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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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lisasass.bsky.social
Checking out the apartment-hunting landscape in metro Boston west & south—in December?!
Peak chaos energy, but life lined up, so why not scout it out in the slush?
So excited at the prospect of heading back to New England. ❄️🗝️
“Mount Vernon Street, Boston", by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. Bustling scene of Mount Vernon Street, framed by rows of buildings on either side. The focal point of the composition is a prominent domed structure, bathed in a warm, golden light, which dominates the skyline. The scene is imbued with a serene, almost dreamlike quality, as characteristic of the Impressionism movement. The use of light and shadow is skillfully executed to convey the atmosphere and time of day. Streets and sidewalks are animated with the movement of carriages, pedestrians, and various elements of daily life, all portrayed with loose, fluid strokes that suggest rather than define. The interplay of colors creates an impression of autumn, with hues of brown, orange, and gold dominating the palette. Depicts late 19th-century Boston.
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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inventingreality.bsky.social
#indieauthor #amwriting #author #author #writerslife
December 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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classicvibe.bsky.social
Just spin the globe ...
Find the coolest shit ever
radio.garden/visit/yonker...

@grbenny.bsky.social
@stevewfolds.bsky.social
@lisasass.bsky.social
@gregolear.bsky.social
Listen to live Yonkers NY radio on Radio Garden
Listen to live Yonkers NY radio on Radio Garden
radio.garden
December 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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earlymusicnewsorg.bsky.social
LUTEMUSIC.ORG
"Here you will find more than 17,000 settings of lute pieces (70,000 files) in French tablature" ...

More at wp.lutemusic.org

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#earlymusicnewsorg #earlymusic #earlymusicnews #historicallyinformedperformance
Lute Music
wp.lutemusic.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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davidcavlovic.bsky.social
davidcavlovic.bsky.social David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 3d
Coming up this Monday at 11:00 ET, and always on-demand at CKCUFM.com : The Second Cantata from Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, and music by Benjamin Britten, Heinrich Kaminsky, and Igor Stravinsky.
cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602...
J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorio. Cantata 2 - Music For A While - 2025-12-08
"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it." --Igor Stravinsky
cod.ckcufm.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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tgweir.bsky.social
Congratulations to @jessicaduchen.bsky on having her new book “Myra Hess, National Treasure” named Book of the Year by Presto Music. This well-researched book is full of insights on the great pianist and features a foreward by her student Stephen Kovacevich. What a great holiday gift idea!
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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davidcavlovic.bsky.social
Latest episode of Classical Muse uploaded to YouTube. The graphic spelled Farnaby wrong, but, hey, people make mistakes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tk...
David Cavlovic features Mozart, Elgar, Ravel and Elizabethan songs and dances in this classical muse
YouTube video by talking albums
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Miles Davis and Elizabeth Bishop Fake the Break
by CHARLES WRIGHT

Those two dark syllables, 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯
offer no sustenance,
[…]
From the top... Beginning in ignorance, we stick to the melody— Knowledge, however, is elsewhere,
a tune we've yet to turn to,
Its syllables scrubbed in light
#poetry
The Poetry Foundation
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
“Walk out onto the planet tonight. Even the moon is giving back your share of borrowed light and you take it back, in the name of everything you can’t take back in your life.”

-David Clewell
“New Year’s Eve Letter to Friends”
poetrydispatch.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/d...
#poetry
Page 1 of 2 DAVID NEW YEAR'S EVE LETTER TO FRIENDS Every year the odds are stacked against it turning out the way you'd like: a year of smooth, a year of easy smile, a year like a lake you could float on, looking up at a blue year of soothing sky. Mostly the letters you're expecting never come. Lovers walk out and keep on going and in no time they're no friends of yours. Mostly, the sheer weight of days gone awfully wrong: a tire blown out, someone's heart caving in, the hole worn finally through the roof. Sometimes it's only a few tenacious cells digging in against complete dissolve. The smallest strand of DNA, stretched thin over thousands of years, goes taut and finally holds. I've watched men at the Mission staring out into the middle distance, putting up with the latest version of salvation, all the time wondering just how long until the bowl and spoon. They've been around enough to know the good part's always saved for last and there's no promise they won't make to get there. Each year cuts our lives down to size, to something we can almost use. So we find it somewhere in our hearts: another ring shows up when we lay open the cross-section. One more hard line in the hand spreading slowly out of its clench. It used to be the world was so small you could walk out to the end of it Page 2 of 2 and back in a single day. Now it seems to take all year to make it mostly back. And so this is for my friends all over: a new year. Year the longshot comes home. The year letters pour in, full of the good word that never got as far as you before. The year lovers come to know a good thing when they find it in the press of familiar flesh. Walk out onto the planet tonight. Even the moon is giving back your share of borrowed light and you take it back, in the name of everything you can't take back in your life. Imagine yourself filling with it, letting yourself go and floating through the skeleton trees to your place at the top of the sky. And here's the best part, coming last, just after all your practiced shows of faith. Even now, while you're still salvaging what passes for resolve. Remember this, no matter what else happens: this year you'll never go without. It's no small thing you've been in line for, this bowl and spoon passed finally to you.
December 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
If you are in Edinburgh, I’m wildly jealous because you could go to *this* this weekend.
• Cantata Series IV
Sat, 6 December 2025
St Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh
3:00pm
£15 (£10 concession)
www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Shocking!
People standing around at a party talking, all with extreme downturned unhappy faces. Caption: "I read this article and it said that, apparently, there was a time in our history when we didn't all stagger around in horrified disbelief.”
December 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
lisasass.bsky.social
Put a sincere note of apology on your neighbors’ doors, re: volume level.
Take your blood pressure meds.
Secure fragile items.
Maybe rend a sleeve.

Then turn this stunner from Música d’Outrora up to 11.
Six minutes of “holy sh…”

You’re welcome.

@continuoconnect.bsky.social #ClassicalMusic
Sonate concertate in stil moderno, Book II: Sonata No. 1
YouTube video by Música d'Outrora - Topic
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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carrieat.bsky.social
hey music mutuals, any leads on this?
hollyanderson.bsky.social Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5d
Plea for help from our apparent hundreds of listeners who are also music directors: Does anybody have access to a really good choral recording of Calon Lân? I’m looking for the arrangement from A Child’s Christmas In Wales and it is nowhere that I can find
December 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Music mail!
🐌 However…Presto Music is not living up to its tempo marking. Ordered these & some vinyl back in September, just arrived today.
Regardless, listening spree ahead! A sample:

Música d’Outrora performing Albertini. Sonatinae: Sonata No 10
youtu.be/3_IPFiGCmmk?...

#ClassicalMusic
Stack of CDs on a chair painted in an abstract manner, primarily red, acid green, black, white. CD titles, top to bottom: - Philharmonica/ Le Consort - voice / Hirnomi - Still Life / MÚSICA D'OUTRORA - CPE BACH GRAUN HESSE / LUCILE BOULANGER, ARNAUD DE PASQUALE - IL CEMBALO TRANSALPINO / Yates - SCHUBERT Symphonie Inachevée n° 8 & Grande Symphonie nº9 / LE CONCERT DES NATIONS - LES FRÈRES FRANCŒUR / THÉOTIME LANGIOIS DE SWARTE, JUSTIN TAYLOR CHAND
December 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Herschel’s track record: Discovered Uranus, 000’s of stars & nebulae
Bus station design inspired by one of his experiments (thanks, Slough!).
Introduced the word ‘asteroid.’
Day job: Court astronomer.

And, he composed a lot with all that leftover free time.
Kid sister was no slouch, either.
Left: Portrait of William Herschel, 18th c garb. Right: Cartoon of solar system. All planets are labeled “peanut free” except Earth, which is labeled “may contain nuts.” Title: Simplified solar system.
December 3, 2025 at 9:38 AM
lisasass.bsky.social
Why yes, I did wake up stupid-early and fell down a rabbit hole of lute music. Been a while.
Question, gut-pluckers: Who’s made a decent recording of Daube?!

In the meantime, have some Baron with your sunrise. #needcoffee
youtu.be/wZrqc8iiZZA?...
Sonata for Lute solo in B-Flat Major: II. Allegro
YouTube video by Bernhard Hofstötter - Topic
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
lisasass.bsky.social
The Best Thing About Each Amendment […]
In Haiku
by JORDAN CALL

1.
Leaving a voicemail
On your Senator’s phone line
Calling him “spineless”

2.
How would we settle
Our disputes if it weren’t for
Duel by combat?

3.
My AirBNB,
While open to our dear troops,
Still charges full price

#poetry
The Best Thing About Each Amendment in the Bill of Rights, in Haiku
1. Leaving a voicemail On your Senator’s phone line Calling him “spineless” 2. How would we settle Our disputes if it weren’t for Duel by combat? 3...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
lisasass.bsky.social
Find you someone who reacts to losing you in the produce section like Orfeo losing Euridice*:
tragic devotion, wild-eyed searching, and yes—absolutely delivering the Gluck aria with full drama at full volume, right over there by the on-sale avocados.

#ClassicalMusic
*without the dire consequences
Jakub Józef Orliński sings "Che farò senza Euridice" (Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice, Act 3)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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hillarymonahan.bsky.social
Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place.

www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...
‘ICE was here’: Dedham church sparks outrage over nativity scene with political message
A Dedham church is causing controversy over another political statement in their Nativity scene this holiday season.
www.boston25news.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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poemakontsa.bsky.social
Thinking again, or being thought by, one of my obsessions.
The Orpheus and Eurydice story.

Here is one of my favorite poem versions of the story.

Orpheus and Eurydice
Jean Valentine

What we spent, we had
What we had, we have
What we lost, we leave
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Overheard in checkout line just now, and I’m stealing it:
“I have a punch card for her drama calls. One more panic spin and I get a free latte.”

(In an excruciatingly loooong line, and the couple behind me have been immensely entertaining for eavesdropping.)
December 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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edwardgivens.bsky.social
another one for those with insomnia - lovely song
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AKU...
Hannah Schneider - No cure for love (Live fra Stars - Vordingborg 5. marts 2010)
YouTube video by Casper Gerner Nielsen
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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gurnb.bsky.social
#ClassicalMusic #MyDailyDose #18thCenturyMusic
As the continuo player for Ensemble Diderot, Grisvard probably doesn't get much chance to show out. But these concertos are more than ample opportunity, and these composers were at the top of the keyboard pile in Berlin, so very nice result! 🤠
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
lisasass.bsky.social
Nite, peeps.
Memory has its own tide, and tonight it’s running a bit high.
I’m sitting with it, not fighting it (unless tea, a bath, and a book count as weapons).

youtu.be/vjncyiuwwXQ?...
Agnes Obel - Riverside (Official Video)
YouTube video by piasrecordings
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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yoonkim.bsky.social
“Our heart is a defective instrument, a lyre with several chords missing, which forces us to express our joyful moods in notes meant for lamentation.”

— Chateaubriand, René (tr. Irving Putter)
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM