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garrt.bsky.social
Third-most well-known composer named 'Schumann' - scholar, music writer, working parent, and "less-prestigious faculty" - based in southeast Michigan - founder of #beansky
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it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry

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the NBA moved it's all star game out of north carolina! it was a huge deal with a groundswell of support from everyone to the left of ben shapiro.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

We didn't have any societal support 20 years ago and we made it just fine!

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

The score for this series is wonderful work by Michael Kamen, and I think one of the last things he did, sadly

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I need to kill time so I just started Band Of Brothers e1 (this is my 1000th re-watch)

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Hey folks! I'm sorry to share that we've just heard from the A2SF that tonight's events are cancelled due to the thunderstorms forecast here throughout the rest of the day Julie, Sara, and I are very sorry that we cannot perform tonight, but we have a lot of excitement planned for '25-'26!

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

The film "Amadeus" depicts the act of composition very accurately inasmuch as all composers have noodles in their brains that serve as the site for their creative process - mine are bucatini, which has its advantages and disadvantages

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Is it sweet that my wife and I both have trouble sleeping when we are apart? Asking for an itinerant insomniac

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

historians is it good when the robe Nobles are able to buy the positions and honors typically reserved for the sword Nobles?

submitted 13 hours ago • 172 comments

Hey SE Michigan music lovers! Today is THE DAY OF THE SHOW! 'Resonant Soundscapes' performs at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival this evening (6 PM, free, rain or shine!) ft. electronic music by me and @saratea.bsky.social accompanying live carillon improv by Julie Zhu www.a2sf.org/events/reson...

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Pierce Brosnan seems to be having the time of his life in this movie ('Black Bag'...where he plays a minor character)

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:) #baking #legend

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Pierce Brosnan sighting!

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm watching Black Bag - talk about a dinner party

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately his good policy moves have been reversed or annihilated because he did choose to govern as a moderate on the only issue that turned out to matter

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I'm not surprised by this because there are well-resourced, tenured professors who barely engage with their sources

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I don't do a lot of work promotion on here, but if you happen to be in NH, VT, or MA and you're looking for something fun to do on a rainy Tuesday night, our first concert of the big summer season is almost sold out, but we have a few tix left! Music! In a barn! You like music and barns! 😌

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Love this! And it reminds me how much Picasso and Cubists stole from African artists & artistry. And just a few words of alt-text describing the piece would get more shares to potential buyers. alt-text: abstract sculpture of an elephant in stone with smoothness and dark color similar to bronze

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They named their string quartet after *me*?? I'm chuffed!

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I know there are like fifty depressing political things going on right now, but this really sinks my heart

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Note to self: I need to stretch my hip flexors on a regular basis

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