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Pianist writer author of “every good boy does fine” nonesuch recording artist lover of many different sorts of music and New Mexican food
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Some truth here (as a person who loves to make fun of academic lingo) but mostly this is bs … there are far more powerful forces creating anti intellectualism

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yet another absurd nytimes headline

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Judging from many piano audition tapes it is not gone

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

i came across this obvious error in the wikipedia article on “fugue” is anyone else as outraged as i am?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Dawn sf

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

that is the true core of trump his enjoyment of cruelty

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

does anyone else find Romain Rolland’s description of the Appassionata Sonata a bit homoerotic?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Is it bad form if I’m going out to Dolores park in my shorts and sending super gloating texts to all my friends freezing their butts off in Cleveland and Chicago

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes you really are born to a profession

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It is hard to wake up in the morning knowing that the most lethal military ever assembled in the history of the world is in the hands of a deranged moron and a sociopath

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

It is hilarious and ludicrous to think that Musk’s pronouncements have any useful relationship to fact checking …

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is cultural revolution stuff

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Seems bad

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Dawn

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

many thanks to moomin from a huge moomintroll fan ! i think that mozart disc turned out pretty representative

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

it is amazing how near the end of op. 110 the terror of the diminished seventh chords is somehow mixed with the elation of life

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

I switched seamlessly from doomscrolling news to hate reading program notes

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

It seems naive of course but I never really thought about the extent to which press organizations adapt their concept of truth to what they think the prevailing power dynamic is

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Many many pages in Scott Burnham’s “Beethoven Hero” trying to explain the ending of the Egmont overture and I wrote in the margins “maybe Beethoven just had a bad day”

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

I heard the most life-affirming musical obituaries last night, Carla Kihlstedt’s setting of Edmund Gorey, “26 little deaths” … a joy to see a fellow Oberlin person making music in her own way on her own terms

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

an interesting definition of music: “… an abiding hedge against the nameless terrors of an indifferent universe.” (scott burnham, beethoven hero)

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

fascinating study findings that show men avoiding certain schools/professions because they find too many women in them www.avma.org/javma-news/2...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about Beethovens anger and the anger generated by social media algorithms

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

umm, i can think of more satisfying closures

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

It’s been a great week for food like this astonishing pork tamale with the worlds best cascabel chile sauce which I hope makes my Brahms ever so passionate

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

i asked Deepseek to create an analysis of Missy Mazzoli’s Heartbreaker and it is just as fake and shallow and disingenuous as ChatGPT

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A new OECD report confirms that US road safety is an abject failure. Americans are far more likely to die in a crash than those living in other rich countries. US per capita crash death rates are at least 3x higher than Ireland, Norway, UK, Germany, or Japan. www.itf-oecd.org/road-safety-...

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

On a chilly day what could call to a New Mexico boy’s soul more than a hot bowl of posole

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

i tried to make a case for missy mazzoli’s wonderful work “heartbreaker” in my odd way jeremydenk.substack.com/p/in-search-...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

yes because we really need more of those

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

a lovely review and i am so enjoying that i can finally play ritual and heartbreaker in the way that they deserve x.com/timesofsandi...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Semi invented Moral panic followed by capitalist failure … perhaps a pattern we will see more of

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

charles ives, 1917: “The time has almost come when no man who has personal property to the amount of, say, $100,000 should have any active part in a government by the people.”

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

i wrote a NOLA love letter that turned a bit dark, i guess that’s what it is? jeremydenk.substack.com/p/all-i-want...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

I should be posting loving things about music but the spectacle of all the horrendous people trying to make political hay out of this tragedy made me do some rage tweeting

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

i appreciate her point, of course, but it’s worth adding that this “cooperative social activity” kills over 40,000 people in the US every year

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments