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Happy #InternationalCatDay! 😂🐈
To celebrate, here are some composers who were REALLY into cats: 🧵
Ruth Gipps, who was so into cats she wrote music about cats
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Calling all emerging composers!
Composers’ Academy is an established programme for exceptional musicians from diverse backgrounds who are looking for the opportunity to develop their skills as composers and to create a new 10-minute piece as part of the Philharmonia’s Music of Today series.
Learn more: philharmonia.co.uk/what-we-d…
Closing date: 01/08/23 | UK residents only
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A fabulous photo of young Igor Stravinsky with his youngest brother Gury in 1909 in the Ukrainian town of Ustiluh. #music #composers #historic
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Since we are on the topic of coups, here is a photo of the world-famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich holding a Kalashnikov w/ one hand and an exhausted member of Yeltsin's security detail (assigned to protect Rostropovich) w/ another. Taken during the 1991 Soviet coup attempt.
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The problem with it being Schoenberg's birthday is that now we have to go through all 12 months in the same order before it comes back around again.
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Since we’re talking height—
Clara Schumann was 6 in. taller than Johannes Brahms. 😁
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When people say they’re “420 friendly,” that means that they enjoy Franz Schubert’s 12 German Dances for solo piano, D. 420
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I think I have just discovered the best composer name of all time. – at Royston, England
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Hildegard of Bingen enjoys a scalp massage from Cthulhu while she repairs a convent radiator.
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🫖 Vaughan Williams having a cup of tea at a rehearsal of The Pilgrim's Progress @RoyalOperaHouse on 26 April 1951! We wonder if there are other photos of composers having a cuppa - let us know! @NormalComposers
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John Nolan postet auf @NormalComposers Bilder von Schönberg beim Tischtennisspielen, Debussy mies gelaunt beim Picknick, Pärt beim Haarekämmen oder Saariaho in der U-Bahn. Ein Gespräch über Strategien bei der Bildersuche und die Launen von Komponist:innen. van-magazin.de/mag/john-nola…
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The composer @philipglass doing a small cameo role in the movie “No Reservations”!!!
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Does @Thomas_ades participating in #UniversityChallenge count as @NormalComposers "doing normal shit"?
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Arvo dancing with his wife Nora ❤️ @NormalComposers
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"The only way you fail at art is if you stop doing it. There's no reason a composer can't be a plumber or an electrician instead of a teacher. All you have to do is keep writing." - Chris Sivak nmbx.newmusicusa.org/the-sec…