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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

In case anyone was wondering, suffragette Cicely Hamilton, born June 15, 1852, is currently 154 years old. Thank god for AI, or I would've missed this amazing fact.

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Lots of updates to my historical women composers cello database and playlist of same. If you're a cellist, hit up the former, an aficionado, the latter. www.wildcellist.ca/database *** open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZH...

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Database | Wild Cellist

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Mel Bonis' "La Toute Petite s'endort" (1928). In recent years, no less than three lullaby albums have been released that feature the piece. Music to help baby sleep! But it sounds like the soundtrack for a haunted doll movie. Seriously, would you play this for your kid? youtu.be/10Rpu_OT1Ro?...

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Bonis: Miocheries, Op. 126: No. 13, La toute petite s'endort

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Nancy Dalberg! (1881-1949) I am a proud Dalbergian. Dalbergians are few, but mighty. My conversion came about in a moment of rapture upon hearing the 4th movement of her first string quartet. 😮❤️ First ever recordings of her cello-piano works dropped this past June: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Sehested, Dalberg & Griebel Wandall: Chamber Works - YouTube

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Last Wieck, I heard a piece which, after only a few bars, put me in a state of Bonis-ian Rhapsody. It was so moving I found myself Carreño-ing from side to side; seriously, it Boulanger'd me over - twice. But it was in the development section that things really started to Jaëll - and Howell! 1/2

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Spotify this morning. My "offer" (whatever that is) expires at the end of 1969. Shades of Y2K. Maybe they should focus less on ICE ads and military AI.

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

In late 19th/early 20th century Paris, a number of women composers produced some of the best music I've ever heard. It's gorgeous, original; utterly kickass at points. What makes its existence all the more remarkable are the conditions under which it arose. 1/4

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A thread about AI search results 🧵 For awhile now, I've been curating a database of novels/fiction about women composers. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...) (There are a number of lists of books about women composers, but none focussed solely on works of fiction.) 1/11

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

1/2 From the novel, "Escapement" by Kristen Wolf. The protagonist, a pianist, has just learned about a piano's inner workings. Here, she ponders the "reckless" hammer that flies towards the string when a key is struck:

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

"He had a mutilated score of the F Sharp Minor Sonata, which he had heard Clara Schumann play at a festival in Leipzig." Excerpt from the 1915 novel, "The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather. It's a book intended for a general audience. It appears that Clara was still a well known name. ♀️😎🎹❤️🔥

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Some thoughts on AI narration: Humans are attuned to spot differences. Subtle ones. It's how we survived on the Serengeti millennia ago; knowing the difference between one sound & another could literally mean life or death. Even a "good" AI reader will repeat things in exactly the same way. (1/3)

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Books about historical women composers! Most are nonfiction, however there is some fiction: novels about real composers & also fictitious ones. There are lists of books about women composers, however none of them focus solely on fiction. So I made a database: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Novels/Fiction About Women Composers

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Recently found a video from 40+ yrs ago. From what I've gotten to work thus far (the VHS tape is wonky) I'm playing a wearable cello, then, guitar & foot keyboard. My musical partner, Rorie is on body drums (our invention) keyboard bass & vocals. Song's an original. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKch...

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Meet Men Not Machines - "Morning Star" 1985

YouTube video by Marshall Cello

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Finally went for it and got cds made of my latest record. (Streaming's ok, but it's nice to have physical media with liner notes* *a quaint term from an earlier era that some might not know.)

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"He has no musical advisor but me, so does not commit a single thought to paper without having previously submitted it for my perusal." - Fanny Mendelssohn, writing about her brother Felix in 1822

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

1/2 Author Harriet Constable, on Vivaldi: "Scholars agree, that without the Pietá and the Figlie Di Coro, a breeding ground of talent to test ideas, his music would not exist today."

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

There's music I encountered at young age that's now substrate to my "listening being." On rare occasions, I'll hear a work that has the same effect, wherein in short order, it's as if I've been hearing it my whole life and it was always meant to be there. Barraine: open.spotify.com/album/7FeBcD...

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Barraine: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

Elsa Barraine · Album · 2025 · 8 songs

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A playlist: "Artists who require masks at their shows in 2025 😷" A few songs from each act; pls check out artists' own accounts to hear more - or better yet, mask up & go see them live! Suggestions for more artists: feel free to comment here, or dm me on fb! open.spotify.com/playlist/7iy...

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Artists who require masks at their shows in 2025 😷

Playlist · Corbin Keep · 13 items · 8 saves

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Sometimes, sci-fi is prescient; in this case, it's instant reality: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑯𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒍, by Laila Lalami, pub. Mar 4, 2025. An article by Canadian actor/recent ICE detainee, Jasmine Mooney, pub. March 19, 2025. The similarities are chilling, to say the least. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Some of this is quite dated, however the overall sentiment seems quite appropriate for the current moment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EVA...

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Not You (aka "The Canadian Song"

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Delphine von Schauroth! "From the late 1820s until the early 1840s her reputation was truly dazzling, & some publications placed her above (Clara) Schumann. That Schauroth is virtually unknown today speaks more to the workings of history than to her renown in the nineteenth century." -Amanda Lalonde

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Hidden Pearls: Piano Works by Delphine Von Schauroth

Delphine von Schauroth · Album · 2023 · 10 songs

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I love this quote by Peter Neubäcker! (Melodyne) Seems particularly apt while in the throes of figuring out difficult music on the cello: "...I thought it would be impossible. But the more I pondered the subject, the more I began to see that what doesn't work in theory can still work in reality."

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

1/5 Cecelia Hopkins Porter: "Over the centuries, countless generations of women musical artists have won varying degrees of success in performing & composing even while charged with the responsibilities of marriage, motherhood, & other types of family caregiving.

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

2024 has been an amazing year for premiere recordings of works by historical women composers. Some of my to die fors: Rita Strohl - piano quintet; piano septet Jeanne Leleu - quartet for piano & strings Delphine von Schauroth - piano works Here's some Strohl: open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

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Septuor en Ut Mineur: III. Romance. Très lent et très mystérieux

2024 Wrapped

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Nicole Grimes @nicoleegrimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thrilled to announce Call for Participation for The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th C Women Composers | 26–28/8/2025. Hosted by TCD Dept of Music, RIAM & @tlrhub.bsky.social Calling PERFORMERS, SCHOLARS & INDUSTRY LEADERS expansivecanvas.com

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About - The Expansive Canvas

The Expansive Canvas Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th Century Women Composers Overview The Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music , and the Trinity Long R...

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There are a number of reasons why great works by historical women composers aren’t well known and at the heart of the classical canon, even though it’s clear that they should be. One reason: exposure. There are decades worth of recordings by male composers, often in multiple versions. (1/5)

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝑼𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥. 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝/𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspea...

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Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello, by Corbin Keep

15 track album

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

So frustrating to see a woman composer's name on lots of programs, then discover that Worldcat shows only 20 surviving scores, most in inaccessible libraries. (Thank you Eastman for the one digitized set of songs.)

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

A milestone! My database of historical cello works by women has reached 250 composers. Note: some of the pieces are arrangements (not originally written for cello; this is delineated clearly, including if the arrangement is by the composer). The cutoff date for the list is 1951. www.wildcellist.ca

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Home | Wild Cellist

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Mel Bonis (1858-1937): “Two people I know, wanting to get "up-to-date," decided to play a piece by Haydn with four hands, transposing one of the parts by a semitone. No one among the listeners doubted it was written by one of the stars of the day, which earned him some well rounded applause.”

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

For those who cannot get enough cello music written by historical women composers (and who can?!) here's a playlist. Works are in chronological order by year written; the cutoff is date is 1951. open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZH...

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Cello Works by Historical Female Composers

Cello Works by Historical Female Composers · Playlist · 183 songs · 86 likes

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Leah Broad @leahbroad.bsky.social · 15/01/2024

ETHEL SMYTH SYMPOSIUM ALERT!!! The deadline for the CfP is 29 January - papers can deal with any aspect of Smyth's life, music, and context Details for submission are here: drive.google.com/file/d/1-jWm...

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Smyth Symposium 2024 CFP Ext.pdf

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Criticize the movie, fine, but this waaaay too long, mansplain-y article goes far beyond that and does little more than perpetuate the same old musical misogyny/"dead white male composers are the only good ones" drivel. Puke emoji responses welcome. compactmag.com/article/the-...

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The Real Threat to Classical Music

Compact Magazine, a radical American journal

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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Spotify stat: my top artist for 2023 was Ethyl Smyth, followed by Mel Bonis, Emilie Mayer and Charlotte Sohy. Nearly 283 hours listened. And Vancouver BC - of all places (right across the water from where I live) - apparently has the highest per capita of spotify listeners with similar taste...😮

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