Score and parts from a composer arrived in the mail today. Always as thrilling as our birthday!!

Still surprised by the number of musicians asking ‘wow, where did you find that piece?’ It’s simple: Hard Work

Hey, what if a bunch of smaller orchestras in a given state or region partner together to mentor a young, local composer through a collective pledge of performances and learning opportunities. Would this be community relevance?

Wondering how awful Beethoven 9 might have been if he was hearing. Disabilities can bring the freedom of creativity.

The Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, seen here celebrating his 18th birthday.

August 18, 1974: In a feature article in the New York Times, Harold Schoenberg writes: Neither Toscanini nor Stokowski came anywhere near making Koussevitzky’s impact on the development of music in the United States. #DailyKoussevitzky #Koussevitzky150

The name alone tells you that the end was always near. They didn’t call it Prelude, boomers!! (riot ensues)

SIBELIUS is nothing. Try buying a subscription to BACH. For $15, you get a quill and a piece of parchment. Good luck with the help feature.

We heard it’s National Dog Day so we’d like to send a shot out to Dvorak’s New World Symphony. What a dog.

PSA: Friday is Clara Schumann’s birthday. 🥳🥂 Please do post about her! If you’re worried what to say, here’s an easy tip: sub in a man composer’s name—would you say it about him? No? Then don’t say it about Clara. ⭐️🙌🏻

***BOOK DEAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!*** It’s official—I’m writing a biography of Clara Schumann titled MADAME COMPOSER.

Go find a living composer. Beethoven no longer needs your business.

Sometimes the best international artist lives in your same town. Program local.

Where would we be if everyone told Beethoven, ‘I’m sure your stuff is great but we owe a duty to perform the music of Buxtehude’. All music was new music once.

Ain’t no rehearsals like first rehearsals…

The existence of rare books implies the existence of well done books.

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Wondering what kind of cars composers would have driven. Why do we think Mozart would be in a convertible and Robert Schumann have driven a Ford F150.