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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 2h

That piece is a lot harder than it needs to be...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw a TikTok that posed the following question: “If composers could hear you playing their work, who would you most like to apologize to?”

Amazing.

I need to think on this. What would your answer be?

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 16h

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 16h

Mozart was pretty high on my list!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 16h

Bach and Mozart were pretty high on my list too!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 17h

As I’m thinking about it, Mendelssohn might be my answer to both questions. I owe him an apology, but in fairness his bass parts are horrible

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw a TikTok that posed the following question: “If composers could hear you playing their work, who would you most like to apologize to?”

Amazing.

I need to think on this. What would your answer be?

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to say I have two former UW students in the orchestra with me and several current HS students coming to see it on Sunday. 😇

Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Playing the US premiere of Ruth Gipps’ concerto for violin, viola, and orchestra this weekend (paired with the Mozart, not surprisingly). Fun program!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

I had to submit a breakdown of my schedule by the *minute* for some federal program compliance thing today. I'm at three schools and I teach in two different program areas... that was a job itself.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

I often think about my fourth grade teacher who used to just sit with his feet up on the desk and read the newspaper in between smoke breaks in the staff room.

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 1d

Today I was That Teacher. I gave all of my classes study hall/individual or small group practice day because I had too damn much to do.

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🎃 a frightful hoxgoblin 🎃 @kellenhoxworth.bsky.social · 2d

Higher Ed in 2025 is opening your mailbox to see that your institution has sent you:

1. A Center for Teaching and Learning call to integrate AI into your classroom; and

2. An Office of Academic Integrity email encouraging you to crack down on students who use AI to cheat.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 6d

Here is the link to register to attend The Alchemy Lecture online. Sound—at the Interregnum.

Join us!

www.eventcombo.com/ms/ev/76982/...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 3d

I’m honored! I already use a bunch of your stuff in my class (this is my first year teaching MLLs) and will look at this tonight.

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 3d

Does anyone have any good resources about "newcomer" students in K-12? I have a student who's been in the US for about a year--just started junior high--and just doesn't seem to know how to "do school."

Like, the other day they were sick and just left... no parent pick up, no telling a teacher...

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 4d

Playing the US premiere of Ruth Gipps’ concerto for violin, viola, and orchestra this weekend (paired with the Mozart, not surprisingly). Fun program!

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

I’d like to say I’ve been working tirelessly these last few months but I have, in fact, been quite tired.

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

Not a bad place to come to work every morning

Photo of a sunrise over Mount Tahoma/Mt. Rainier

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

I’d like to say I’ve been working tirelessly these last few months but I have, in fact, been quite tired.

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

Also Messaien’s Turangalila

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/D5s1RNgcsBk?...

Caballé's high notes in this are incredible.

Verdi: Il Trovatore - "D'amor sull'ali rosee" - Montserrat Caballé

YouTube video by Henry Espinosa

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 7d

When I went to school in NYC I live in PA, just across the river from Trenton NJ. It took me less time to get to school than my friends in Queens. Rent was cheaper too…

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 8d

This week I had to add information to a OneNote that was linked to another OneNote inside a OneNote

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Mike Berry @professorberry.bsky.social · 8d

Long week. In bed at 7:30 and rewatching Breaking Bad from the beginning

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