So this has been stuck in my head ever since I heard it three days ago.
this is the polar opposite of Everybody Knows Shits Fucked
i didn’t know this til i looked up the video on youtube, but this dude is a super cool and accomplished musician! his name is Rushad Eggleston–wikipedia describes him as “an innovative musician who has changed the way the cello is played,“ but according to his personal website he’s a “cello goblin & otherworldly jester currently touring earth”
THIS IS TORNADO RIDER, YALL i cannot BELIEVE he is on my dash, he goes to the same music festival in Florida all the time and he’s insane and his band is amazing and all of his songs are wild, I’ve been a fan of him since I was a kid and one time he was playing a random concert in the street leading children like the motherfucking pied piper and he spots me and my friend just sitting on our golf cart that we decorated for Halloween and jumps onto the golf cart and does the rest of the concert sitting on our laps and it was the most SURREAL musical experience of my life,
One time I watched him take his (electric) cello with him as he climbed the steel supports of the tent he was performing in and hang upside down and continue to play the cello if any of you all can hear me out here in this big wide internet, heed my call, this guy is wild and you should know his music
Please look up Golden Apple Dance please learn and love this man he never wears a shirt and his whole band wears wild costumes for every show and I once saw him jump into a trashcan and continue playing from there hes a cult legend.
– falling asleep in the pit while waiting for your cues and waking up to the person behind you smacking you repeatedly with their bow, then thanking them for it
– n o . r o o m.
– “surprise! here’s a new person in your section the rehearsal before opening night!”
– can we 🅱lease have another stand
– “the pit is my home now”
– making ominious jokes because “the pit” is perfect for cryptic humor
– just cutting out entire pages of the pieces Right Before an actual performance
– sitting right in front of the percussion and getting spooked by the loud noises
– unexpected repeats followed by instant Disaster™
– getting distracted by the actors and missing your cues
– talking over the “thank you quiet” because there’s none of that nonsense where you’re from, orchestra and band don’t follow rules
– everyone in the pit mouthing the lines as the actors say them, including dramatic hand motions and expressions (honestly, nominate the pit for an oscar, it gets pretty intense)
– standing up on your chair to look out at the audience and hearing small children gasp as though you’ve just risen from the grave
– group power naps between shows
– trying to make plans to all hang out or get breakfast/lunch/dinner together but they always fall through
– the one person in every section that is just BOPPIN along to the music
– no sleep for the 5 weeks of rehearsals + shows we die like men
Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.
so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.
…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor, and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.
The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.
The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.
CaptainBubblebath 