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frindley.bsky.social

Harmonious wordsmith. Writer, editor, designer and speaker, specialising in classical music and dance. 🇦🇺👩🏻‍🎨🩰

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🧵#BalletMusic I had reason to want to check Pugni's marked tempo for the Carlotta Grisi variation in Pas de Quatre this evening, so I pottered over to IMSLP to check the original piano score edition and I found the most curious thing… [1/5]

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Some thoughts on the Trump takeover of the Kennedy Center, for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (may be paywalled. Subscribe to VAN!) van-magazine.com/mag/trump-ke...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 11 days ago • 522 comments

Thank you @rollingstone.com You are doing the work.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

With the Trump Administration’s attempts to block the crucial work of U.S.A.I.D., the Trump Administration is demolishing the U.S.’s world-leading capacity and expertise—and threatening our national security, Atul Gawande writes. nyer.cm/A9apOEe

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

The funniest jokes are the ones that are true. “Trump's furious, because as a Bishop, Budde can move as far she wants diagonally, but as a Russian pawn he can only move one square at a time.” - Scottish comedy writer Steve Blair

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

submitted 54 days ago • 185 comments

Wikipedia is the last good website, the one staple of the early internet that hasn't been degraded by pursuit of profit. It's not an acceptable academic source—it's subject to change—but it's a great first cut, and has citations to acceptable sources. We can't let post-truth reactionaries ruin it.

submitted 59 days ago • 25 comments

PRODUCER 1: What happens after the dancing? PRODUCER 2: More dancing. Then, even more dancing. Then… Oh! The little kids dance again. PRODUCER 1: But they’re good this time… PRODUCER 2: No, they’re worse.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Artist bios continued… Why do artists/agents supply only long bios (e.g. 900w) with no shorter options, plus stern injunctions against editing, when they can surely SEE that no presenter in the world publishes bios that long?! Most programs allow 300w, some less. Write your bios accordingly!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Take 17 minutes to watch Ballerina on the Boat, a whimsical-dramatic 1969 Soviet animation. Music by Schnittke. youtu.be/MeLf7EpFo5Y #BalletSky #BalletAnimation

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

A concert artist agent once sent me a bio with this message: “If the biography is too long for you, please try to shorten it by yourself. You know best what your audience needs to know :)” Such a refreshing change fr the usual this-bio-must-not-be-altered-and-all-edits-must-be-approved messages.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I'm mystified by program note writers who submit commissioned work without the following info in the file: Name of composer (as a heading) Title of work (as a heading) List of movements where relevant Their own name as author (!!) Year note was written #AmEditing #ProgramNotes #WritingAboutMusic

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

For the new people—welcome! Here’s a thread of starter packs that make this place so awesome. 🧵 (Please feel free to add on!)

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,735,893!

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments