Going to end on one of the most beautiful commercials ever made with the reminder and a call to remember the small things. They make a big difference to others.

Love all, help all.

Go Jackets.

Cup and straw? Explain

Oooh, that's a FASCINATING judgment on Britten that I'm going to have to tag in @imanimosley.bsky.social for... Singing the War Requiem made me fall in love with it, but I've also heard technically GREAT performances that left me feeling like something was missing. I don't know!

Video games? I need to get back to it but I did make some decent progress playing Pokémon Violet in Spanish

Probably not, honestly! Most of the clowning was stuff like this, or the time they tried to do Women's Month but they'd only ever filmed one (1) opera by a woman at the time so the rest of it was like... mostly just operas with a woman in the title and an all-male creative team + conductor

This is the WOOOOORST. I ground my voice to a pulp once with four days of middle school jazz band (and, unbeknownst to me until I got home, COVID) and just. ugh there's nothing you can do

Eric Whitacre? Oh, for a full requiem mass he's gotta be way into the six figures, and would only do it if he was REALLY into it anyway because he's consistently VERY booked and busy. Less well-known composers could absolutely be bought for like, a medium-sized Kickstarter :)

...Even if Opera Twitter did clown on the choices they made sometimes. (This was not real, but BOY was it not that far off either.)

During the lockdowns they did daily free drops from their archive. It was an EVENT.

And once it was, you had to WORK for it. All those T9 button presses, character limits, and it cost 10 cents so it had BETTER be worth it.

Right? Engaging explicitly with the past is sort of an artistic obsession of mine-- all music is just a big pile of influences all the way down. Lemme get face to face with it, use that same text, see what I can add to the stack.

Do you know the War Requiem by Benjamin Britten? It incorporates the poetry of Wilfred Owen and is a requiem for the dead of World War II. (The original soloists were intentionally chosen as a British tenor, a German baritone, and a Russian soprano, and it was premiered in Coventry Cathedral.)

One of the "someday" concepts I've had floating in my head for a little while is a collaboration with my sister (a metal guitarist) on a requiem for choir and electric guitar.

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

I'm a big fan of being able to occasionally watch the Pretend Friends In My Headphones talk while mostly doing chores and stuff (as podcasts are for). Hell, that's how I consume a lot of YouTube content too. Also fine with a logo slapped over a royalty-free Yule log or something.

does anybody know any good spells

And only $10!