Robert W. Rust

The Word is my music

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@BayouBomber But I don't like littering...

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@TimothyGWeir I find the eccentricities charming, though only because it is backed up with an innovative and compelling artistic vision alongside a deep respect for the music.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

More classical artists should experiment with "acoustic orchestration" like Gould does in this album.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@mynerdyhome Still incredibly Greek, just more malakoi than andreioi.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

For three weeks, I kept asking why there was no outrage about Henry Nowak’s death. Where were the protests? Why were the politicians, actors and sportspeople, who had been so loud during BLM, now silent?
Then the bodycam footage came out and everything changed. Statements from the PM, police reviews, marches and vigils, the works.
Why? The footage did not tell us anything we did not already now. It was grisly to watch, but we had already heard the facts.
The explanation, I think, is that we respond to visual triggers in a way we do not respond to information. Think of the way the sub postmaster scandal only became a story when someone made a TV drama about it. Think of the impact of Alan Kurdi’s image (pictured) on the immigration debate - when, in reality, no facts had changed. Think, indeed, of the original George Floyd footage.
We live, as James Marriott says, in an increasingly post-literate age. We struggle to process data logically. We are more emotional and more mercurial than our parents. Images are everything.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

This is the correct answer, and you can come to this conclusion from multiple avenues. Western music, for example, was born during this period and in this region.

[BobSomebody 🥓 @Bob_Somebody021]

@atlanticesque 5th to 11th century in the Paris Basin. Easy. Every other answer is simply objectively wrong and anyone who holds it is an imbecile and none of their opinions about anything should be taken seriously.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

I don't think it is an either/or; the result is the same whether you look at it from a racial or religious perspective: White Christians and non-White non-Christians.

Nowak was stabbed and left to die because he was white. We cannot ignore that if we want to prevent more young men like him from being killed.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@AppleClassical @wigmore_hall Very nice!

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@viola_enjoyer22 Part of it might be the recording technology.

[The Master's University @mastersuniv]

This fall, TMU will begin celebrating its long-awaited Centennial — a milestone representing not only 100 years of commitment to Christ and Scripture, but more importantly, 100 years of God’s faithfulness to TMU. Read more about our plans for the year: https://t.co/ojPph9Gfr6

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

There's never been anything like the Henry Nowak case where the victim is non-white and the assailant is white, and the police respond the way they did. That whole combination of events could really only happen to a white person. The BLM narrative is the exact opposite of reality

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@The_Big_Chifa_ It's the kind of show that AppleTV would make now and keep it going to the end even if only twelve people are watching it.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@megbasham I've only seen kids shows and sports teams doing pride this year. Bit of an odd group.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@jameszimmermann Is the call to action to be more like Beethoven? I didn't need a billboard for that.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

@MusicaApologia I made a tri-tip roast at only 60 more degrees than that.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

I think when people made art and music for fun, spending all their leisure hours entertaining themselves by creating things, people were just better at these things. You didn't have to be productive. Once being a professional in these fields became high status, your ability to produce a lot of work quickly became the driver for success.

It's sorta like how sending all our clothes manufacturing overseas to Asian sweatshops has made that industry both more productive and profitable, but destroyed the quality of clothing.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

To be clear: it's not surprising that a woman can perform well at the piano, but that an amateur pianist does. Today, amateur is practically synonymous un-serious and of-lesser-quality than professional.

It just goes to show how different our culture is towards classical music compared to the era when this music was composed.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

I was thinking about Tolstoy's Kreutzer Sonata, and how it wasn't strange at all for a high class Russian woman to be able to play the piano part for Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. It's a rather difficult part; it's interesting how that level of playing ability was normal, or even expected of high class women in that time and place.

[Robert W. Rust @rwalterrust]

Bartok plays Beethoven
https://t.co/IwOcZFphxi