I would like to invite you to participate in a special discussion about and with women Nobelists moderated by Susan Hockfield which will be held virtually on October 18th 2021 https://t.co/j4Dx2rocdz
The downside of that "French for reading class" in grad school is that later in life when you are faced professionally with an article in %&^$*ing French, you feel obligated to %&^$*ing read it.
There's nothing quite like "Or tutti sorgete" from Verdi's Macbeth to get a person going in the morning, work wise. (I'm not saying there's nothing better, just that there's nothing like it)
@carnegiehall My mom's evening rehearsals with the community orchestra. She played the flute. Brother and I had to sit in the back of the room in our PJs and read/play quietly. I absorbed a lot of music and got to try out a cello!
Trying out the Idagio streaming service, and it spat out this Meyerbeer-based playlist that was actually pretty fun. I ended up listening to Anna Bonitatibus singing something from I think it was L'Africaine.
Yolanda is going to be my new alter-ego. Who drank all the Jägermeister? Yolanda. Who signed up for a free trial of a classical streaming service and forgot to cancel? Yolanda.
Got a query about whether I could translate something from English into Spanish for someone’s school assignment. 1. No, I can’t and 2. My favorite random query email is still the one where they thought I was a simultaneous interpreter and the email began “Dear Yolanda”