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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 11h

Sometimes it’s Brahms time. Restless, passionate, tender — music that seems to struggle with itself and somehow finds its way. A few minutes away from the noise of the world with the Rhapsody in G minor op79 No2. youtu.be/3aUHpNlBKN4

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Brahms Rhapsody op79 No2 G minor

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wemeze @wemeze.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI moves fastest where we need it least: formulaic pop and synthetic literature. Where are the promised breakthroughs in health, climate and food? We need AI to solve problems, not replace human imagination. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

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Wer an KI-Songs verdient - und wer leer ausgeht

Immer mehr Songs auf Streamingplattformen werden nicht von Menschen erschaffen, sondern stammen aus der Maschine - und nicht immer ist das erkennbar. Viele Musikschaffende sehen dadurch ihre wirtschaf...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Si nous ne protégeons pas la créativité humaine et ne posons pas de limites à l’IA, nous risquons d’inverser les rôles : au lieu que les machines nous servent, nous servirons les machines. Les batteries de Matrix ne seront plus une simple métaphore. @franceculture.fr youtu.be/V6RTUjy6Xg0

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VAN Magazin @vanmagazin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Der Komponist Steve Reich wird heute 90 Jahre alt. Im VAN-Interview spricht er über sein Stück ›Traveler’s Prayer‹ und das Älterwerden. van-magazin.de/mag/steve-re...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A serious allegation of antisemitism is meticulously investigated, contested, debated in a civilized way—and taken to court. Remarkably, the RN carries a deep antisemitic legacy, yet still keeps its distance from an AfD it considers too extreme. (1/2) youtu.be/bjZS-yCfk2w

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BackstageClassical @backstageclassical.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A fundamental essay: Our times are brutal. And on our stages, the longing for gentleness is growing ever stronger. A new kind of theatre is emerging: one that no longer wants to lecture and expose, but to listen, touch and bring people together. backstageclassical.com/empathiethea...

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Empathietheater statt Regietheater - BackstageClassical

Unsere Zeit ist brutal. Und an unseren Bühnen wird die Sehnsucht nach Sanftheit immer lauter. Ein neues Theater entsteht: Es will nicht mehr belehren und entlarven, sondern zuhören, berühren und Mensc...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A wake-up call for the classical music industry. A fine orchestra, 77 musicians — and the season stops. Artistic excellence alone doesn’t guarantee survival. We need a debate about funding, costs, audiences, and what orchestras mean to their communities. #NashvilleSymphony youtu.be/p8yMb6IBaQA

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our glaciers are disappearing before our eyes. At the same time, immense resources are being poured into AI and autonomous warfare. How do we want to use our ingenuity and resources—for automated killing, or for protecting the foundations of life? That choice is ours. www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n...

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Swiss glaciers suffer another year of record ice loss

Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Autonomous warfare threatens us all—including the tech billionaires who believe it can be controlled. Machines must never decide who lives or dies. It’s time to stop this race toward autonomous killing and put people and the planet before technological power. orf.at/stories/3443...

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Hegseth: Musk soll „Zukunft der Kriegsführung“ erforschen

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Sometimes it’s Brahms time! Curzon, Cliburn, Pollini, Barenboim, Ax, Zimerman, Bronfman & Grimaud reveal different ideas of sound, time, phrasing and architecture in Piano Concerto No. 2. Same notes—very different musical worlds. Listen & compare. youtu.be/wicGiOWLAMw

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Piano Fast and Furious #Brahms #Piano #Concerto No2 B flat major op83, 1st, 3rd and 4th mvt

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How do we preserve trust in human creativity? A book, photo, painting, sculpture or song should connect one human experience with another. If we no longer know whether there is a human mind behind it, something fundamental is lost: human experience itself. youtu.be/YEn3OCU_6Xg

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IA et scandale littéraire : Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt sur Thélyson Orélien - #QuelleEpoque 26/09/2026

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Music for young pianists—but never simplistic. Schumann began his Album for the Young as a gift for his seven-year-old daughter. From spring and play to tenderness and “first loss”: simple in means, rich in imagination. Music that takes children seriously. youtu.be/dOqvUGmoo-0

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Schumann Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) op68 No13 to No18

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Moto Perpetuo @motoperpetuo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Metropolitan Opera and New York City have launched Opera for All, offering 70,000 free tickets to New Yorkers during the 2026–27 season. The initiative comes as the Met launches a $1.5 billion campaign to secure its future. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/metropolitan...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI cannot tell us what AI should be for. That requires human creativity, philosophy, sociology, art and culture. We must decide where it can support us, and where it must not replace us. Perhaps we need a new Renaissance: science, technology and the humanities thinking together. youtu.be/rDteJAuKiBI

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Sir Demis Hassabis on the AI Revolution, the Future of AI and Human Creativity | Hannah Fry

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

„With the facts and the data, prepared for the conversation, but also with the humanity that we do want to be infused back into our lives.” Great interview @jessicatarlov.bsky.social with @desilydic.bsky.social @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/q27E9n7Tomg

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Jessica Tarlov - “I Disagree: Winning Arguments Without Losing Friends” | The Daily Show

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Hijab Series: 'What if' (2014) by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel #womensart

A series of six monochrome photographs showing a man and a woman, in stages the man is eventually shown wearing the burka that the woman wears in the first image, while the woman eventually is uncovered to wear clothes with no headdress

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026

The challenges facing our cities may span borders, but so do the ideas that can solve them.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Age isn’t the problem. The hype is. Young conductors are marketed as if talent meant maturity. In the streaming age, we need fewer instant takes — more time to study, listen, live and grow. www.srf.ch/kultur/musik...

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Dirigierende Gen Z – Jugendwahn oder Kulturwandel am Pult?

Senkrechtstarter wie Tarmo Peltokoski zeigen: Ein Orchester zu dirigieren ist keine Frage des Alters. Stimmt das?

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

„Once you really get into it, once you really allow it to get into you, everything changes.” youtu.be/EoDRwueyEsw

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Alec Baldwin: On the Healing Power of Music

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Good music is good music, and most music is not,” he says emphatically. And what makes good music good? “Can you play it next to Charlie Parker? Can you play it next to Johann Sebastian Bach? Does it still sound worthwhile? If it does – hey, you got something!” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...

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‘Good music is good music, and most music is not!’ As he hits 90, master minimalist Steve Reich looks back

At 14, he heard Stravinsky and resolved to be a composer. As Reich approaches his 10th decade, the man revered by the likes of David Bowie reflects on a life that changed the soundtrack of modern livi...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Music can help overcome hate. At Mostar Rock School (24:32), young people — rich and poor, Christian and Muslim — meet and make music. Face-to-face encounters build empathy; different backgrounds make stronger teams. Projects like this strengthen society. youtu.be/h_GByB00xfo

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How to unlearn hate - Stories of courage, hope, and reconciliation | DW Documentary

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Storytelling opens the door to imagination. The Lucas Museum celebrates its power to cross languages, connect people and reveal our own stories. It helps us imagine, live together, build and achieve together. AI can assist—but only humans can give stories meaning. youtu.be/QkNKN2tWVhA

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The Biggest Stars Celebrate the Lucas Museum

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great German music. A great German composer. A great German orchestra. A great Berlin-born conductor. Years later, Bruno Walter and Jewish players had to flee when an ideology decided who belonged to German culture. Does history repeat itself? youtu.be/tIooqW8WM60

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Bruno Walter conducts Weber: Oberon, Ouverture (rare video)

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Does Schumann’s “Rhenish” need a conductor? Compare these performances. A fine orchestra can find pulse, balance and direction alone. Great conducting begins where keeping time ends: listening, inspiring—and with a few gestures turning orchestral playing into chamber music. youtu.be/dIKUVI2_vf8

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Two on one – #Schumann #Symphony No3 #Rhenish (1st mvt) – Without and with a conductor

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Max ✊🏽 @maxnum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Meine Wahrnehmung gestern Abend.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are we willing to risk the foundations of democracy by handing power to a few who promise easy answers? As with AI, once power is surrendered, getting it back may be hard. Now is the time to choose: democracy, openness and reason. No hate. No extremism from right (or left). youtu.be/HNrbceRc_ag

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Holocaust-Überlebende Charlotte Knobloch erlebt ein Déja-vu

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What does a conductor do when the orchestra does not play as intended? Watching Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic find their way together reveals what great music making is really about: listening, reacting, trusting. youtu.be/tBZyM--lHTU

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Commented - #LeonardBernstein conducts the #NYPhil - #Sousa #StarsAndStripesForever (1976)

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Die AfD wird sich diese Methoden (erst recht) zu eigen machen (und das ganze restliche „Playbook“), sobald sie an der Macht ist. Besser sich jetzt (rasch) drauf einstellen.

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 17/09/2026

Unser Poster mit 10 wichtigen Tipps gegen den Faschismus ist bald schon vergriffen, wenn das so weiter geht! Ihr findet es zum Selbstdownload oder zum Bestellen hier: volksverpetzer.de/downloads/ ✊

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Bonnie Greer has died at 77. Born on Chicago’s South Side, she became a distinctive cultural voice in Britain. Here she challenges the American Dream not because she stopped believing in America, but because she wanted it to fulfil its promise: freedom and justice for all. RIP. youtu.be/IiDxw0nFZQM

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Bonnie Greer | Don't Dream The American Dream

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can musicians take a stand? Absolutely. Israel has a right to exist. So does an independent Palestinian state. Stop terrorism. Stop crimes against humanity. Criticising Israel’s government never justifies antisemitism. Why is that so hard? No hate, shaming or blaming. www.youtube.com/live/Q2CW9TZ...

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Ed Sheeran: Tiny Desk Concert

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Hoywoj @aushoywoj.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 Bereits im letzten Jahr hat die AFD-Fraktion in Heidenau beantragt, dass keine Stolpersteine mehr in Heidenau verlegt werden. Der Antrag kam nie zur Abstimmung. Jetzt wird er in abgewandelter Form GEMEINSAM von CDU,AFD und einer Wählervereinigung eingereicht.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is music alive: discovering Julius Eastman—his life, ideas and music—through conversation and live performance, listening, questioning and experiencing together. For musicians and non-musicians alike. This is how music opens up new worlds. youtu.be/hOHhOrXheww

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Lessons From the Life and Music of Julius Eastman

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Alexander Roth @00schneemann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Die AfD will die freie Presse vernichten und geht dabei so skrupellos wie systematisch vor. Journalist*innen, die kritisch über die rechtsextreme Partei berichten, leben gefährlich. Wer meint, das beträfe nur Medienschaffende, verkennt die Dimension des Problems. #Pressefreiheit

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AfD will freie Presse vernichten: Schon mal Morddrohungen bekommen? (Kommentar) - Nachrichten aus dem Rems-Murr-Kreis - Zeitungsverlag Waiblingen

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Guido Kühn @guido-kuehn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Der mit Weidel befreundete Theo Müller, bezeichnet den Wahlsieg der AfD als „Glücksfall“ und ruft den Kanzler auf, die SPD zu entlassen und mit der AfD zu regieren, was Deutschland sanieren würde. Experten sind sich einig: bei Müller ist nicht nur ein Joghurt umgekippt, das ist ein Produktionsfehler

Illustration eines Müllermilchjoghurtbechers mit geöffnetem Deckel. DEr Bescher ist beschriftet mit Müllerlogo, Deutschland bunte Vielfalt. SEin Inhalt ist braun verdorben mit einem Pilz in Form eines AfD Logopfeils. Textzeile: Müllers Demokratie-Verständnis (Symbolbild)

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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nach Angaben eines Polizeisprechers lautete die Drohung wörtlich: „Die AfD hat gesiegt. Morgen hängen wir die Knobloch.“ Dass sich die AfD davon nicht distanziert hat - überrascht das irgendjemanden noch?

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München: Morddrohung gegen Knobloch – Spaenle sieht „jede Grenze überschritten“

Unbekannte Täter hatten eine Bank im Englischen Garten mit einer Todesdrohung gegen die Präsidentin der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde beschmiert.

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Music for young people—but never simplistic. In his Album für die Jugend, Schumann shows how simplicity can hold poetry, wonder and depth. A lesson beyond music: what seems simple can open doors to imagination—and still meet the highest expectations. youtu.be/afkY3hK_8n0

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Schumann Album für die Jugend (Album for the Young) op68 No1 to No12

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A world-famous actor gets Dudamel and the Philharmonia for rather sentimental music. Is this really the future of classical music? I wonder what Sir Anthony would say if a young composer with no acting training were cast as Hannibal Lecter in a Netflix remake. www.srf.ch/kultur/musik...

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«Life is a Dream»: Anthony Hopkins' musikalischer Lebensrückblick

Mit 88 Jahren veröffentlicht Schauspieler Anthony Hopkins mit «Life Is a Dream» einen musikalischen Lebensrückblick.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Paul Simon pays tribute to the victims of 9/11 by performing “The Sound of Silence.”

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Conductor. Pianist. Music Communicator. @andreas-mildner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What makes Schubert’s music so deeply moving—and so unmistakably Viennese? This video explores how, beyond Beethoven’s shadow, Schubert found his own voice by blending song and dance, opening doors that later composers such as Mahler and Bruckner would walk through. youtu.be/3WD1vpXjYfs

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#Schubert Unlocked – The Viennese Soul Behind the Music

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