Dr. Melissa Dunphy
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EVERYONE SHOULD BE WRITING THEIR OWN CADENZAS, THAT WAS THE WHOLE DAMN POINT OF CADENZAS, STOP PLAYING OTHER PEOPLE'S CADENZAS, COMPOSITION IS FOR ALL MUSICIANS, NO EXCEPTIONShttps://twitter.com/kevinzhuviolin/status/1390722015544414211
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Welp I'm on the record now: I love Boléro, fuck the haters, Ravel knew exactly what he was doinghttps://twitter.com/vanmusicmag/status/1387848625083011078 The most eye-rolling Boléro criticism I see is "Ravel himself hated
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ughghghghghgh can we please invent a single note value that fills a 9/8 measure because these dotted halves tied to dotted quarters look really stupid alternatively we could teach string
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So I accidentally opened up a can of worms talking about poet-composer collaboration, and this is a really good question. How do we get poets and composers in the same
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Off-topic, but in recent weeks I've been reminded of a fascinating lecture I once attended by someone who was multilingual about the ways we talk about illness in different languages—English
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