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Norman Lebrecht
Personal blog · slippedisc.comculture
Norman Lebrecht writes Slippedisc, a personal blog at slippedisc.com about culture. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Slipped Disc's classical music news and features, such as posts on Keith Jarrett and interruptions, a woman who left a defence career for music, and Leonardo's viola organista. No praise or criticism of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
> But to write that song or create that dish in the first place, like hell you could do that with all that noise and distraction. A lot of seminal jazz was created on the fly in fairly rowdy venues. But even in that genre, there are performers who can't stand interruptions: http://slippedisc.com/2014/07/keith-jarrett-is-disgraced-in-...
Comment linking /2014/07/keith-jarrett-is-disgraced-in-paris/
on “Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?”Submitted Arnold Schoenberg archive is destroyed in LA fires as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLike this woman? http://slippedisc.com/2017/08/i-gave-up-a-career-in-the-defe... She sounds like this: https://slippedisc.com/2017/08/last-night-the-aida-missed-he...
Comment linking /2017/08/last-night-the-aida-missed-her-entry-so-a-violinist-stood-up-and-sang/
on “Does the world need polymaths?”Submitted Why Finns conduct better than Swedes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionApparently the instrument is more like one of Hans Haiden's Geigenwerke than Leonardo's viola organista concept, though the two are similar. https://slippedisc.com/2013/11/leonardos-instrument-no-its-a... WP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_organista . See also the hurdy-gurdy (of course), the Wheelharp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2iMdvMN5U and the Gizmotron https://www.gizmotron.com/ .
Comment linking /2013/11/leonardos-instrument-no-its-an-obscure-german-contraption/
on “Leonardo da Vinci's forgotten musical invention”Submitted Boston Symphony musicians send $15k and a message to Chicago strikers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Leipzig accuses conductor of inappropriate conduct as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What the top Finnish conductors earn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Music Director offers to match cash gifts to Met musicians as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Family announces the death of Ellis Marsalis as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Smalltown America Raised a Tchaikovsky Winner as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I owe it to the boys who never came back as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What function does an orchestra serve in the community? as a story · 1 points
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