A new opera based on one of the world's oldest stories wins big at the 2025 Art Music Awards
By Ria Andriani

Composer Jack Symonds and Sydney Chamber Opera have taken out multiple awards at the annual celebration of art music in Australia.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/art-music-awards-winners-2025/105673168

#MusicAwards #OperaandMusicalTheatre #ClassicalMusic #Jazz #AustralianComposers #RiaAndriani

Thanks 🙏
It’s fun promoting my friend’s book about “the secret life of pianos,” especially when so many here are happy to boost my posts. Here’s a picture of the writer, MS Harker. He’s been inside this piano at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver for a week now.

ps. For a free first chapter of his book please sign up at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

pps. And, if you’re a fan of music, pianos, writing—please boost :)
#msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon #boost

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A black and white photograph of the author of Don’t Shoot the Piano Tuner, MS Harker in the “guts” of a grand piano.

“Return of the dampers!”
MS Harker is rebuilding the piano at Frankie’s Jazz Club.
🎹 Read about the “secret life of pianos” in his forthcoming book.
Get a free first chapter at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

🎵 Classic albums - Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPC-BkylxA&list=PLDCdjwiC90TH1RIKCTjfre4mkJGjRKCk7

🎵 Classic song: Take Five
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9Eh8wNMkw

Remake: Golden Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs

Civil rights - Dave Brubeck's Southern Strategy
https://www.amacad.org/publication/daedalus/dave-brubecks-southern-strategy

Dave Brubeck: Jazz Ambassador
https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/dave-brubeck-jazz-ambassador

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#ClasssicAlbums #DaveBrubeck #jazz #TakeFive #CivilRights #CivilRightsActivists #BLM
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🎵 Classic albums - John Scofield: Works For Me
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kD1moAm3EcRimyKnOCWoK-ye6KkR9_YZE

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#ClasssicAlbums #JohnScofield #WorksForMe #jazz #JazzGuitar
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@BM24 Yes, it’s legit.
That first chapter should be on its way to you now.
Thanks for your note & your patience.
🙏

http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#Msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #HerbieHancock

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Cover: Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man

#MSHarker (if you’re curious about the “secret life of pianos.”)

ps. Please boost if you’re a writer, musician, aficionado of jazz or classical piano music, pianos, the Vancouver music scene, reader.

pps. If you can’t be bothered to search #MSHarker, just go here: http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon #reader #fun #free

Ok. Poll ends. 7% of those who responded “have a life,” so aren’t interested in a free chapter of my friend MS Harker’s book on “the secret life of pianos.”
For the rest of you (93%), be sure to get your free chapter at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#Msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon #free

DO YOU LIKE… Music? Pianos? Good writing? Vancouver? Free chapters?

My friend MS Harker is almost finished writing his book about “the secret life of pianos.”
Get the first chapter free here…
(see the QR code or go to http://dontshootthepianotuner.com )

#msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #ubc #frankiesjazzclub #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #jazz #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

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QR code that takes you to msharker.com / http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

🎹 “The re-stringing begins!”
MS “Scott” Harker working on a piano at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver.

ps. I learn a lot about jazz and classical music (& pianos) from my friend Scott. I’m also a big fan of his forthcoming book about the “secret life of pianos.” If you’re curious go to http://dontshootthepianotuner.com and get his first chapter, free.

#Msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #frankiesjazzclub #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

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A black and white photograph of a grand piano disassembled, with new strings (wires) laying to the side.

“Next, the strings come off.”
MS “Scott” Harker working on a piano at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver.
ps. I learn a lot about music (& whiskey & MLB & writing & pianos) from my friend Scott. I’m also a big fan of his forthcoming book about the “secret life of pianos.” If you’re curious go to http://dontshootthepianotuner.com and get his first chapter, free.

http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#fotomontag #foto #photography #bxw #msharker #music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

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A black and white photograph of a grand piano being taken apart. Backstage at Frankie’s Jazz Club in Vancouver.

PIANOS HAVE A “SECRET LIFE?” 🎹 ✍️
My good friend Scott is writing about “the secret life of pianos.” He’s the guy who makes sure visiting (& resident) pianists (jazz & classical) in the greater Vancouver area have tuned & tune-worthy rigs. He’s also a heck of a writer.
I’ve read the recent draft of this book and I’m keen to read more —and to share it. DM me if you’re interested. Or get it via http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

ps. This pic is by Scott.

#music #books #writing #musictechnology #pianos #vancouver #chancentre #whistler #jazz #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon mastodon #classicalmusic #pianists #pianistsofmastodon #musicians #musiciansofmastodon

New book in the works!
About the “secret life of pianos!”
My friend MS Harker is almost done writing. It’s a fun and interesting read —and I know next to nothing about pianos. If you’re curious… sign up as an “early reader” and get the first chapter, free: http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#writing #pianos #music #livemusic #classicalmusic #jazz #vancouver #books #booksofmastodon #writersofmastodon

#dayofpractice #bass #basse avant hier répet #jazz sans le batteur. 2 repets par semaine depuis plusieurs mois (1 jazz, 1 coverband) ça forge... #angeleyes

I gather it helps to write an #Introduction (including that # ) as a pinned tweet that includes a bunch of other hashtags so people can find you on here?
❤️‍🔥🪗
#accordion #AccordionMastodon #Music #Books #FolkMusic #MusicHistory #Jazz #Blues #ExperimentalMusic #Klezmer #Zydeco #TraditionalMusic #ClassicalMusic #Punk #EthnoMusicology #Radio #CommunityRadio #Vancouver
#Emoji ❤️‍🔥🪗
#Disability ✊🏻

More Parrot music

For those who speculated, I spent the afternoon with Tino, a laptop and my music collection.

The lad likes R3 - especially choral works, dislike 6 music and R1, is interested in trad jazz, especially Bix, and just can’t get enough of Alfa Mist, Esperanza Spalding, and the World Saxophone Quartet of different vintages.

Left him with a long playlist for the evening.

#Jazz #AfricanGrey #Parrot #Music

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Tino the parrot boogies to the World Saxophone Quartet.

Michael Franks - Summer In New York
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #MichaelFranks

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Cover: Michael Franks - Summer In New York

Don't Shoot the Piano Tuner
That's the title of a book a good friend of mine is writing.

"The Secret Life of Pianos, From the Woods to the Concert Stage is a deep dive into the world of the piano filled with stories of famous pianists interspersed with interludes and musings about music, sound, tuning and tone."

Get a free chapter when you sign up at http://dontshootthepianotuner.com

#writers #writersofmastodon #books #booksofmastodon #authors #canada #piano #music #vancouver #classicalmusic #jazz

How a series of mishaps helped create the world's best-selling solo jazz album
By Janine Marshman

Keith Jarrett's best-selling album, The Köln Concert, nearly didn't happen. We reflect on Jarrett's life in music and explore the mishaps that lead to this iconic recording.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/keith-jarrett-jazz-piano-koln-concert-50-year-anniversary/105550396

#Music #Jazz #ClassicalMusic #JanineMarshman

And back to vinyl. Just time for this one before the rugby starts. I think this was the first Art Blakey I got and it started a bit of an obsession. It’s a great sounding record. #vinyl #Jazz #xp

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ART BLAKEY AND THE JAZZ MESSENGERS Headshot of Art in monochrome with the title in orange and his name in white.

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The record playing on the turntable.

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Inside cover (slightly out of focus!) showing Art on the drums.

Eddie Harris - Ballad (For My Love)
#JazzDeVille #Jazz #NowPlaying #EddieHarris

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Cover: Eddie Harris - Ballad (For My Love)

🎵 Morning ☮-in - Antonio Carlos Jobim & Joe Henderson: Desafinado
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMLo05EGuBw

Joe Henderson & Kenny Drew trio, Molde Jazz Festival, Norway, August 1968 (colorized)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wazNsLbCJE

Namaste 🙏 🕊
#MorningPeaceIn #JoeHenderson #AntonioCarlosJobim #jazz #saxophone
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Today in Labor History June 30, 1960: Congo won independence from Belgium after years of brutal colonial rule which slaughtered up to 10 million people, or half its entire population. However, imperial powers continued to exploit the people of Congo, even after independence. In 1961, the CIA orchestrated a coup that tortured, murdered, and overthrew its first democratically elected president, Patrice Lumumba, after a failed coup against him by Mobutu Sese Seku, who would later become dictator from 1971 until 1997.

President Eisenhower authorized the assassination because of Lumumba’s ties with the Soviet Union. The U.S., and its European allies, wanted control over Congo’s resources, particularly its rich uranium deposits, both to fuel their civilian and military nuclear programs, and, in particular, to keep them out of the hands of the Soviet Union, which was allied with Lumumba. The wonderful 2024 documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” does a really great job of uncovering the concealed history of the 1961 assassination of Lumumba and the coup d’etat in Congo. But it’s really about so much more: Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. There’s even a “slumber party” with Fidel Castro at Malcolm X’s home, in New York, after the U.S. authorities convince all the hotels in New York to refuse Castro a place to sleep during a UN conference, and he attempts to camp out on the sidewalk with his contingent.

One of the people the CIA used in its early attempts to assassinate Lumumba was chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who ran the agencies secret MKULTRA mind control program. Gottlieb tried, but failed, to kill Lumumba with poisoned toothpaste. He also tried, and failed, to assassinate Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar and with radioactively poisoned shoes. MKULTRA was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The program gave hallucinogenic drugs, like LSD and Mescaline, to 7,000 unwitting U.S. war veterans, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #congo #belgium #lumumba #coup #cia #malcomx #fidelcastro #communism #socialism #soviet #russia #ussr #imperialism #nuclear #atomic #coldwar #jazz #mkultra #hallucinogens

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Official portrait of Lumumba as prime minister of the Republic of the Congo, 1960. He’s wearing glasses, a suit, and has a thin mustache and goatee. By unknown, Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) government - http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Perspectives_1/article_6904.shtml, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57463710

@classicalmusic
Daniel Schnyder - Worlds Beyond

Lewin Kneisel, Klarinette
Mathis Stier, Fagott
(Mitglieder des WDR Sinfonieorchesters)
Rie Akamatsu, Klavier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C40ofHeDE0M

#music #classic #jazz #chambermusic

As much as I like the 4 original "Kind of Blue" tracks by Miles Davis, the bonus remastered tracks are amazing. My fave of the bunch is "Love For Sale".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXSjJBKPyFg

#jazz

Musik zur
Guten Nacht.
Brad Mehldau.
#music #classicalmusic #jazz
https://youtu.be/Jbn2T7DfE3E?feature=shared

#Mozart Paradox
Thomas Enhco

https://classical.music.apple.com/us/album/1807807766?l=en-US

#classicalMusic #appleMusicClassical #commute #piano #jazz

How women have used the piano to push social boundaries for centuries
By Ria Andriani

This year's audience poll of Australia's favourite classical music features the most music by women ever, thanks to their centuries-long connection with the piano.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/women-and-the-piano/105381440

#Music #ClassicalMusic #Jazz #Women #RiaAndriani

#dayofpractice #jazz comme tous les mercredis en ce moment #moonglow #bass #basse #100daysofpractice