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Corbin Keep
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Cello, with a strong focus on music by women composers. http://www.wildcellist.ca https://corbinkeep.bandcamp.com/album/unspeakable-beauty-works-by-historical-women-composers-arranged-for-unaccompanied-cello
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · Sep 5
𝐌𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝑼𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚: 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝑾𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑼𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑪𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥. 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝/𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠:

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Unspeakable Beauty: Works by Historical Women Composers Arranged for Unaccompanied Cello, by Corbin Keep
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 11h
Yes. Just started the new Bill McKibben book, "Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate & a Fresh Chance for Civilization." He's one of the only "original" climate scientists w/any positivity at this point.
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We SAY we're different than the Yanks, & are, but also similar in some bad ways.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 12h
We should be world leaders in renewables in this moment. LNG will be up and running with no one to sell to. So short sighted. Westerners just cannot fathom the long game.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 17h
The maga grammar of "democrat" instead of the proper "democratic" never fails to rankle.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 18h
It's like an Onion article. But then, much of the news is these days.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 19h
Nice that the step of "yup, it's real" has finally been taken. Next up, "here's what we can do about it."
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 20h
Seems likely her swearing in will happen, but at the tail end of the time when it has to happen by. As I understand it, the Speaker isn't absolutely necessary for it and after Oct 14th it'll likely be done.

But I've little doubt there may still be shenanigans - other wrenches thown in the gears.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 20h
Ha ha! Don't get me wrong, I do like Lili, but Nadia has that "something" that whatever reason I rarely get with Lili's music. & yes, not lots to go on, but what there is like her cello works (originally for organ but she arranged them thus). A rare example of a flashy encore-y piece w/deep emotion.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 20h
It's frustrating that that there are zero homegrown Canadian car manufacturers who produce regular cars. The few companies that do exist produce specialty vehicles. So Canadians are relegated to building, buying and driving big dumb US suhvs and monster trucks - or at best, clones of them.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 21h
Hard no. The term "Trojan Horse" springs to mind.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 22h
Bonis was in classes w/Debussy at the Conservatoire. There's zero evidence that she influenced him & the contrary is more likely, however the intense, unique, deeply masterful quality of Bonis' work does make me wonder what may have transpired in those classes. (I admit to wishful thinking here.)
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 22h
Yes. Personally, I prefer Nadia's compositions to her sister's, and wish Nadia had written more - though that might've diluted her Godmother destiny.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
People who know way more about historical women composers than I do might be able to jump in with some examples. And there may be something really obvious I just haven't thought of.

Very interesting topic of discussion!
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
Still haven't hit on a specific, say, compositional technique invented by a woman that everyone else then adopted, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if there are examples of that. French female composers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries are one place I'd be inclined to look.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
Hélène de Montgeroult was also the first to introduce the works of Bach as curriculum at the Paris Conservatoire. And Princess Amalia of Prussia's compilation of JS Bach's works are believed to have contributed to the revival of his music in the mid 19th century.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
Without Maria Szymanowska, no Chopin as we know him. Szymanowska didn't change everything, but Chopin arguably did to some extent. And there's evidence to suggest that the great Hélène de Montgeroult's "Complete Method for Teaching Fortepiano" was known & studied by Chopin & the Schumanns.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
There are women who were hugely famous in their day, like Delphine Von Schauroth, who may have had influence on male composers at the time, but at this point it'd be hard to tell, because it's not something that men would've been forthcoming about - or in some cases even aware of.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
Then there's Fanny's profound influence on Felix, Nannerl on Wolfgang, etc (there are SO many other such instances that we'll never know about).
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 1d
That's an interesting one.

No Clara, no Robert as we know him (he's only famous because of her; she was a household name for several decades). Though whether Robert Schumann changed the game for everyone... probably not.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 2d
I just posted a thread about this. In searches for a project of mine (compiling a list of novels/fiction about women composers) MOST of the AI generated search results (google; duckduckgo) are of titles incl synopsis'(!) of "books" that don't exist. The authors appear to be real - well, their names.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 2d
My fave Le Guin novel is "Searoad: Chronicles of Klatsand," which isn't sci fi (though there is a female character in it who reads sci fi). For whatever reason, I've never been nearly as taken with Le Guin's sci fi. 🤷‍♂️
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 3d
Our mighty Fjord F150s will save us.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks. One nice thing with DuckDuckGo is that AI results are off by default, but then you can hit the "search assist" button to engage it (on occasion there can be value in its results - but they can NEVER be the last word)!

Thanks again for reading and sharing.
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 4d
Here are some screenshots from previous searches (Duckduckgo, however other AI searches net similar results - like "The Score of a LIfetime" a fake "novel" about Clara Schumann - clever, huh)?

I feel kinda bad amplifying fake stuff, but also think it's important that people know about this!
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 4d
Perhaps it's no accident that the letters "A" & "I" figure prominently in the word "mansplaining" (ok, it's actually "machinesplaining," however I'd wager that the "book inventing algorithm" was created by men: "We can't answer that, so...hey, let's just make it up").
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Corbin Keep @cellocorb.bsky.social · 4d
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Of course, none of that happens, because all of the "books" are fake.
The wild part is that I can do this all day; find an obscure subject (which "novels about women composers" apparently is) & the helpful bots, rather than saying, "sorry, nothing there," instead just make stuff up.
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