Moon Pavilion
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I really should be off social media, and playing the piano - with feeling
Richmond-upon-Thames/Ayrshire, Scotland.
Richmond-upon-Thames/Ayrshire, Scotland.
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Moon Pavilion
@moonpavilion.bsky.social
· Jun 12
Alice had the White Queen. We have the internet. Good luck deciding what’s real!
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll
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The She, The She by Irish Murdoch
Narrated by Sean Connery.
Narrated by Sean Connery.
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The She, The She by Irish Murdoch
Narrated by Sean Connery.
Narrated by Sean Connery.
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
November 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif
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Minnie Castevet EATING CAKE in Rosemary's Baby
YouTube video by ualflygal
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Music criticism ain't what it used to be. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli places Beethoven "under a pane of glass, as an entomologist does with dead butterflies with vaguely mottled wings, and contemplates him, or sends him for a walk, all tight and skinny, in a Froebelian garden"
B dal Fabbro (1951)
B dal Fabbro (1951)
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Music criticism ain't what it used to be. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli places Beethoven "under a pane of glass, as an entomologist does with dead butterflies with vaguely mottled wings, and contemplates him, or sends him for a walk, all tight and skinny, in a Froebelian garden"
B dal Fabbro (1951)
B dal Fabbro (1951)
Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!
How about that for a pianist's name!
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!
How about that for a pianist's name!
Revisiting Mikhail Pletnev's Scarlatti.
Glenn Gould described Scarlatti as "popcorn", to which David Dubal replied: "Wanda Landowska called him 'The god of the Mediterranean'".
Try this yourself on your piaoo & see how difficult it is to have such security of rhythm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeK...
Glenn Gould described Scarlatti as "popcorn", to which David Dubal replied: "Wanda Landowska called him 'The god of the Mediterranean'".
Try this yourself on your piaoo & see how difficult it is to have such security of rhythm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeK...
Keyboard Sonata in G Major, Kk. 520
YouTube video by Mikhail Pletnev - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Revisiting Mikhail Pletnev's Scarlatti.
Glenn Gould described Scarlatti as "popcorn", to which David Dubal replied: "Wanda Landowska called him 'The god of the Mediterranean'".
Try this yourself on your piaoo & see how difficult it is to have such security of rhythm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeK...
Glenn Gould described Scarlatti as "popcorn", to which David Dubal replied: "Wanda Landowska called him 'The god of the Mediterranean'".
Try this yourself on your piaoo & see how difficult it is to have such security of rhythm
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFeK...
"Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true."
(Donald Barthelme)
Only in later life, did I discover that some of the things Dad told me - always in good faith - weren't quite as he told them.
(Donald Barthelme)
Only in later life, did I discover that some of the things Dad told me - always in good faith - weren't quite as he told them.
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true."
(Donald Barthelme)
Only in later life, did I discover that some of the things Dad told me - always in good faith - weren't quite as he told them.
(Donald Barthelme)
Only in later life, did I discover that some of the things Dad told me - always in good faith - weren't quite as he told them.
Jorge Bolet and Emil Gilels admired each other's pianism, though they were very different kinds of pianists
jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet/post/j...
jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet/post/j...
Jorge Bolet & Emil Gilels
Emil Gilels - Brahms - Fantasias, Op 116On 6 March 1983, Gilels performed in London's Royal Festival Hall:Brahms Variations on a Theme by Paganini Opus 35 (Book 1); Fantasias Opus 116Schumann 4...
jorgebolet.wixsite.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jorge Bolet and Emil Gilels admired each other's pianism, though they were very different kinds of pianists
jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet/post/j...
jorgebolet.wixsite.com/bolet/post/j...
“Hello possums,” was Dame Edna Everage's signature greeting, an apex predator of Australian bonhomie.
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (2023)
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (2023)
October 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“Hello possums,” was Dame Edna Everage's signature greeting, an apex predator of Australian bonhomie.
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (2023)
Ludovic Hunter-Tilney (2023)
I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
In which I learn that this magnificent aria from Bellini’s I Puritani was considered too difficult and gradually disappeared from the score until Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge reinstated it. She’s a bloody marvel!
youtube.com/watch?v=XXpO...
youtube.com/watch?v=XXpO...
Bell Telephone Hour - Joan Sutherland - I Puritani: Ah! Sento mio bell'angelo (1963)
YouTube video by Joan Sutherland Fan
youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In which I learn that this magnificent aria from Bellini’s I Puritani was considered too difficult and gradually disappeared from the score until Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge reinstated it. She’s a bloody marvel!
youtube.com/watch?v=XXpO...
youtube.com/watch?v=XXpO...
In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…
Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.
September 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.
Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!
How about that for a pianist's name!
September 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ornella Puliti Santoliquido (1906 – 1977)
How about that for a pianist's name!
How about that for a pianist's name!
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...
August 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
August 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
August 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):
August 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...
August 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...
January 5 should be called ‘World Pianist Day’: it is the birthday of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (b. 1920), Alfred Brendel (b. 1931), and Maurizio Pollini (b. 1942).
But Michelangeli himself once said that he was born 'during the first hour of the morning of 6 January 1920'.
But Michelangeli himself once said that he was born 'during the first hour of the morning of 6 January 1920'.
a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper "
ALT: a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper "
media.tenor.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
January 5 should be called ‘World Pianist Day’: it is the birthday of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (b. 1920), Alfred Brendel (b. 1931), and Maurizio Pollini (b. 1942).
But Michelangeli himself once said that he was born 'during the first hour of the morning of 6 January 1920'.
But Michelangeli himself once said that he was born 'during the first hour of the morning of 6 January 1920'.
I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.
I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948
Music criticism ain't what it used to be. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli places Beethoven "under a pane of glass, as an entomologist does with dead butterflies with vaguely mottled wings, and contemplates him, or sends him for a walk, all tight and skinny, in a Froebelian garden"
B dal Fabbro (1951)
B dal Fabbro (1951)
August 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Music criticism ain't what it used to be. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli places Beethoven "under a pane of glass, as an entomologist does with dead butterflies with vaguely mottled wings, and contemplates him, or sends him for a walk, all tight and skinny, in a Froebelian garden"
B dal Fabbro (1951)
B dal Fabbro (1951)
The manager of one particularly flighty Classical music performer once joked that he was going to announce: ''This season Mr. X will be available for a limited number of cancellations.''
August 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The manager of one particularly flighty Classical music performer once joked that he was going to announce: ''This season Mr. X will be available for a limited number of cancellations.''