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youtube.comFlorence Price: Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E Minor, performed by Sharon SuYouTube video by doodlyroses

3 Sept 2025

📣 hear ye hear ye, my recording of Florence Price’s Fantasie nègre No. 1 is out, and there’s a video

When other drivers aren’t perfectly in the middle of their lane they’re maniacs, but when I do it I am merely adhering to the racing line

Non-native speakers of any language, from least confident to most confident - someone who speaks it perfectly as their 2nd language - American student who did 1 year of study abroad - guy who married a native speaker - choir nerd who once did a 6 min piece in that language in 8th grade

Without fail you can ask a question like “can any Congolese scholars explain to me how the syntax around an object noun changes when you ask a question” and someone will be like “I had a solo in a Congolese folk song in choir in middle school so I got this”

Finally worked up the courage to touch a piece I hadn’t practiced for four months because I was scared and turns out it’s better than when I was practicing it every day, what the hell gives

Hair salon setup in my house and paying a professional hairstylist to come wash and blow dry my hair every day

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question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

It’s not even about having nice hair, it’s just that I really love the sensation of a pro putting their hands on my head. Lil daily scalp massage would fix me I think

The “scared of cities” contingent: I would never step foot in LA! Skid Row! Crime! Drugs! Me: you fools, you imbeciles, the most frightening thing about LA is the Santa Ana winds

Me: I am philosophically opposed to the idea that every minuscule transaction with another person must be reviewed. For gosh sakes we’re all human beings Me after dealing with one (1) annoying person: I should be allowed to leave a scathing review on a random stranger’s face

Just took so long trying to open a too-small can with a too-big can opener that I could feel the spirit of Bean Dad watching me smugly

It's nice to know that AI at its most powerful still can't produce classical music satire that's anywhere near what I can do with a laptop and a free hour and I think that's beautiful

buttondown.comHiatuses and HenselfestI certainly did not intend to go on a long newsletter hiatus, but sometimes life forces hiatuses (hiatiae?) upon you. Without getting too deep into my...

First newsletter after an unplanned 3-month hiatus buttondown.com/doodlyroses/...

Getting shamed by my newsletter platform Yes I am very aware it's been a while thank you

Did anyone know that doing work when you’ve gotten rest and have working brain cells is way better than trying to work when you’re exhausted and your brain is so fried you can’t think? I might be the first person to ever discover this

I have gone too long not remembering that Shostakovich’s second trio exists

That fourth movement hits every single time

My self-perception just constantly oscillates between “I am talented and special and no one does it like me” and “I only impress people because arts education and access has been so hollowed out in this country for the last few decades that people are now floored by baseline musical competence”

It may be harder than ever to actually be a classical musician in this country, but it’s never been easier to impress normies who have never been inside a concert hall, so, you know, pros and cons

youtube.comJimyYouTube video by Aloïse Sauvage - Topic

Pop artists in most countries: I love dancing and falling in love :) French pop artists: absent fathers cause unfathomable pain, society is failing its children, the gender binary is stupid, cancer sucks, here’s a song about a guy named jimmy

Likewise with this song about a guy named Jimy www.youtube.com/watch?v=SidB...

youtu.beTumeurYouTube video by Aloïse Sauvage - Topic

These are not the only examples of such topics but I wanted everyone to know I was not making this up French pop artists are something else

Maybe not a banger per se but a song telling cancer to go suck it youtu.be/17ZpfQMiCHs

youtube.comJimmyYouTube video by Eddy de Pretto - Topic

My French is not good enough for me to understand what this song is about other than a guy named Jimmy www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Quw...

A banger about society failing young people music.apple.com/us/album/enf...

music.apple.comÉtoile flippante (Version deluxe) by Hoshi on Apple MusicAlbum · 2022 · 31 Songs

youtube.comStromae - tous les mêmes (Official Video)YouTube video by StromaeVEVO

A banger about the futility of gender bsky.app/profile/dood...

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAMW...

Oh and how could I forget the number of French pop songs about depression

m.youtube.comStromae - papaoutai (Official Video)YouTube video by StromaeVEVO

A banger about not having a father m.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj...

16 Sept

Uhh truly do not know what to do with the development of everyone suddenly going "wait, we like this guy now?" about an artist I have quietly enjoyed for years

16 Sept

"How did he of all people become a voice for justice in spite of societal pressure?" Me in the corner with my headphones: oh ummmmm yeah so he's always been like this

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16 Sept

This is not me doing the "I am virtuous because there is a connection between morals and artistic preference" thing this is just me being confused about all of this

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2 Sept

Tomorrow is Mantissa the Dishwasher Cat’s birthday and all she wants is for you to donate to Henselfest ! www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

henselpushers.orgAnnouncing: Henselfest — HenselPushersSince starting Henselpushers just over 6 years ago, I have had a lot of ambitious, stupid (complimentary), or weird Hensel-related ideas. I started keeping my ridiculous, grandiose, or complicated pro...

2 Sept

Ummmm so there is going to be an entire music festival dedicated to Fanny Hensel!!!!

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Henselfest? Henselfest.

2 Sept

If you want to have the busiest, most bonkers year of your life, start a yearlong project like blogging a chapter of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables every day, guaranteed that will act as a lightning rod delivering events into your life that keep you from having time for your silly little project

There is really nothing like international travel to gauge precisely how embarrassing your home country is at any given point

Reminds me of when I was in the UK shortly after the 2016 election and upon hearing my American accent, British people would go “so how did you let that happen”

I think that as a little treat to me the people who voted for [gestures] all of this should be made to sit through punishing inquiries by randomly selected juries of extremely judgmental Europeans

There is really nothing like international travel to gauge precisely how embarrassing your home country is at any given point

“You are much safer here than in America, we don’t have the guns here” “We have problems but nothing like your income inequality where people with good jobs cannot afford a place to live” “Don’t worry you can eat the food here”

Why is the Beach C# piano concerto so good and why have I never heard it in person You don’t have to answer that it was a rhetorical question

I did a research project on legendary child prodigies and found that the secret sauce was having parents who provided them with the best musical education possible and connections to a professional network that gave them opportunities That’s it that’s the secret, it’s just access

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Thesis: WA Mozart was a tremendously talented kid who only became “Mozart” bc his dad created the conditions for him to succeed Reply guys: oooOOOOH but what if a kid ISN’T talented, then they CAN’T become Mozart even with the right conditions and your thesis is wrong! I am very smart!

Some of you didn’t learn basic if-then logic proofs in school and it shows

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Because so many of these “geniuses” came from fathers who didn’t make it big in music and wanted their kids to succeed in their own thwarted ambitions…it’s basically daddy issues all the way down

Wheeeeeee starting to get replies from guys going “but if you give a kid access without talent then they won’t become great” and that is 1) so fkn obvious, guys, good job, and 2) irrelevant if the dataset you’re working with is talented kids. On this topic we are operating with talent being a given!

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