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Chris Flinterman

@cflinterman.bsky.social
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Writes a PhD thesis about Berlin in the 1920s in contemporary popular culture. Works @UniLeiden as Research Manager. Likes pop & classical music, literature, (model) trains, Peanuts, Donald Duck, hiking, old musical films and much more

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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Walther Ruttmanns experimenteller Dokumentarfilm "Berlin – Die Sinfonie der Großstadt" wurde am 23. September 1927 in Berlin uraufgeführt und portraitiert einen Tag der Stadt. Siegfried Kracauer besprach den Film als "schlimme Enttäuschung" mit tollen Fotografien und fragte "aber ist das Berlin?" 🧵
Erwachens-Szene des Films zeigt eine leere Straße, an der links eine Litfassäule steht und mittig ein einzelner Mensch über die Straße geht. Dahinter viergeschossige Häuser, rechts eine Berliner Kindl Kneipe. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
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Onderuit ⚘ in de polder @onderuit.eu · 10/03/2026
Tickets voor Onderuit ziin al verkrijgbaar. Wie snel is ontvangt nog een korting (tot 15 maart), je kan ze maar vast hebben. Dit wil je niet missen natuurlijk. Info en tickets via de site 👇 www.onderuit.eu/tickets
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Mare @mareonline.nl · 11/02/2026
Collegevoorzitter Luc Sels hield maandag in zijn diesrede een gloedvol pleidooi voor het belang van geestes- en sociale wetenschappen. ‘Die moeten we koesteren: niet als erfgoed, maar als fundament voor de toekomst.’
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Collegevoorzitter Sels strijdt bij diesviering tegen een ‘humanities apocalyps’
Collegevoorzitter Luc Sels hield maandag in zijn diesrede een gloedvol pleidooi voor het belang van geestes- en sociale wetenschappen. ‘Die moeten we koesteren: niet als erfgoed, maar als fundament vo...
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Sleutelstad @sleutelstad.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Toneelvereniging Onder Ons speelt ‘De onafwendbare ondergang van Brot’
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Toneelvereniging Onder Ons speelt 'De onafwendbare ondergang van Brot'
Toneelvereniging Onder Ons bestaat inmiddels 171 jaar, maar is nog altijd springlevend. Deze maand gaat hun nieuwe voorstelling 'De onafwendbare ondergang van Brot' in première, een tragisch, herkenbaar en bij vlagen absurdistisch toneelstuk waarin conservatieve gewoontes...
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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on December 19, 1972.
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Jake Tapper, long-suffering Philly sports fan @jaketapper.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
First Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published 40 years ago yesterday. 🐯 👦🏼
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Christina Dongowski @tinido.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Ich wünsche uns, dass wir in die Woche swishen wie Rita Hayworth & Fred Astair hier.
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Het kan aan mij liggen, maar qua symboliek is het toch enorm vreemd dat we onze stembiljetten in een kliko staan te gooien?
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Charles M. Schulz Museum | The home of Snoopy & the Peanuts Gang @schulzmuseum.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on October 27, 1962.
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Vor einem Jahr erschien "Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten". Seitdem habe ich mit dem Buch viele schöne Erfahrungen gemacht. Ich denke/hoffe, das Thema ist nach wie vor aktuell. Zum Anlass des Jubiläums verlose ich zwei signierte Exemplare. Zum Mitmachen den Post teilen.
Zwei druckfrische Ausgaben meines Buchs "Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten".
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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Elisa Hendriks @elisahendriks.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Deelnemers gezocht voor oral history onderzoek naar vrouwenradio’s, 1975-1990 Bent u in de jaren zeventig en tachtig actief betrokken geweest bij het maken van vrouwenradio? Of maakte u feministische radioprogramma’s of afleveringen?
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Green is on the ground, with a goal line drawn into the ground in front of him, just out of reach. Exhausted, with great pain and effort, Green stretches and reaches towards the line, groaning, even pushing out his tongue in hopes of making contact with it.

Blue shows up, frowning at Green.
Blue: If you can't meet the deadline, just ask them for more time.
Green: No, I can make it.
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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Een begin - Chris Flinterman schrijft
“Waar te beginnen? Ieder begin is wel goed, want zelfs als zuigelaar, hurkend knaapje met knikkers of als bebrild scholier voortschuifelend langs de huizen, altijd was ik wel met feilloze precisie op weg naar het punt waar ik nu zit te schrijven.” Met deze woorden opent Willem Brakman de roman Het zwart uit de mond...
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just wrote down in about 800 words what my PhD thesis is about from start to finish, what I am doing in each chapter, and suddenly it all connected and made sense. I have the feeling this is finally getting somewhere.
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Fachbereich 09 Philologie der Universität Münster @fb09public.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
#WelttagdesBuches 📚 Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler, Literaturwissenschaftler am Germanistischen Institut und Buchnostalgiker, schreibt in einem essayistischen Gastbeitrag in der Unizeitung @uni-muenster.de über sein Verhältnis zum Buch und stellt Überlegungen zum Bücherregal der Zukunft an.
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[23.04.2025] Bauen Sie sich eine Bibliothek auf!
Prof. Dr. Moritz Baßler, Literaturwissenschaftler am Germanistischen Institut und Buchnostalgiker, schreibt in seinem essayistischen Gastbeitrag zum Welttag des Buches über sein Verhältnis zum Buch, d...
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In der Promotion fand ich Schreiben oft quälend, hab mit jeder Formulierung gekämpft & gehadert. Das hat sich inzwischen zum Glück verändert — v.a. durch Schreibkollaborationen, die das Zutrauen in mein Schreiben gestärkt haben, & durch Routine. Was ich daraus gelernt hab: Heute in #ArbeitInDerWiss!
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Weiter im Text: Vom Schreiben inner- und außerhalb der Wissenschaft
Der beste Text ist einer, der gut genug ist, um fertig zu sein.
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Bücher zu gewinnen! Anlässlich der 2. Auflage meines Buches "Wut und Wertung. Warum wir über Geschmack streiten" verlost der S.Fischer Verlag zwei Exemplare. Mitmachen kann jeder, der den Post teilt. (bis 25.4. 17:00)
Zwei Ausgaben von Wut und Wertung
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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Lea Fink @strassenverlauf.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Am 29. März 1927 traf Kasimir Malewitsch in Berlin ein, um seine Sonderausstellung in der Großen Berliner Kunstausstellung vorzubereiten. Er blieb mehrere Wochen, anschließend fuhr er zum Bauhaus Dessau. In Berlin wurde ab Mai u. a. sein Gemälde "Frau an einer Straßenbahnhaltestelle" gezeigt. 🧵
Kubistisches Ölgemälde, dunkel gehalten, erinnert an eine städtische Szene. Übereinander geschichtet verschiedene Details und Ausschnitte, mittig ein Fahrplan. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue is sitting on his computer, staring at the screen with a frown. At some distance, Green turns around to listen as Blue laments.
Blue: "We wish this e-mail finds you well." I'd have been better if it hadn't.

Green watches as Blue walks past, sighing.
Blue: Oh how I'd love a small cottage in the middle of nowhere, where they would never find me.

Blue turns around to look at Green as Green talks.
Green: The e-mails?
Blue: Yeah.
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Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Lief netwerk, onlangs heb ik gehoord dat mijn huisbaas het pand gaat verkopen. Ik ben dus op zoek naar een huurappartement in de regio Leiden. Bij voorkeur ca. 40 m2, huur max. €1500 per maand. Alle tips heel erg welkom!
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a house on stilts with a top hat on top
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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links
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an animated image with the words did you say free stuff
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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are sitting on the opposite ends of a mattress, with a scrungled-up fitted sheet resting on top of the mattress between them. The foxes look at each other, full of confidence.
Green: Ready to tackle putting on the fitted sheet?
Blue: Yep!

Blue and Green begin to struggle with the sheet, stretching it over the mattress.
Blue: Is it still on right?
Green: No! The left corner escaped!

After great painstaking efforts, the foxes succeed. Standing on the opposite sides of the now sheet-covered mattress, they admire the fruits of their hard work.
Green: Phew! Finally!

The foxes draw back in surprise as the mattress suddenly gives in under the strain of the bedsheet, folding nearly in half into a banana shape, as the corners of the mattress are pulled up by the corners of the sheet.
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Poldermanie @poldermanie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Bent u klaar om het jaar af te sluiten?
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 2️⃣4️⃣ The grande finale! Today we're looking at the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel, who (unknowingly) laid the basis for what seems to be half of the pop music songs. So let's go!
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Pachelbel Canon in D Major - the original and best version.
YouTube video by Voices of Music
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Zoals ieder jaar straks weer in de kerststemming komen met het Feestconcert van het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest!
De zaal van het Concertgebouw, rood uitgelicht
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 2️⃣3️⃣ The Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms is not only suitable to dance on, as Charlie Chaplin demonstrates in a scene in The Great Dictator: you might as well shave a customer to its melody.
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Charlie Chaplin - The Great Dictator - Barber Shop Scene (Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5)
YouTube video by Charlie Chaplin
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 2️⃣2️⃣ The fifth symphony by Beethoven is famous, but in this particular cartoon the Pink Panther prefers a slightly more modern piece of music and tries everything to make the orchestra play it...
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The Pink Panther in "Pink, Plunk, Plink"
YouTube video by Official Pink Panther
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 2️⃣1️⃣ Today the Goldberg Variations of Bach, which appear in several books - one of them being The Silence of the Lambs, in which Hannibal Lecter listens to them whilst killing the guards in prison. "Dr. Lecter toyed with his food while he wrote and drew and doodled on his pad
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 2️⃣0️⃣ George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was composed in 1924 and literally went skyhigh; since 1980, United Airlines has been using it as a sort of signature song - including in their safety videos.
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United Airlines New Safety Video 2020 | 1080P
YouTube video by Aviation Point
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Tijd voor de beste kerstfilm allertijden!
Tv scherm met de titel Bernard and The Genie
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Twee weken vakantie van werk! Nu uitrusten, leuke dingen doen, Top 2000 luisteren en ook wat aan mijn proefschrift werken.
Academiegebouw van Leiden in het donker met achter de ramen groene en rode verlichting
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣9️⃣ New technology seems to like classical music; with the introduction of Windows 3.0, there was a Midi recomposition of Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons in the jukebox. It can be heard here: web.archive.org/web/20200402...
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Wayback Machine
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣8️⃣ Classical music in a DJ set, and a complete crowd going wild over it? Basically that's what happened when Tiësto turned Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings into a dance track in 2004.
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Tiësto - Adagio For Strings (Live)
YouTube video by TiestoVEVO
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Stefan Sudhoff 🟥 @stefan2100.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Ich hab ganz verpasst, dass @neinquarterly.bsky.social hier ist! Manchmal wäre ein Algorithmus doch ganz nützlich...
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣7️⃣ Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra was of course famously used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but also in a slightly less flattering sense in a commercial for Pampers...
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Pampers - Pooface commercial
YouTube video by LLLLITL
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣6️⃣ The Die Hard action movies are maybe not the first place you would expect classical music in, but they do use it quite a lot; in the second, Finlandia of Jean Sibelius plays a big role, and in the first, it is the 9th Symphony of Beethoven (particularly the Ode to Joy).
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Die hard 1988 Theo opens the Nakatomi vault 1080p HD
YouTube video by Able Archer 83
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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣5️⃣ What do Neil Diamond and Mozart have to do with each other? Not much it seems, until you listen to Song Sung Blue and compare its melody to Piano Concerto No. 21; the one is clearly inspired by the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6w0...
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Song Sung Blue/Mozart
YouTube video by Heather
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣4️⃣ The animation series of the Smurfs actually uses lots of classical music, but one of the themes that stands out is the use of Schubert's 8th Symphony. It is frequently heard, because it is the theme song of Gargamel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qs-...
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Smurfs Gargamel Theme song Bgm Ost 01
YouTube video by Animation Den
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣3️⃣ Although film scores can be regarded as classical music themselves, they also are inspired by classical music themselves. John Williams clearly listened to the Funeral March of Chopin when composing the Imperial March for Star Wars... youtu.be/hZY5DBmgC_A?...
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Frédéric Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2 in B flat minor, Funeral March [HD]
YouTube video by HD Classical Music
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣2️⃣ The holiday season classically also means: The Nutcracker of Tchaikovsky. For players of the NES version of Tetris, however, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies raises other memories, as it was used as the theme of Tetris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0YL...
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nes collections - tetris - dance of the sugarplum fairies
YouTube video by nagginu
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 1️⃣1️⃣ The default Nokia ringtone has become an icon in itself. But did you know it was composed in 1902? The short part appears in the Gran Vals of Francisco Tárrega, just a little after the introduction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpeW...
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Gran Vals Integral de Guitarra Tarrega Russell
YouTube video by The Joe Scarafone Channel
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 🔟 The progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer released their album Pictures at an Exhibition in 1971. The album is a rock adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite and features an encore based on the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=13q-...
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Promenade Part 1 (Live in Newcastle) [Official Audio]
YouTube video by Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 9️⃣ TV commercials are notoriously famous for using classical music to sell about everything. Cars have a special sub-section, which Renault took next level with their cars 'dancing' to Offenbach's Snowflake Ballet (from Le Voyage dans la Lune). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgUf...
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Renault "Ballet" Commercial
YouTube video by Robbi Smith
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 8️⃣ The beauty of Air on the G String meets violence and cruelty in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), when Karl Stromberg (the villain) feeds a traitor to his shark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJg...
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Traitor girl fed to shark
YouTube video by jbox1400
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 7️⃣ In the Muppet Show, Rowlf played quite some classical pieces, some with a bust of Beethoven on his piano. When playing Piano Sonata No. 8, "Pathétique", it is not particularly enthusiastic about the interpretation... www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ap...
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The Muppet Show: Rowlf - Beethoven's "Pathétique" (Reprise)
YouTube video by dorcm1973
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#ClassicalMeetsPop 6️⃣ One of my favourite cartoons featuring Donald Duck is the Band Concert (1935), in which Mickey Mouse tries to conduct Rossini's Wilhelm Tell overture - which sounds easier than it actually is... archive.org/details/the-...
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The Band Concert - (1935, Restored) : Walt Disney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
*Restored Disney Plus printCopyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism,...
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Chris Flinterman @cflinterman.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Got the hardcopy of the Handbuch Weimarer Republik yesterday, very happy to be part of it with the list that started my PhD research in 2020 (and thanks to @marenlickhardt.bsky.social it turned into a publication, after sending a simple tweet).
Front cover of the Handbuch Weimarer RepublikExcerpt of the list
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