Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
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Going through the copy edits of a forthcoming article. This is my favorite sentence: "Hearing a work by a woman was a routine event, and thousands of clubwomen were deeply familiar with music by women composers."
Dishwasher Thursday 🫧🍴🥣✨
Fascinating!
And highlights why original source material research is important.
THIS IS WILD
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A quick post on Fanny Mendelssohn, giving a signal boost to @henselpushers.bsky.social .
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Fanny Mendelssohn, also known by her married name Fanny Hensel, was a sister of the 19th-century composer Felix Mendelssohn. While she wasn’t nearly as famous as her brother, she was an excel…