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@playinglesshurt 🤣🤣🤣

#jokeoftheday isn’t it time for a sousaphone joke? #music #brass

@StevenIsserlis HBD to three very different but all creative in their own ways, pushing boundaries. On a personal note I'd like to thank you and Connie for extraordinary concert at Jane Mallet theater plus your very insightful, thoughtful and humorous masterclass at Mazzolini Hall.

3 rather different people b otd! Delacroix (1798): "The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing." Ludwig Wittgenstein ((1889): "The human body is the best picture of the human soul." Carol Burnett (1933): "Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."

@rowenamezzo Very shaky start for you Rowena Glad everyone is safe & firemen arrived quickly.

Shaky start to Sunday. Woke to the sound of an alarm and loud voices. Fire in one of the two top-floor flats. Apparently someone had left a candle burning and gone out… wonderful firemen had to break down their door to get in. Luckily not too serious…

That time Lucille Ball did the Charleston with her daughter Lucie Arnaz and best friend GINGER ROGERS — who left us 31yrs ago today — on “Here's Lucy” in 1971.

“The night will come and with a bite will devour everything.” ~ Vladimir Mayakovsky thanks to @poetry_weekend

Today marks 50 years since the world premiere of "Music for 18 Musicians" by Steve Reich on April 24, 1976, at New York’s Town Hall, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians.

@MGregoryWriter Yes I just heard Andrew Graham-Dixon speak about his new book on Vermeer.

Especially that recently discovered Vermeer 👀

@deborah_feder @92ndStreetY @StevenIsserlis @WQXR @FriseSally @bekibrindle @LarryKellogg @rowenamezzo @jamesmeredithd1 @mikeirons12 Toronto concert plus masterclass. So looking forward

The music was soaring and the hair was flying, tonight at The @92ndStreetY with Connie Shih and our wonderful, @StevenIsserlis!!💜🎻 Fantastic concert!!! Bravo!!!💜👏👏👏 @WQXR @FriseSally @bekibrindle @LarryKellogg @rowenamezzo @madmj1m @jamesmeredithd1 @mikeirons12

@deborah_feder @LarryKellogg @StevenIsserlis Soon Toronto

@LarryKellogg @StevenIsserlis Tonight at 7:30!!💜🎻🎹 Steven Isserlis, cello & Connie Shih, piano | 92nd Street Y, New York share.google/Igw6eT7S0GpqHR…

New York City in the sunshine - unusual things can happen! At a restaurant, the waiter took my card, and then handed me a receipt. 'And the tip?' I asked. 'Don't worry about it!' he replied. !!! And in a cab, the driver looked at my cello, and smiled: 'Music - happiness!' he said

Renowned art-historian Andrew Graham-Dixon discusses his revelatory and illuminating new biography of 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. In conversation with novelist Teju Cole. Apr 13 | 7 pm | Toronto Reference Library Register: ow.ly/hLNI50YsSiI #SalonSeries

@MGregoryWriter Good afternoon Mary. Im glad to see you hear as well.

Good morning @madmj1m 💐nice to see you here😁

Her manuscript had been burned by soldiers. Her daughter would never speak. Her husband controlled every dollar she earned. And every publisher had already said no. At 35, she wasn’t chasing a dream anymore—she was out of options. So she sat down and wrote anyway. Not because she felt inspired. Not because she believed in success. But because her daughter needed her—and there was no other way forward. Her name wasn’t even the one the world would come to know. She was born Pearl Sydenstricker (Pearl Buck) in West Virginia in 1892, but her life would never belong to one place. At just three months old, she was carried across the ocean to China by missionary parents, growing up between languages, cultures, and expectations. She spoke Chinese before English. Played barefoot in village streets. Belonged everywhere—and nowhere at once. By the time she married John Lossing Buck in 1917 and settled into rural China, she had already learned how to live between worlds. But nothing prepared her for what came next. In 1920, she gave birth to her daughter, Carol. Something was terribly wrong. Carol wasn’t developing like other children. Doctors had no answers—only vague, devastating conclusions. What we now understand as severe intellectual disability was, at the time, a life sentence of uncertainty and isolation. There were no support systems. No clear treatments. Just fear… and silence. Pearl was told, in so many words, that her daughter would never live an independent life. And just like that, everything narrowed. Her marriage strained. Money tightened. Opportunities disappeared. And still—no one wanted her writing. Until she stopped writing for approval. And started writing for survival. She poured everything into a story rooted in the land she knew so intimately—the people, the struggles, the quiet dignity of lives often ignored. A story shaped by hardship, by loss, by watching the world from the margins. That book became *The Good Earth*. It didn’t just get published—it changed everything. It won the Pulitzer Prize. It reached millions. And it helped her become the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. But none of it started with ambition. It started with a woman who had nothing left to lose—and one reason to keep going. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

Matisse painted 'Pansies' (1903) during his ‘dark period,' as he went through near financial ruin and family scandal. He wrote of being moved by the pansy's melancholic grace; like Dutch flower painters of the 17thC, he saw the cut flower as a symbol of the vanity of human life.

Thoughts on art from Picasso (d otd 1973): “Art is the lie that enables us to realise the truth.” “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” “Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” “Everything you can imagine is real.”

@rowenamezzo Enjoy as I'm sure you will Rowena

Very much looking forward to hearing my Italian neighbour playing on this glorious Bösendorfer at Wigmore Hall… And there is Fauré… 😊🎹

@rowenamezzo Louis lorti a favorite of mine. Just did concert and masterclass in Toronto. Always thought he was French Canadian from Montreal.

Happy Birthday to #Rachmaninov! 🎶🎂

“Nobody can advise you and help you, nobody. There is only one way. Go into yourself.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) Artist and Philanthropist . From a wealthy family he was able to afford to buy paintings from struggling artists who would eventually become famous. He loved his garden at Yerres and his dog Bergère He left his art collection to the nation.

Botd 1840 the great Émile Zola, author of Les Rougon-Macquart—incl. some of the most powerful novels of the 19thC—& of “J’Accuse…!”, calling out the anti-semitism in the Dreyfus Affair. Friend & champion of artists, it was Zola—not his friend Cézanne—who won the school art prize