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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

If you’re not consciously moving to the Left as you get older, you’re probably unconsciously moving to the Right.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

6 months

Everything happening at Columbia right now makes more sense when you think of them as what they are: a real estate holding company with a public-facing academic veneer. (They are the largest landowner in New York City.)

ethan • 郭勇仁 • ‎إيثان 🇮🇷🇸🇬

@ethan_k_eblg

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i'm an incoming columbia student. admitted students day is sunday, and today the university sent out this email. i want to make something clear: not "unsettling": peaceful protests "unsettling": inviting nypd to arrest 100+ students & occupy the campus free palestine 🇵🇸

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

@MatthewACherry that baby hippo has already killed 4 people

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Judd Greenstein

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5 months

You wouldn’t know it publicly, but nearly every single famous indie musician I know has a day job, or does something like film/commercial music to pay for their touring. Only exceptions are artists who can play solo and are proximate to genres w/ healthy-ish infrastructure

Damon K 🎤

@dada_drummer

5 months

For how many years have we all been told to make up what we can no longer earn from recordings by playing live… read this article

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Judd Greenstein

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2 years

I can understand why conservatives would be upset, though, with Lizzo promoting her radical left wing agenda through the elevation of Classical Music, the Library of Congress, and the Founding Fathers

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

How has no one done Dreams with this

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

4 years

Timeline cleanser: If you’ve already seen a sloth on a boat playing with the water today just keep on scrolling...

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

Music lessons of every kind are so beneficial for everyone. More of this please!

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

4 years

Needed this today. This nursing home has drum exercise classes for their residents — and they love absolutely love it...

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

1 year

Ruin an opera with one letter: Weinstein on the Beach

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

6 years

@dcwoodruff I can't tell if the show has moved right or I've moved left

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

I’m honestly less disturbed by the crazy anti-Semitic rant itself than by the Board chair’s response of “please limit your comments to problems we can actually address in this forum”

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@atrupar

3 years

cw: racist insanity a woman who went on a conspiratorial anti-semitic rant at Wednesday's Chandler USD Governing Board meeting actually received a smattering of applause

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

As usual, my favorite candidate is the one Pence is trying to pretend Biden and Harris are

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

@ogiovetti @violinmanjosh “I did not spend 15 years perfecting my Tchaikovsky concerto at the Leningrad Conservatory for this”

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Why I missed the NY Phil performance of my piece on Sunday

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Judd Greenstein

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2 years

@cakesandcourage what about the intention to *steal* all or most of their own food

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

cancel culture has gone too far this time

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

Can't stress enough that this is because of the players. Just like them, we in the culture industry have to find ways to exert our influence on the wealthy and powerful people who ostensibly control our institutions. We don't have juice like LeBron but we have more than we think

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

4 years

So - the @NBA just announced that all basketball arenas in the league will he turned into 2020 voting locations. The NBA really is really leading America right now and it’s amazing. I love this game.🌎🏀❤️🇺🇸

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

The *entire classical music industry* is already a Society for the Preservation of Western Music! And we have to ask: what exactly is the difference between the agenda of that incoherent, racist "society" and what classical institutions implicitly support *every day*?

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Broke: commissioning composers from historically excluded groups to write music exclusively about or reflective of their excluded group Woke: commissioning composers from historically excluded groups to write whatever the fuck they want

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

@AdamSerwer That tweet that's going around is misleading. The woman calls Nancy Green, not Aunt Jemima, the "picture of the American dream".... Which is arguably worse, given that Nancy Green was a formerly enslaved person whose image was exploited for a racist corporate fantasy.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

Bowie, in addition to being his usual astute self, here, is also dressed exactly like you'd want a 1999 internet expert to be

Rex Chapman🏇🏼

@RexChapman

3 years

David Bowie in 1999: “The potential of what the Internet is going to do to society, both good and bad, is unimaginable. I don’t think we’ve even seen the tip of the iceberg. I think we’re actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.”

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 months

Can’t believe someone found a new way to make 4’33” relevant. JMcW’s greatest cultural contribution, no doubt

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

@T_hoedinson @MatthewACherry now I'm picturing some "monster" having its mask pulled off to reveal it's been a baby hippo the whole time

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

@MarissaEsque 2 Sugar is so good. Will have to check out the whole album.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Just found out that @WNYC is cancelling John Schaefer's shows. That's a terrible decision, a terrible loss for our community, and casts the station in a terrible light. I've been listening to New Sounds since I was a kid, and once John finds a new home, I will continue to do so.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

@ItssBarnett no one has ever made that kind of eye contact. I feel like by the end of these shows he had looked each audience member directly in the eyes.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

The real battle is not millennials vs Gen X, it’s theater kids vs the world

Eli Wilson Pelton

@eliwilsonpelton

3 years

this makes me physically ill

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

RIP Frederic Rzewski, a true iconoclast, genuine progressive, and a model - for so many of us - of how a composer can engage with deep political questions without any regard to superficial aesthetic distinctions. He will be missed but his legacy will live on.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

Distressing beyond belief to see perhaps the most "successful" artist to come out of our community unable to thrive financially in the industry at large. The system is utterly broken.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

Possibly (probably?) the best brochure

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

You think you're into sea shanties but you're really just into communal singing

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

@tressiemcphd A few years back, I had a 24hr layover in Dublin and emailed the small handful of people I knew there, none very well, seeing if anyone might be free to meet. Someone picked a pub, 25 people showed up over the course of the evening, and we all hung out until 2am. On a Monday.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

6 years

The Pulitzer Prize in Music was just awarded to an incredible work in a kind of music that *even now* has to fight to be considered "actually music" by the kinds of people who used to win Pulitzer Prizes in Music.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

@ztsamudzi 100%. I can't believe people agree to do it.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

Lizzo is the most famous flutist of all time, right? Besides, like, deities who played the flute?

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

This is on another level of bad takes

jasoncherkis

@jasoncherkis

4 years

@emmaroller Steely Dan is why people hate jazz.

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Judd Greenstein

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1 year

@WorldWideWob My wife asked “why is everyone on the floor all the time this game”

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

Boy do I hate 4’33” jokes

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

6 years

Daughter, while singing and drawing: “I’m writing music!” Me: “cool! Are you...a composer?” Her, emphatically: “No! I’m a REAL artist who also sings.” Me: damn

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

6 months

I’m not usually surprised by wild classical music perspectives but the “this is terrible advice, no composer who writes a C score will ever be taken seriously” folks have managed to do just that. Like, what are you actually talking about

Esa-Pekka Salonen

@esapekkasalonen

6 months

Note to all composers: write your scores in C. The usual octave transpositions are ok. I spent 6 weeks deciphering the chords in Elektra. After that I decided I’ll not put any conductor colleagues through that unnecessary ordeal with my own scores.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

8 years

If Shakespeare is the Michael Jordan of the English language, this must make Christopher Marlowe the Scottie Pippen.

The Associated Press

@AP

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Oxford University Press to credit Christopher Marlowe as co-author on three Shakespeare plays,

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

@SpencerArias somebody tell these people that "Western" is a fucking identity

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 months

100%. It's not hard to find a small town in these United States. It is hard, and should be, to find a small town abutting the Pacific Ocean

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

The Giants have become the Sacramento Kings of the NFL, where none of their moves make sense individually or in tandem. It's one of the most remarkable franchise falls in recent sports history.

Kim Jones

@KimJonesSports

4 years

#Bucs run game coordinator Harold Goodwin on #Zoom : Raves about rookie T Tristan Wirfs, calls him “a legit Pro Bowl-type player. ...We hit the lottery on that.” Says he doesn’t remember a rookie having such an impact since Maurkice Pouncey w/PIT. Wirfs was 13th overall pick.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

Love that legacy media still uses “millennial” to mean “young fool” when actual young people use the same term to mean “out of touch old person”

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

PETITION TO KEEP GARRETT MCQUEEN ON THE AIR: To: @JonMcTaggart (President, APM) & @DPDREW (President, MPR) *Please RT/❤️ if you agree* To SIGN YOUR NAME on the published doc, enter your info here: Signatures updated in the AM

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

RIP Ingram Marshall, an absolutely wonderful artist, and quietly a tremendously important figure for my generation of minimalist-influenced composers, both because of his music and his supportive, seemingly egoless way of moving through a world dominated by the opposite qualities

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

RIP Louis Andriessen, a good and generous person who was a definitional figure of 20th/21st century music. His body of work — as a composer, teacher and musical citizen — has become more obviously vital, prescient and influential with the passage of time. A huge loss.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

8 years

This tweetstorm by @Shakestweetz misses the point. “Business as usual” is about economic policy. Eg @matthewstoller :

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

What is this, a new music competition?

Brooke Newman

@DrBrookeNewman

3 years

Is this a joke?? “The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA seeks applications for an Assistant Adjunct Professor on a without salary basis. Applicants must understand there will be no compensation for this position.”

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Judd Greenstein

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5 years

Stop talking shit about the Mighty Handful!! Modest Mussorgsky is AWESOME Mily Balakirev is FABULOUS César Cui Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is OUTSTANDING Alexander Borodin is TERRIFIC

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

This is the most Twitter-specific content I have ever seen in one place. Nothing about this makes sense outside of Twitter land

Brimley/Cocoon Line

@BrimleyLine

3 years

Arkansas man Willie McNabb, whose 2019 tweet about 30-50 feral hogs memorably caught the attention of @JasonIsbell , is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congratulations, @WillieMcNabb ! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

I get not having kids, but I also don’t know how else you’d get to experience the double joy of a 19 month old walking around the house with her toy clock, so proud at having learned a new word and repeating it over and over again but leaving out the L

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

I love how short albums are now. 30-40 minutes of dense music and we're done. Why did we think we needed 70+ minutes again? Let's do concerts next

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

@jonbernhardt @violanorth "Be.... Sure.... to drink.... your... Ovaltine"

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

OK, then, I WON'T use Sibelius while in Safe Mode

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

@unusual_whales That’s a really misleading headline. It’s $628m if you choose the lump sum of $997b. Should be approximately double that if you take the 30 year plan.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Fuck you, Sibelius. Just....fuck you.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

Does anyone else feel like performance fees, commissioning fees, appearance fees, licenses, and other sources of income for musicians are not rising anywhere near the broader rate of inflation / cost of living?

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

@ira

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

@thedavidcrosby Can you help amplify @benandjerrys 4/20 message?

Ben & Jerry's

@benandjerrys

5 years

It’s hard to celebrate 4/20 when so many people of color are still being arrested for pot. We have to do better. Learn more:

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

As seen upon opening my kitchen door this morning

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

Mike Tyson’s immortal “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” has become the most relevant and important guiding quote of our time

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

Something that would help our field, it seems to me, is to separate the Music Director position from the Principal Conductor position at orchestras. If nothing else, you'd get a wider range of musical tastes/interests at the top, which would serve the institutions well.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

Young people may not be aware that before 9/11, it was very uncommon in this country to see military equipment/gear used by police forces.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Yep, sounds totally idyllic for everyone involved

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

Come on. No.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

4 years

Ennio Morricone, Italian composer who wrote ‘ah-ee-ah-ee-ah’ theme of ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,’ dies at 91

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

@pwallinga Ravel Piano Concerto, 2nd movement Brahms Op. 116 No. 4 C. Schumann Impromptu Glass Einstein on the Beach, Spaceship (!) Chopin Prelude Op 28 No. 9 Debussy Arabesque

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

@lizzieohreally @basquiatball agreed

Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

Somehow this is even more disturbing than the ones where the pig is the butcher

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Judd Greenstein

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7 years

@MatthewACherry sorry, those two are perfect strangers to me.

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Judd Greenstein

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6 years

Can’t do justice to Matt Marks right now but we will keep fighting your good fights, my friend. Rest in power.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

This is a departure for New Amsterdam: the first time we've released music that was nearly this old, and by a long-deceased composer. But Eastman's musical legacy, though recently reinvigorated, continues to demand special attention — to help make up for tragically lost time.

New Amsterdam

@newamrecords

3 years

Announcing: "Julius Eastman Vol. 1: Femenine," @WildUp 's opening entry in their multi-volume anthology celebrating composer Julius Eastman. Today, you can listen to the first excerpt from the album.

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

You’re on a first date with someone, and they tell you the name of their favorite work for viola, bassoon, and vibraphone. You immediately leave. What’s the piece?

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Judd Greenstein

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8 years

Is there some non-racist part of the country that I don't know about?

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

We take them for granted now, but The Beach Boys are really one of the strangest groups in music history

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

@MarleyK20 @tressiemcphd @misyrlena @AsteadWesley Sadly, this "we worked hard, why can't they" BS is not uncommon among many American Jews (including some of my family) who don't understand how structural/institutional racism works.

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Judd Greenstein

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7 years

Winning over a professional orchestra is tough, but it’s not even in the same ballpark as trying to win over an eighth grade choir.

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Judd Greenstein

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10 months

@misterminsoo If Oh Comely is the “worst song” then that just further cements that album’s status as one of the GOATs

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Judd Greenstein

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6 years

@mcmansionhell this felt right

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

Another reason to leave pipelines in a state of incompletion

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Judd Greenstein

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5 years

This is remarkable.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

what year is this

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

Seasoned comp teachers: what do you do when a talented student is 100% stuck in a time period? Like the late 19th century?

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

5 years

Fellow Jews, please ask Noah Rothman and others of his ilk about their apparent desire to debase the term "anti-semitism" in a world where genuine anti-semitism still exists. It's important.

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Judd Greenstein

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1 year

@_pem_pem When I read that description I was expecting, like, Gorbachev and the Hamburglar to show up toward the back

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

@hopes_matt @alanhe He never goes to the bathroom. That’s why he’s constantly full of shit.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

anyway, one of my positive reminders of today was how unbelievable an orchestrator Ravel was

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

Advice to younger composers: it's 100% ok to write something that sounds like something else, as long as you put enough of yourself into it — energy, care, time — that it winds up sounding like your own.

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Judd Greenstein

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2 years

Anyone who says Lil Kim wasn’t iconic was simply not alive then

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

The best John Williams theme is the one you heard when you were 7 years old

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Judd Greenstein

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4 years

“Damn, Phillip Glass really had it figured out” - me, every time I need to pay for a plumber

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

7 years

Have a listen to my brand-new Flute Concerto for @AlexSopp and @TheKnightsNYC over on @Q2music !

Listen: World Premiere of Judd Greenstein's Flute Concerto for Alex Sopp | New Sounds Live | WQXR

On July 11th, chamber orchestra The Knights premiered Judd Greenstein's Flute Concerto with flutist Alex Sopp during a live performance in Central Park.

www.wqxr.org

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

The hill I will die on is that grants should not be administered by application, but on the basis of research conducted by the granting organization.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

3 years

@AmayaNYC I wish he'd respond with lyrics in situations like this "you're good, you're good....stack cheddars forever, live treacherous, all the etceteras"

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

2 years

This is the most garbage tweet I've seen in a long, long time

Black Millionaires ®

@Blackmillions_

2 years

Rihanna got paid $0 to perform at the Super Bowl half time show by the NFL but did it for exposure for her brand. Over 28.5 Million people watched her Super Bowl halftime show. Think about this the next time you think you are too big to work for exposure 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Judd Greenstein

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6 years

Big news.

Nonesuch Records

@NonesuchRecords

6 years

Nonesuch and @NewAmRecords announce a new partnership to support contemporary American composers. The first three releases, due in spring 2019, will feature works by @Caroshawmusic , William Brittelle, and Daniel Wohl. More info:

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Judd Greenstein

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5 years

Sorry to anyone who is annoyed by my account temporarily turning into a John Schaefer lovefest, but honestly it is when someone's show has been cancelled, not when they die, that we should be proclaiming what they mean to us. So here we are.

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

Dude you had one job

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Judd Greenstein

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6 years

Seriously want to get off this plane that is about to take off so I can go to @NewMusGathering this week and be with the community that Matt helped foster. And you know what? That is absolutely, one hundred percent something Matt would do. Fuck. What a tragic loss.

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Judd Greenstein

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3 years

The reason to state negative opinions about composers within the canon is because the canon itself serves as a self-reinforcing promotional tool for all those within it, and a barrier to broader entry from those on the outside - and thus to true diversity, in every sense.

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

7 years

They grabbed all the tempo changes and printed them as “movements” and now I look like a compulsively insane composer person

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Judd Greenstein

@juddgreenstein

4 years

It’s pretty remarkable to see a politician press pause on their meteorically-rising career to improve their state in a lasting way that sets a template for our national organizing. Thank you Stacey Abrams!

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