Music theory professor and pianist in Louisville KY, he/him, the most wonderful woolly baa-lamb that ever stepped
Chris Brody
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this is legitimately one of my favorite posts of all time
The only real takeaway possible from Kang and the rest of the reactionary centrist higher-ed-skeptics crowd is that, while they may not HATE universities the way the hard right does, they resent them deeply and think it would be kinda sick if the entire sector suffered a calamitous downsizing
I fell asleep while solving this cryptic and filled the whole grid with Z's 😭😭
TBF these publications could also try putting someone on the higher ed beat who has … literally any relevant knowledge or experience of higher ed.
Chris Brody
Chris Brody
jamelle
This reminds me of a question I asked my dad when I was a kid: a baseball player's batting average goes up and down through the season, so why is it fair to award the batting title based on where it happened to be at the end of the season? (Even at 8 or whatever, I was like oh duh when he explained)
WUOL played Zara Levina's wonderful Piano Sonata no. 2 this morning, brand-new to me in all ways (piece, composer, pianist Maria Lettberg). Each movement evokes such a different style and era of Russian pianism.
Classical music has gotten too far from its roots. We need to bring back traditional practices like:
- performers cutting passages they don’t feel like playing
- putting random pieces of unrelated music in between movements of a multi-movement work
- hiring audience members to faint
