#Smyth

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Classical Pride

I know I'm too late for Pride Month. And I wasn't planning on posting much this year related to Pride, mostly because the category of "queer composers" includes a large span of styles and eras where the sexuality or gender identity may not necessarily be relevant to the music.

However (at the very least here in America) the political atmosphere has made queerness "controversial" again, and whenever there's a vocal effort to erase queerness and insist upon a heteronormative view of culture, history, biology, psychology, morality, etc. it only ever leads to real world harm for all of us.

So I don't think Pride Month should end just because the corporate calendar is ready for the next marketable holiday or season; don't be afraid to say "Gay" or "Trans" or "Queer", we exist and have always existed and here are some contributions to classical music history (with a few significant Jazz composers).

This list is a mix, mostly music by LGBT composers (either those who self-identify, or those who were alive before the category was articulated but evidence shows they could be classified as "queer"), and some that are on queer subjects (i.e. the only Bach piece here is an aria he wrote for a cantata where the sun god Phoebus (Apollo) mourns the death of his lover Hyacinth, and accepts that through love he is never truly dead).

If there are any LGBT composers, or thematic works, that you think should be included, please let me know!

[slocum-dodson]

When I find Mister Smythe, im going to burn his cock off.

I'm very angry that I'm in England.

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Japan’s Hirata holds off inspired Smyth to win on Asian Tour

Japan’s Kensei Hirata held off an inspired Travis Smyth to win the Asian Tour’s Shinhan Donghae Open by a stroke on Sunday — his second victory in as many weeks. The 23-year-old Hirata followed victory at the Fujisankei Classic on the Japan Golf Tour last weekend with a closing six-under-par 66 at the Ocean Course at Club72 in Incheon to finish 22-under par on 266. Despite a bogey at the last,…

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Round 6 Summary

Total Sims- 52 Fires-0 Burglaries- 0 Sims Born- Jadyn and Jaelie Whitestone, Lamar Somers, Zabrina Fischer, Idris Clover, Parker Khun, Eamon Damas, Saul Smyth, Sally Benson, Caila Foster Sims married or moved in- Tyron Smyth Married Sophie Miguel, Mari Clover married Chandler Platz, Molly Clover married Stephan Benson, Peter Khun married Lydia, Eron Damas Marries Marisa, Households: 15 Sims…

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Round 6 Summary

Total Sims- 52 Fires-0 Burglaries- 0 Sims Born- Jadyn and Jaelie Whitestone, Lamar Somers, Zabrina Fischer, Idris Clover, Parker Khun, Eamon Damas, Saul Smyth, Sally Benson, Caila Foster Sims married or moved in- Tyron Smyth Married Sophie Miguel, Mari Clover married Chandler Platz, Molly Clover married Stephan Benson, Peter Khun married Lydia, Eron Damas Marries Marisa, Households: 15 Sims…

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Beetle ute with rooftop tent in the wild.

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Scottish artist Dorothy Carleton Smyth (1880-1933) design featuring King Arthur for a collection of poetry by Lord Alfred Tennyson

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OTD in Music History: British composer and suffragist Dame Ethel Smyth (1858 - 1944) -- the first female composer ever to be granted a damehood (in 1922) -- is born in London. Few figures in musical history have led a more colorful life than Smyth. After a bitter fight with her father over her desire to pursue music, Smyth was allowed to study composition at the Leipzig Conservatory. Although she left after only a year (disillusioned with what she considered to be the low standard of teaching), her attendance there put her into contact with luminaries including Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897), Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904), Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907), and Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896). Upon her return to England, she also formed a friendship with Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900) in the final years of his life. Smyth's extensive body of work includes two notable operas: "The Wreckers" -- which is considered by some critics to be the most important English opera composed during the period between Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) and Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976) -- and "Der Wald" (1903), which for more than a century stood as the only opera by a woman composer that had ever been produced at New York's Metropolitan Opera (until Kaija Saariaho's "L'Amour de loin" was premiered in 2016). Smyth’s final major completed work was a vocal symphony entitled "The Prison" (1931); by the mid-1930s, she had gone almost completely deaf. Smyth was also a historically important British suffragist (who served two months in prison for her political activism) and she was openly gay at a time when that was highly unusual. At age 71, she fell in love with famed writer Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941). Woolf, nearly 25 years her junior, was both alarmed and amused by the situation, comparing it to “being caught by a giant crab." The two women eventually settled into a close platonic friendship. PICTURED: A 1931 autograph letter written and signed by Smyth to a friend, concerning musical activities.

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Charles Piazzi Smyth - The Great Comet of 1843

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 Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Ethel Smyth written in January 1935

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Glyn Smyth

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June 24th 2024 best hockey tweet(s) of the day

Doozy of a season, boys. Well done.

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Things you can't convince me aren't canon

The Doctor is autistic.

The Doctor and the Master are definitely divorced.

Five is asthmatic and has some sort of peripheral nerve damage in his legs (because his regeneration almost failed).

Nine wears Fitz Kreiner's leather jacket.

Time Lords are actually eldritch but normal humans can't tell because we can only perceive three dimensions at once.

River Song makes it out of the Library somehow.

The Spy Master first met the Doctor as 'O' when he was Eleven.

Sacha Dhawan plays a character called Reverend Matthew in the audio Ghost Walk, and I like to pretend it's the Master fucking around and being manipulative and shit in disguise. It's very entertaining, especially since a woman in his employ literally calls him Master at one point.

Evelyn knitted Seven's outfit.

Two and Jamie definitely had something going on.

Ood Sigma and hallucination Amy were Ten and Eleven's Watchers, respectively.

Eight is 'like that' (if you know you know) because the anesthesia Seven got delayed regeneration long enough that some of his brain started to die from lack of oxygen, bloodflow, etc etc.

If Survival had been a Sixey episode, he would have had a VERY different reaction to local catboy Master. (I said what I said.)

I'll add more eventually, but I need to sleep now.

[sims3gameandchallengelover]

Round 5 Summary

The Latest Update of my Sims 2 Build a City Challenge

Total Sims- 33 Fires-1 Burglaries- 1 Sims Born- Kabir Stone, Iris and Ian Clover Sims married or moved in- 0 Households: 10 Sims that died-0 Careers Unlocked- Oceanography- 1 Position- Marcus Clover, Law Enforcement- 1 Position- Tomas Smyth, Education- 1 Position- Martin Clover, Gaming- 1 Position- Saya Stone. Journalism- 3 Positions are unlocked- Zoey Fischer and Peter Khun are using two…

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Round 5 Summary

The Latest Update of my Sims 2 Build a City Challenge

Total Sims- 33 Fires-1 Burglaries- 1 Sims Born- Kabir Stone, Iris and Ian Clover Sims married or moved in- 0 Households: 10 Sims that died-0 Careers Unlocked- Oceanography- 1 Position- Marcus Clover, Law Enforcement- 1 Position- Tomas Smyth, Education- 1 Position- Martin Clover, Gaming- 1 Position- Saya Stone. Journalism- 3 Positions are unlocked- Zoey Fischer and Peter Khun are using two…

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