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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s)

@midviolist.bsky.social
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A living viola joke. Classical musician. Movie enjoyer. Will humiliate myself on stage with zero hesitation. 26. She/her

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Protato @protato42.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Happy Trans Day of Visibility
A picture of David Lynch with the caption Fix your hearts or die
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
We as a society have outgrown the need for the Prokofiev Classical symphony
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
RIP Sofia Gubaidulina
youtu.be
Sofia Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (1996)
YouTube video by gɹinblat
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Get his ass, queen
Text from a letter written by the Russian composer Galina Ustvolskaya: 

“I am writing these notes to finally assert the TRUTH about my relations with Dmitri Shostakovich. To state the TRUTH about Shostakovich himself as a composer and a person.

I am not writing anything in detail. Details could have far-reaching consequences. It is high time to move on from the steadfast, stupid point of view on Shostakovich.

On my part I would like to say the following: never once during the years, even during my studies at the Conservatory which I spent in his class, was Shostakovich’s music close to me. Nor was his personality.

I would be even more candid: I bluntly refused to accept his music, as in the following years. Unfortunately, Shostakovich’s personality only deepened my negative attitude towards him. I do not feel it necessary to further dwell on the subject.

One thing remains clear: it would seem that such an outstanding figure as Shostakovich was not outstanding to me. On the contrary, it was painful and killed my best feelings.

I begged God to give me strength to create and now too I ask God the same.

Galina Ustvolskaya
St. Petersburg, 1 January 1994”
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
boxd.it/3LWdT
A screenshot of a list on Letterboxd titled “Favorite First Watches of February, 2025.” The movies listed are:
-Häxan (1922)
-The Big Gundown (1967)
-All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
-Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
-Time Bandits (1981)
-King of New York (1990)
-Dark City (1998)
-Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
-Creepy (2016)
-Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)
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Rora! 🏳️‍⚧️🐇 @professorrora.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I love boneless wings :3
repost is trans people should have free boneless wings
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Kalevi Aho write a good symphony challenge (impossible)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Turns out they only advanced like five people past the first round so I’m not as disappointed anymore
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Just tried to put a sock on upside down for a solid 30 seconds and got really confused and annoyed that it wasn’t working right
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🫠 ah well
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Everyone say “good luck on your audition today, Maddie!” :)
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/02/2025
Refs tuning up the orchestra for the most thrilling comeback in Super Bowl history
Lydia Tar, who is real
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I’m listening Korngold’s Symphony in F# Major and I could be wrong but I think maybe… just maybe… John Williams has heard this piece before
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Just did a cold run of the repertoire for my audition next week and it went very well :)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Bluebeard’s Castle is a great opera because despite all the symbolism and philosophizing about the inner secrets of men’s souls it’s just an opera about a spooky haunted house
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Favorite first-watches of January. Good month for movies. boxd.it/3LWdT
-Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
-Dracula (Browning, 1931)
-His Girl Friday (Hawks, 1940)
-Black Narcissus (Powell/Pressburger, 1947) -Rio Bravo (Hawks, 1959) 
-Peeping Tom (Powell, 1960)
-Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972)
-The Sugarland Express (Spielberg, 1974)
-Paris, Texas (Wenders, 1984)
-Serial Mom (Waters, 1994)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Me when Dvorak quotes Beethoven 9 in the New World Symphony: “You fraud! You hack! Learn to compose bitch!” Me when Schubert quotes Beethoven 9 in his own ninth: *sobbing, more moved than I’ve ever been* “this to me is art”
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Practicing Wagner with the windows open, everyone’s gonna think I’m a Nazi
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Vicki Meanieheart 👿 @violence.gay · 31/01/2025
"trans women are women" seems like too much for cis journalists to handle when "trans women are people" is a bar they'e incapable of clearing
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Today is Schubert’s birthday. Everyone, do yourself a favor and listen to his 15th Quartet today.
youtu.be
The Artemis Quartet Schubert String quartet No 15 in G major, D 887 Part 1 Allegro molto moderato
YouTube video by ano niem
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
youtu.be
Iannis Xenakis - Pithoprakta (w/ graphical score)
YouTube video by Pierre Carré
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Spent my morning listening to all four Weinberg viola sonatas. Had never heard any of them before somehow. All bangers!!
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Hmm
A poster for the 2003 movie Sibelius. It looks awful.
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I’m so exhausted, can’t deal with this shit
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Fuck it, let’s go
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Me when Dvorak quotes Beethoven 9 in the New World Symphony: “You fraud! You hack! Learn to compose bitch!” Me when Schubert quotes Beethoven 9 in his own ninth: *sobbing, more moved than I’ve ever been* “this to me is art”
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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Masked Tom Cruise in EYES WIDE SHUT with a quote bubble.
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Thinking about replaying Chrono Cross but I know if I do I’ll be driven insane by the story
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Haden Plouffe is Very Scary @haydnpuff.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I do not like the Sibelius 2 finale
Man standing up at town hall meeting meme
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pebbles @pebbles.gay · 28/01/2025
i think of this every time someone says this
a drawing of mulder & scully from the show xfiles

mulder: my top surgery went really well

scully: that's great! my bottom surgery is next week. i can't believe we're both trans and FBI agents!

lil alien guy: i'm a communist
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
your trans friends are sadder than they've ever been, and would love a check in
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Introducer yourself with four movies:
Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombThe Long GoodbyeThe Wind RisesThe Lighthouse
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Me when I listen to 98% of Bruckner’s music: :/ Me when I listen to the Bruckner 9 scherzo: :)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Captain Picard after going through Ellis Island
Wikipedia page for the British composer John Pickard
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
“Insistence on the creative as an output only possible from the Special Human Mind is a type of ableism” this is the most insane thing I’ve ever read. This is broke me. I can’t formulate rational thoughts anymore. It’s everything I hate. I want to scream. Everyone is so stupid now
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
You know Emilia Pérez? The movie no one thinks is very good? The Academy heard they're gonna be at this awards show. So they set up a trap for the filmmakers. This whole Oscars is a trap
Guy from Trap
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Insane run the last few days. boxd.it/3LWdT
My last four movies logged on Letterboxd:
-Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
-Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)
-Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
-Serial Mom (Waters, 1994)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Gettin’ a little tired of this Strauss fella
A viola audition excerpt from Richard Strauss’s “Salome”
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FZ @thespr3.com · 23/01/2025
"You would have to be a real lowlife piece of shit to be proud to be an American." - Frank Reynolds
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Girl who just listened to Shostakovich’s 15th for the fifth day in a row (it’s me)
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The three words every girl wants to hear
A still from the opening credits of David Lynch’s “Lost Highway” that says “With Gary Busey.”
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
there are Laura Palmers everywhere for those with the eyes to see
Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer in Fire Walk With MeAerith Gainsborough from the original Final Fantasy VII with her hands clasped together EVA Unit 01 from Neon Genesis Evangelion with her mechanical mouth open, teeth exposed Denji from Chainsaw Man
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
My quartet is performing Schubert Death and the Maiden today and my one thought is… the fourth movement… why would Schubert do this?
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I relate a lot to Laszlo Toth because if I built a building like that I too would forsake all of my obligations in life to just get high and walk around in it
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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
First date idea
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Maddie (The Woman Behind Winkie’s) @midviolist.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Now seated
The Brutalist
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