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Carl Rosman
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Unquestionably one of the clarinettists of his generation. Suddenly father of two. As surprised as you are.

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Gosh, I’ve often translated the Bach title as ‘Musical Sacrifice’ for a giggle but here’s an old edition that does it in all seriousness…

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Title page of an old musical publication: THE ART OF FUGUE to which is added from the SACRIFICE MUSICAL, THE FUGUE on a Subject by FREDERIC 11, Ricercata in Gpants on the same Subject. Composed by JOHN SEBASTIAN BACH. 1 ten Edition carefully rerised, corrected, and fingered; as well as provided with indications respecting the Style of Erection; the exact time according to Martzels Bell Metronome, bc. And Accompanied by a PREFACE. Dedicated to Cipriani Potter By his Friend CHARLES CZERNY etc etc… I may have retained a couple of OCR errors that gave me further amusement. Frederic 11 is how it looks in the original though.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Inszenieren kann er anscheinend einigermaßen.
Wikipedia: 2006 kritisierte Brüggemann zunächst unter eigenem Namen im Magazin Park Avenue die Berliner Philharmoniker und ihren Chefdirigenten Sir Simon Rattle. Das Orchester habe keinen „deutschen Klang" mehr, andere könnten besser „in Schwarz-Rot-Gold" musizieren. Drei Wochen später schrieb Brüggemann, diesmal unter dem Pseudonym „Fabian Bremer", einen weiteren Artikel mit derselben Stoßrichtung in der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, was von vielen kritisiert wurde.
November 23, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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There are box sets and there are box sets.
A cardboard box sealed with tape bearing a sticker at the base of which the Western eye can make out the HMV gramophone+dog logo and the name Victor. Western eyes with a bit more experience can also make out 山口五郎 (yamaguchi gorō) and 尺八本曲 (shakuhachi honkyoku) but there my expertise ends.
November 20, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Fred Williams!

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Fred Williams’s ‘Upwey landscape’ (1965–66). As often with Williams, he has thought a lot about the perspective: the horizon is very high and here the ground occupies about 5/6 of the painting. Reddish-brown earth speckled with mostly apparently black plants which (because of that perspective thing) look like shrubs in the lower painting and trees on the horizon.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Somehow I find this “when” strangely depressing
“How does the creation of music change when Al and blockchain reshape creativity and authorship?”
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Gayle Hunnicutt and Jeremy Brett as Irene Adler and Sherlock Holmes respectively. (Chestnut curls, white feather in hair, pearls, plunging neckline, white lacy dress, triumphant half-smile; fascinated but mystified facial expression, raised left hand, black tie, watchchain. Red curtain backdrop.)
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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I feel as though these people’s search engine might be a bit improvable.
Louis Couperin The Complete Works Wir konnten keine exakten Treffer zu Ihrer Suche nach "Louis Couperin The Complete Works" finden. Könnten diese Produkte zu Ihrer Suche passen? LOUIS COUPERIN Louis Couperin (1626-1661) The Complete Works
November 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Mourning
Screenshot from my calendar showing that in Germany it is National Day thereof.
November 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Gibberish, I fear. Pity, because I’m sure I would very much enjoy their comestibles.
Another menu, entitled Em Betthovien and featuring a slop likeness of the Rhineland’s most famous musical son and some bizarre slop renditions of his name.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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What fresh hell is this
An AI menu. Words fail me. And them. Pictures of the delicacies on offer and more of those things whose resemblance to letters is purely coincidental
November 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Oh but no, look at the slop 🤦‍♂️
A bit from the Em Höttche website showing jolly Xmas scenes in typical slop style with some vaguely letter-shaped things here and there and not even the name of the establishment itself spelt correctly
November 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Oh, if I’d memorised Wikipedia I wouldn’t have been surprised.
Act 1 Hogarth's The Countess's Morning Levee (ca. 1744), the inspiration for the Marschallin's morning reception [citation needed]
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Ouch.
“I am the enemy you killed, my friend.” One lone voice, no accompaniment. Sung at the premiere by a German baritone, of course.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Exactly: he wrote to Michael Kennedy “For actual coda, see end of Wells’ Tono-Bungay”.
"For actual coda, see end of Wells' Tono-Bungay." No other of Vaughan Williams's comments about his Second Symphony, entitled A London Symphony, is as revealing as this laconic aside, written in 1957 to the critic and scholar Michael Kennedy. Kennedy rightly interpreted the epilogue of the finale in light of the poetic final pages of H.G. Wells's novel: To run down the Thames so is to run one's hand over the pages of England... There come first squalid stretches of mean homes. and on to the North bank the polite long front of nice houses... that stretches from Cheyne Walk nearly to Westminster and hides a wilderness of slums... Out to the open we go, to windy freedom and trackless ways. Light after light goes down. England and the Kingdom, Britain, and the Empire, the old prides and old devotions glide abeam, astern, sınk down upon the horizon, pass - pass ... the river passes, England passes… These ruminations belong to Wells's protagonist, who stands on a destroyer as it sails down the Thames to the open sea. Such poetic cadences are a welcome conclusion, for most of Tono-Bungay (the name of a potion concocted by the narrator's uncle) is a hectic satire on the excesses of untrammeled capitalism. As well as London's beauty, Wells describes its darkness and poverty, that "wilderness of slums" hidden by the "nice houses" of Cheyne Walk. (Vaughan Williams himself lived in a house on Cheyne Walk when he completed A London Symphony in 1913, but he had also seen something of the slums.) From the booklet note to Sir Roger Norrington’s Decca recording, by Byron Adams.
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Reminds me of my last trip…
A river with some trees, a road, and a bike path in between the two, down which I was running until I saw half a dozen or so hot air balloons in a cloudless early morning sky gradually rising above the centre of Melbourne and decided to pause for a bit to take the present photo.
November 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Gosh! 🎉

(Hello no. 1000, @wdmbox.bsky.social!)

(If any of you who don’t actually exist could remove yourselves, I can have another party reasonably soon instead of waiting for another round number, just saying)
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October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Here’s a nerdy one. Harrison Birtwistle is writing Earth Dances. He hears that a fellow composer has died. The frenetic activity stops short for a mournful downward glissando, and then recommences. It’s a great moment in a great piece but I’m sure hardly anyone realises why it’s there…
October 30, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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The last panels of Le Papyrus de César, the first Astérix without either Goscinny or Uderzo…

(I lost it a bit here, ngl)
The Post-Scriptum to Le Papyrus de César, showing how the stories of the Gauls have been passed down from druid to druid, finally reaching ‘deux scribes modernes’ who exclaim to each other: “Tu entends ça, Bébert ?” “Fabuleux, René !”
October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Pink perfume spray bottle next to its associated purple box: Hugo Boss essence de femme
October 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Meanwhile, not very far away…
Day attempting to break through grey foggy clouds.
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Today’s office
A big sporty-type space with basketball rings and such. A lighting rig under which sits an orchestra. Big hangy loudspeakers. A screen up the back on which the words ‘Donaueschinger Musiktage SWR Kultur’ are projected. Which, let’s face it, is a bit of a giveaway as to my current whereabouts.
October 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Today’s office
A big sporty-type space with basketball rings and such. A lighting rig under which sits an orchestra. Big hangy loudspeakers. A screen up the back on which the words ‘Donaueschinger Musiktage SWR Kultur’ are projected. Which, let’s face it, is a bit of a giveaway as to my current whereabouts.
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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The fog has cleared, then!
A path in a field, leading somewhere mist-shrouded. Some trees are discernible.
October 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Have to fit this in there somewhere
Map showing Merdingen.
October 15, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Today’s office
A hall set up for an orchestra which isn’t here yet. Mostly mid to light brown wood panelling, the music stands more or less match, the parquet floor is a much lighter brown. About as light as brown can get without ceasing to be brown, frankly. The ceiling is a sort of grille, there are old-school stage lights, also hanging speakers.
October 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM