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fullyabstract, 4 months ago to random

If you had told me that “tip”, as in pay a gratuity, was an acronym, I would have been skeptical. But it may have originated in English Coffeehouses in the 1800s as an abbreviation for “To Insure Promptitude”.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/01/has-gratuity-culture-reached-a-tipping-point

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

Music by Vincent Kennedy, Carl Nielsen, Christina Rusnak and Joan Tower - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project & Adrian Morejon / Carol Wincenc, Danish National Symphony Orchestra & Johnny Teyssier, Juventas New Music Ensemble, & RTÉ Concert Orchestra - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (1/1/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #OrchestralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Joan Tower: Piano Concerto - Homage to Beethoven”, featuring a drawing from above of a human head, with a glum expression.
Cover of Christina Rusnak and Juventas New Music Ensemble’s Navona Records album “Voices of the Land”, featuring a photo of a landscape with a mountain ridge on the left, and a river on the far right.
Cover of Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s Deutsche Grammophon album “Carl Nielsen: The Concertos”, featuring a photo of the composer superimposed over an image of the sea on a gray day.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

And now for something completely different!

This (12/28/23) afternoon I’m hosting a fill-in radio show on WMBR completely outside my usual modern classical wheelhouse.

I’ll be taking listeners on a tour of the indie band scene in Kansas in the 90s, playing music by Action Man, The Creature Comforts, Exit 159, Kill Creek, El Fontain, Sufferbus,Truck Stop Love & Ultimate Fakebook.

From 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org.

#Radio #Boston #IndieRock

Cover of Exit 159’s album “A Song For Every Mood”, featuring a photo of the three member band.
Cover of Truck Stop Love’s self-titled album, featuring a distorted image of the Johnny Kaw statue from the city park in Manhattan, Kansas.
Cover of Kill Creek’s album “St. Valentine’s Garage”, featuring a cook preparing trays of heart shaped cookies.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to random

The Real Reason for Marriage Polarization (a response to Washington Post’s editorial)

"It is not irrational for women with socially liberal values to avoid dating people who think that they should be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, that they should forgo their career once a child is born, that women’s suffrage was a bad idea, or that they should not be allowed to get divorced if the relationship does not work out.”

#GiftLink

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/political-gender-divide-marriage/676906/?gift=XPfnPsIJYU4sjgFUASyQNSnpf_OPSyv0UvQRZfpt07U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

Choral music for Christmas Day by Bruno Bettinelli, Jeffrey Derus, Michael Gilbertson, Jeremy Gill & Eric Whitacre - featuring Choral Arts Initiative, The Crossing, University of South Dakota Chamber Singers & Variant 6 - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/25/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical #ChoralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of Variant 6’s Open G Records album “New Suns”, featuring a blood red flecked with white depression in a white background, with a black disk including the title inside the depression.
Cover of Jeffrey Derus’s Navona Records album “From Wilderness”, featuring a photo of a lake at twilight with evergreen trees on a hill to the left, and stars above, reflected in the lake’s surface.
Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Born”, featuring a graphic of what looks like a misshapen black bird on a background of reds.

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to animals

Cedric enjoying that brief winter sunlight #CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Working on the 400th episode of my weekly modern classical music radio program, “Not Brahms and Liszt” - to be aired on Christmas Day. I've been producing it week after week (with very few breaks) since September 28, 2015.

You can find out more about my program at the show's website:

https://alleystoughton.us/not-brahms-and-liszt/

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ContemporaryClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to transgender

“The idea that in the 1970s a trans woman would be openly practicing as a psychiatrist is revolutionary by itself, when the profession was still struggling to depathologize homosexuality,” Dr. Gill-Peterson said by phone. “But knowing that your psychiatrist understood what it was like to be in your shoes was a tidal shift.”

#GiftLink #Transgender

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/jeanne-hoff-dead.html?mwgrp=c-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.HE0.IF1j.-WganVP7M88t&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Chamber music with strings by David Bird, Linda Dusman, Chris Fisher-Lochhead, Angelique Poteat & Mari Tamaki - with JACK Quartet, Sirius Quartet, Laura DeLuca, Gita Ladd & Daniel Pesca, & Airi Yoshioka - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/18/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Angelique Poteat’s Navona Records album “Six Seasons”, featuring a design with six vertical panels illustrating the seasons, with a clarinet along the bottom crossing the seasons.
Cover of Linda Dusman’s Neuma Records album “Flashpoint”, featuring an image of two bolts of light converging on a very dark blue background
Cover of Mari Tamaki’s Navona Records album “Retrograde”, featuring a wild, colorful illustration of a fantasy city, including a frog smoking a pipe on a yellow aerial train line

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to animals

Cat style

#CatsOfMastodon

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music for voices by Douglas Boyce, George Lewis, Afarin Mansouri & Carlos Simon - featuring Afarin Mansouri, International Contemporary Ensemble / Joelle Lamarre / Gwendolyn Brown / Julian Terrell Otis, counter)induction / Marlanda Dekine, Marc Bamuthi Joseph / Minnesota Orchestra & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/11/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #VocalMusic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of George Lewis and International Contemporary Ensemble’s Tundra Records album “Afterword”, featuring what seems to be a scene from the opera, featuring five Black characters.
Cover of Douglas Boyce’s New Focus Recordings album “The Bird is an Alphabet”, featuring a card for recognizing a particular bird on a green background
Cover of Carlos Simon, Marc Bamuthi Joseph and Minnesota Orchestra’s Decca Classics album “brea(d)th”, featuring a photo of a “Say Their Names” display in a field

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music for and with piano by Sean Clarke, Malcolm Forsyth, Gabriela Lena Frank, Gregory T. Glancey, Ronald Hannah & Hee Yun Kim - featuring Darryl Friesen, Margaret Carey & Roger Admiral, Kei Endo, Junghwa Lee, Christopher Devine, & Sunmi Chang & Clara Yang - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (12/4/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #Piano #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Margeret Carey and Roger Admiral’s Centrediscs album “Enigmatic Variations”, featuring a design with blocks in the center populated with a bear, elk, beaver and buffalo on squares around a small circle, all on top of textile art, including colors of the rainbow.
Cover of Ronald Hannah’s PGMaudio album “Music for Piano and Organ”, featuring a photo of a tree in the foreground with a city shrouded in mist in the background, and the sky colored blue
Cover of Sunmi Chang & Clara Yang’s Navona Records album “Mother Tales”, featuring a design with a seated woman in profile, surrounded by drawings of Chang and Yang, plus the composers Florence Price, Gabriela Lena Frank, Liliya Ugay and Amy Beach.

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to boston

Music for and with wind instruments by John Gordon Armstrong, Craig Michael Davis, Timothy Hagen, Timothy Kramer, Kerrith Livengood, Shawn E. Okpebholo & William Toutant - featuring Elicio Winds, Rane Moore & Mike Williams, Altered Sound Duo, & Lara Deutsch & Adam Cicchillitti - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (11/27/23) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ModernClassical #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of the Navona Records album “Lock & Key, Vol. III”, featuring a little house inside a tree, with a bird holding in its mouth the key to a little door.
Cover of John Gordon Armstrong’s Centrediscs album “Vistas”, featuring a painting of a seascape with water in the foreground and an island with trees in the background.