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🎹 sharon su

@doodlyroses.com

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Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her Website: sharonsu.com Biweekly newsletter: https://buttondown.com/doodlyroses One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky” — @violanorth.bsky.social

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · Sep 3

📣 hear ye hear ye, my recording of Florence Price’s Fantasie nègre No. 1 is out, and there’s a video

Florence Price: Fantasie nègre No. 1 in E Minor, performed by Sharon Su

YouTube video by doodlyroses

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 11h

It’s not so much that there’s an outline as much as it is the fact that I am well acquainted with how many words I am capable of churning out on an impulse writing bender

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 12h

I dumped a longass essay I started about Tár, I am strong enough to resist this time around

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 12h

Sharon don’t write a 4000 word essay about how kpop demon hunters supports the sociological theory that celebrity culture and fandom is a modern secular iteration of saint worship, you need to practice

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15h

Obviously for all the women composers I’ve played it’s “whoever has the music and will let me buy it” and the editions are always deeply flawed 🤷🏻‍♀️

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15h

I am very fond of the Wiener Urtext editions because I think the covers are beautifully designed and the typesetting and layouts are so clear and readable, but if I work from them I also consult an alternate edition because editorial markings tend to be different

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 15h

Bach and Beethoven: Bärenreiter (college profs), Henle Verlag (childhood teacher)

Mozart: Bärenreiter

Chopin: Paderewski

Ravel: Editions Durand

Henle Verlag for everything else Baroque–Romantic

Have been told it’s all about the editors/editorial process for these composers

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 1d

Sometimes I idly fantasize about how it must feel to be a stout burly man playing Rachmaninoff. I bet it feels amazing, like your arms are machine guns

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 1d

@violanorth.bsky.social Please only engage with this question if it’s fun, else ignore: What is some of your favorite under-played string quartet repertoire from, say 1780-1820? I’m trying to add some new rep without pushing my colleagues much beyond their comfort zone.

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4d

I only got it because our house is prone to having leaks from catastrophic plumbing failures and we realized we need piano protection, so I don’t have it for classy reasons

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4d

FITTED SHEETS
✅ easy rectangle shape
✅ shallow corners along straight lines that lie flat
✅ very manageable fabric

GRAND PIANO COVERS
❌ a shape that makes no sense
❌ deep corners that are somehow also curved??? and won’t flatten??
❌ material that resists being bent to anyone’s will but its own

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4d

I fold mine up and stash it away in a cabinet when it’s not in use because our place has no spare corners for a piano cover to live

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4d

Anyone who complains about how hard it is to fold fitted sheets should try folding a grand piano cover

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 4d

in case anyone was wondering I will be making Cat Mooncake again today, as is tradition

(video from last year)

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Dalanie Harris 🤓💖 @dalanie.bsky.social · 7d

This but in podcast form, our 18-35 demographic is the vast majority of our audience. But the orgs don’t wanna learn 🫠

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 7d

Apparently the majority of people who listen to my music are under the age of 40 so guess what big orgs, you all need to give me 6 figure consulting contracts now because I have cracked the code of How to Make Classical Music Appeal to Young People

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 7d

no don’t do it the only things on my powerpoint are “record works at an unsustainably slow pace” and “be weird on social media”

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 7d

Apparently the majority of people who listen to my music are under the age of 40 so guess what big orgs, you all need to give me 6 figure consulting contracts now because I have cracked the code of How to Make Classical Music Appeal to Young People

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11d

Nice sturm you've got there, be a real shame if someone unded drang to it

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13d

Whole thing, largely unrelated to the piece itself

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 13d

Awwwww you guyssss

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14d

I am also just so mad that this is the state of things

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14d

It was a total gut punch to learn that Jen and Siobhan are leaving—they are truly the loveliest people who make everything around them better, so it is worth throwing them something to ease their move if you can spare anything

👁️ isaac io 👁️ @eyesack.bsky.social · 14d

Jen and Siobhan and their 3 awesome kids are some of the kindest, best people ever, and they're moving out of the US as the country gets more and more unsafe for trans people. If you have the means to support their move and help give them a safe landing pad, please do

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🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14d

People throwing their support toward their mad king

Set of stills from the show Arrested Development.

Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people?
Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but....
Tobias: but it might work for us.

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14d

I have Brahms trauma with this particular piece that maybe I should address at some point

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 14d

By “a newsletter/blog like” mine do you mean just a dump of whatever random thoughts happen to be on my mind at any given week, just horked up and sent out without any editing whatsoever 🫠

🎹 sharon su @doodlyroses.com · 16d

Hand/keyboard choreography is the type of thing that is so natural and instinctive yet near-impossible to describe to non-pianists