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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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i’m glad this shift is happening but damn does seeing stuff like this make me realize the average americans genuinely close to braindead

The actual Pope showing up our Labour party even after he's dead.

that Cy Twombly piece is one of my favorite works of visual art

The Minnesota fan(s) terrorizing the game with a whistle reminds me of the time the Texans played MNF in Mexico City and an attendee kept shining a laser in Brock Osweiler's face

I regretfully laughed at this skeet because there is no way I can explain what it's about to Shana

Part of this is being live streamed tomorrow!

the sweaty desperation of Hollywood studios to try and find SOME way to spin “Sinners” as a flop to keep other artists from following Coogler’s brilliant example just looks more and more absurd with each passing day as we see what the actual numbers look like

love this poster by Laurel Lynn Leake! MASK UP!!! twitter.com/LaurelLynnLe...

#beansky tonight we had one of our favorite dinners - white beans (these are @ranchogordo.bsky.social California Corona beans) stewed in tomato sauce with burrata and fresh bread

“I think the idea of hope is important, even if it’s hard to find in these times right now, but it’s something that you have to hold yourself to.” - Bill Edwards on "A Home in My Heart" strattonsetlist.com/2025/04/25/b...

A very astute thread from Matana!

The narrative that 20th century American classical music was oppressive in its adherence to abstract dissonance is demonstrably untrue in countless ways, not the least of which is its erasure of Black American composers' music

Namibian president announces free higher education, saying 'fees have fallen'

It is ironically fitting that the director of a film about a vampiric demon trying to capture and exploit a Black musician's intellectual property has received criticism for securing the rights to his own creative work

Like @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social has been saying--& now with the @outlawvern.bsky.social Seal of Approval--see this movie. See it in theaters. See it in a couple times. Take friends. Convert enemies. See it.

I learned last night that the university I work for uses lecturer positions (the same kind of non-tenure-track role I've held since January 2021) as landing spots for tenure-track faculty who are not awarded tenure, so my job is punishment, a literal place of exile for 'failed' tenure-track faculty

repost if you were disappeared from the tenure track :(

I think for me it’s less weakness than bald hypocrisy. They don’t fight for the values they claim to hold because they don’t hold them. They had no problem fighting their base on Palestine, fighting partners on policing, and fighting colleagues on safety net spending.

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back. www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

One more thing about my first VAN publication ("Centuries Of Silence", about Vicente Lusitano's historiography) is that George E. Lewis and Harald Kisiedu quote it in the introduction to their fabulous book "Composing While Black: Afrodiasporic New Music Today" www.wolke-verlag.de/musikbuecher...

App wouldn’t load for me earlier, so tonight’s fiery, funky, messy, utterly alive “Agenda” item comes after the deed’s done. Happening at my place of work through Sunday. #BAMmie

@lembit.bsky.social congratulations on your Rome Prize award!

Congrats to Colston Loveland! He was a wonderful student to work with a few terms ago

Friend of The Bean, Alexis Handelman, writes: The beginning of a beautiful dish. #beanpeople #beansky

Since January, 213 people have been detained at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. 90% of those abducted are there because they made a wrong turn and drove onto the bridge by accident. www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...

Now spinning this other LP I got as an end-of-term gift to myself It is fun trying to explain who Erik Satie is to Shana

Also, a fun fact about my first VAN publication ("Centuries of Silence", about the historiography of Vicente Lusitano) is that I wrote almost all of it with one hand at odd hours of the night as I held our infant son, Isaac