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orchestra person: *opens door to choir room*

choir: *is making strange, satanic mouth noises*

orchestra person: *closes door to choir room*

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The Creative Act of Listening to a Talking Frog

Kermit the Frog gives a talk on creativity and creative risk-taking

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“Did someone call for a good boy?” via MajorNuisance

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i hate my life i’m in a history class full of theatre kids and this week we’re learning about alexander hamilton and

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When you finally discover yourself.

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the signs as musical lies i’ve told

Aries: “i didn’t get like any sleep and i didn’t drink my coffee and it’s totally not my fault that i don’t sound good”

Taurus: “yes i was counting that”

Gemini: “yes i know exactly who that composer is and i know exactly what you’re talking about”

Cancer: “it’s my reed”

Leo:  “I WASN’T WRONG HE WAS WRONG”

Virgo: “yes i totally practiced this”

Libra: “you sound sooooo good”

Scorpio: “that’s how it’s supposed to sound”

Sagittarius: “i can totally play that”

Capricorn: “yes i practiced my scales… yes, all of them.”

Aquarius: “sorry i can’t i’ve got a thing”

Pisces: “i suck so much oh my god everybody else is better at this than me how will i ever make it in this cruel world”

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standing ovation

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Bach’s Signature: Read the one note from four directions, starting from the left, clockwise.  Using three distinct clefs and two key signatures, the single not

e alternately reads “B”, “A”, “C”, “H”. In German notation, “B” is the designation for B-flat, and “H” the designation for B-natural.

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I love when musicians say things like “I am a violin” rather than “I play the violin.” and we do it so casually, too. “you’re a viola. you wouldn’t understand.” “oh, her? she’s an oboe.” it makes me so happy that we call ourselves the instruments we play and that it’s perfectly normal to do so

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How Reed Instruments Cope With Reeds:

Saxophone: Doesn't even think about reeds. May not even know that they use a reed.

Clarinet: Spends a lifetime finding a good reed and then uses that same reed as long as possible because they know that no other reed will live up to the same standard and when they finally switch reeds they get sad because they don't sound as nice.

Oboe: Some say they cry, others say that the only reason they can cope is that they have no emotion whatsoever. However, no one will ever truly know how the oboe manages.

Bassoon: Carries reed around in an industrial-strength, bullet-proof, cushioned case with air-conditioning, heating, and a humidity controller.

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Getting Your Life Together 📝

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I was doing face painting for kids and this 5 year old boy wanted the comedy and tragedy masks, one on each cheek. I was like “that’s different but ok!” and did them. Then later I saw he had smudged one of them and I was like “oh no your comedy mask is all smudged!” and he said “that’s because everything is a tragedy” and i am still stressed out about this kid who knows far too much

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How the Transition Feels 🏫

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The Orchestra according to a cellist.

Piccolo: flute cut in half who sucked helium

Flute: cute smols. I'm willing to give every flutist a flower crown.

Oboe: god you guys are great. Even though there's only like one of you. More solos pls

English horn: ??? Where??? We need one

E-flat clarinet: pretentious little shit.

B-flat clarinet: why so many. AND STOP PLAYING RHAPSODY IN BLUE

Bass clarinet: badass. Probably time traveling members of the mafia

Saxophone: *insert cheesy saxophone solo*

Bassoon: parp parp, hello fellow bass friend!

Contrabassoon: tee hee. Play a low B-flat.

Horn: stop being so cocky, this ain't Wagner.

Trumpet: YUSS BE TRIUMPHANT! When you have your solo. Not all the god dang time.

Trombone: neat slidey frens

Tuba: best friend, literally a ray of sunshine. But please don't try to play flight of the bumblebee.

Percussion: ALRIGHT ALRIGHT WE GET IT YOU KNOW HOW TO BANG ON THINGS NOW STAHP

Violins: You're all principal first, now quit fighting.

Violas: sO PRETTY I ASPIRE TO BE THIS GORGEOUS. Great when paired with cellos.

Cello: yoooooo the level of sexiness here is unreal.

Double bass: so many inside jokes. So many.

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Stock Photo Flutes

The first thing to come up has gotta be at least sort of right, right?

nope never mind what the hecking daisies is happening here

that… that is a piccolo.

that is… I don’t even know what that is. what on earth.

here we have the classic “sideways-screechy-flute”

end my suffering

do not strum your flute jessica

well, I’m giving up on humanity

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@rjminfrance (((((’: thanks man

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declare your undying love for your girlfriend by buying her 44 bags of hot cheetos. most romantic thing ive ever done