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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻

@fiddlecub.bsky.social

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🏳️‍🌈 Game designer and writer: Baldur's Gate 3, Divinity: Original Sin 2| Your gay dad: partnered to Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@fiddlecub Steam / PlayStation / Xbox Live / Telegram: fiddlecub Signal: fiddlecub.85

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hello to all my new followers! Things to expect:

Celebrations of my relationship: Stephen and @cubgent.bsky.social. Expect selfies!

Video games and the such, naturally.

Classical music - Sibelius, Mahler, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky in particular.

Musings: leftist politics, LGBTQIA+, mental health.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1h

Gorgeous work.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 7h

My two most prominent opinions on games stuff today are too spicy for here or anywhere but I promise you they are spicy indeed.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 9h

Undid repost because The Atlantic and also Helen Lewis and I don't in fact have to hand it to either.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 9h

Still sick but hanging in.

Selfie. I'm a bear man with mustache and beard wearing a red hoodie and amber-tinted eyeglasses.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, tomorrow's concert is Mark Elder conducting Bruckner 8? Well that's my evening settled.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 12h

Bergen Phil is a CLASS orchestra and they release so many recordings I can't keep up. Not so much a secret nowadays, but the Nordic countries absolutely lead the way now in classical music.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

Today's music: the Hoedown from Aaron Copland's Rodeo. The ballet premiered in NYC on this day in 1942. If you're of a certain generation, you can be forgiven for silently mouthing 'Beef: it's what's for dinner' while it plays.

NYO-USA Performs Copland’s “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo

YouTube video by NYO-USA / NYO2 / NYO Jazz

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

I made a YouTube playlist to get you started. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony has fantastic, consistent YouTube presence. They want music to be heard. Even if you're unversed in classical, give it a go.

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte – Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Tarmo Peltokoski

YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

www.youtube.com

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

Barring that, find some performances on an artist's YouTube channel, create a playlist - a short work like an overture; a concerto; and a symphony, for example - and set aside a time to watch. Turn out the lights, turn up the volume, and enjoy.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

Also: make music an event. Go to concerts when you can; I'm a train-trip distance from some of the world's best orchestras, but not everyone's so fortunate. But maybe watch live streams at places like the aforementioned BPO Digital Concert Hall.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 13h

If you, like me, have used Spotify in the past to listen primarily to classical music, there are better options.

If you can't break from pay-per-month streaming, use IDAGIO.

Buy from the label.

Avail yourself of artists' virtual concert halls, like the Berlin Philharmonic's.

The Digital Concert Hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker

The Digital Concert Hall is the streaming platform of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Here you can see the orchestra’s concerts live or on demand in the archive.

www.digitalconcerthall.com

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Forgive me for the errant 'u' in my spelling of his name. I don't know how it crept in, but I am at one with my shame.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight's music: Mussourgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. The Rimsky-Korsakov arrangement we hear most often premiered this day in 1886 - five years after the composer's death. But I've always been more fond of the original version, which wasn't performed until 1932.

Mussorgskij: Eine Nacht auf dem kahlen Berge (Urfassung)∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andris Poga

YouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphony

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't why I followed, but it is why I'll stay.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Guy who left the young republican chat 9 months ago: Phew.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Aww Scratch you brought a gift? How thoughtful! What a good boy, I can't wait to see what it is. *It's a dirty glass shard from the nuclear influenza factory*

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

We could really ramp this annoyance up by randomizing which waterfalls will hide treasure, and making sure they always contain the most pitiful loot.

Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Doctor call. They found a thing in the colon biopsy. But not *the bad thing*.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

Today's music: Dag Wirén's Serenade for Strings, in honour of the composer's birthday (15 Oct. 1905). Always loved this one.

[NYCP] Wiren - Serenade for Strings, Op. 11

YouTube video by New York Classical Players

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 1d

The worst is over but I'm not exactly back to form. Doctor again today - I don't know there's more he can do but refer me on, but need that slip for work.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, a lot of folks in here arguing with statements you never made.

Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

I slept all day. I thought I was getting better but it's back :(

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

This is now my least favourite day.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 2d

I've thrown up 12 times since 2 a.m. It has not been a pleasant time.

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 3d

The internet was a mistake.