doot doot i’m trying my best here

the otamatone: an appreciation post

just some classical musician memes bcs why not

watched this for the first time when i was 14 i think? it saved me

Knew what this was before I clicked and had to watch the whole thing again.

If you haven’t seen it, now’s your chance!

Best. Flash Mob. Ever.

flat fuck friday

“I’m Mozart, I was greater than you!" 

Alexander Scriabin ( 6 January 1872 - 27 April 1915 )

no more transposing classical pieces for children to play it more easily. in this house we rawdog those missed accidentals like a MAN

one of my favorite this american life segments of late is about the people who played orchestra pit for phantom of the opera on broadway and how, like, a sizeable majority of them had literally been playing the show since it opened in 1988 (on broadway. I know it opened in 86 on the west end, you random pedants, but I am specifically talking about broadway musicians) because their contracts stipulated that they'd have jobs throughout the show's entire run... but nobody anticipated that phantom would become the longest-running broadway show of all time.

and none of these people wanted to walk away from a guaranteed job, so very few of them ever quit. they just kept doing the same show eight nights a week... for twenty or thirty years... and by the time it finally closed last year most of these musicians (who had been working together for DECADES) hated each other and really really fucking loathed phantom. I can't stop thinking about it. it's indescribably hellish to imagine but also the funniest thing I've ever heard in my life.

can you imagine.

[ID: excerpt from an article reading: One of my favorite stories, which should drive anyone who has every played in a band crazy-- there’s this bassoon player who has sat next to the same clarinet player since 1988. She’s convinced he plays half a note4 flat on every note he’s every played. He denies this. /]

OOHHHHH sopranos like the singers

HBO’s Sopranos: hark at the ducks 🦆 give zero fucks 🦆 in Tony’s pool 🦆 pasta fazool 🍝

altos: bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫 bada biNg 🔫 bada boOm 🔫

music (derogatory)

the three moods of baroque music:

1. We Are All Very Happy

2. You Are Having a Panic Attack

3. Someone Has Died

4. You Are the Harpsichordist Figuring Out the Basso Continuo and You Are Having the Panic Attack

what the FUCK was Tchaikovsky thinking when he wrote the pas de deux for the sugar plum fairy????dude wrote that first buildup and then he fucking edges you with some fakeout crescendo that sounds absolutely amazing. then boom, you think he's going in for his big finish, he's got that second moment where all the instruments are coming together and it sounds otherworldly but he's like WAIT hoes I ain't even finished yet. then BOOM he hits you with the most magical, transcendent, beautiful fucking note change after that third buildup and MY GOD!!!! it's just too good. Tchaikovsky, that absolutely madman. I know the Russians were tripping the fuck out in the ballet when he dropped this. just,,MUAH perfection!!!

surprising

Why doesn’t anyone talk about haydn? He wrote 106 SYMPHONIES and all of them were bangers and he invented chamber music like he was That Bitch

hashtag animashun

lol turn on the sound

im so glad this is back in my dash

the smears, yall. these r sum good ass smears

op is literally god

It’s so beautiful!! Turn on the sound, trust me!!

the three moods of baroque music:

1. We Are All Very Happy

2. You Are Having a Panic Attack

3. Someone Has Died

4. You Are the Harpsichordist Figuring Out the Basso Continuo and You Are Having the Panic Attack

What if 😶we played 🎶Bach Double Violin Concerto🎻together👀Haha jk…unless?