Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

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

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Today’s walk.

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Today’s walk.

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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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@Vaguery huzzah! (for the good parts)

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@AstridSawatzky 😁

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

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

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@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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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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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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@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org 🙇

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

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

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

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Does this have better audio? And/or does it draw more attention to the piano’s and my limitations? I plugged in a USB microphone. Only thing I’m sure of is to turn up the gain.

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The marionettes from Bortkiewicz’s Op. 54 are apparently each representing a nation and/or culture, so let’s expect some of the names to have aged poorly. For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, #3 is relatively okay: Spanierin (~“Spanish Lady”).

https://youtu.be/q02M6HRH2CQ

#pianominiatures #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych

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Where we threw our symbolic bits of bread.

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Next in the #Bortkiewicz Op. 54 Marionetten is #2, Der Kosak (“The Cossack”). #pianomusic #dailypiano #pianominiatures #pianominiature #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/pooHwEEMotE

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@nikita my favorite wrong answer to this question is https://m.youtube.com/c/PronunciationManual (sorry, I don’t know a right answer)

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@mwlucas Sweet. Happylations!

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@susannah 💖

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I know, I know, it’s already been a few #dailypiano weeks of #Bortkiewicz. But I keep finding lovely sets of #pianominiatures to get into. Let’s get into another: the Op. 54 Marionetten, starting with Russisches Bauernmädchen (“Russian Peasant Girl”). #pianomusic #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/7yhuoAQe21s

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@jer_ congrats! I’m thinking about a similar change in role

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We’ve heard Bortkiewicz’s setting of Andersen’s Child in the Grave. Now, to close Op. 39, we hear his Der Tod der Mutter (“Death of the Mother”) from Tolstoy’s Childhood. Listen for these earlier themes:

0:00 Natalia
0:48 Grischa
1:38 Maman
2:22 Grischa

https://youtu.be/NC8_DDpW5ng

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

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Hallo und herzlich willkommen bei «Vielleicht erste Liebe»! Unser Kandidat heute kommt aus #Bortkiewicz Op. 39 #10. Ist es nicht oder ist es doch?

[alle zusammen] VIELLEICHT!

Genau, lass uns spielen!

https://youtu.be/81YJfffFhko

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pretendgameshow #thatsreallythenameofthepiece

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More Op. 39 Kindheit #pianominiatures from #Bortkiewicz, this time #7: Natalia Sawischna, die Amme (“The Nurse”). Exact same length as yesterday’s #dailypiano, entirely different flavor. #pianominiature #pianomusic #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #romanticism #bortkevych

https://youtu.be/TQJGZ87mXSU

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Seen in a preschool bathroom: wipe hands on Solaris, wipe butt on nvi. Not sure how to feel about this.

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#Bortkiewicz Op. 39 Kindheit continues with its fifth #pianominiature, called Kindheit (Kapitel 15) (“Childhood (Chapter 15)”). I assume that refers to chapter 15 of the Tolstoy novel, not chapter 15 of the abstract concept. #dailypiano #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/0ksq3K_RUN4

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I've met a lot of music on this #dailypiano project. Lately I keep thinking about this Bortkiewicz non-miniature (excerpted here). It's nearly Liszt AND nearly movie music, but instead it's entirely itself. Can't get it off my mind. https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxj5Bp3HdTyUs93-Q8LfhPNpSJ8VbdSgUS

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The fourth in Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit set (after the Tolstoy novel) is this one, sometimes halting, ever earnest.

Grischa, der wandernde Mönch (“Grisha, the wandering monk”): https://youtu.be/j1r4Z13Fk7M

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #romanticism #bortkiewicz

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The third #pianominiature from Kindheit (#Bortkiewicz, Op. 39, after Tolstoy’s novel) is Der Vater (“The Father”). Judging by the music, my family’s different. Maman (from a couple days ago) sounds more like me, and this one sounds more like B.

https://youtu.be/J-D5ujUFfrk

#dailypiano #pianominiatures #piano #classicalpiano #classicalmusic #pianomusic #romanticism #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers

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Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit suite was published in 1930, setting scenes, characters, and moods from Tolstoy’s 1852 novel of the same name. The suite — and perhaps the book, I have no idea — opens with “Karl Ivanovich, Der Lehrer” (“The Teacher”).

https://youtu.be/kCwAW658rpw

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

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Full couple of days, but whew! I’ve once again avoided ever missing two #dailypiano in a row.

This sweet one, #2 of Bortkiewicz’s Op. 39 Kindheit (“Childhood”), is called “Maman” (“Mama”). The suite is based on the Tolstoy novel. We’ll hear more of it.

https://youtu.be/6ahlr4Cx-ic

#pianosolo #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classical #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #romanticism #bortkiewicz #bortkevych #ukrainianmusic #ukrainiancomposer #ukrainiancomposers

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I have to admit, they nailed my aspirational demographic.

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Two days ago, a lighthearted #pianominiature; yesterday, a serious #dailypiano maxiature; and today, a hybrid: pretty short, pretty heavy. Returning to #Bortkiewicz Op. 30 Aus Andersens Märchen, here’s #8, Das Kind im Grabe (“The Child in the Grave”). https://youtu.be/9UCCDPeCWU8

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@liw Looks great. If and when you have a weekday version I’ll be all over it, US/Eastern permitting.

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