I feel like I literally get 3000 scam calls day so sometimes I entertain it and let the class answer for me😂🤷🏾‍♀️

The symphony bracket is here!

This is how voting will proceed:

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Exactly 202 years ago today, on June 18, 1821 Carl Maria von Weber conducted the world premiere of his opera "Der Freischütz" in the Royal Theater Berlin. An overwhelming success.

The two postcards from 1904 and 1903 show the romanticism of this work.

St Cecilia’s Hall

St Cecilia's is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, and the second oldest (after Oxford’s Holywell Room) in the British Isles. The original building dates from 1763 when it consisted only of the Concert Room, the Laigh (“Lower”) Room and the Foyer. Will post pics of the Laigh room later.

Today it is owned by The University of Edinburgh, which bought the building in 1959 to accommodate its expanding Music Faculty and to display the Raymond Russell Collection of Early Keyboards Instruments. Structural alterations and extensions over two centuries complete the complex we have now, with the most recent, Heritage Lottery Fund funded, redevelopment completed in 2017.

A lot of the instruments in the museum are still used for concerts in the Hall, and visitors, like two who were there today can also play some of them as part of the guided tours, whether you are a music fan or not it is a great place to visit.

The Chamber Organ the visitor is playing here is attributed to a James Jones of London and is sated 1775.

I particularly liked the Broadwood pianos, and on listening to the tour guide tell a bit of the story about how he married into the business of a London piano maker I had to chip in and tell everyone that he was originally from East Lothian, I also informed them that when he decided to move there to make his fortune he walked the 400 or so miles. One of the guys who works there was surprised to hear this and later thanked me for this wee nugget of information.

my leitmotif is about to fucking reprise

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1 and only take before my morning run

Late night thoughts #pascalcampion #manlyman

a collection of motivational insights regarding content creation and creative hobbies

and of course the classic

About ten years ago I decided that the next step I needed to take in my life was to accept and explore what it meant to be a failure and to have failed. This infuriated almost everybody in my life and clearly terrified a lot of people. People do not want you to accept failure. They dont want you to like... Sit with and think about it and pick it up and turn it arpund in your hands and really examine it. They want you to keep throwing yourself against the impossible walls until your body explodes! They do not want you to say "alright then, I've failed. What does that mean for me? Im still here. What does the life of someone who has failed look like?"

This makes people very angry and panicky.

My mental health improved in ways it had not in the previous DECADE once I stopped. And. Sat. With failure. And thought about what my failure ... Was. And looked at the structures that produced it and examined them critically.

It is so taboo to fail and admit it openly and talk about it. It is so taboo to talk about or think about failure in an accepting way rather than hiding it shamefully until you experience a degree of success in some area which allows you to present the past failure as "a stepping stone" to your current situation. Fuck that. We are put in positions of guaranteed failure by society every day and then punished and shamed for it. Lets fucking talk about failure

Pssst

Hey, are you an artist or writer with WIPs?

Come here… I got a secret for you pssst come ‘ere

waiting in deep suspense

Psst you ready here comes the secret

Here it comes

I am also very curious about this secret

Your time spent enjoying the creative process is infinitely more valuable that any final project you create. So stop putting yourself down for never finishing or posting those WIPs because every moment you spent creating something you loved is a moment not wasted. Your progress and talent is measured by your passion not your number of posts.

This post went from 3k to 7k overnight and that just goes to show how many of you need to hear this so make sure you don’t ever forget it

Quint Buchholz

green's my colour.

absolutely obsessed with these three georgian girls called trio mandilli (source)

lookit them Caucasus in the background

These cape lappet caterpillars responding to sound, a defence mechanism against parasitic wasps.🔊📣

Source

@onenicebugperday

Adult Cape Lappet Moths look like this

A friend!