Dean Barker
"Weird composer; weird way of thinking...It is rare to find someone who is mad about Schumann, but I love him very much." - Mitsuko Uchida
- Society being quickly recategorized into those who use AI to do their brain labor for them and those who won't.
- Is he really that ignorant or is he just being a jerk? Please say the former because Congresswoman DeLauro is one of my favorite electeds ever, and I cannot be having the disrespect to her the latter implies.
- PRESIDENT: ONLY STUPID PEOPLE FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION
- Stunned to read this! (Bamberger's was the department store at one end of the mall near me growing up.)
- Soon: Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Mozart.
- Mendelssohn: Hebrides, op. 26 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, c minor Mozart: Symphony No. 38, "Prague", D major
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- Good acoustics!
- is this winning are we winning
- NYT: “.. The United States is the only country .. that is forecast to see an international visitor decline in 2025.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/t...
- thinking of canonical literature as a sterile boxed set is a mistake, it's really about history's profoundest weirdos
- SUCH weirdos (and including composers in the musical canon, too, absolute weirdos). The weirdest people in my life are the authors and composers whose works have been a part of who I am.
- humiliating
- Trini gladiator, anti-hesitater Shaheed push the fader, from here to Grenada. Mr Energetic, who me sound pathetic? When's the last time you heard a funky diabetic? (I don't know man, I don't know man, I don't know man) (I don't know, I don't know) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIah...
- Have been listening of late to the Spring and Kreutzer sonatas kind of obsessively. Lovely new performance of one mvmt here. #Beethoven www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RNn...
- Projects, tenements... . . ...pyramids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl-p...
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- Sade in '93? That's apex level!
- everywhere, every everywhere (yeah), everywhere, every everywhere (yeah), everywhere, every everywhere (yeah), everywhere, every everywhere (yeah), www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTz...
- This is really something. Not just Kapell, but Rubenstein, Cortot, Lhevinne, Friedman. #Chopin #piano #classicalmusic www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV0H...
- broke: AI nobody wants forced on us by broligarchs woke: AI nobody wants forced on us by broligarchs and the power of the state
- If you've had any remaining ambivalence about AI, know that the worst government in our lifetimes wants to legitimize its theft of the human work of others.
- This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...
- The astounding bigotry of this. The Afghans in question here *risked their lives* for the US and face retribution at home for it.
- Some days, the corruption and bigotry coming out of this president, and the failure of the media to state it plainly, it's too much.
- Also, too, the celebration of failure. Saw a CNN headline today, something to the effect of "Trump gets desperately needed win on China trade." My man, that was a terrible mistake of his own making, that he had to retreat from. A fail on top of a fail is not "a win," for crying out loud!
- [stares in all the Afghans who risked their lives for our armed forces in exchange for a chance to seek refuge here and whom our President has stabbed in the back]
- Complete failure of an administration, failing.
- Wait, after abruptly firing and defunding everything without reason or justification, things aren't working? Vandals in charge. No forethought, no empathy. It's grotesque.
- Waitaminute, you mean breaking and stealing things because you never learned how to be a man isn't good public policy? Incredible light bulb moment(s) coming!
- I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
- A similar idea, to stretch back into German Romanticism, to help understand the relationship between human and non-human today, guides this. fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...
- After enjoying the (very funny) new FOUR SEASONS, I want to see the original. Sandy Dennis and Rita Moreno! www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Ld...
- I'm responsible for at least 50k of the views on this. (And that's not counting in the car, where it's Francescatti and Casadesus on a Columbia Masterworks CD). #Beethoven www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4d...
- omgg had no idea these two did the Beethoven sonatas together are you kidding me rn app.idagio.com/albums/beeth...
- Perlman and Argerich! app.idagio.com/albums/itzha...
- Trump is accepting a whole 747 plane bribe for himself from foreign sources and this is what his administration returns to the American taxpayer.
- We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass In our dry cellar
- 🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- My common sense, centrist position is that immigrants are what make America great, and therefore the undocumented should be given a path to citizenship, unless they are found guilty of multiple felonies (say, 34) or commit egregiously anti-American acts like attacking our seat of government.
- I owe my mother everything.
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- Someone sat down and made this, it occurs to me.
- Bigotry. It weakens the military.
- Emily Schilling has been a Navy aviator for nearly 2 decades. She has flown more than 60 combat missions. She is fighting Trump's ban on transgender people in the military. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- 🚨 🚨 🚨 "The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of a lengthy report about artificial intelligence and expressed some concerns and questions about the usage of copyrighted materials by AI technology."
- Trump 2020: “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.” Trump 2025: If we stopped copyrighting right now, we’d have very few examples of AI plagiarizing, if any.
- Cannot believe YouTube's algorithm shows me this *now*, after I've mostly finished working on the piece. Do you know how many times I put "Robert Schumann Papillons" in the search bar and filtered to upload date, and this, only 3 mos old, never popped up? 😡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdhW...
- Omg, this video is such a gift tho! It is validating some of my choices, and making me consider loads of others I hadn't thought of. Grateful to Boris Giltburg and Henle for making this available to everyone.
- This is a perverse level of militarization for this bucolic area. ICE is beginning to occupy a societal space between regular law enforcement and our armed forces that is extremely troubling given historical precedents of the same.
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- A visual of the states mapping out articles where this is happening would be useful...
- Bigotry weakens the military.
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- DHS confirms to @axios.com that they are considering arresting Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez. Watson Coleman's office says they reviewed the body cam footage and that it proves "nobody 'assaulted' any agents." More here: www.axios.com/2025/05/10/t...
- Being pro-humanity feels like a simple and easy North Star to adopt for these increasingly inhumane times.
- The world doesn't need another Chopin recording, but this one's on an 1839 Pleyel pianino, made just a few months after the same one on which Chopin composed his preludes, and it's beautifully mic-ed, so it's got my ear. app.idagio.com/albums/chopi...
- Joni's The Hissing of Summer Lawns, followed by Miles' Bitches Brew, though what's on the wall works too (Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory).
- Good morning! 🌞 You have the weekend off. What are you listening to in this room? 🎶 #interiors
- How he thinks he's coming across (bottom) vs. how he's coming across (top).
- "I and I alone speak for FEMA. I am the president's representative at FEMA. And I am here to carry out President Trump's intent." www.tiktok.com/@cbsnews/vid...
- Back on these haunting masterpieces again, this time with a new recording. How he composed such emotionally mature works as a young man, it baffles the mind. Fits the mood under day 5, 6? now of rain. #Rachmaninoff app.idagio.com/albums/histo...
