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Lisa

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LitWit • Baroque music & early keyboards • Hockey • Enterprise tech marketing "Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time." ~Howard Nemerov #ClassicalMusic #Baroque #SciComm

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 9h

I am so captivated by this track, and it does indeed defy conventional genre descriptions—
That’s so wonderful you got to team up with your son, and I love the result.

Recommended listening!
#ClassicalMusic #jazz

The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social · 10h

My new Elysian Fields' electric viola da album features a duo called 'Dark Dreaming' with my son Seebz Pogson. He also wrote the track. I am so lucky to get to play with him! Video by James Fraser

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYP4...

Dark Dreaming - Elysian Fields

YouTube video by Elysian Fields

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 9h

😱 The most terrifying response I’ve seen so far!

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 13h

:: checking watch :: You bet’cha, looks like it’s after something-something o’clock!

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 15h

Awful news - if anyone can help Sascha:

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 15h

It is, it feels so unbearably poignant, and hard to shake the idea of him as just another coin spent on a lost cause.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

(I thought Krasznahorkai was essentially living in exile, tho?!) “A fierce critic of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Krasznahorkai has said his government was a "psychiatric case" because of its stance on the Ukraine war. Orban opposes military aid to Kyiv...”

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

Da fuq with this week and Nobelists?! At this rate, David Stockman, Mr Reaganomics himself, will get the memorial award in Economics.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

I like yours MUCH better.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 17h

The Paris Review unlocked the Krasznahorkai interview! Grab a fresh cup and get comfy—here’s the free link: mailchi.mp/theparisrevi...
#booksky #amreading

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Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 19h

The real poetry prize is not the NBA is not the Nobel or the Pulitzer or the NBCC or whatever it’s did you stop in the middle of your kitchen and read a poem aloud to someone you love.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 20h

Right?! How he finessed order and upheaval into such gorgeous tension still surprises me—his work can sound downright modern at times.

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

‘Nite, peeps. This is as good a place as any to find your soft landing after *quite* a week—William Lawes, Harp Consort No. 5 in D major.

It’s your four-minute breather away from everything, and a dose of calm distilled from order, light, and grace.
youtube.com/watch?v=FioL...
#ClassicalMusic

Sarabande et Allemande | Robin Pharo, Ensemble Près de votre oreille

YouTube video by harmonia mundi music

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

“Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls…”
Reading a fascinating & peculiar book by Charles Simic: Dime Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell.
Best read slowly, occasionally aloud.

#amreading #poetry
Janácek “In The Mists”
youtu.be/8BV7EVUIQwA?...

Book cover “Dime Store Alchemy, The Art of Joseph Cornell” by Charles Simic. Cover photo is an assemblage by Joseph Cornell:

The composition is in a wooden box. At the center of the box is an image of a young girl, often interpreted as a ballet dancer. This figure is a reproduction from Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting, Family of Saltimbanques, referencing Cornell's interest in the performing arts.
The girl is placed amidst a collection of colorful rings, balls, and wooden spheres. These elements give the impression of celestial orbits, linking the young dancer to a planetary system.
In the upper right is the word, “Appolinaris.”

From _Dime Store Alchemy_:
“Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night
I’m looking for the mechanical chess player with a red turban.
I hear Pythagoras is there queuing up, and Monsieur Pascal, who hears the silence inside God's ear.
Eternity and time are the coins it requires, everybody's portion of it, for a quick glimpse of that everything which is nothing.
Night of the homeless, the sleepless, night of those winding the watches of their souls, the stopped watches, before the machine with mirrors.
Here's a raised hand covered with dime-store jewels, a hand like "a five-headed Cerberus," and two eyes opened wide in astonishment.

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Ian Janssen @ianfjanssen.bsky.social · 1d

Something quiet and contemplative for those like me feeling unwell tonight.

open.spotify.com/track/5JWcdW...

Les jardins de ziryab

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

This is mesmerizing — and I hope it soothes…

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

Since his nephew was a prime suspect, could that mean Leclair was slain by a…relative minor?

:: ducking flying tomatoes ::

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

Right?! That’s a gut-punch. 😢

Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

No?!?! Seriously RIP?! And yes on Annie Hall.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so glad!! 😁 That tension he creates with his sense of line contour, those crazy-impossible virtuosic passages, treading the line between order and yearning in everything he wrote—it’s like Baroque crack!
Shimmers *and* simmers, if that’s possible…