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Word of the day: manicule 👉 #EveryDaySomethingNew

This clearly expressed essay, readable and short, begins with a quote from Audre Lorde and only gets better #ClimateChange

Today in "words to live by"

Today's first hearing: Martinů Symphony No. 4, with Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony. Already a fan of all concerned, but somehow this piece had slipped under the radar. MAGNIFICENT

Martinů: 4. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-EstradaYouTube video by hr-Sinfonieorchester – Frankfurt Radio Symphonyyoutu.be

Right now, another Bowdoin Festival #livestream from Maine, with people tuning in from as far away as Sweden and Australia J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor, BWV 1020 Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 7 Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2

Bowdoin Festival 2026 | Bach, Beethoven, & MendelssohnYouTube video by Bowdoin International Music Festivalyoutu.be

In yet another ode to gelatin salads — as if all the ingredients weren't bad enough, and with what looks like a glimpse of a plastic mannequin hand at right — I am praying to the gods that those are not little Brussels sprouts on the top layer

"My little 'self-portrait' has an aftertaste that not everyone likes. But that makes it a perfectly good picture. I am more attracted to it than anything else." ~ Curt Querner (1904-1976) on "Self-Portrait with Stinging Nettle" (1933, oil on cardboard, from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin)

As the Bowdoin Festival winds down, looking forward to this #livestream tonight: Jupiter String Quartet Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3, "Bird" Clarice Assad: Canções da America Brahms: String Quartet No. 2

Bowdoin Festival 2026 | Jupiter String QuartetYouTube video by Bowdoin International Music Festivalwww.youtube.com

Apologies, not live, recorded last Friday #NeverMindJustListen

Right now, live from the Verbier Festival on Medici.tv (free with registration), pianist Yunchan Lim in this program: Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Major Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 Rachmaninov/Yakov Zak: Vocalise

The best of classical and jazz at your fingertipsDiscover the world's largest collection of classical music and jazz, and experience blockbuster events in real time with our livestreams.medici.tv

“Rather than place a building in the landscape, we sought to make the landscape itself the primary act of architecture,” says Craig Dykers, a founding partner of Snøhetta. Congratulations to @trpl.bsky.social and the architectural team for creating what looks like a new North Dakota destination

Late-night fun from sixty years ago

Via Mark Berry, reporting from Bayreuth, brief footage of the curtain call after Götterdämmerung, "the worst production of anything I have ever seen." Apparently a few others had similar reactions.

What a terribly sad thread, all around.

Or, to put it another way, best news of the day.

1,000% true. And further, most of us seem to take it completely for granted.

Today's Wigmore Hall finale, Schubert's Winterreise, is also available on the hall's website, below

Konstantin Krimmel baritone; Ammiel Bushakevitz pianoKonstantin Krimmel baritone; Ammiel Bushakevitz piano Schubert's Winterreisewww.wigmore-hall.org.uk