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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think the busts I was referring to were in the Streicher-Saal, opened in 1812, where there was an equal number of male and female busts. I have no knowledge about the busts in the Musikverein.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Still finishing up the revisions, but thank you for your interest!

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

We’ve entered the period of the evening when I can’t tell whether the “it’s all over now” vagueposts are about Platner, the USMNT or McConnell.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Always match your cats to your china. #catsofbluesky (Sadly the vase was broken and mended long before kintsugi was widely known in New England, so instead of veins of gold it shows veins of brown glue. But they match the cat's markings.)

A chunky white cat with blue eyes and some cream/tan markings sits next to a pot-bellied blue and white Chinese vase that has tan marks where it was mended with glue.

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Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

It’s mortifying to be scrambling to fill a bookstore event but that’s the reality. I’m in Scotland and England next week. There are tix left for these events. The London one will be cancelled if I don’t sell some tickets soon so all pre-bookings and help with getting the word out is appreciated.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My husband has just purchased a book containing hundreds of haikus about sea cucumbers/sea slugs. "This book has brought me so much joy," says one Amazon review. Seriously, who can resist?

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is what doing the right thing looks like. Kudos to Jonathan Biss for resigning his post in protest and for this strong op-ed. www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You have no idea what a relief it is for this former critic to hear that this happens to musicians as well lol. "You mean I DID review X once before?"

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Try "Opera in 17th-Century Venice: The Creation of a Genre" by Ellen Rosand. It's well-written and definitely of interest even to non-specialists.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Granted, but I think it depends on the context - if you're trying to convey something about what the masses (so-called) thought, it can be useful. I agree that in general it's one of those do-nothing adjectives, like another one I've always overused, "lovely" 🤣

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🤣🤣🤣 I mean, he pretty much had to postpone - he was not going to win trying to give that, right now.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Ok, that confirms it. Putting it on the list.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

An exception: when the book is set in a different time period, and the character who is "famous" then is forgotten now.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I certainly would see it as a musical!! Not a stretch at all.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Omg. People and their conspiracy theories. That's like something out of the Onion.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I did not know about that talk. Since I'm no longer an active credit, I am not at all up-to-date on what is going on in the field, certainly in terms of knowing the details of what's happening in Boston or LA.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I will be curious to see that. I'm also fascinated at the polarization I'm seeing in my comments (on FB) between people who adore him and people who found him dull - smart listeners on both sides. Part of the picture I'm getting is that board wanted something different but musicians were happy.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

They must already have someone in mind. Seems like you wouldn't just let your current guy go unless you had another candidate.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I have had similar views, part of which I chalk up to the fact that he's churned out more repertoire than any conductor I can think of. I don't think even one of the Golden Age greats could have done decent Shostakovich, Bruckner, and Beethoven cycles concurrently with 3 orchestras. Overstretched.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

IMO his weakness was that he was so overextended that some things could feel a bit superficial. But I found him a fine conductor, and the orchestra loved him and is evidently very upset. I have no idea who they have in mind who they think would be better. Unless they want to bring Esa-Pekka back?

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Congratulations to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which managed to upstage the flaming dumpster fire that is the Kennedy Center in the collective mind of the classical music world this Friday by dismissing its very fine music director, Andris Nelsons. Can't wait to hear the back story.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you're anywhere in the area, don't miss this! It's a great piece and I'm really looking forward to it.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'll take Heartwarming Media Posts for $1000, Alex. Remember how everyone screamed when the New York Times turned its sports department into something called the Athletic? Well, the Athletic has just hired the cream of the Washington Post sports department, who were fired earlier this month.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Well, the Washington Post has just given an object lesson in THAT - it must be in the air. (And you have my commiseration. I had to cut the first 65 pages of my current book - years of work. But without that ballast, it started to fly.)

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The poems are vignettes of events in his life, and so far have offered such beautiful insights into his youth. The image of the mistreated child weeping at the keyboard. A casual flirtation from his teen years (and the way our teen experiences are so important, but later forgotten).

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Beethoven book is a book of poems, and each is so rich I didn't want to race through them, so this is how I'm slowing it down.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

There are still humane editors at the @washinpost.com, because someone let one of the journalists they'd fired reach out to readers one last time to announce her own newsletter for local news in the DMV. Sign up and support Alisa Tang's new venture; we need local news! alisadailydose.beehiiv.com

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Good morning! I'm reading HAPPINESS by Aminatta Forna and savoring BEETHOVEN VARIATIONS by Ruth Padel in the interstices. #BookSky #MondayReads

A wintry landscape with tree trunks and a small red fox: the cover of the book HAPPINESS l, by Aminatta Forna

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I love him too! The only silver lining to Ilia messing up is that he got a medal out of it.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

And for my first birthday after we were married, he surprised me by bringing a string quartet into the house and playing a quartet he had written for me, and for Valentine's Day this year he's released a professional recording of it, and here it is on Spotify. open.spotify.com/track/52oRBp...

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Quartet for Anne

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Our first proper date was at a Mets game. We went to the game and then went out to dinner and had lots to say but seemed to have no romantic spark at all, and then he walked me home and asked if he could hug me good night, and we forgot to stop hugging and have been together ever since. 1/2

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

In the mail today: a card from my friend in Germany -- dated December 10. Today is February 13. When people say the mail is slow these days, they aren't kidding.

A German Christmas card with the words "Frohes Fest" over a Santa and a Christmas tree -- which took two months to arrive.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I completely agree. I was immediately flashing back to Nathan Chen, who had similar layers of hype in 2018, and stumbled, and came back to win gold in 2022. It's just more of a shock because Malinin has seemed so assured. But what you say about the ice could definitely be a factor.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

😢 Gosh I hope I didn't bring that on him. 🤪 (He skated it so beautifully in the team competition!)

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Just in time for Valentine's Day: "Quartet for Anne," which my husband Greg Sandow wrote years ago as the best birthday present ever, is now streaming on Apple Music. music.apple.com/us/album/qua...

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Quartet for Anne by Terra String Quartet on Apple Music

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

That is very cool. And the Washington National Opera commissioned that ending from him, so it's my home team, so to speak.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Well, ice-skating music has always specialized in "bleeding chunks" - back in the 1980s they might use 5-6 different pieces in one program. At least they changed the rules about that so people stuck to one or two.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Such a great review of "Wuthering Heights" - "a large dumb terrarium of sensation: a slick, sweaty, chest-beating, garment-rending, gloopy-albumen total eclipse of the heart." Dave White in SLUGGISH. sluggish.ghost.io/wuthering-he...

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"Wuthering Heights" - when loving lovers love

It begins with a very horny public execution. Don't remember that from the book? It's fine, that's why Emerald Fennell's film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights is called "Wuthering ...

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I would be willing to bet that someone at the Pentagon who issued this directive thought El Paso was in Mexico. And the FAA had to step in with a map.

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Anne Midgette @classicalbeat.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Oh I'm SURE he could. Over his bear, even.

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