Carl Rosman
@carlrosman.bsky.social
Unquestionably one of the clarinettists of his generation. Suddenly father of two. As surprised as you are.
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Carl Rosman
@carlrosman.bsky.social
· Nov 25
So I’m going to give #A-Haydn-A-Day a go, but it’s slightly tricky.
I bought the Haydn 107 box fiveish years ago, intending to do a complete listen at last—the pandemic seemed like a good opportunity. But I did more concerts/recordings than I expected, and the Barbirolli Brick also got in the way.
I bought the Haydn 107 box fiveish years ago, intending to do a complete listen at last—the pandemic seemed like a good opportunity. But I did more concerts/recordings than I expected, and the Barbirolli Brick also got in the way.
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Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
October 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
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Honestly, I'm about to waste a £60 ticket for the BRILLIANT French singer Zaho de Sagazan, from 7pm at the Palladium. Please can someone take it. I can't make it. She is amazing. I'm gutted.
November 11, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Honestly, I'm about to waste a £60 ticket for the BRILLIANT French singer Zaho de Sagazan, from 7pm at the Palladium. Please can someone take it. I can't make it. She is amazing. I'm gutted.
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Ekmeles and the Mivos Quartet’s (marvelous) premiere of my big piece “O Maria”, from last weekend in New York, can be heard here:
on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...
on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...
O Maria (2024-25) for six voices and string quartet
First performance -- 1 November 2025
Ekmeles + Mivos Quartet. DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, NY
soundcloud.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Ekmeles and the Mivos Quartet’s (marvelous) premiere of my big piece “O Maria”, from last weekend in New York, can be heard here:
on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...
on.soundcloud.com/FSe0xSnMVHvw...
A rare glimpse in the wild of the Paris Breakfast Run 2017 T-shirt.
Setting up the final technical details during today's dress rehearsal for this weeks Montagskonzert – Tonband, featuring works by Wadada Leo Smith, Joseph Andre Lake and Enno Poppe & Wolfgang Heiniger 🎉
Come by and have a look at the finished result today – more details on our website.
Come by and have a look at the finished result today – more details on our website.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A rare glimpse in the wild of the Paris Breakfast Run 2017 T-shirt.
Gosh, it’s Rosenkavalier Act I.
Marriage a-la-Mode, 1743: reception during Countess Squanderfield's morning toilette. Paintings on walls hint that she is not exactly respectable! By William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Gosh, it’s Rosenkavalier Act I.
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When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
Philip Glass - Sesame Street - Geometry of Circles.mp4
YouTube video by SamCam2011
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:46 AM
When I was on @looksunfamiliar.bsky.social I chose this sequence from a 1979 Sesame Street episode - probably the first time I ever heard Philip Glass was this exclusive piece he wrote for this animated sequence, Geometry of Circles. It's never appeared anywhere else.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWw...
I get this a lot
down the corridor it seemed suddenly as if somebody started to beat on a bass drum. He listened to it for a few seconds and realized that it was just his heart beating. He listened for a few seconds more and realized that it wasn't his heart, it was somebody down the corridor beating on a bass drum
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I get this a lot
Ouch
"Rhapsodic slow movement" = it's mid-century British, it's not very good
"Spirited fast movement" = it's mid-century British, it's not very good
"Spirited fast movement" = it's mid-century British, it's not very good
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Ouch
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Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week
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Remembering Jeremy Brett, born this day in 1933.
November 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Remembering Jeremy Brett, born this day in 1933.
Ouch!
“Oh God, George! Stop! Stop the car! … I’ve got
another migration headache!”
another migration headache!”
November 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Ouch!
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colleague "Do we need this new biography"
me "No, there's no new information. It just means somebody needs a new kitchen"
me "No, there's no new information. It just means somebody needs a new kitchen"
November 1, 2025 at 4:43 PM
colleague "Do we need this new biography"
me "No, there's no new information. It just means somebody needs a new kitchen"
me "No, there's no new information. It just means somebody needs a new kitchen"
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Tonight at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan, 7:30 PM!
Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!
www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...
Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!
www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...
11-1-25: O Maria — ekmeles
O Maria, ft. Mivos Quartet November 1, 2025 7:30PM DiMenna Center 450 W 37th St, New York, NY 10018 $20/15 Buy tickets Evan Johnson - O...
www.ekmeles.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Tonight at the DiMenna Center in Manhattan, 7:30 PM!
Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!
www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...
Ekmeles + Mivos give the premiere of the ca. half-hour "O Maria" for six voices and four strings, alongside another big premiere from Taylor Brook and vocal music from Ekmeles's repertoire. See you there!
www.ekmeles.com/11-1-25-O-Ma...
Oh gawd, already
Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve, everyone.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Oh gawd, already
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Gosh! 🎉
(Hello no. 1000, @wdmbox.bsky.social!)
(If any of you who don’t actually exist could remove yourselves, I can have another party reasonably soon instead of waiting for another round number, just saying)
(Hello no. 1000, @wdmbox.bsky.social!)
(If any of you who don’t actually exist could remove yourselves, I can have another party reasonably soon instead of waiting for another round number, just saying)
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Gosh! 🎉
(Hello no. 1000, @wdmbox.bsky.social!)
(If any of you who don’t actually exist could remove yourselves, I can have another party reasonably soon instead of waiting for another round number, just saying)
(Hello no. 1000, @wdmbox.bsky.social!)
(If any of you who don’t actually exist could remove yourselves, I can have another party reasonably soon instead of waiting for another round number, just saying)
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Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Long shot (mainly due to how little engagement I get on here), but I'm looking for freelance writers with an interest, or specialism in, classical music.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
If you are one, or know one, please give me a shout.
What is this Pauper Troll my kids have started going on about
October 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
What is this Pauper Troll my kids have started going on about
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This is just to say
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
Once upon a desert sandy
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
As through winds the trav'ling man he
Spied the face of Ozymandy
Lying, simply lying there
Suddenly there was some writing
Pon the plinth that he was sighting
That the sand and time were blighting
Quoth the statue, "Now despair"
There was an old man you could gaze
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
At his works in despair in a daze
If you looked upon them
And were mere mortal men
'Ozymandias mighty', it says
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is just to say
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
I have beheld
the works
that you left
in the desert
At which
you were probably
hoping
I would despair
Forgive me
your legs were mighty
so vast
and trunkless
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'I was just about to drop off, when suddenly, 'tap, tap, tap' at the window, you know who it was? Bleedin' Ozymandias! Stark naked save for a cold sneering visage. He was hanging on the window sill, I could see his trunkless legs all white, saying 'Peter, look upon my works, Peter, and despair!'
October 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
'I was just about to drop off, when suddenly, 'tap, tap, tap' at the window, you know who it was? Bleedin' Ozymandias! Stark naked save for a cold sneering visage. He was hanging on the window sill, I could see his trunkless legs all white, saying 'Peter, look upon my works, Peter, and despair!'
I don’t know what is causing this rush of Ozymandying today but I am all for it.
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I don’t know what is causing this rush of Ozymandying today but I am all for it.
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I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone,
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I am the very model of an ancient trunkless leg of stone,
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
My shattered visage lies half buried with a sandy sneering frown,
The sculptor carved my arrogance upon these broken lifeless things,
My name is Ozymandias, the self-describèd King of Kings!
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Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
October 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Just remembered something rather touching about "Asterix in Belgium". Goscinny died halfway through work on it, so for the rest of the book, to mark the exact point of his passing, Uderzo has drawn either rain, or darkened, lowering skies into pretty much every panel.
If you haven’t watched this yet, consider it heartily recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Oa...
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If you haven’t watched this yet, consider it heartily recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Oa...