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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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OH MY

submitted 4 hours ago • 6 comments

Ended tonight's practice session by doing a little improvising on Lift Every Voice and Sing. Good for the chops. Good for soul. Juneteenth. 📯

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

Daniel Ek has to have a villain origin story. He’s cartoonishly evil but is seemingly just motivated by how much he really fucking hates music and musicians rather than by falling into a vat of acid or whatever

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

“Socialist countries don’t innovate” Explain this

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Juneteenth with the @minnesotaorchestra.org. James Price JOHNSON, Mary D WATKINS, Michael ABELS, James LEE III, Valerie COLEMAN, and Carlos SIMON

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

submitted 12 hours ago • 100 comments

Every year that passes, I come to better appreciate just how traumatic members of the US elite find it to be yelled at by progressive young people. It is *vastly* more upsetting to them than being yelled at by reactionaries. They warp their entire identities & ideologies around it!

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

The all-or-nothing framing is how you know it’s a scam. Whether it’s issued by a man at a bar or a sales rep at a tech demo it’s the same truth. People who don’t want you to THINK before you act ARE STEALING FROM YOU. Where is everyone’s survival skills??

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

submitted 14 hours ago • 174 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

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 1 day ago • 7 comments

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

submitted 1 day 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 1 day ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago • 185 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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