I love this….those kids are geniuses…and do they actually know how to play/tongue/bow the instrument they were playing in that video? Not doubting them or anything it just looked like they swapped instruments….
Ok, as the person in the blue shirt on the left, I can explain what is going on here.
On the far left, you see a clarinetist playing a broken cello. She does not know how to play the cello. (Nor does that cello have any intention of being played.)
My friend and I are collectively playing a frankenstein of an instrument that I like to call the “Eb bassooninet.” It’s an Eb clarinet with a bassoon bocal attached. It sounds like a dying duck.
The bassoonist in the middle is the only one playing a normal instrument normally.
Second from the right, you see a clarinetist playing half a clarinet.
Finally, on the far right you see a clarinetist playing a Bb clarinet that is pulled out so far at every joint that it approximates an A clarinet.
The best part about this video is that everyone is actually a really accomplished musician, not that you’d guess it xD
au contraire, this is the kind of thing ONLY accomplished musicians are fucking weird enough to come up with
Musical prodigy Alma Deutscher aged 11 (seen here with younger sister Helen), is staging her first full-length opera, Cinderella.
Composer, pianist, violinist… Alma learned to read music before she could read words. She began playing the piano aged two and at four years old she was composing her own music.
New Yorkers aren’t unfriendly or unhelpful. What folks who think that miss is that we’re always jammed into a too small subway car or a too narrow sidewalk or a too cramped elevator. We don’t have enough physical space, so we give each other psychological space by minding our business. But if someone needs help, we’re there.
Tonight I was riding the 7 train out to Citi Field. At Grand Central, a guy who seemed to be somewhere on the eccentric/addled scale got on and yelled “my man’s going to Kennedy – JFK airport. Y’all got this?” He was intense enough that I looked up and saw he was pointing to a puzzled-looking Asian man who’d gotten on in front of him. He said it again – “JFK airport, y’all got this” and stepped back onto the platform.
The folks in the subway car started talking, verified the route, talked to the man to make sure he understood, found someone in the car who was getting off at the right stop, and deputized him to go with the man to the E train. Y’all got this? Yeah, we got this. We’re New Yorkers.
My mom faceplanted after tripping over a manhole cover as we were rushing down the street in NYC and at least seven people immediately were there to help her up.
I Decided To Do Some Research on one of my favourite all time ever in the universe songs one the greatest songs ever written and recorded – Total Eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler and found out that the album version is actually longer *nut* and its 7 minutes long *nut* and jim steinman wrote it as a vampire love ballad *n u t* like if i couldn’t love this song any more im in too much ecstasy to be annoyed i’m only finding all this delectable info out this late in me life .. also jim steinman literally invented thunderclaps
Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.
I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.
Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.
Understand this:
Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~
Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.
Your job is to be sandpaper.
Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.
Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.
When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.
When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.
You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.
Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.
Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.
YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.
YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.
weird how I became a much more compassionate and accepting person when I realised that drug addiction is the symptom of a problem and not the problem in itself
you also start to realise just how much the War On Drugs was actually a war against the poor, against survivors, against trans people, against sex workers, against the mentally ill and the disabled, against PoC, against queers, against the homeless. how much of it was a government manufactured ploy to sell violence against the marginalized as violence against addiction, as if addiction was not a symptom of systemic abuse.
Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.
So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.
Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.
It’s almost as if Men’s Rights Activists don’t really care about men’s rights. Hmmm….
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Yep….
This misses the really powerful piece of the story: Terry Crews was the one who chose not to do the movie. One of the producers told him, essentially, that he could either do the movie and be drop the sexual assault charges, or continue with the trial and have “troubles”. Terry dropped out because he felt standing against abusers was more important than his film career.
It’s bullshit that he was threatened in the first place, of course, but his response was ballsy. I admire him for it.
I opened youtube for a song for you guys but this was in my recommended vids.
I promise you will thoroughly enjoy it
a) this is from the second riverdance special, which illustrated how far-flung similar styles/influences were (specifically with a celtic focus but the same points could be made about a lot of backgrounds)
b) i identified that based on the preview still & confirmed it within 2 actual factual seconds of the video because you bet your ass i had (still have) this shit on vhs.
God, this is fascinating to me. There are several things I adore, and two of them are in this video: comparative music and comparative dance.
I honestly wish I knew more about tap. I learnt it as an extremely white kid in Australia, so I’m fairly disconnected from its history. I know it’s got strongly black roots, but I also suspect that it has some small roots in English step dancing via Appalachia, since I have learnt both various forms of English step dancing/clog dancing and Appalachian step dancing, and there’s steps common to all three. But since I don’t know West African dancing of any type, I can’t look at any part of tap and recognise commonalities to African dancing (although I understand that African rhythm is a strong part of what makes both jazz and tap the art forms that they are). I JUST WISH I KNEW MORE.
Also? Why did no-one teach me to stand on my toes as a tap dancer? That’s shit I know better from ballet. Like that guy looks like he does chaines turns?? On taps???? (yes I had to look up what they were called bc it’s been twenty years since I was last in a ballet class. doesn’t mean I couldn’t do them if you asked me to) IS THAT STANDARD TAP SHIT OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT DUDE DOES BC HE’S AWESOME, I NEED TO KNOW.
Also, as someone who also plays for dancers, I might’ve loled at about the four-minute mark where the tap saxophonist and the Irish fiddler are having A Moment, and all the dancers are standing around going ‘I feel uncomfortable when we are not about me?’ TOO REAL.
Also, at about the five-minute mark, where the accompaniment goes away and it’s just the rhythm of the steps? I am weak. I adore percussive dance so much, which you might’ve guessed from the fact that I have learnt multiple styles. FOOT PERCUSSION, MY FRIENDS. And as someone who has danced with tap shoes and with (English) clogs, getting your shoes/taps to ring that clearly when your steps are that fast is A Skill. It’s very easy to make noise with taps. That’s not enough to be a good dancer. Getting the taps to ring clearly instead of thudding is the real trick.
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