So you want to do music? So you like music? So you listen to music? So you perform music? So you compose music? If you answered yes to any of these questions then we’ve got the blog for you!
shoutout to the slow artists. the artists with hardly any time for art. the artists who reach the end of the day with no energy for art. you got this i believe in you and you are no less valued than anyone else
the sound of an orchestra tuning up makes me go crazyinsane it makes me start thinking about the eventual heat death of the universe and how someday somewhere an orchestra is going to tune up for the very last time. ever. and then the sun will swallow the earth & turn into a white dwarf & all the stars will go out & meanwhile a gazillion light years away sentient life will be evolving from silicon. and maybe they will have orchestras also
I draw the line at five sharps, six is too many. What do you think?
i think it's funny how in its original form twitter was regarded as an app for posting inane life updates ("having breakfast" etc) and tumblr in the mid 2010s was seen as The hub for convoluted and over the top social justice discourse because now to me those functions have completely switched. if i log onto twitter i know i'm going to see someone writing a very serious thinkpiece 240 characters at a time about how expecting orchestral musicians to sight read anything with more than four sharps is tantamount to significant institutional abuse of power and possibly also ableist. but god forbid i go 24 hours without logging onto tumblr and posting "my train is delayed :-/"
One piece of advice is to always tap into your connections!
I had a bride ask for a very specific piece of music for her ceremony that only one ensemble had done a YouTube video for years ago. I reached out to the string group and Yury gave me the music free of charge!
If you’re a musician in the NY area or just love supporting other musicians, follow his instagram: https://instagram.com/idealensembles?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==