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"Mommy, you should really see this."

As a bean lover, I am definitely going to give it a whirl. The mix of ingredients sounds delicious.

Right? I was there to write mostly about Gil Shaham in the Saint-Saëns VC No. 3, and further excited to hear both Pohjola's Daughter and The Pines of Rome (the latter a fave from teenage years), but the Meredith was an unexpected surprise.

Whistle requests: very light for a while, desultory printing, not a lot going on The last two days: 60 requests in 48 hours, tens of thousands of whistles requested Whistle goblins: have claimed 98% of the requests, and they're all moving out post haste

This looks marvelous (as a recent Rancho Gordo convert).

Last night, conductor Dalia Stasevska opened her stand with The Philadelphia Orchestra with NAUTILUS by Anna Meredith (new to me), who wrote it in 2011 using only electronics. Stasevska asked her to orchestrate it in 2021, and I found it quite appealing as a concert-opening fanfare

TIMELINE CLEANSE!!!

Emphasis on "perennially jaded." Sometimes classical music culture, and vocal music culture in particular, drives me insane.

Vitesse de libération

21 years ago (yikes) I heard Stephen Gosling do that piece — still burned in the memory (= good)

It's so freeing getting to write for someone who plays the shit out of Lemma Icon Epigram

While on a stroll on an absolutely glorious NYC autumn day, passing by 210 West 14th Street, where Marcel Duchamp had his studio from 1943 until his death in 1968, and where he produced his final work, Étant Donnés. Above front doorway, relief of an artist at work with brush in hand

Italian poster for THE SERVANT (1963) Directed by Joseph Losey Screenplay by Harold Pinter - BOTD in 1930

Leuven might be the best cycling city you’ve never heard of. 37% of trips are by bike; not by accident, but by years of rethinking streets, reducing car dominance and recirculating traffic. While the large capitals attract most headlines, Leuven is another example of a small city making big moves.

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.