a sentence for the ages from the Liz Truss book: "Eventually, the moment came."

This of course makes me desperate to read it

Loved touring with these amazing musicians and you should all get the album !

If my bagel order begins with you explaining the “rip and dip” concept of your franchise don’t be surprised if I leave without a word … I suppose there’s some relevance there for pre concert talking

I am in Charles Ives’ birthplace eating Korean BBQ

This does win stupidest sentence of the year

Happy birthday Charlie you big old hot mess of a composer ! Jeremy Denk - Ives' Violin Sonata No. 2: II. In the Barn (w/Stefan Jacki... youtu.be/hKvnHfooUTM?is=wnHw… via @YouTube

A perfect morning with Bartok 2nd concerto and some crunchy chickpeas

Great title great cover

My process of interpreting the Franck Quintet over decades: in a hundred places the score suggests the pianist should act like a maniac! I have gradually replaced most of them with mystical or subtler tastings of chords … but I kept four or five of the best mental breakdowns

I will attest that the best egg sandwich in the world is made by “fried egg in love” in Portland Oregon and I also feel like we performed a reasonably meaningful Franck quintet last night.. maybe these are related

Rescue mission makes it sound noble

This would be the k drama about my current existence

Alas we all know who will win the best dressed of this dressing room

A coffee break between Unsuk Chin etudes

Two hours of Korean lessons and three hours of Unsuk Chin and it’s barely the afternoon

possibly the only reason to remain on twitter

i generally hate bragging posts but i will say that a week with 6 mozart concertos winterreise janacek diary of one who vanished and beethoven 110 is a good week and maybe more than that

a fun event in the franck quintet last weekend when a man emitted something between a desperate sigh and a yawn between my first two melancholy phrases and then i felt super motivated to convince him…