Oboes Before Bros

everything is truly so terrible but i just remembered doreen ketchens playing clarinet for her infant grandson and then i was kind of okay again for 36 seconds

Michaela DePrince in Swan Lake

Michaela DePrince sadly passed away on September 13, 2024. Her family has asked for people to donate to War Child, an organization she supported throughout her life. May she rest in peace and her memory live on.

my jaw hit the floor

excuse the fuck out of whoever this is

the gnarliest, dirtiest shredding with that fucking casio keyboard metronome beat I can't stand it

@ladygobpire

Erlkönig / The Erlking

Jonathan Callan Relative to, 2004 paper and ink

the contrabass saxophone is such an absurd instrument

talk dirty to me

Have ya’ll seen the double contrabass flute before???

reblogging my own post because what in the fuck

i give you the contrabass tuba. Why is it real. I dont know.

Know what’s even better?

HYPERBASS FLUTE

my counter:

piccolo trombone 

I’m both glad and sad that string players are only limited to violin, viola, cello, and bass. Can you imagine a contrabass? Or a piccolo violin????

String players are not limited to just those.

I present, THE OCTOBASS

It’s so big that it needs keys to hit the strings.

And in the reverse direction there exists the Pochette. Translated from French, it means pocket, as it was a pocket sized violin like instrument.

This is amazing

someone post the archlute

This one?

Subcontrabass C ocarina

Legend of Zelda: The Subcontrabass Ocarina of Time

this is my favorite post i think i’ve reblogged it like 4 times

HELLLLLL YEAH!!!!!!!

Maria Tallchief of the Osage nation, the first Native American Prima Ballerina.  

Kittyinva: 1928 Daybed from the apartment of George Gershwin. From Ken Nailon, Facebook.

oh this is so cool. so this bed was designed by Edgard Sforzina, who also designed the rest of gershwin’s apartment at 33 riverside dr in new york. i had never heard of sforzina and neither had anybody else apparently, because he died suddenly in 1941 and was promptly forgotten (i guess some other stuff happened around then). he was born in france and immigrated to the us in 1923 after being transferred to new york by his firm. he lived and worked in the us for the rest of his life.

in 2019, his granddaughter approached the art deco society of washington, dc with the entirety of his papers and they, along with a former curator at the building museum (also in dc) processed them, eventually putting on an exhibition in his honor. they also published a book, which i have in my grubby lil hands.

it includes images of gershwin’s apartment which were published in country life in 1932, as well as soooooooo many sketches.

he was a graphic designer and left behind textile designs, architecture drawings, interior elevations, and LOTS of furniture designs. he was clearing riffing on some of the same ideas as other designers of the time (look up paul frankl’s skyscraper furniture for similar and less symmetrical designs like that bed), but also clearly was bringing his own dialect to them. truly an incredible addition to decorative arts academia!

It’s crazy how people from 1791 and 2024 both know how it feels when Mozart drops a new track

Because context.

wake up babe new mozart track just dropped

losing it over this comment

[Image ID: Screencap from unspecified website in dark mode. Text reads:

"After that that stupid thing from Bezos and Musk about how a trillion humans would mean a thousand Mozarts, it got me thinking.

We clearly must have Mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have:

I can only conclude that the modern-day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic.

I will not be taking questions."

Followed by: a portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a photograph of Weird Al Yankovic, in similar 3/4 poses with similar eyebrow-raised and smiling expressions. End ID.]

i think a lot of people who have never done music do not understand how absolutely implausible weird al's skill level is. you can say "so many musicians can do at least one of his songs, obviously", and yes, they can, but they couldn't do all of them. you have people who studied ten or twenty years to be able to do something genuinely incredible, and they've specialized and focused and developed the ability to produce a particular kind of thing, and they do it really well, and then this guy comes along and says "welp, time for a new album", picks ten of them, and duplicates their shtick well enough to be clearly recognizable.

this man produced a piece of music which an experienced listener can hear and say "oh, that's Frank Zappa". how? not even Frank Zappa sounds like Frank Zappa!

Is weird Al doing different shit now? Bc if he was writing pastiches this would be true, but all I'm really familiar with is the stuff where he just rewrites the lyrics to an existing song, or does a polka cover of it.

Weird Al's "style parodies", or original compositions explicitly in the style of a particular artist or band, are approximately as numerous as his actual song parodies. Generally the Regular Parodies get all the attention, they're the big money spinners, but his style parodies are both numerous and legendary.

Dare to Be Stupid, the title track off the album of the same name, is probably the big one that people would know - a more Devo song than actual Devo, and that's according to Devo themselves.

An incomplete list of other ones that rule, actually, are:

This lists all Weird Al's known style parodies. There are a LOT.

Germs is such a good fucking style parody of NIN that I originally thought it WAS a NIN song.