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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/09/2026

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

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/09/2026

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”

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I have not responded to the email that you sent me and which you probably spent awhile writing Forgive me it was so long and my executive functioning is completely shot

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 17/09/2026

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

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 17/09/2026

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

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

love to bow the open strings on my bridgeless violin, and my ruffed collar works so much better than a chin rag

Dior Facebook ad for winter 2026 eyewear. A man in a shirt with a very elaborate pleated collar holds a beat up violin with technique that makes it pretty clear the model has never touched a violin before

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

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...

A tabby cat sitting proudly on the open door of a dishwasher

A cat sitting next to an open dishwasher, looking eagerly at the camera

A cat lounging on the door of an open dishwasher

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 02/09/2026

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

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 02/09/2026

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

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 31/08/2026

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

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/08/2026

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

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/08/2026

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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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/08/2026

Possibly my weirdest “this will improve society” belief is that more people should have brief stints working in a Beautiful People Industry so they build a tolerance and are less susceptible to believing something just because a symmetrical-faced person said it

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11/08/2026

Me: there are so many great works of music that I could listen to a new-to-me piece every single day for the rest of my life and still not scratch the surface Also me: I just want to listen to the Emperor Concerto on repeat

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 07/08/2026

1) this is the only good use of social media 2) everyone saying B Maj needs to get help because E Maj is clearly the real supervillain

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 05/08/2026

Me: I’m not that strong-spoken, kinda feel like I am pretty neutral and measured in my tone Also me: [will be published in a book officially calling a living person an “uninformed music critic”]

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

wishbone

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

People think Schubert's Unfinished Symphony is so great and I've never seen what the big deal is. I could absolutely get halfway through a project and then abandon it for no particular reason, and I bet a lot of you guys could as well

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 05/08/2026

After Act I of Jesus Christ Superstar the man seated next to me said to his companion, perplexed, “I thought there would be roller skating”

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 27/07/2026

A mom behind me at Phantom of the Opera was trying to explain what the Phantom would have been teaching Christine in singing lessons but clearly didn’t actually know what singing lessons entail so her explanation was “when to crescendo, when to decrescendo, you know, stuff like that”

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

maggie cheung and tony leung chiu wai in the mood for love

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 22/07/2026

Realizing that the knowledge I have accumulated of all the beefs Classical Music Twitter people secretly have with each other, as well as the tea on who talks a good game online but is actually bad at their job/scholarship, could fill a whole compendium

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 22/07/2026

The number of times I have carefully phrased a post to head off misunderstandings and then people come careening into my mentions with insane screeds because they latched on to one word in the post and didn’t parse anything else around it

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 21/07/2026

Zoom has informed me that it orchestrates now, big if true

Screenshot with text reading "Meet ZoomMate, Your AI teammate that searches, orchestrates, and completes work on your behalf"

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/07/2026

In the same way that some people don’t count fish as meat, I don’t think of bananas as fruit

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/07/2026

Sometimes reading Victor Hugo makes you feel like Scheherazade’s king, seized by the overwhelming need to know what happens next, and sometimes it feels like being held hostage by someone with a special interest and no ability to read the room

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 20/07/2026

Lil PSA that in the Odyssey movie they don’t have Odysseus doing the “Nobody” bit in the cave with the Cyclops, feel like it’s better for you to know not to wait for a joke that will never come

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16/07/2026

In my compulsion to do extra Les Misérables research I discovered that someone else on the internet decided this year to read the novel and blog one chapter per day, and they're CHARGING MONEY for it I'm over here doing this all for free like a chump

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The Big Read 2026: An Entire Year With Les Miserables

A chapter per day of Victor Hugo's classic.

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15/07/2026

I did not know that my life was missing a Fanny Hensel composer bust and then @henselpushers.bsky.social gave me one and now I can’t live without her

Photo of a miniature white bust of composer Fanny Hensel

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14/07/2026

Why do non-musicians fetishize perfect pitch to such an absurd degree when it is honestly one of the most inconsequential traits a musician can have

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 10/07/2026

Book 5 of Part II begins: Valjean loses out on 6 months’ rent and a chase that was not mentioned at all in the musical begins, and I just want this poor girl dad to catch a break lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/07/06/1...

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109. On the Run Again – Hugoposting

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 10/07/2026

Singlehandedly addressing the literacy problem by continuing to read Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 09/07/2026

It’s very sweet when I’m rehearsing or warming up at a venue and my handler is like “everyone SHHH she needs quiet to focus! where’s that sound coming from??” as if every day I’m not practicing with the washer and dryer going and my husband vacuuming or making dinner and my cat yelling for attention

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 08/07/2026

It’s amazing how you can be the quintessential jie jie with off-the-charts jie jie energy but the moment you are with someone else who not only has jie jie energy but is actually older than you, you immediately transform into a little mei mei like in a fantasy movie where the hero loses their powers

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Ran into some guy who was like "classical music is more classy than some rap stuff about guys banging lots of [women]" and it's like buddy have you ever heard a single opera

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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

haha, thats a great post. unfortunately you phrased it in a way that allowed me, a moron, to misunderstand it

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 04/07/2026

I wrote about how algorithmic recommendations just don’t have taste Also a July concert update for Bay Area folks buttondown.com/doodlyroses/...

buttondown.com

On What Algorithms Don't Understand

Because people contain multitudes, dammit

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do people not know that there are at least ten musicologists on here who want to explain the answer to your music question to you so badly that they will drop everything to do it?

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 01/07/2026

Multiple people have told me they can’t watch The Bear because it’s too stressful and I feel like a total weirdo because I find it oddly soothing to see that Musician Life exists in completely different fields, that my problems aren’t special and neither am I

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 25/06/2026

We're onto Book 4 of Part II! We begin with a description of a bad vibes house in a bad vibes neighborhood! lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2026/06/23/1...

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104. A Bad Vibes Neighborhood – Hugoposting

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 25/06/2026

Sometimes Brahms has these yearning surges of pure want that I find almost embarrassing, like dude chill on the feelings! then I remember a colleague who would send me texts out of the blue like “ugh why are you so CHARMING, I can’t bear it” and I realize some guys have just always been Like That

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 23/06/2026

The Les Misérables musical is a good start but what they really should do is adapt Hugo’s novel into 5 musicals and the whole thing should be as long as the Ring cycle

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 23/06/2026

This is actually great for me, I’ll just send my weirdo reply guys her way

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 22/06/2026

Every once in a while I run out of a pantry/fridge staple before I can get my ass to an Asian grocery so I buy the closest thing I can find in mainstream supermarkets. Right now I am experiencing Kimchi For Americans and I cannot believe you people live like this

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 22/06/2026

Amazing discussions happening in the classical radio chat

Screenshot of a comment in radio station Classical California's live chat, in which a user named RevSteve says "As a person with little musical ability and training, I do not pay attention to key. I will let the musicians deal with it."

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 18/06/2026

Found myself admiring the lovely inner voice countermelodies in Brahms without someone exasperatedly telling me to. Is this it for me, do I need to schedule a colonoscopy and send for my AARP card now

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 17/06/2026

Didn’t they already turn the “I raised my adopted child Chinese” TIFU post into a movie (Joy Ride, 2023)

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16/06/2026

Okay, here’s something I’ve wondered about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (one of my favorite books of all time) for a long while

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