Roger Parton

[Phil Klay @PhilKlay]

Whitman is our Homer
Melville our Aeschylus
Emerson our Plato
Grant our Thucydides
And Poe is our Edgar Allan Poe, because nobody else has anything like him

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@liamguilar @DrDavidVernon Not to worry. Plenty of others love it for the wonderful work it is!

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

Those avid shameclosing eyes and long, milkwhite teeth

[James @exhaustdata]

Genuinely my favorite thing about Ulysses is that the cat says “Mrkgnao,” as if Joyce was trying to advance non-human language as well

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@paul_jkrause Keats!

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@schizosemia @DStrungk All the best from stately, plump Buck Mulligan and the gang on this special day!

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

Lovers of the 1st Violin Concerto will recognize the motif shown in the image!

[Moto Perpetuo @MotoPerpetuoX]

A previously unknown manuscript by Béla Bartók has been discovered after being acquired at a Spanish auction and identified by Hungarian antiquarian Ádám Bősze.
Read more at https://t.co/QnZ69JhmGl
PH: @adambosze

[Richard Bratby @RichardBratby]

@OldRoberts953 I interviewed Morricone once. His grasp of English idioms was not strong and he felt that writing melodies was very much beneath him. He used to hide bits of Stravinsky and Monteverdi in his film music "to preserve my self respect".

[Prof Ian Pace @drianpace]

It is hard to express in words how despicable Sartre’s politics and actions were.

[Jimmy Doyle @jdoyleDoyle1]

U Leguin did not read Greek, & so was not competent to judge these translations, according to the criterion affirmed by Arnold in ‘On Translating Homer’, which is hard to dispute. It would save a lot of time if people in general could bear this in mind

[Di (Yee) @nguyenhdi]

Flannery O'Connor on the teaching of literature in school:
"And if the student finds that this is not to his taste? Well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed."

[Janet Horvath @playinglesshurt]

Good morning. Jealous? Me too. The Quartet Ébene has been loaned the Piatti 1717, King George 1710, Gibson 1734, and De Kermadec Bläss 1698 Stradivarius instruments courtesy of Beare’s International Violin Society. What a fantastic gift for them and their audiences. #music

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@ChancFangirl She was absolutely right. How wonderful that you had her to support you! A pianist who insists on the point as she did is sure to have a singer's back on stage, no matter what 😃

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

I can't stand "collaborative pianist" and protest it whenever I see it - which, sadly, is now regularly (it was recently earnestly and hilariously explained to me as "an essential piece of anti-oppression praxis"). The balance between singer and pianist is a delicate one, always just ever so much weighted to the singer's preference, and hence supportive on the part of the pianist. It surprises me that more singers don't refuse the term out of sheer extravagant personality, but "anti-oppressive praxis" has probably put paid to those as well

[Jeffrey Gross @KlassicalKat_88]

They used to be called “accompanists” — what’s the darn problem??

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

Lucas Imbiriba playing Paganini on guitar… this one is actually insane 🔥
“Impossible Paganini” — a fingerstyle take on Niccolò Paganini’s Sonata in A. The speed, the precision, the musicality… it feels like it shouldn’t even be possible on a single guitar.

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@DStrungk bang on!

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

Most Canadians seem happy enough to continue sleepwalking, elbows up and flapping as they step off the cliff

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Social media posts deemed to undermine “social stability” would be subject to blocking orders by a federal censor under Bill #C34 introduced yesterday. “The law applies as soon as it comes into force.”
— @MarcMillerVM @CdnHeritage
https://t.co/YEOGUe1iAX
#cdnpoli

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Richard Wagner has spent his time as Chief Justice turning himself into the self-appointed guardian of Canadian democracy: annual press conferences, speeches about the rule of law, warnings about democratic backsliding.

The old convention was that judges speak through their rulings and otherwise keep quiet. Wagner seems to find that beneath him. He wants to be a public figure, not just a judge.

The irony is that every time he steps up to the microphone to defend the court’s legitimacy, he’s the one politicizing it. A judiciary that lets its work speak for itself doesn’t need a spokesman. Wagner has made himself one anyway, and the institution is worse off for it.

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@KlassicalKat_88 I scan the skies nightly for the asteroid that is surely coming... a collaborative asteroid, natch

[Alejandro Anaya Huertas @anaya_huertas]

🎼 Richard Strauss nacido #UnDiaComoHoy es felicitado por la soprano Maria Reining 🎂

[Roger Parton @RogerParton]

@allegroandando @RalfWienrich This is wonderful. Thank you for posting it - listening to it now!