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Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com @kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

29 October 2026 "Beyond Autonauts of the Cosmoroute, he never published a diary. Aurora Bernárdez says that Cortázar’s best autobiography is his correspondence." Kevin Anthony Brown on «Selected Letters of Julio Cortázar, Vol. 1 (1937-1966)». www.newenglishreview.org/articles/car...

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Cartagrafía: Letters from Julio F Cortázar - New English ReviewCartagrafía: Letters from Julio F Cortázar - New English Review

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I suppose it’s a good sign that it’s getting harder and harder to leave the East coast, nor’easters and all. Heading to b’fast with Progeny & her hubby, then hitting the road. (Remind me again why I ever moved away from CT?!)

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Nite, peeps. Ste-Colombe. Tombeau “Les Regrets” Viola da gamba: Alison Crum, Elizabeth Liddle, Susanna Pell youtube.com/watch?v=2hNn... #ClassicalMusic

Portrait of Mario Benedetti.
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"IF EVERYTHING YOU OFFERED WAS NOT ENOUGH, OFFER YOUR ABSENCE"

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

CANCELLED: Due to the storm, the Boston Clavichord Society concert on Sunday has been cancelled. They may reschedule for spring 2027. goreplace.org/whats-on/cla... #Boston #ClassicalMusic

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Insomnia by RYNN WILLIAMS I try tearing paper into tiny, perfect squares— […] I try floating out along the long O of lone, to where it flattens to loss, and just stay there disconnecting the dots of my night sky… 📖 Read the rest www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50347/... #insomnia

Retro illustration, woman in bed on phone. Caption: Hell hath no fury like a woman sleep deprived.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

30Bach: Insights into Goldberg Var 30 (Quodlibet) + context for the deep love Bach felt for his family traditions. "When I Come Back Here I Always Feel At Home" German pianist Lennart Felix, add’l commentary by Kristian Nyquist, Angela Hewitt, Jeremy Denk, and Philip Kennicott. #ClassicalMusic

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14. Finding Home in Bach's Goldberg Variations with Lennart Felix, Angela Hewitt, et al. | 30 Bach

YouTube video by 30 Bach Goldberg Variations Podcast

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

OK, fine, I’m going. Single tickets just got released. 🎹 Nov 9 (Mon): Igor Levit with an all-Beethoven program. 560 is such a great hidden treasure venue in #STL. Doesn’t hurt that it’s 7 minutes from home. #ClassicalMusic music.washu.edu/events/great...

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Great Artists Series '26-'27: Igor Levit, piano

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Brain must’ve been in overdrive overnight. Strange dreams I’m going to flat out call nightmares. 🙀

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy National Daughters day to the best daughter and co-conspirator a mother could ask for! @thalia.bsky.social #NationalDaughtersDay

Woman with long hair, aviator sunglasses on head, lime green blouse, standing on a brick patio overlooking Tuscany.

Girl in braids using eyedropper in a beaker. Text: she was determined to find a cure for embarrassing mom syndrome

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#BOTD Rameau, and I adore his music. Re-sharing my unexpected encounter with him via a #Godzilla movie a short while ago. #classicalmusic Here ya go:

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sun Sept 27: Boston Clavichord Society recital? Yes, please! 🏟️ Altho I’m not sure how they’ll beat the free Grillo’s pickles sweatshirt from Fenway the other night. 💁🏻‍♀️ Possible, with Frescobaldi, Froberger, & Bach at bat. #Boston #ClassicalMusic 🎹 Tickets: www.bostonclavichord.org/upcoming-rec...

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Ezra Brooks @ezbrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Anyway, here's Wonderwall..."

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Michalis Kaloumenos @mkaloumenos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#otd 1926, John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, NC. #NowSpinning one of the best #jazz albums ever produced: 'A love supreme' from 1965, with McCoy Tyner (p), Jimmy Garrison (db) and Elvin Jones (d). #music #musicsky

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John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Morning mood: Telemann. After a marvelous week in Delaware, I’m back in Boston for a bit. ⚾️🏟️ Later today: BoSox @Fenway Park with Progeny for the Great Pickle Shirt Quest. 🤷🏻‍♀️🦞 Hey, I just follow where told and hope there’s a lobster roll at the end… #goodmorning #needcoffee @ianfjanssen.bsky.social

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Telemann: Viola Concerto in G major TWV 51:G9, IV. Presto. Manami Mizumoto, baroque viola 8K

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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

dare to declare who you are it is not so far from the shores of silence to the borders of speech the path isn't long but the way is deep you must not only walk there you must be prepared to leap - Hildegard of Bingen

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Ascension, from Lingua Ignota

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Wordle 1,915 3/6 Celebrating with caffeine, as one does. 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have the sense of direction of a brick. However, I’m somewhere in Evansville IN en route to DE. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I think, anyway. 🎻 Listening to Galuppi with Concerto 1700. Loudly. @thalia.bsky.social Terre Haute also on exit sign—say hi to Stiffy Green for ya?! 🐾🪦💀 Rest of y’all—link to nutty story in comment.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A very late g’nite, peeps. 🌙✨ “Nos esprits libres et contents” is a moody little musical pocket of contentment masquerading as a lullaby tonite. 🎻 Graceful, charming, and conveys the calming ease of being perfectly happy wherever one has landed. 🚨🚨Cornetto alert! #ClassicalMusic #PhilippeJaroussky

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Antoine Boësset (arrangement Christina Pluhar) - Nos esprits libres et contents - Jaroussky

YouTube video by L'Arpeggiata - Christina Pluhar

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s midnight, and without benefit of coffee, even. Wordle in 3. 😍 #Wordle 1,914 3/6 ⬜🟨🟩🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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wordkunst @wordkunst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

found in an old notebook from 2005, translator unnoted: As you set about tending the wounds which others have dealt, heal the wounds you have yourself inflicted - Heloise to Abelard

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Zbigniew Herbert’s first poem, at 15. Running for an air raid shelter, he saw a couple in a passionate kiss—it stood out from the chaos. 🌹 “To the end they were brave, To the end they were faithful, To the end they were similar like two drops stuck at the edge of a face.” #poetry #war #ukraine

TWO DROPS
ZBIGNIEW HERBERT
No time to grieve for roses, when the forests are burning.
- Juliusz Stowacki
The forests were on fire— they however
wreathed their necks with their hands like bouquets of roses
People ran to the shelters— he said his wife had hair in whose depths one could hide
Covered by one blanket they whispered shameless words the litany of those who love
When it got very bad they leapt into cach other's eyes and shut them firmly
So firmly they did not feel the flames when they camc up to the cyclashes
To the end they were brave
To the end they were faithful To the end they were similar like two drops
stuck at the edge of a face

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

‘Nite, peeps. 🌙✨ Closing the day with three minutes of utter perfection: Handel’s “Ombra mai fu.” “Just a guy, standing in front of a tree, asking it to love him…” —to completely misquote an unrelated rom-com. 💞🌳 One of the most exquisite arias ever... #ClassicalMusic #Opera

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Andreas Scholl: Largo di Handel : Ombra mai fu : Aria da Xerxes HWV 40 countertenor Bonazeta YT

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Happy 295th birthday to Hasse #opera “Cleofide.” Plot: Queen Cleofide deals w/Alexander’s conquest & hubby Poro’s *epic* jealousy. It’s a week in the life of a Very Bad Marriage 🤷🏻‍♀️ Emma Kirkby: “Se troppo crede al ciglio” (Act III, Scene 4). Translation & scene context in Comments. #ClassicalMusic

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Cleofide: Act III Scene 4: Aria: Se troppo crede al ciglio (Cleofide)

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sometimes composers were in on it with the publisher, both the name attributed to as well as the actual composer, who nevertheless was on the bottom rung of payment, if at all.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

18th-c intellectual property got sketchy—ask Meneghetti (not a pasta, despite how it sounds). Some Fauxvaldi, with his music attributed to Vivaldi. And maybe-not-completely-Bach BWV 1024. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Born/died? 🤨 Good enough to be mistaken for The Big Names. 🥰 This fab piece is decidedly his. #ClassicalMusic

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Gaetano Meneghetti - Sonata X - II. Allegro

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

💥 Energy you didn’t know you needed, from a composer you maybe didn’t know existed. #Colombian composer & Baroque cellist NF Cortés Garzón brings Baroque + Latin American rhythms together. Yup, it’s contemporary! 🎻 Old instruments, living traditions & new music meet & catch fire! 🔥 #ClassicalMusic

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Néstor Fabián Cortés Garzón: El Sofoco

YouTube video by Bremer Barockorchester

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

from Dawn William Carlos Williams Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings-- beating color up into it at a far edge,--beating it, beating it with rising, triumphant ardor,-- stirring it into warmth, quickening in it a spreading change,-- (corby amos)

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Don’t let people say you’re too much. At the dictator Sulla’s funeral in Rome in 78 BCE, 210 litters with pounds of frankincense & cinnamon were burned. Plutarch says that an effigy of Sulla made from the substances was molded & burned alongside Sulla’s body on the funeral pyre. THAT is too much.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This Telemann viola concerto is one of my fav concertos of any flavor— 🐶 in part because Aidan the Wonder Dog would climb up on the sofa, lay his head in my lap, and “sing” along with it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Don’t know what it was, but it was the only composition that had that effect. #ClassicalMusic

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G.Ph. Telemann: Concerto in G major for Viola, Strings and Basso continuo, TWV 51:G9

YouTube video by Bremer Barockorchester

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey, peeps! 😵‍💫 News cycle making your head spin? 😵 Dizzy, when scanning headlines? 🥴 Reeling, and not in the charming barn dance kind of way? Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1703-1755) has just the thing for you: “Le Vertigo.” (The man was radically ahead of his time) #ClassicalMusic #NowPlaying

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Jean Rondeau records 'Vertigo' for harpsichord (Royer)

YouTube video by Warner Classics

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Beatrice Groves: 'The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen' (The Odyssey) There is a beautiful Irish name for the sun sparkle on the sea - 'loinnir' In English it is known as 'sun glitter' 💙

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hell’s Angels recording is out next month (Oct) from La Serenissima! Here’s the full featured movement. Yowza! #ClassicalMusic #NowPlaying —— youtu.be/w74yaWu4Yu4?... 🎵 Guillemain: Sonata I in G for harpsichord & violin, Op. 13: Presto 🎹 Robin Bigwood 🎻 Adrian Chandler ——

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Guillemain: Sonata I in G for harpsichord & violin, Op. 13 – III. Presto | La Serenissima

YouTube video by La Serenissima

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Time for a scroll break! Pour a big cup of something and have some Brunetti with it. 🎵 This quartet opens with a poised, serious, almost heavy intro. Brunetti then lets in the light, ramps up the tempo, and sends the rest of the movement happily on its way. Fun stuff! #ClassicalMusic

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GAETANO BRUNETTI (1744-1798): String Quartet in C Major L158 - I. Largo sostenuto / Allegretto

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Eeks! It’s Mary Oliver’s birthday. Now don’t jump on me but—however sincere—I often find her poetry emotionally…prescriptive. 🪿 Sometimes a wild goose is just a wild goose. 🚫 I usually prefer poetry with sweat stains, unwashed by sunshine. #BOTD #poetry (For Rameau, oiseaux are just oiseaux.)

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Rameau: Le Rappel des oiseaux

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

‘Nite, peeps! Thomas Dunford & Jean Rondeau with Forqueray “You are beautiful and faded, Like an old opera tune Played upon a harpsichord; Or like the sun-flooded silks Of an eighteenth-century boudoir. In your eyes Smoulder…” poets.org/poem/lady A Lady by AMY LOWELL #poetry #ClassicalMusic

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Jean Rondeau & Thomas Dunford play A. Forqueray: Pièces de viole, Suite No. 5: VI. La Sylva

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A near-&-dear is fighting some riled up workplace hornets. Grrr! Totally empathize. I’ve had one bad boss in a long career. They were so abusive, tho, that I took to answering personal calls with, “Hi. My boss is trying to kill me. What’s up?” A poet-friend finally wrote & published this. #Poetry

My Boss Is TRYING TO KILL ME by Andrew Cox
For Muse314159
The sky puts on its evening gown and high heels and wonders when the phones will hang up and pay attention
The infinite dance floors wait with no concern about how the gutters like bosses fill calendars with invites made from ill will The meeting notices are in revolt but will not play savior to anyone much less stop the leaves from covering everything
The airplanes will rise and fall while corporations act like an ugly stranger in the neighborhood offering candy to kids
The great muse of Pi will stop the march of the psychopaths but is preoccupied with how parallel lines will never meet
A woman will say into a phone I think my boss is trying to kill me and the man on the other end will beliere her.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

RT with your home river. • First is my original hometown of Detroit, on the Detroit River. View is from Windsor, Ontario side 🇨🇦 • Second is current home: St Louis, on the Mississippi River. Gateway Arch is at far left. (Hopefully soon I’ll have a new hometown of Boston 😊) #STL #DTW

St. Louis skyline: arch, Mississippi River, Eads bridge.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This one should scroll 🤔

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Every once in a while we might need a nudge, right? Results may vary by (equal) temperament and (Pythagorean) tuning system. #EarlyMusic

Five habits of happy people:
Slide 1: Singing medieval polyphony with colleagues during company time.
Slide 2: dating someone who knows about Pythagorean tuning
Slide 3: Reading about the wacky lives of medieval composers
Slide 4: Taking extremely long to utter every syllable when singing melismas
Slide 5: Teaching family pets to play medieval instruments

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I have one Fux to give. JJ Fux’s counterpoint teaching shaped Zelenka, Haydn, Mozart & Beethoven, and was also an incredibly versatile composer. Here, the bassoon gets promoted from its bass line duty to soloist, and it’s so nimble—especially the tongue twister at 2:08! #ClassicalMusic #bassoon

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FiBO – Finnish Baroque Orchestra: Johann Joseph Fux

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wish me luck! 👨🏾‍⚕️Today is the first big post-op followup after spinal fusion a couple months ago. 🩻 Hoping for enough progress to get cleared to do more stuff, because I’m getting a bit stir crazy! 🔩With the number of screws back there, I can always go to the hardware store for spare parts…

Cartoon stick figures. Patient sitting on table, doctor standing.

P: EVERYTHING LOOK GOOD?
Dr: I DON'T GET HOW YOUR BODY HAS BEEN MOVING AROUND FOR YEARS AND STILL WORKS AT ALL. MY USB CABLES FRAY AFTER LIKE A MONTH.

Dr: YOUR HEART HAS BEEN PUMPING FOR DECADES WITHOUT PAUSING FOR EVEN A FEW MINUTES.
Dr: AND YOUR EYES! THEY RE
50 FRAGILE AND EXPOSED!

Dr: YOU'RE FULL OF ALL THESE HIGH-PRESSURE FLUIDS AND INTRICATE PARTS THAT COULD KILL YOU IN SECONDS IF THEY STOPPED WORKING!

P: ...CAN YOU JUST TELL ME WHETHER IM HEALTHY?
Dr: YEAH, YOURE FINE.
Dr: WHICH 15 WEIRD, GIVEN THAT YOUR BODY IS BASICALLY MADE FROM DISSOLVED BREAD.

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A-yup—takin’ it in 3. #Wordle 1,908 3/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

‘Nite, peeps! Returning to one of my fav lute concertos. Kohaut was a diplomat by day, but it didn’t interfere with his side hustle as composer & lutenist—tho sadly, lute was falling out of fashion. Sprightly Concerto in F Major is probably his best known work: (I. Allegro) #ClassicalMusic #Lute

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Concerto in F Major: Allegro

YouTube video by John Schneiderman, Lute (Galanterie) - Topic

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feinstruktur @feinstruktur.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Good morning Flowers! Starting today with lots of ☕ ☕ ☕ & delicious music by Christoph Schaffrath: Concerto in C minor for Keyboard, Strings & B.c CSWV:C:11 youtu.be/VzmEsvXLqFw #Music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic

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Christoph Schaffrath: Concerto in C minor for Keyboard, Strings & B.c CSWV:C:11

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Lisa @lisasass.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’ve admired and marveled at the 2.5 mi flood wall art for a long time. Great article on event origin, art & artists. I had no idea—and congrats on 30 years. “This is a homegrown event, but we have artists from Australia, Japan, Brazil, the UK and Africa coming to St. Louis to paint,” #STL #Artsky

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