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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if you want to be slavishly beholden to bourgeois moddlebrow notions of chronology, I suppose

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

if anything, Beethoven is sloppy Schubert

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The couple in front of me didn’t return after the first interval, which was both convenient and impossible for me to understand

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was there too, and I agree with your assessment.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This may be the best thing since the alphabetical Winterreise.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There are a ton. But among the world-famous Dolly Parton and Keanu Reeves come immediately to mind

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

My decision was made easier by the fact that I’ve never heard a note of a Henze opera

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Thank you. Prometeo is criminally underrepresented.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Pelléas et Mélisande Elektra Wozzeck Jenufa Peter Grimes Prometeo Mask of Orpheus St François d’Assise Einstein on the Beach Das Mädchen met den Schwefelhölzern

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It just has to be that he thinks a reasonable bowstroke can be sustained for 3 bars of Adagio and change, surely

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

If you don’t want to say it, I’ll say it for you

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Belatedly: there is indeed a bunch of Skempton that I think should fit the bill. Passing Fancy, Campanella 3, Einericon ...

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Fairly sure there’s at least one Howard Skempton piano miniature

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Ekmeles and the Mivos Quartet’s (marvelous) premiere of my big piece “O Maria”, from last weekend in New York, can be heard here: on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...

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O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet

First performance -- 1 November 2025 Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Tonight at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan, 7:30 PM! Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there! www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...

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11-1-25: O Maria — ekmeles

O Maria, ft. Mivos Quartet November 1, 2025 7:30PM DiMenna Center 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 $20/15 Buy tickets Evan Johnson - O...

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Seiobo is high on my all-time list. Thanks for putting it on top.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Maybe me but in any case I’m certainly curious to hear whatever it is!

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I mean, I was in the Netherlands when I saw his name, but you know what I mean

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

whoa, never thought I’d see this guys name outside the Netherlands! Was on a program with him last year

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

NB Nic also recorded more of the Voices and Piano pieces on a God Records LP about a decade later (including one that’s over twenty minutes long, Roman Opalka)

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Hi! Start with the Ives Ensemble “Madrigale” disc on HatArt or “Works with Guitar” on mode (which includes a lovely piece for soprano and ensemble conducted by one Mr Rosman)

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

On "dust book," the magnificence of the viola d'amore, and why most of the music I write down tends to be so barely there (and also Marco Fusi's beautiful little text from the booklet of the upcoming album): www.anothertimbre.com/dustbook.html

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Evan Johnson dust book

another timbre is a new label for improvised and contemporary music

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Carl Rosman @carlrosman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

If you can’t plug your friends’ Boulez recordings today of all days, when can you?

Sheet music for Boulez Dialogue de l’ombré double, with Erik Bosgraaf’s CD of his own (authorised!) recorder version on top.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Coming next month, in the new quarterly batch from Another Timbre: Marco Fusi's magisterial recording of my extended viola d'amore solo "dust book", which he premiered in an extremely memorable (to me, anyway) concert at Darmstadt in 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwQS...

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Evan Johnson 'dust book', extract played by Marco Fusi (viola d'amore)

YouTube video by Anothertimbre

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I’m glad you feel that way, since I avoid them just because I hate the symbols. Despite my wider infatuation with enharmonic spellings.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Recorder phenomenon Erik Bosgraaf takes you through five pieces of contemporary music that are important to him, including my little crotale miniature “hyphen”, on the WDR: www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

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My favourite Choice: Erik Bosgraaf

Pierre Boulez selbst hat noch zugestimmt, das Erik Bosgraaf das legendäre Stück "Dialogue de l'ombre double" für sein Instrument bearbeiten darf, die Blockflöte. Im Studio Neue Musik stellt er Musik v...

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I know of course that you are a prolific and acclaimed writer, and rightfully so, but your invocation of the term “weenus” here may be your finest achievement

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I have zero opinion about Jethro Tull but you’re wrong about Shostakovich. It’s not always boring, it can be intensely irritating too.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I definitely to on about it to students

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A classic of the gramophone. Anyway I’ve just discovered someone’s thrown this together to tide me over until the deluxe box set comes out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=plHV...

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CARCERI D'INVENZIONE (complete cycle) w/score [1981-86] | Brian Ferneyhough

YouTube video by GregoryRowlandEvans

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Yeah, there are at least a couple live versions of everything floating around … but if you ask me that’s not good enough for one of the large-scale masterpieces of the second half of the century! Might be a nice Mufab project, eh?

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

That’s a good guess. I was going to say Stravinsky until I realized it was a quartet.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The lack of a recording of this complete cycle, as a cycle, is a travesty

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Donations to Biden’s inaugural fund in 2021: Pfizer = $1,000,000 Boeing = $1,000,000 AT&T = $1,000,000 Uber = $1,000,000 Qualcomm = $1,000,000 Lockheed Martin = $1,000,000

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Nativity BL Add MS 49598; The Benedictional of St Æthelwold; 963-984; England, S.; f.15v

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

RIP to Jacques Roubaud, whose “The Great Fire of London” is an all-time masterpiece, one of the saddest books I have ever read, said sadness conveyed almost entirely through a uniquely disintegrating form

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Dalkey Archive @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Dalkey Archive is deeply saddened to hear about the passing of poet, writer, mathematician, and prolific member of the Oulipo group, Jacques Roubaud. We were fortunate enough to publish a dozen of his brilliant, and endlessly inventive books. He will be missed.

Jacques Roubaud writes an equation on a whiteboard in a classroom. In the top corner is his name, the year of his birth, and the year of his death.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

My favorite is composition commission funding applications, the only possible purpose of which I can imagine is reinforcing the sort of personal relationships that are supposedly irrelevant.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

DMA? Christ. That is immediately disqualifying.

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You can’t touch the quintuplet though, it’s clearly a new strand of stuff and I imagine that’s important (it’d be important to me, anyway)

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Evan Johnson @evan-johnson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Even I am tempted by the prospect of a metric modulation here to get rid of those outer triplets

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