in case you thought the opera world has made any sort of tangible progress re: blackface, the industry’s most famous soprano posted this 9 hours ago from her recent AIDA

As much as I love contemporary music, this article (linked below) does highlight the *very real* risk of injury of new music requirements in major orchestras. 1. Much of contemporary music is unplayable and puts excessive strain on the musician [1/2] #musochat

Meg Giry: Christine Daae could sing it, sir. Me: Yeah... down a third. 😒

With rings of power releasing here's a reminder of what were missing by not having Matt Berry as young Gandalf

rip sean lock you would’ve loved this

Wienermobile Philharmoniker send tweet

A Bottle of water can be .50 cents at a supermarket. $2 at the gym. $3 at the movies and $6 on a plane. Same water. Only thing that changed its value was the place..So the next time you feel your worth is nothing, maybe you’re at the wrong place💯

“What music should we use for the classy background, boss?” “Anything is fine, it’s not like people are going to look closely”

THREAD. Two Harvard professors published an academic article calling for 500,000 more armed cops, who they say will arrest 7.8 million more people per year. The article reveals alarming flaws in elite academia at a time of rising fascism. This is one of my most important posts.

The latest write-thru of the NYT dad hero Club Q story is even more of a gut-punch than it was four hours ago. nytimes.com/2022/11/21/us/…

NEWS 🚨: Unidentified Oumuamua interstellar object is just now RE-ENTERING THE SOLAR SYSTEM WITH A STEEL CHAIR

An iconic image: A group of Jewish soldiers in the German Army gather on a frosty Chanukah in 1916 to kindle the menorah and warm themselves by its light. But who is the chaplain in the center? I believe I have the answer.

Elijah is a young Diné oboist who lives on the Navajo Reservation and needs a new instrument to pursue his dreams of oboe performance. I just kicked in 20 bucks, and I'd love it if some of you could spare a donation to help this musician. - TMN Admin gofund.me/96b597bf

K.K. Cheers

He cast bardic inspiration x.com/BevsNotGuilty/…

JOE BIDEN: "With its darker tone, its interlinked worlds, [Tooie] stands not on the shoulders of Banjo Kazooie but of Ocarina of Time, it reaches higher and leaps further, and Republicans need to understand this most: it did it without the expansion pak demanded of Perfect Dark."

The bad part of getting older is that you become an NPC, the good part is that being an NPC rocks. Nothing like walking down the street with a thought bubble that's just a sandwich you're looking forward to. Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane