Dare To Dream Big …. 💗 (by Claire Saphier)

Professor: What did you focus on over spring break? Me: The 68 measures of rests at the very beginning.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached

Edward Sapir (1929), “The status of linguistics as a science”, Language 5 (4): 207, doi:10.2307/409588 (via linguisten)

I want that fucking trill to be spectacular

Me trying to play baroque music (via augmented-flute)

Could you write a basic list of classical pieces? Only the essential, your favourites :) Thanks!

Baroque

BachBrandenburg Concerto 5H-moll-MesseWeihnachtsoratoriumFantasia in GFantasy and Fugue in G minor

VivaldiWinterConcerto for 2 Cellos in G minor

HandelWater Music

Classical

MozartSymphonies 39-41Oboe ConcertoBassoon ConcertoClarinet ConcertoRequiemSinfonia Concertante KV 297b

HaydnCello Concerto

Romantic

BeethovenSymphonies 3-5, 7Violin ConcertoPiano Sonate 1, 18, 21, 23, 29

MendelssohnSymphonies 3-4Violin ConcertoPaulusDie HebridenOctetDie NachtigallKyrie

SpohrSymphonies 2-4, 9-10Clarinet Concerti 3-4

SchumannSymphonies 2-3Piano Sonata 2Konzertstück für vier Hörner

SchubertWiderspruchDer Erlkönig

ChopinScherzo in Bb minorNocturne in Bb minorPiano Concerti 1-2

WeberDer Freischütz: OuvertüreClarinet Concerti 1-2

WagnerTristan und Isolde: Vorspiel und LiebestodLohengrin: Vorspiel zu Akt III, Elsa’s Procession to the CathedralDie Meistersinger von Nürnberg: VorspielTannhäuser: Vorspiel

TchaikovskySymphonies 1-4, 6Piano Concerto 1Marche Slave1812 OvertureFrancesca da RiminiRomeo & Juliet Fantasy OvertureViolin ConcertoString Quartet 1

RachmaninovSymphony 2Piano Concerti 1-2Preludes in Gm, D, C#mVespersDie Toteninsel

Johann Strauss IIDie Fledermaus: Overture

DvorákSymphonies 1, 3-4, 6-9Cello ConcertoString Quartet 12String QuintetCarnival OvertureSlavonic Dances: Op. 46 no. 8 and Op. 72 no. 7

BrahmsSymphonies 1, 3-4Clarinet Sonate 1-2String Quartet 1

Saint-SaënsSymphony 3TarantelleClarinet Sonata

GriegPeer Gynt Suites 1-2Lyric Pieces: Hochzeitstag auf TroldhaugenPiano Concerto

StraussTill Eulenspiegels lustige StreicheDon JuanEine AlpensinfonieSaloméViolin Concerto

SibeliusViolin Concerto

GlinkaRusslan und Ludmilla: Overture

LisztLa campanellaPiano Concerti 1-2

SmetanaMa vlast: Vltava

ElgarSymphony no. 2Cello Concerto

BrucknerSymphonies 4, 8

MahlerSymphonies 2-3, 5-10

DebussyLa MerPremière RhapsodiePréludes

20th Century & Contemporary

RespighiPini di RomaFontane di Roma

GlièreHorn ConcertoLes Sirènes

ShostakovichSymphonies 1, 5, 7, 9Festive OvertureFuneral and Triumphal PreludeString Quartet 8

HolstFirst Suite in E-flatSecond Suite in FSt. Paul’s SuiteThe Planets

StravinskyThe FirebirdPétrouchka: Danse russe

ProkofievSymphony 1Romeo and Juliet

KodályGalántai táncok

BernsteinCandide: OvertureSlava!Clarinet Sonata

PoulencFlute SonataClarinet Sonata

GraingerLincolnshire PosyShepherd’s HeyCountry GardensMolly on the ShoreDown Longford WayIn Dahomey

MárquezDanzón no. 2

AdamsShort Ride in a Fast Machine

OrffCarmina Burana

BrittenWar RequiemPeter Grimes: 4 Sea Interludes

WilliamsThe Mission

BarberAdagio for StringsViolin Concerto

de MeijSymphony 1

MaslankaGive Us This DaySymphony 4

StevensBenediction

McBethOf Sailors and Whales

Trad., arr. KirchnerWana Baraka

ClausenAt the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners

WhitacreSleepOctoberCloudburstThe Seal Lullaby

every time I listen to this clip, my soul is cleansed

~ Quick Sketch of a Gecko

There was once a very great American surgeon named Halsted. He was married to a nurse. He loved her - immeasurably. One day Halsted noticed that his wife’s hands were chapped and red when she came back from surgery. And so he invented rubber gloves. For her. It is one of the great love stories in medicine. The difference between inspired medicine and uninspired medicine is love.

Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)