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Mahan Esfahani ن

@MahanEsfahani

the harpsichordist// Harold Bloom and Ralph Kirkpatrick appreciator// all recordings for @hyperionrecords // my TinyDesk concert: https://nitter.cf/t.co/ThEc0uwE6m

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Sleep well, Stephen Kovacevich. For me, you were a greater human and kinder and more generous than your entire generation put together.
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Now in an east coast American city means that "I'm a good person" inflation is encountered even in...programme notes, I guess.
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Nice to be at one's parents' house and find random items from the past
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The pleasures of a Spanish breakfast: coffee, cigarette and brandy henryjeffreys.substack.com/p…
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Loved watching this film about the 1963 Edinburgh Festival which nonetheless makes me more than a bit sad. youtu.be/_JGJdXwAHIE?is=wWq3…
Edinburgh Festival - Technicolor (1963)

Edinburgh Festival - Technicolor (1963)

This item is shot in Technicolor.Edinburgh, Scotland.Variou...

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The latest in the new Penguin series of translations of Matsumoto novels is out and I just got the last copy at Foyles on Charing Cross Road!
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Tomorrow evening at @wigmore_hall Mahan Esfahani harpsichord; Aapo Häkkinen fortepiano; Helsinki Baroque Orchestra share.google/ZjmQT3n7x0BYSDg…
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord; Aapo Häkkinen fortepiano; Helsinki Baroque Orchestra

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord; Aapo Häkkinen fortepiano; Helsinki Baroque Orchestra

Mahan Esfahani harpsichord; Aapo Häkkinen fortepiano; Helsinki Baroque Orchestra CPE Bach

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Nice to be back in Helsinki
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Only two books in my life had me physically very emotional in reading the last paragraphs. One is The Great Gatsby, and the other is Amos Elon's The Pity of it All.
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Nice to be back on here after 6 months of a break!
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Let me offer a counterpoint to this view: using a tablet means I don't have to mess about with planning page turns, which means I can just focus on the music and connect to the public. The tablet has been a major factor in my feeling even more comfortable on stage.
Jeffrey Gross (@KlassicalKat_88) profile pictureJeffrey Gross
@KlassicalKat_88Jun 9
Replying to @chezaristote
I feel the same way when I see younger classical musicians using a tablet instead of paper sheet music. It introduces an impersonal silicon, plastic, and glass feel that I strongly dislike.
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Keble College was officially founded on 6 June 1870, making today our 156th birthday 🥳
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Have been home for 5 days in the past two months and will be leaving Wednesday for 6 more weeks. I really would like to never leave this space, however.
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Never ever say Germans lack a sense of humour
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Book Review: ‘The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom’ - The New York Times nytimes.com/2026/06/01/books…
Inside the Mind of the ‘Man Who Read Everything’

Inside the Mind of the ‘Man Who Read Everything’

A collection of Harold Bloom’s letters details the working life of one of America’s most influential intellects.

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Sad to read the news that Maureen Duffy has left this mortal coil. I will never forget reading this for the first time.
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Good as always to be back in the Netherlands
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A 9-year old Josef Haydn was chorister at the Stefansdom in Vienna when Vivaldi died in the city and was buried by the authorities of the same.
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@RaminNasibovMay 12
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Just to be clear, this doesn't mean Haydn sang at the service(s) for Vivaldi, as this highly informative and brilliant article by the angriest musicologist of all time discusses: Michael Lorenz: Haydn Singing at Vivaldi's Exequies: An Ineradicable Myth share.google/Ut0e3kAanM9xRuD…
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