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Emily E Hogstad
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Professional amateur classical music writer - lapsed violinist, violist - MN/WI-based - queer Episcopal girl interested in the history of the girls & gays in classical music - www.songofthelarkblog.com - <3
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Emily E Hogstad @song-of-lark.bsky.social · Nov 12
Pinned post: I'm a 35 y/o freelance writer; started the blog Song of the Lark; am an infamous fangirl of the Minnesota Orchestra; I write a lot about women/gays in music history; I worked in social media for a while; I spill too much about grief and chronic illness; and I'm SO grateful you're here 💕
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Two horned Herdwick sheep resting their foreheads against each other's. The left sheep has a pink tag in its ear
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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I forget how excited men get to use their snowblowers
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Grandma Concerned About Dinner Roll Count
ROCKFORD, IL—Local grandmother Eileen Stafford, 78, expressed concern Monday over the number of dinner rolls she should have on hand for this year’s Thanksgiving meal, appearing distressed when discus...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:

1 @minnesotaorchestra.org
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5 @minnesotaorchestra.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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pity the afflicted
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Somehow found myself on the Simple English Wikipedia entry for Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, and more program notes should be like this tbh
Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky) Talk From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tchaikovsky's Piano concerto No. 1 is a piece of music. Tchaikovsky wrote it in 1874 when he was 34 years old. The first musician to play it, Nikolay Rubinstein, did not like it. The second, Hans von Bülow, did like it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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I'm teaching myself how to play canasta whenever I get insomnia, which I think will help lead me to my inevitable final form of "withered 1950s crone"
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Devastated single mom miscarried her other child shortly after teaching me phonics

After that writer was the only and inevitable career path
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What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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Have loved seeing this program grow this season 💕

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Jason Brown brings the house down again with Riverdance short program in Helsinki | NBC Sports
YouTube video by NBC Sports
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November 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Donald Trump, welcome to the resistance
November 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social
Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard
The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist lo...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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I love this tiny little piece so much

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Grieg: Arietta op. 12 ∙ Jan Lisiecki
YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony
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November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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This is really cool history. This bonus film of the New York Philharmonic playing Wagner was made as promo alongside the 1926 film Don Juan, which was the first movie to have synchronized music attached to it. Wild we can see this 100-year-old video performance!!

youtu.be/14-DCNiAJDA
Tannhauser Overture: 1926 New York Philharmonic Orchestra - Vitaphone in HD
YouTube video by robert fells
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November 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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I found my new favorite quote about Chopin and George Sand last night. From biographer Frederick Niecks:

"He is so lady-like, and she is such a perfect gentleman."

from www.google.com/books/editio...
Screenshot: Alfred de Musset's experience had been of a similar nature. George Sand did not particularly please him at first, but a few visits which he paid her sufficed to inflame his heart with a violent passion. The liaisons of the poet and musician with the novelist offer other points of resemblance besides the one just mentioned: both Musset and Chopin were younger than George Sand-the one six, the other five years; and both, notwithstanding the dissimilarity of their characters, occupied the position of a weaker half. In the case of Chopin I am reminded of a saying of Sydney Smith, who, in speaking of his friends the historian Grote and his wife, remarked: "I do like them both so much, for he is so lady-like, and she is such a perfect gentleman." Indeed, Chopin was described to me by his pupil Gutmann as feminine in looks, gestures, and taste; as to George Sand, although many may be unwilling to admit her perfect gentlemanliness, no one can doubt her manliness.
November 19, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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make a different choice in another year
November 17, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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O Lord, open thou our lips.
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Does Peacock fuck up coverage of every sport or does it save all of its suckage for figure skating coverage specifically
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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I'm choosing to watch Skate America live tonight because my king Jason Brown is skating, but everyone else who is normal should watch this because my other king Benjamin Beilman is playing with my other-other king the Minnesota Orchestra
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Tonight at 9pm (ET), conductor Thomas Søndergård, the Minnesota Orchestra (@minnesotaorchestra.org), and violinist Benjamin Beilman in this livestream:

Takemitsu: Night Signal
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
This Is Minnesota Orchestra: Søndergård and Symphonie fantastique
YouTube video by Minnesota Orchestra
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November 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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It’s Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s 220th birthday! To celebrate, I have a new recording out of her Sonata in G Minor which you can now listen to on the streaming platform of your choice
Sharon Su - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP
Listen to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP by Sharon Su.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Wikipedia winking and nodding so hard it's going to crack its neck 🌈

From an article on Danish composer Benna Moe en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benna_Moe
Text: Personal life Moe was unmarried and lived most of her adult life with her friend, a language teacher Karla Aagaard. Aagaard supported Moe in her travels. Moe's music has rarely been performed...
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I don't know why, but I find this little melancholy sliver of an etude by Marie Bigot (pianist who impressed Haydn, charmed Beethoven, taught the Mendelssohn siblings, etc.) absolutely entrancing

More on her - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_B...

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Marie Bigot de Morogues, étude n°2 en la mineur / Lucie de Saint Vincent, pianoforte
YouTube video by Lucie de Saint Vincent
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November 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
November 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Tonight I’m thinking of the millions of parents going to bed wondering how they’re going to put food on the table, keep a roof over their heads, pay their utility bills and keep their health insurance without going broke.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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Alleluia may be added
November 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM