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The late great Frank Zappa – whose cross-genre work with the LA Phil I encountered as a kid – with his parents in that orchestra’s fair city in 1971.

Just one of many fabulous looks at the artist life from this week’s recommended Tumblr, I Hate Music!, a must follow if you are into those strange humans called musicians. Dig composers? F#%! Yeah! Curious about the maestro life? Frank has you covered. Speaking of covers, you might check out his record jacket archive. And don’t even mention Leonard Bernstein, whose 1943 song gave its title to this great blog.

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And here I thought I knew everything there was to know about bringing a musical score to life. [Fabulous stop-motion by animator and illustrator Eleanor Stewart]

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For my vinyl and/or design folks: A colorful jacket for an intriguing recording from a fantastic new collection of vintage record covers. [via Jez Burrows / Woods via ※ ✎ ® ✎ ※]

Bonus: I wasn’t previously familiar with this music by Avshalomov – will have to check it out.

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Happy birthday to classical music’s greatest badass, Igor Stravinsky.

[Previously posted at my other Tumblr.]

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Glenn Gould heads are intimately familiar with this, but Neven Mrgan’s chart highlighting the massive disparity in the timings of Gould’s two Goldberg Variations recordings still startles. Neven prefers the ‘81 version by a bit; I’ll take the ‘55 anyday. You?

Link → The dark side of conducting

Symphonic stormtroopers

Looking for some orchestra with your Star Wars?

The WCFSO can help with that this weekend.

Did I mention we’ll have stormtroopers?

[Images by Stéfan from his galactically quotidian Stormtroopers 365 series, previously linked here]

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Nice music-themed branding by Domestika.