@classicalmusic @davenicolette@mastodon.social @jastsa my personal brand appears strong 🙂

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109332156767299679

@djswagerman @jastsa @classicalmusic Medtner is by far the most important to me, has been for decades, and will be for however many I’ve got left.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331788222989767

@jastsa looking at your profile, if you haven't met Kapustin, go there first.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331578433672777

@jastsa

@classicalmusic

7 composers I'm paying a lot of attention to:

#Medtner
#Mompou
#Alkan
#Bowen
#Kapustin
#Grieg
#Bortkiewicz

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331567001454444

@deborahh happy to hear it did that for you. It slows me wayyyy down too, along with a bunch of others from the #dailypiano project.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331524766597083

@twbrandt thank you!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109331498614465974

This one’s been very earwormy for me. I keep auto-hearing it and not minding in the slightest.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109328482462083189

@cryu what a bitter onion of irony

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109324962513433987

Most people in positions of power are at least trying to appear as though they’re balancing a complex set of responsibilities with care and skill, in exchange for which most everyone else appears to tolerate the structures being upheld.

Most, but not all.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109322789722139563

Yesterday’s and today’s walks.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109322189808103132

@caconym 🙇‍♂️

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109321240263695972

For this week’s #weeklypiano #pianominiature, we have a Zwiegesang (“Duet”) by Moszkowski from 1894. Mostly very sweet, might even seem demure, but beware a few surprising harmonic shifts hidden in the half-steps.

https://youtu.be/ebhUTM48Oj8

#pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #chromaticism #moszkowski

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109320878769046188

@donaldm314 we had summerish temperatures a few days ago, even. Back now in proper autumn (for the Hudson Valley) “walk briskly to keep warm” range.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109316925589335017

Today’s walk.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109316039544546653

@cryu 💜 and I recently assembled a git repo with some decades-old direct-to-NetBSD boot research for that machine: https://github.com/schmonz/netbsd-mac68k-without-macos (not my own work, to be clear, just wanted to make it readily available)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109305498961653095

Cool, now buy Google.

(Pardon the spicy take. I don't love what's happening here: rash decisions causing havoc for a great many people. But I would love a more federated internet, and this guy is sort of helping.)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109300404352577093

@craigmaloney just missed. Trifonov is on my list of "musicians who play Medtner", so he's important 😃

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294451128797774

@craigmaloney whoop yup thanks!

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294442155009796

@craigmaloney oooh I shoulda watched. Streaming?

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109294436582181693

New camera (I’d usually call it “phone”).

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109288416749193924

@Bdellar 🎵🍺

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109282646279365008

Also today’s walk.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109276218271552766

@Bdellar For today I can loan you this tree I just this second happened upon.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109276114813094208

Today’s walk.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109276033869094185

Today’s walk.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109271194632613570

For our next #weeklypiano, one of Debussy’s extraordinary Préludes: Des pas sur la neige (~“Footsteps in the Snow”). Played extra slow, for the listener who got a new knee yesterday. https://youtu.be/FzJyZ8snEiM

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109270178873635494

@Vaguery huzzah! (for the good parts)

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109266539543290840

@AstridSawatzky 😁

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109259950016550054

Arrived, parked for 10 minutes, departed. One borough short of bingo.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109259186216115992

It's great to be back to work — and to talking about it. Alex Bolboacă had me on his show to probe the connections (some of which I’m aware of) between making music and developing software, an enjoyable life in legacy code, and how I got this way.

https://youtu.be/vvUwHagmxvY

#classicalmusic #classicalpiano #softwaredevelopment #consulting #coaching

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109257741718065210

For our next #weeklypiano, a slightly less famous sibling of a very famous #pianominiature. If you know Satie’s first Gymnopédie — and I bet you do — then you almost know his third. https://youtu.be/BjIT9gi4PsY

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109247562355448878

@mostalive thank you! given more time, there are parts I'd work on, but I'm happy the music comes through.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109247469275552403

Welcome to #weeklypiano! I have ideas for how it can improve on what I did as #dailypiano. For the moment it’s the same, just less often.

After my first week of work in rather a long time, I’m ready to come up for air. Here’s one of MacDowell’s. https://youtu.be/tlKy6bfEz8o

#pianominiatures #pianominiature #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #macdowell

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109208369436738161

Between meetings, warming up food for lunchtime, I felt the need for https://youtu.be/djzrKDOFFjY. Here on the long tail of Daily Piano Miniatures, having loaded myself up with so much music, I can sit down and play any of 100+ pieces. One of the best self-investments I've ever made.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109189944817345180

@jer_ thanks! I hope so, and also for you

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109185136679722662

@jer_ started a new gig today, as it happens, with some SE MI folks you’d almost certainly know. A fabulously polyglot legacy cleanup project.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109185105309259560

After nearly 6 music-hours (and 5 calendar-months), this 127th #pianominiature marks the end of my #dailypiano project.

My regular music-sharing will continue, if that's any consolation. In case it's not, here's Bortkiewicz's Consolation, Op. 17 #4:

https://youtu.be/hqIewOgtqno

#pianominiatures #pianomusic #piano #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #ukrainianmusic #ukrainianpianomusic #ukrainiancomposers #ukrainiancomposer #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109180061508458238

Here’s a #Bortkiewicz Prelude (Op. 66 #3) I heard for the first time an hour ago. That’s been the very essence of #dailypiano. Also an ideal prelude to the next phase of this music-making project, which will look — and, with luck, sound — quite different.

https://youtu.be/l9nXkZ4a2tc

#pianominiatures #pianominiature #piano #pianomusic #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #ukrainian #ukrainianmusic #ukrainianpianomusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers #bortkevych

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109167208107527506

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org 🙇

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109162357750223039

To close the Op. 54 Marionetten, Bortkiewicz gives us Kasperl-Harlekin (or “Punch-Harlequin” in English, my sheets say, or “Guignol” en français). In this set, there’s a correlation — but I don’t think causation — between sounds-like-a-marionette and uses-whole-tone-scale.

https://youtu.be/ws7uyGgAP3o

#dailypiano #pianomusic #pianogram #piano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #ukrainian #ukrainianmusic #ukrainianpianomusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109162282155566902

The next-to-last of the #Bortkiewicz Op. 54 Marionetten is #8, Teddybär (“Teddy Bear”).

Final Marionette tomorrow, a couple more Bortkiewicz pieces over the weekend, and then on to the next phase of this project. #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #romanticism #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers

https://youtu.be/dDI_MU9hkYA

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109156359852725137

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org well shit. Don’t look up the person who’s giving that talk, he looks unpleasant

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109150023688261058

I’m mildly musically offended by Bortkiewicz’s Marionetten Op. 54 #7, Der Chineser (~“The Chinese Man”), on two counts:

1. Whole-tone scales suggest many things, none of them Chinese

2. This one really evokes a marionette, which leaves me newly disappointed in the others; hmph

https://youtu.be/g99tbrM_0fM

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #orientalismhmph #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109150012810369832

@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org be still my heart

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109150011445388333

Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 #6, Marquise, purportedly means “Marchioness”. That is not any sort of English — if indeed it is any at all — up with which I’ve previously had to put. The #pianominiature is scarcely longer than its title, though, and does make sense to my ears. #dailypiano #pianominiatures #piano #pianomusic #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/rWcD25vUwZM

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109144993928520297

No new #dailypiano music from me today. Instead I got to attend a recital for the first time since we all began wandering the desert. I finally recognized how parched I’d been upon taking my fill of @jeremydenk doing Beethoven Op. 109. Whatever’s going on there, I’m needing more.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109140857917659223

Many pieces of Western art music are inspired by or drawn directly from the nomadic itinerant people who call themselves Romani. Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 #5, Zigeuner (“Gypsy”), is no less problematically titled, but it might be the shortest of them all. #dailypiano #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/nLcDsusxZjM

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109134173350005422

For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, if I had more time, I would have played shorter notes. Lots more staccato called for (and notated). #Bortkiewicz Marionetten Op. 54 #4, Tirolerin (~“Tyrolean Lady”). #bortkevych #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/gOJHya0aeo8

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109127693872114557

@encelado eep. Let's Encrypt? If so, I'm happy with security/py-acme-tiny from pkgsrc.

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original post: https://octodon.social/@schmonz/109124060263743977