🎹 sharon su
@doodlyroses.com
Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her
Website: sharonsu.com
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One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social
Website: sharonsu.com
Biweekly newsletter: https://buttondown.com/doodlyroses
One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social
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@doodlyroses.com
· Nov 14
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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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
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My grandfather is William Grant Still, the Dean of African-American composers and one of the most accomplished musicians the US has ever produced. He is arguably the best orchestral arranger of the 20th century.
December 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My grandfather is William Grant Still, the Dean of African-American composers and one of the most accomplished musicians the US has ever produced. He is arguably the best orchestral arranger of the 20th century.
Normally I am what some people call an annoyingly hypercompetent person but the number of ways in which I have messed up this month is truly astonishing
Me: dear lord this month is destroying me. what are we, three weeks into December?
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Normally I am what some people call an annoyingly hypercompetent person but the number of ways in which I have messed up this month is truly astonishing
Me: dear lord this month is destroying me. what are we, three weeks into December?
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
December 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Me: dear lord this month is destroying me. what are we, three weeks into December?
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
Narrator: it was, in fact, only 9 days into December
Reposted by 🎹 sharon su
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
waiting for both the Catholics and the sacred music people to yell at me
December 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
waiting for both the Catholics and the sacred music people to yell at me
Fingers: [play a complicated passage pretty easily]
Brain: hey how are we doing that
Me: no brain, I beg of you, don’t—
Brain: too late, we’re overthinking things now
Fingers: yeah so we can’t play this passage anymore
Brain: hey how are we doing that
Me: no brain, I beg of you, don’t—
Brain: too late, we’re overthinking things now
Fingers: yeah so we can’t play this passage anymore
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Fingers: [play a complicated passage pretty easily]
Brain: hey how are we doing that
Me: no brain, I beg of you, don’t—
Brain: too late, we’re overthinking things now
Fingers: yeah so we can’t play this passage anymore
Brain: hey how are we doing that
Me: no brain, I beg of you, don’t—
Brain: too late, we’re overthinking things now
Fingers: yeah so we can’t play this passage anymore
I listen to pop music with as much of an analytical ear as I do classical music only I never learned any pop music terms, which is why I say things like “I really love the stretto in this Carly Rae Jepsen song”
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I listen to pop music with as much of an analytical ear as I do classical music only I never learned any pop music terms, which is why I say things like “I really love the stretto in this Carly Rae Jepsen song”
More important than the appearance of the silver is the fact that I have proved the bishop is a Hot Priest
I am a seriously scholarly person
I am a seriously scholarly person
December 8, 2025 at 6:27 PM
More important than the appearance of the silver is the fact that I have proved the bishop is a Hot Priest
I am a seriously scholarly person
I am a seriously scholarly person
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the internet actually isn't about connecting us to one another, improving human communication, or enabling us to see and be seen. it's all about letting you get really esoteric with your hobbies
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
the internet actually isn't about connecting us to one another, improving human communication, or enabling us to see and be seen. it's all about letting you get really esoteric with your hobbies
Reposted by 🎹 sharon su
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
December 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
You should be able to get rich being silly online instead of being evil online, that would solve a lot of problems
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Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
December 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Was fantasising about a brand new internet where I can go read things and it would have no AI or ads or influencers…and realised that is the library
This is too real and @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social really came for all of our throats
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened
Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.
www.criticaldrift.org
December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is too real and @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social really came for all of our throats
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...
Apple Music: here are the albums you listened to most this year
Me: yeah this sounds about right
Me: yeah this sounds about right
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Apple Music: here are the albums you listened to most this year
Me: yeah this sounds about right
Me: yeah this sounds about right
Watching the new Knives Out movie left me with a lot of questions, namely "why did the couple in front of me leave the house and buy tickets and sit in prime seats in this theater only to scroll social media on their phones for the entire runtime of this very good movie"
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Watching the new Knives Out movie left me with a lot of questions, namely "why did the couple in front of me leave the house and buy tickets and sit in prime seats in this theater only to scroll social media on their phones for the entire runtime of this very good movie"
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (when holiday prep and the end-of-year scramble keep me from regular practicing and I fall into deep despair thinking I have lost all my skills and will never have a career again)
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (when holiday prep and the end-of-year scramble keep me from regular practicing and I fall into deep despair thinking I have lost all my skills and will never have a career again)
The stores in London are plastered with Black Friday sale signs right now and I have been furiously texting friends “how can you do Black Friday if you don’t have Thanksgiving???”
Seeing Black Friday/Black Week ads all over the place here in Friday, which I guess we have managed to successfully export to Europe without the “Thanksgiving” part
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The stores in London are plastered with Black Friday sale signs right now and I have been furiously texting friends “how can you do Black Friday if you don’t have Thanksgiving???”
Equestrian sports is like the Freemasons in that you don’t realize how many people are in it until you’re in it yourself
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Equestrian sports is like the Freemasons in that you don’t realize how many people are in it until you’re in it yourself
Got a text from the LA Phil 45 minutes before concert start that Sheku Kanneh-Mason was injured this morning and the premiere of Finnis’ cello concerto would not be performed, so we just got a super short program today
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Got a text from the LA Phil 45 minutes before concert start that Sheku Kanneh-Mason was injured this morning and the premiere of Finnis’ cello concerto would not be performed, so we just got a super short program today
Reposted by 🎹 sharon su
Oh so when an owl only shows up sometimes it’s “irruptive” but when I do it I’m “unreliable.”
Snowy owls are considered “irruptive” in the Midwest, meaning some years they show up in winter and some years they don’t. This unpredictability is one of the reasons a snowy owl sighting carries such a “once in a lifetime” sense of excitement.
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
Snowy Owls Delighting Birders on Chicago’s Lakefront
The arctic visitors have drawn bird watchers from surrounding states.
to.wttw.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oh so when an owl only shows up sometimes it’s “irruptive” but when I do it I’m “unreliable.”
Apparently some of you are now reading Les Miserables because of me
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Apparently some of you are now reading Les Miserables because of me
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
Anything by Patrick Radden Keefe or Erik Larson, those dudes write nonfiction that’s more I-can’t-put-this-down than some thrillers
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Anything by Patrick Radden Keefe or Erik Larson, those dudes write nonfiction that’s more I-can’t-put-this-down than some thrillers
So Victor Hugo def had ADHD right
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So Victor Hugo def had ADHD right
This is the thing that drives me a little insane about people saying that slavery/racism/systemic inequality is “inappropriate” for children—young people are fully capable of understanding complexity, in some ways more so than adults
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is the thing that drives me a little insane about people saying that slavery/racism/systemic inequality is “inappropriate” for children—young people are fully capable of understanding complexity, in some ways more so than adults
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...