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is this what the kids are listening to these days?

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Me: What's that you're playing?

Teacher: Oh, it's an etude. It's something you play to...get angry at yourself.

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I would personally like to recommend “Mozart in the Jungle” to all of my followers.

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Veracruz, Mexique 2009 (by Félix le Masne)

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Music in the streets of the old city of Barcelona. 

The cello player with his dog, two old friends with their guitars and the guitarist next to the little pigeon.

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overly expressive musicians 2/?  ft. a talented yet somewhat distracting benedict kloeckner  request from iammichaelfrontz

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10 song shuffle

You can tell a lot about a person by the music they listen to. Put your MP3 player, iTunes, Spotify, etc. on shuffle. List the first 10 songs and tag 10 people.

1. Sister Golden Hair - America 2. Green Soul - The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corp 3. Egmont, Op. 84: Overture - Beethoven 4. Say No To This - Hamilton soundtrack 5. Thaïs: Meditation - Massenet 6. No Valentines - Elton John 7. String Quintet in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 - Boccherini 8. The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner 9. Cryin’ - Aerosmith 10. Zero In The City - Great Lake Swimmers

Thanks @viola-and-chill for tagging me! I tag: @abykapoor @marimband @lowtones @semi-audramatic @classybrassyandsassy @underratedbassists @suffering-musician @loser-viola @euph-pirate @violoncelloing

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Bassbar in action

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“To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts - such is the duty of the artist.”

Robert Schumann

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I hope that in 2017 you will keep making art and doing your best, even when you don’t see progress for a while

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It is now December. In the spirit of the season (in the northern hemisphere, anyway), have some music-themed paper snowflakes.

Left column is the original set, made back in December 2006. Right column has the redux versions, made in December 2007. Much improved. Using a knife instead of nail scissors helps a lot.

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im aware that im literally twelve years old but im laughing so hard at these descriptions of oboe tone that all sound like very weird reviews of sex

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I dont understand how mallet percussionists in the pit do those crazy runs like do you guys actually think about every individual key that you’re hitting or do you just move your mallets rapidly in one general direction and hope that it’ll work out

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concept: “Cutthroat Cello Competition”

”You have 3 days to prepare this Shostakovitch concerto for judgement”

“FOR $2000 you can force your opponent to not be able to utilize the D string for the entirety of the cadenza!”

“let’s start the  bidding at $1000- access to a recording of the piece, everyone else must learn it without hearing it!”

“if you win this bid you can force this shitty plywood cello on any opponent to perform on”

1 day before the competition “JOHN YOU HAVE WON THE BIDDING! whose music will you take away before the performance??

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As a violinist I can proudly say… cello is the best instrument

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Why don’t violists play hide and seek?

Because no one will look for them.