty outrageous and great. Also is it me or was Dean 🍒 ready to rock before the last chord finished? #9LC
This arrangement of "I saw three ships" is both completely masterful, 💯 no notes, but also seems perfectly calibrated to make me go insane this early in the day. It's been in like seventy five keys and there is a glissando into 9 out of 10 downbeats. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This arrangement of "I saw three ships" is both completely masterful, 💯 no notes, but also seems perfectly calibrated to make me go insane this early in the day. It's been in like seventy five keys and there is a glissando into 9 out of 10 downbeats. #9LC
It's so weird to hear Rutter in such keys as E, A, or C, because normally he's featuring some French-ass chaos during Christmastide. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's so weird to hear Rutter in such keys as E, A, or C, because normally he's featuring some French-ass chaos during Christmastide. #9LC
I don't know what's going on but you could teach a course on every final cadence in this whole service* being so perfectly calibr8ed
*(provided nothing really fucked up happens in Dormi, Jesu)
#9LC
*(provided nothing really fucked up happens in Dormi, Jesu)
#9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I don't know what's going on but you could teach a course on every final cadence in this whole service* being so perfectly calibr8ed
*(provided nothing really fucked up happens in Dormi, Jesu)
#9LC
*(provided nothing really fucked up happens in Dormi, Jesu)
#9LC
Also I know it's apostrophising, but I love when a bit of text has a billion exclamation points but then it's the most delicate setting #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Also I know it's apostrophising, but I love when a bit of text has a billion exclamation points but then it's the most delicate setting #9LC
Alright, Berlioz...!
This seems like one of those pieces that's harder to learn than it sounds.
NOT mad at that organ registration — it's giving SHAWM. #9LC
This seems like one of those pieces that's harder to learn than it sounds.
NOT mad at that organ registration — it's giving SHAWM. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Alright, Berlioz...!
This seems like one of those pieces that's harder to learn than it sounds.
NOT mad at that organ registration — it's giving SHAWM. #9LC
This seems like one of those pieces that's harder to learn than it sounds.
NOT mad at that organ registration — it's giving SHAWM. #9LC
You know what would be a good art project is to cut up just the sound of people coughing and then remix it and send it to their houses. It can't be that hard to identify the culprits, can it? #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
You know what would be a good art project is to cut up just the sound of people coughing and then remix it and send it to their houses. It can't be that hard to identify the culprits, can it? #9LC
Did you all remember to wish John Rutter a happy 80th birthday? I sent his ass a vintage swan postcard which was returned because I didn't put enough postage on the envelope :-( #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Did you all remember to wish John Rutter a happy 80th birthday? I sent his ass a vintage swan postcard which was returned because I didn't put enough postage on the envelope :-( #9LC
You really cannot make me like this hymn. I like what the organist is doing with his feet with this canon in the last verse but have you EVER seen clunkier text setting? #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
You really cannot make me like this hymn. I like what the organist is doing with his feet with this canon in the last verse but have you EVER seen clunkier text setting? #9LC
I'm not tripping: I think it is worth noting that Britten wrote "A Boy was Born" when he was NINETEEN, which is like 7 years older than some of those choristers and several years younger than much of the back row. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm not tripping: I think it is worth noting that Britten wrote "A Boy was Born" when he was NINETEEN, which is like 7 years older than some of those choristers and several years younger than much of the back row. #9LC
Now, hear how these tenors are all elegant and expensive-sounding? I'll pay them cash money to grab three choristers and do an impromp2 performance of Reich's PROVERB any day. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Now, hear how these tenors are all elegant and expensive-sounding? I'll pay them cash money to grab three choristers and do an impromp2 performance of Reich's PROVERB any day. #9LC
I do wish they would print, just for myne owne enjoyment, the original text of this:
Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bar Jhesu.
etc.
===
like:
For in this rose conteynyd was
Heuen and erthe in lytyl space,
Res miranda
#9LC
Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bar Jhesu.
etc.
===
like:
For in this rose conteynyd was
Heuen and erthe in lytyl space,
Res miranda
#9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I do wish they would print, just for myne owne enjoyment, the original text of this:
Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bar Jhesu.
etc.
===
like:
For in this rose conteynyd was
Heuen and erthe in lytyl space,
Res miranda
#9LC
Ther is no rose of swych vertu
As is the rose that bar Jhesu.
etc.
===
like:
For in this rose conteynyd was
Heuen and erthe in lytyl space,
Res miranda
#9LC
The great thing about Bruckner's choral music is that you don't have to sit through all that Bruckner to get that NUTT. It's so efficient — all of them (Os Justi, Christus Factus Est 'nem) are gems. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The great thing about Bruckner's choral music is that you don't have to sit through all that Bruckner to get that NUTT. It's so efficient — all of them (Os Justi, Christus Factus Est 'nem) are gems. #9LC
I can barely even _listen_ to The Lamb, it's so weird and perfect. 🐑. Also loving this final tempo; did they do it that scrumptiously slow last year? #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I can barely even _listen_ to The Lamb, it's so weird and perfect. 🐑. Also loving this final tempo; did they do it that scrumptiously slow last year? #9LC
WHOA. Treble solo, that was trippy. I like this carol because it sounds like it's been in their rep since the beginning of time, and it's in dialogue with all the stuff we know — in the absence of Howells this year, it's definitely scratching that itch for me. #9LC
December 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
WHOA. Treble solo, that was trippy. I like this carol because it sounds like it's been in their rep since the beginning of time, and it's in dialogue with all the stuff we know — in the absence of Howells this year, it's definitely scratching that itch for me. #9LC
Is there a word for the specific emotion of being like “sigh… the neighborhood just isn’t the same…terrible…” when a restaurant I literally never once went into closes?
January 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Is there a word for the specific emotion of being like “sigh… the neighborhood just isn’t the same…terrible…” when a restaurant I literally never once went into closes?
Alright, I guess I'm meant to be over here now? Or both? Or what's the best way. Now that I'm An (1) Ancient Person, I feel like learning new shit is harder than ever...
December 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM
Alright, I guess I'm meant to be over here now? Or both? Or what's the best way. Now that I'm An (1) Ancient Person, I feel like learning new shit is harder than ever...