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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Just because a voice isn’t “classical” does not make it “untrained.”

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

9 months

Music schools love to deny admission to folks who can’t read music. This is an obscene form of gatekeeping. It’s the type of thing that, if necessary for coursework, can be easily achieved with a few tutoring sessions and should not prevent anyone from being accepted. Ever.

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I'm not going to stand here and proselytize that Western notation is necessary for all musicians (it's not), but learning it is definitely NOT the onerous task that some people want to portray it as.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

BREAKING: the CDC says you may now triple the leading tone

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

PERFORMERS! Tell composers when you play their music & send them a program! Every. Single. Time. We can make anywhere from like $40 to hundreds of $ for a single performance, but ONLY IF WE HAVE A PROGRAM TO REPORT TO OUR PRO (ASCAP, BMI). This is MAJOR part of our livelihoods!

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@aksocolofsky

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“We’ve never dated before, but I wrote you this symphony about my vivid fantasies of our love and lust, how I drugged myself and dreamed I killed you, and how you then joined me in a diabolical witch orgy. Want to go out?” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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@aksocolofsky

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Classical Their musicians IRL Headshot

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

The CDC says that parallel motion at any interval is now permitted

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Very often I get approached by young musicians who say: "I wish I could compose music, but I've never taken Music Theory." And this sentence both breaks my heart and fills me with joy at the same time. A thread. 🧵 1/9

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Places that rejected me for grad school: Juilliard, USC, CU Boulder Places I’m now TT faculty: CU Boulder Grad admissions don’t mean shit. You’re good enough, trust me. ❤️

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

“All her stuff sounds the same.” Bro, have you ever heard of this guy Haydn?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

. @ThreatNotation

Spencer Arias

@SpencerArias

3 years

Tell me again that classical music isn’t #racist

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

A whole mood

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Here’s my hot take for this Friday morning: music conservatories spend way too much time instructing students on exactly HOW to make music and almost no time or space to help students discover WHY they make music. This is by design.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

6 months

Alright let’s do this. Here’s my hot take: It takes an immense amount of trust from classical music audiences to welcome deeply static, slowly unfolding, and textural music, and I’m not sure that trust is so willingly granted to non white male composers.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

YOUR STUDENTS DONT KNOW WHAT OFFICE HOURS ARE!!! TELL THEM and maybe also rename them “student hours”

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

I hear older academic composers complain about “copy & paste” music written by younger composers, and this is straight-up bias against loops and DAW composition. Very short 🧵 1/3

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Have been debating whether or not to share this, but here it is: my 'anti-bio.' (alt text provided for all images)

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Gonna start reffing to all classical canon performances as “covers”

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

mezzopiano is a fake dynamic. It is not real. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

@Komaniecki_R Actually pretty impressive technique happening here. That’s not easy.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Something I really can’t stand about music academics is how so many act as though any music that is a commercial success is somehow basic or inauthentic.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Just got followed by a composer who, 10 years ago sent a mass email shaming me and a colleague for winning a composer competition because, as he said, there was no way TWO people who identified as women at the time could have won. Wonder if he remembers...

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

Hot take for the morning: classical composition in *US conservatories* has largely moved past serialism as a harmonic aesthetic, however there is a lasting impact of that movement that conservatories continue to uphold: music as craft--as opposed to music as art. A short 🧵 (1/9)

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

@latifnasser If Ali is interested in CU Boulder, let me know! We have a great string program here. :)

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

I will say this until my dying day: You don’t have to take a music theory class in order to compose! Could it help? Maybe!! Is it required? No!

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

4 years

The word “Ebb” will always look like E double flat to me

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

I’ve invented this dynamic and y’all can just deal with it

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

6 months

Just because a piece of music is dissonant, does not automatically make it "atonal."

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

You know, with all that money you could fund the arts on earth, too?

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

3 years

Music in zero gravity

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

9 months

Ok, let’s try this again with a more blunt wording: The conservatory model makes it profoundly challenging to teach creativity. It pigeonholes young minds into specialties and boxes long before they’ve really had a chance to explore other disciplines and modes of creation. (1/9)

Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

9 months

I frequently wish that composers were lumped in with the other makers on university campuses, rather than lumping us in with performers. e.g. composers with the “makers” in visual art, dance, design, architecture, and not composers with the “preservers” in performance.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Thrilled to announce that I am still so unbelievably burnt out.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

7 months

Reminder to put “Auld Lang Syne” in 7 this year. You won’t regret it.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

8 months

Our jobs are safe for now.

Anna Indiana

@AnnaIndianaAI

8 months

Hello world! I’m Anna Indiana and I’m an AI singer-songwriter. Here’s my first song, Betrayed by this Town. Everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm, lyrics, and my image and singing, is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it 💕

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Can we talk about gatekeeping within the uni music composition admissions process? I’ll start: application fees, required notated scores, expectations of: recordings, canonic/repertoire knowledge, prior ear training & music theory knowledge, travel to interview, WILD tuition $...

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Getting hitched today to the most amazing woman I’ve ever known. 🥰

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

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God I love this woman. We finally got our wedding and I couldn’t be happier. 😘 @karg36

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Hilary Hahn just liked one of my tweets I can put this on my cv right?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

Today’s spicy classical music take: a composer should rarely announce to the audience “I think my piece speaks for itself.” You’re bailing on the most spectacular opportunity to connect with your audience & community—a chance to provide us with a window into your humanity. (1/5)

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

5 months

When I say I don’t like Mozart, I mean that I don’t like how the classical music discipline has deified him to an extent that directly hurts and limits the field for contemporary composers.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 year

A friendly FYI for this time of year: alum - singular, gender neutral alumna - singular, feminine alumnus - singular, masculine alumni - plural, male or gender neutral alumnae - plural, feminine alums - plural, gender neutral alumn - not a thing

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Destroying the gatekeeping of the definition of "composition" is at the core of the necessary revolution in our field.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

“I murdered my first wife and her lover in bed, but I wrote you this madrigal” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

1 month

Tenured. Associate Prof. ✅ Feeling a lot of things right now, but mostly gratitude for my wife @karg36 , CU Boulder colleagues, and the many folks who supported me along the way. I am the first woman to be tenured in the Composition Department at CU. Definitely not the last.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

One of the problems with The Arts in academia is that the canon is often treated as the “gold standard” for art-making, rather than something that simply happened once that you may or may not find interesting or valuable to you personally.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Am I the only one who feels like we should use this pandemic to invent the 3 day weekend?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Please please please please please—if you are saying ‘Clara Schumann’ every time you name her as a composer, then also say both of Robert’s names every time you name him as a composer.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

6 months

CANNOT TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE THAT THEY DID NOT HARMONIZE

EZ Rider🌻

@EZRideryoyall

6 months

In case you didn’t get to see it, here is the full video of Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs singing “Fast Car” at the Grammys

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@aksocolofsky

2 years

I feel like the classical music field is full of cat people and I am a dog person. This is not a metaphor. This is literal.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

“He’s one of the foremost man violinists of his time.” Yeah, it sounds that wrong when you say “woman composer,” too.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

My issue with The Canon isn’t that I want more people included in said canon, it is that I want any notion of a canon to be destroyed entirely. A very short 🧵

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

4 years

First class of the semester and I had my students introduce themselves with the prompt “describe the music you love without naming an artist or genre.” And WOW what an amazing window into people’s personalities and motivations.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Hear me out: put Auld Lang Syne in 7 this year. You won’t regret it.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

Just gonna throw this out there: If you send me a work email at 5:30pm on a Friday, and then send a follow-up at 8:00am on a Monday annoyed that you haven't gotten a response... Please note that ZERO business hours have passed since your first email.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

4 months

Y’all I absolutely hate how we put composers’ birth years on programs. Imagine if we did this for performers. That’d be weird, right?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

“Please submit your artist bio. Maximum length 11 words.”

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@aksocolofsky

9 months

I frequently wish that composers were lumped in with the other makers on university campuses, rather than lumping us in with performers. e.g. composers with the “makers” in visual art, dance, design, architecture, and not composers with the “preservers” in performance.

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

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Theory / Comp

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

We need every single person who wants to write music to start writing music. We need to normalize being a composer. This is how we shake the system. This is how we end the myth of the composer-genius. 9/9

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

5 months

A little trick I do a lot for myself, but also with my students: if I’m feeling lost in the form mid-composition process, I export my audio as mono and print out a screenshot. From there I can draw in my form (sometimes I use post-it’s to try out different forms).

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@aksocolofsky

2 years

There comes a point in every artist’s life where they think: “I should start a podcast.” And this is probably a bad idea, but would anyone listen to a podcast where I interview composer-educators about how they teach composition?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

2 years

I know some people are probably reading the news out of Michigan and thinking “thank god it’s not like that at my school.” But it is. Everywhere. It might not be as bad as it was at UM, it might be worse. But it is there. It is everywhere. All institutions must learn from this.

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@aksocolofsky

2 years

WHY DO THE BRASS SOUND SO BAD

Phantom Power

@PhantomPower14

2 years

Declaration of God Save the King met with boos in Edinburgh #Scotland

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The weirdest thing about being a composer in academia is that the rest of The Institution is designed to replicate and preserve art, rather than create it

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

4 years

next stimulus package is gonna be an $80 application fee for a $400 commission due yesterday

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

8 months

Wow I was really onto something this time last year

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

9 months

@kadska No, universities should have a short-course for this at the start of freshman year

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

Every time you’re not practicing, just remember that rest is essential to artistic development. More is not more.

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@aksocolofsky

3 years

What James Levine did was horrendous and in no way unusual within our profession. But glossing over those acts, revising the history of such an abhorrent person is directly enabling rape culture to continue.

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@aksocolofsky

2 years

What’s your favorite 10th rate piece of music? Mine’s Holst St Paul’s Suite

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@aksocolofsky

4 years

Can we replace counterpoint as a subject with “learning how to improvise stunning harmony lines in popular music”?

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Dr. Annika Socolofsky 🏳️‍🌈

@aksocolofsky

3 years

Asked my students what Office Hours are and one said “a time where the teacher sits alone in their office and stares at a wall and is sad no one came” 💀

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@aksocolofsky

3 years

If you hear someone mispronounce the name of a friend or colleague, please correct them as many times as you need to for them to get it right. You are doing those of us with frequently mispronounced names a massive service.

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1 year

Just wrote “poco vibrato to taste” in a piece and realizing scores are basically recipes

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@aksocolofsky

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@moreaujonny A grad TA would be teaching these things. And reading music is not required for being a great musician. Some of the greatest musicians of all time don’t read sheet music—especially those outside of western traditions.

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@aksocolofsky

1 year

The least realistic thing about Tár is an American woman as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic

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Composers, do you ever think about how you could absolutely crush the spa music or aquarium music game?

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@aksocolofsky

3 years

It would be so easy to write “Slowly but violently, as if gradually pulling off your own toenails” as a tempo marking, take a screenshot, and have it blow up on Threatening Music Notation

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To the profs out there who haven’t figured out how to use they/them pronouns yet: you have all summer. Practice. Walk around your house and say out loud: “They are coming to office hours. I gave them their paper back. Their paper was great.” LOOP. No excuses this fall.

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@aksocolofsky

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Asked my class if they knew what “office hours” meant and no one did. Now calling them “Student Hours” and reminding the class they can come in with literally any questions. 2 students came today and we got to geek out about just intonation for a long time! That was so damn FUN!

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Academia didn’t prepare me for working in the real world but it also didn’t prepare me for working in academia so what the hell did it do?

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If for some reason you’re not convinced that toxic masculinity exists, you need not look any further than a music notation facebook group.

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This criticism for Turning Red is so telling because the white men are saying “I can’t relate to this Asian girl going through puberty” but everyone who isn’t a white man has to relate to white men all the time.

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Fill in the blank: what really blows my mind is that a student could go through 4 years of conservatory training without ______________.

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@aksocolofsky

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Hot take: the best Dolly Parton song is not Jolene. In fact, she wrote MANY songs better than Jolene. Some really spectacular, under-appreciated songs penned by Ms. Parton: a thread. 🧵

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@aksocolofsky

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Glad music notation discourse is leading to bigger, more important convos about how to change music education and make it more inclusive but also supportive of a broader range of styles, aesthetics, and needs. Don’t get hung up on just notation—keep pushing this convo forward!!

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3 years

Wishing my oboist friends a very haut bois summer

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Something I wish I could say to those commissioning new works to diversify the repertoire is: Commission works from people who will really benefit from the opportunity and the income. 🧵 1/8

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Hot take: I know some allies are worried about co-opting queerness by showing up during Pride month but this is not the year to worry about that. Show up with all your might. Scream it from the rooftops. We need your support and optics so ****ing much right now.

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@aksocolofsky

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HOW WAS THIS NOT ALREADY A THING

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BREAKING: Juilliard will now prohibit all "amorous or sexual relationships" between "faculty and students," not just undergrads and "faculty and [grad] students where a power imbalance might be exploited."

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Just once, I would like to see an “early career” composer opportunity pay a professional rate.

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When I die, I hope that people say “she tried very hard to be the best person she could be.” I hope that they say this instead of a blanket statement about my ~positive~ worth to the world/field because we are all such complex and flawed people.

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@aksocolofsky

3 years

Is it appropriate to put “blocked by anna netrebko on instagram” on your CV and also what category would this go under? Honors & Recognitions?

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@aksocolofsky

4 years

DRAFTING TABLE HAS ARRIVED. I repeat: DRAFTING TABLE HAS ARRIVED. I’ve never had such an intense itch to compose!

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@aksocolofsky

2 years

This sentence breaks my heart because it is so incredibly sad that The Institution has conditioned our students into thinking that they need to understand dead, white European music theory in order to share their musical selves with the world. 2/9

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2 years

Overheard in the music school: "I actively avoid listening to Bolero so I couldn't even sing you that awful melody if I tried"

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