Writer, critic, former classical music critic of The Washington Post. (She/her.) @classicalbeat.bsky.social
Joined April 2009
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If you are a Washington Post reader eager to send a signal with your wallet right now, please donate to two fundraisers for our hundreds of dismissed, exceptional journalists (one for domestic and one for international staff): gofundme.com/f/standing-toge… and gofundme.com/f/support-for-w….
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Detail from inside the gutting of the Washington Post:
300 journalists or so will be fired this AM at 8:30 AM (right now…).
They’ll be cut off from newsroom computer access at 9 AM.
Word got out about this yesterday afternoon.
Dozens of reporters & journalists worked late last night & early this AM to finish stories they had in process before being shut out.
That’s who works at the Post. No surprise.
<I interviewed these people — this is a good, valuable story. Let me just get it done…before I lose my job & worry about how to pay my rent.>
One last story.
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On Tuesday, October 22nd, please join us for our new series, "Our City. Our Music. Our Writers!" The first session will have @PhilipKennicott and @classicalbeat talking about their books on Bach and Beethoven. hillcenterdc.org/event/our-c…
#DCCulture #ClassicalMusic
#ThingsToDoInDC
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Just an astonishingly perfect representation of what the tech industry is doing and an illustration of the massive gap between how the purveyors see it and how horrifying everyone else finds it
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#BREAKING: A new outside investigator has been retained by @nyphil to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against their musicians. People who speak with the investigator are being told that their statements may also be shared with @Local_802_AFM counsel.
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Individuals can contact the investigators by reaching out to: [email protected], [email protected] or 914-338-8023.
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Don't worry. I just wrote a story based on it in Chinese yesterday. Now it's known by additional 1.4 billion readers.
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I wanted to share a bit more about the process behind this reporting. I started emailing Matthew Muckey and Liang Wang in September seeking an interview. I sent five emails over five months; despite reading the emails, I got no responses.
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In case anyone thinks these shenanigans @nyphil are new, @classicalbeat has been covering for years @WashPost wapo.st/3Ui98Cw
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Musicians Liang Wang and Matthew Muckey were fired from the New York Philharmonic for sexual misconduct. Why are they back playing with the orchestra? trib.al/ZctLY9C
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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see.
Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.
It takes a few seconds to spot a fake and stop the spread of disinformation. Let's learn how! 🧵(1/5)
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Coming back to this hellsite solely to hype this book! (due out in March—you can pre-order it now ❤️🙏) #NYTXW #crosswords @annashechtman
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Monday, join award-winning critic and cultural historian @jeremy_eichler at P&P to discuss TIME'S ECHO, a case for the power of music as an art form uniquely capable of carrying forward meaning from the past. 7pm @ Conn Ave w/ @classicalbeat - politics-prose.com/jeremy-ei…
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.@Jeremy_Eichler (MF 18) begins the book tour for his MacDowell-supported work, TIME'S ECHO (@aaknopf), with a conversation w/@classicalbeat this Monday, August 28, at DC's @politicsprose bookstore: politics-prose.com/jeremy-ei… #MadeAtMacDowell
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@RichardBratby in the @spectator in the 7 January 2023 edition, prompted by the film Tár.
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It cannot be stressed enough that the Euroamerican operatic stage faces a worrying lack of dancing turtles.
Taiwan is here to help - with turtles fit for a Dragon King!
景勝客家劇團《珊瑚情》
#HakkaOpera #客家戲
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“The only person Riccardo Muti answered to during his CSO tenure was the composer of the score he conducted that week.”
From @2ndFiddle, this is the incisive warts-and-all tribute to the Muti era that the hometown paper deserves chicagotribune.com/entertain…
