🎹 sharon su
@doodlyroses.com
Classical pianist, recording artist, writer | she/her
Website: sharonsu.com
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One of the “Three Musketeers of classical Bluesky”
— @violanorth.bsky.social
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 - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP
Listen to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP by Sharon Su.
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It’s Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s 220th birthday! To celebrate, I have a new recording out of her Sonata in G Minor which you can now listen to on the streaming platform of your choice
This is too real and @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social really came for all of our throats
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened
Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is too real and @oliviagiovetti.bsky.social really came for all of our throats
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
Also I personally was not prepared for the jump scare of seeing myself linked in it
www.criticaldrift.org/p/classical-...
We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...
December 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
We'll see how I keep this up, but I'm reading one chapter a day and quick-blogging my thoughts about it. Chapter 1 here: lesmis.doodlyroses.com/2025/12/03/p...
Apple Music: here are the albums you listened to most this year
Me: yeah this sounds about right
Me: yeah this sounds about right
December 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Apple Music: here are the albums you listened to most this year
Me: yeah this sounds about right
Me: yeah this sounds about right
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This excellent essay gets at pretty much everything I love about these movies.
Don’t read this if you haven’t watched the new Knives Out movie but I wrote about how the series only works because Blanc doesn’t treat the mysteries like a game but is always protecting the most vulnerable individual in the case
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Benoit Blanc’s road to Damascus
There’s several tensions at work in the new Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man — religious belief vs nonbelief / atheism, innocence vs guilt, love vs hate, what a community looks like, what is the tru...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This excellent essay gets at pretty much everything I love about these movies.
Watching the new Knives Out movie left me with a lot of questions, namely "why did the couple in front of me leave the house and buy tickets and sit in prime seats in this theater only to scroll social media on their phones for the entire runtime of this very good movie"
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Watching the new Knives Out movie left me with a lot of questions, namely "why did the couple in front of me leave the house and buy tickets and sit in prime seats in this theater only to scroll social media on their phones for the entire runtime of this very good movie"
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (when holiday prep and the end-of-year scramble keep me from regular practicing and I fall into deep despair thinking I have lost all my skills and will never have a career again)
December 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
It’s the most wonderful time of the year (when holiday prep and the end-of-year scramble keep me from regular practicing and I fall into deep despair thinking I have lost all my skills and will never have a career again)
The stores in London are plastered with Black Friday sale signs right now and I have been furiously texting friends “how can you do Black Friday if you don’t have Thanksgiving???”
Seeing Black Friday/Black Week ads all over the place here in Friday, which I guess we have managed to successfully export to Europe without the “Thanksgiving” part
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The stores in London are plastered with Black Friday sale signs right now and I have been furiously texting friends “how can you do Black Friday if you don’t have Thanksgiving???”
Equestrian sports is like the Freemasons in that you don’t realize how many people are in it until you’re in it yourself
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Equestrian sports is like the Freemasons in that you don’t realize how many people are in it until you’re in it yourself
Got a text from the LA Phil 45 minutes before concert start that Sheku Kanneh-Mason was injured this morning and the premiere of Finnis’ cello concerto would not be performed, so we just got a super short program today
November 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Got a text from the LA Phil 45 minutes before concert start that Sheku Kanneh-Mason was injured this morning and the premiere of Finnis’ cello concerto would not be performed, so we just got a super short program today
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Oh so when an owl only shows up sometimes it’s “irruptive” but when I do it I’m “unreliable.”
Snowy owls are considered “irruptive” in the Midwest, meaning some years they show up in winter and some years they don’t. This unpredictability is one of the reasons a snowy owl sighting carries such a “once in a lifetime” sense of excitement.
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
https://to.wttw.com/3X81VWn
Snowy Owls Delighting Birders on Chicago’s Lakefront
The arctic visitors have drawn bird watchers from surrounding states.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Oh so when an owl only shows up sometimes it’s “irruptive” but when I do it I’m “unreliable.”
Apparently some of you are now reading Les Miserables because of me
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Apparently some of you are now reading Les Miserables because of me
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
I am now feeling peer pressured into trying it again
I have really played myself here
Anything by Patrick Radden Keefe or Erik Larson, those dudes write nonfiction that’s more I-can’t-put-this-down than some thrillers
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Anything by Patrick Radden Keefe or Erik Larson, those dudes write nonfiction that’s more I-can’t-put-this-down than some thrillers
So Victor Hugo def had ADHD right
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So Victor Hugo def had ADHD right
This is the thing that drives me a little insane about people saying that slavery/racism/systemic inequality is “inappropriate” for children—young people are fully capable of understanding complexity, in some ways more so than adults
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This is the thing that drives me a little insane about people saying that slavery/racism/systemic inequality is “inappropriate” for children—young people are fully capable of understanding complexity, in some ways more so than adults
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
This is peak oboe (complimentary)
feel like pure shit just want them back x www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPJ...
Concerto in D minor for 2 oboes, RV 535 - Vivaldi
YouTube video by VivaldiGuys
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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This is peak oboe (complimentary)
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Truly could not dream of a better testimonial. I will be using this forever
"a score that makes, imho, a tad more sense than the (not terrible!) score published elsewhere"
-Sharon Su aka @doodlyroses.com
"a score that makes, imho, a tad more sense than the (not terrible!) score published elsewhere"
-Sharon Su aka @doodlyroses.com
Most of these have been proprietary commissions (DM me!),
but my critical edition of Hensel's Sonata in G minor (with @doodlyroses.com's stamp of approval) is available here:
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but my critical edition of Hensel's Sonata in G minor (with @doodlyroses.com's stamp of approval) is available here:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
Fanny Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor (Fanny Hensel: Solo Piano Works)
Fanny Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor (Fanny Hensel: Solo Piano Works) [Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, Henselpushers] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Fanny Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor (Fanny Hensel: Solo Piano Works)
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November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Truly could not dream of a better testimonial. I will be using this forever
"a score that makes, imho, a tad more sense than the (not terrible!) score published elsewhere"
-Sharon Su aka @doodlyroses.com
"a score that makes, imho, a tad more sense than the (not terrible!) score published elsewhere"
-Sharon Su aka @doodlyroses.com
A little early (for me, I’m on Pacific time remember) Friday newsletter about today’s latest release
Here, have a sonata
New recording out today, to celebrate the birthday of a real one
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November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A little early (for me, I’m on Pacific time remember) Friday newsletter about today’s latest release
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In my head, I hear the title of @doodlyroses.com's latest newsletter in the voice of Lucille Bluth as she delivers the line, "here's some money, go see a Star War"
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In my head, I hear the title of @doodlyroses.com's latest newsletter in the voice of Lucille Bluth as she delivers the line, "here's some money, go see a Star War"
It’s Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s 220th birthday! To celebrate, I have a new recording out of her Sonata in G Minor which you can now listen to on the streaming platform of your choice
Sharon Su - Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP
Listen to Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Piano Sonata in G Minor - EP by Sharon Su.
lnkfi.re
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It’s Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s 220th birthday! To celebrate, I have a new recording out of her Sonata in G Minor which you can now listen to on the streaming platform of your choice
Sometimes I think about this guy and I hope he's having a great life
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Sometimes I think about this guy and I hope he's having a great life
There is no culture clash quite like that when an order muppet neurodivergent meets a chaos muppet neurodivergent
November 14, 2025 at 1:53 AM
There is no culture clash quite like that when an order muppet neurodivergent meets a chaos muppet neurodivergent
To the man who yelled “DON’T GIVE THEM ANY MONEY” at me while I gave cash to a lady on the sidewalk begging with her baby in her arms: respectfully, go jump up your own butt
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
To the man who yelled “DON’T GIVE THEM ANY MONEY” at me while I gave cash to a lady on the sidewalk begging with her baby in her arms: respectfully, go jump up your own butt
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the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
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most of the time living in LA is fantastic but sometimes you don’t get to see the aurora and that sucks
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
most of the time living in LA is fantastic but sometimes you don’t get to see the aurora and that sucks
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my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
my heart wants a beautiful, neatly arranged home like the ones featured in architectural digest. but my spirit wants to adopt as many cats and dogs as my living space humanely allows. very difficult dilemma.