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Paul David Flood @pauldavidflood.bsky.social · 20h

Music theorists who write about technology! We're hiring here at Tennessee! Check out our job posting: apply.interfolio.com/194816?fbcli...

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 20h

I don't know. But one of my students says the first concerto was Paul Creston's in 1940.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks, but mostly I was going to show it to a student who thought no one knew about marimbas in the 1940s.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 22h

I cropped it--it's actually a bit bigger than this.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 22h

Today's historic find. The Musser Marimba Orchestra at the Century of Progress grounds in Chicago ca. 1933[?]. I don't know what month is it, but they look really cold.

About 25 marimba players performing on risers in front of a conductor outdoors, looking a bit cold and wind blown. A crowd of people surrounding them watches.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Interviewer: Can you explaim this gap in your résumé? Violist: It’s the last movement of Harold in Italy.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To Kill a Mockingbird for Tax Purposes.

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ATTENTION! I’ve got a very cool new music world premiere opportunity at Henselfest (April 2nd or 3rd, 2027), and I’m looking for: -a contrabass player -a soprano -an alto If you are one of these things and you are interested, HIT ME UP! Please share widely!

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nico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i dont want to download an app i don't want a qr code menu i dont want to talk to an ai assistant i dont want ai summaries for my searches i dont want to optimize my workflow i dont want to jump on a call i dont want to rate anything i don't want to create an account LEAVEME ADLONEe

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So good. With an opera buffa ensemble finale.

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henselpushers @henselpushers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is time. Registration has opened. henselfest.org/register/p/r...

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Andrew Dunn @israfelcello.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hi there Bluesky community! I need some help from everyone. The Nashville music community has been thrown into an unprecedented crisis, and we need help here. This needs to be shared far and wide, because there are a lot of wonderful talented people whose lives and careers are at stake.

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Nashville Symphony to Suspend Season Amid ‘Financial Crisis’ [Updated]

The 80-year-old arts nonprofit’s board voted unanimously to take steps toward overcoming a $10 million deficit in its operating budget by ending its regular season early and putting staff on furlough....

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Jane Doe's unfathomable bravery is the reason we are now having this public conversation at all; ditto for the talented student journalists who broke the story. Might this be the moment — and the generation — suited to declare no more?"

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wow. I could have had years of therapy but instead, "Methodist Brain" just fully explained my mother.

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

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Cosmic Threads: A Solar System Quilt from 1876

A serenade to the universe in wool and silk.

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Pub Date to THE OPERATIC KALEIDOSCOPE: Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Stage by @kristenmturner.bsky.social! www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0... #AfricanAmericanStudies #ClassicalMusic #ClassicalMusicMonth

The Operatic Kaleidoscope
Voice, Race, and the Ragtime Popular Stage
Author: Kristen M. Turner

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Katie Hodges-Kluck, PhD @klhkhistorian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest." 🤬

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We have one at Iowa. It’s named Rusty.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We also had a pop up exhibit from the Iowa Women's Archives.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I finally got to host an event featuring the music and poetry women sent to Eleanor Roosevelt during the 1930s, with help from the amazing students and alums from the School of Music. The reception featured Depression-era recipes.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What to wear for #NationalPunctuationDay Patrick Kelly's Question Mark dress, 1985, in wool and rhinestones. FIDM Museum Exclamation point gloves, Bonnie Cashin, 1974, Metropolitan Museum Collection. Moschino Question Mark pumps, former Poshmark listing

Short black dress on mannequin with long sleeves, mock turtleneck, with three large rhinestone question marks.

Blue knit glove with decorative red stitching and an appliqued red leather question mark.

Red pumps with a silvery lining and a Moschino label. The backs of the heels have a black question mark printed on them.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I suggest to students that when the illnesses are circulating a mask is a good idea...not sure anyone listens.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wow...I made a catalog of double-reed music on a Kaypro.

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Pria / These Liminal Days 🏳️‍⚧️ @theseliminaldays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m currently hoping to find a cat friendly apt in #Maine (somewhere between #Biddeford and #Bath) or in #RhodeIsland in #Providence or #SouthCounty areas. Any leads would be greatly appreciated and boosts are welcome.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You gotta give it up to Earth Wind & Fire for not even bothering to add a Water guy. They were just like it’s fine

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Humanities disciplynes are beautiful & useful by cause thei amplifye our humanitye. Undir the care offerid by focused & specialized researche & studye, workes of the present are given more momentum, and thryve. Artefacts of the past blossom ynto newe ydeas. The Humanityes care for the worlde.

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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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Blog for Iowa @blogforiowa.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“It belongs to us”: Historian celebrates ruling over Iowa City’s State Historical Society www.kcrg.com/video/2026/0...

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“It belongs to us”: Historian celebrates ruling over Iowa City’s State Historical Society

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

How are we all celebrating Earth, Wind, and Fire 🔥 day on Monday? I, for one, would like to have a large horn section added to my seminar.

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was on Iowa Public Radio yesterday to discuss my upcoming concert: Eleanor Waltzes: Women's Poetry and Music for Eleanor Roosevelt During the Great Depression. If you want to hear it, I'm in the last 20 minutes or so: www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

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Short story collection tells humorous, heartbreaking stories of womanhood

There are many joys that come along with womanhood, but there are plenty of challenges as well. 'You Know Nothing' is a collection of very short stories from Yasmina Din Madden that focuses mostly on ...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Relentless extractive capitalism devoid of care resources? Ongoing collective trauma that we refuse to acknowledge because there might be implications for extraction? You don’t say.

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David Autovino @davidautovino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Shel Silverstein somehow clocking AI all the way back in 1981

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Marian Wilson Kimber @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I have received an email from an "AI agent" checking a statement in one of my essays for the Women's Song Forum and offering me its services. This is utterly terrifying.

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