# ![@StevenIsserlis Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1620432468.png) @StevenIsserlis Steven Isserlis

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"Question for Twitter parents: I really don't want to start broadcasting from my music room because there are no acoustics and it would just be depressing I think. BUT with so many children at home would a live short children's concert next week be of interest do you think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1241046080978137088)  2020-03-20T16:56Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Camille Saint-Sans b otd [----] Fascinating polymath: master pianist organist conductor; poet; philosopher; playwright; travel writer; animal rights activist; astronomer; classicist; etc. And a composer of wondrous variety imagination charm - and yes (at times) profundity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1579113710563766272)  2022-10-09T14:17Z 42.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Bedich Smetana 'father of Czech music' b otd [----]. What a composer - but also: what a tragic life. Lost a beloved daughter (as we hear in his searing piano trio) went deaf ended up in an asylum. But still his music emanates that uniquely Czech innocence and radiance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1631236123350450176)  2023-03-02T10:12Z 42.9K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Anne Frank b otd [----] - more than poignant: "When I look up at the sky I somehow feel that everything will change for the better that this cruelty shall end that peace and tranquility will return once more." "I don't think of the misery but of the beauty that still remains.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1668167558480920577)  2023-06-12T08:05Z 42.8K followers, 22.6K engagements


"Born otd: th hugely talented brilliant acerbic irascible witty era-defining unforgettable Camille Saint-Saens (1835); and the hugely talented brilliant acerbic irascible witty era-defining unforgettable John Lennon (1940). I wonder what theyd have made of each other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1711325867656229181)  2023-10-09T10:20Z 42.9K followers, 15K engagements


"Leonard Cohen would have been [--] today There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in. The older I get the surer I am that I'm not running the show. If I knew where the good songs came from I'd go there more often. Music is the emotional life of most people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1837398213264904568)  2024-09-21T07:47Z 42.7K followers, 30.2K engagements


"Thoughts from two major writers b otd: EM Forster (1879): "What is the good of your stars and trees your sunrise and the wind if they do not enter into our daily lives" JD Salinger (1919): "I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1874385531817320654)  2025-01-01T09:21Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom m from Elvis Presley - who would have been [--] today Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being you're hating part of yourself. Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same but you leave 'em all over everything you do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1876906668606263371)  2025-01-08T08:19Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Connie Shih and I are playing the Grieg cello sonata on our current US tour. It's so wonderfully loveable - and yet so often dismissed. Why It is warm-hearted sincere lyrical and touchingly beautiful. Those who turn their noses up at such music rob themselves of much joy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1888234917017923656)  2025-02-08T14:34Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Abraham Lincoln b otd 1809: If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions. Bad promises are better broken than kept"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1889666104617820291)  2025-02-12T13:21Z 42K followers, [----] engagements


"Wise words from Galileo Galilei (b otd 1564): "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." "We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1890789336867590559)  2025-02-15T15:44Z 41.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Gyorgy Kurtag turns [--] today Still composing still fanatically devoted to music - and increasingly adorable. I have learned so much from him - not least the importance of each note speaking meaning something; no detail no matter how small is unimportant. A truly great man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1892279552233070670)  2025-02-19T18:26Z 41.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Anthony Trollope b otd [----] - one of my very favourite authors. I love him for his plain speaking his wry humour his brilliant descriptions - and for the fact that I his characters are so extraordinarily three-dimensional so real that they seem to be people one has met"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1915300424690856081)  2025-04-24T07:03Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Two rather different musicians b otd exactly [--] years apart. On great composers: Gustav Mahler (1860): "In Bach the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God." (On his deathbed): 'Mozart.Mozart." Ringo Starr (1940): "I like Beethoven especially the poems." Haha"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1942123922926747679)  2025-07-07T07:30Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Cervantes b otd [----] So right: When life itself seems lunatic who knows where madness lies Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all: to see life as it is and not as it should be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1972556699908092158)  2025-09-29T06:59Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Wonderful Dvok day - first the museum in Prague and then a joyous visit to his country house Viilla Rusalka - hosted by his charming great-great-grandson Petr. Thrilling to see his everyday objects - eg his (tiny) bed dining-table work desk and his sugar and coffee jars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1973103552114430347)  2025-09-30T19:11Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Saint-Saens b otd [----] What a polymath: pianist/ organist/conductor; poet/travel writer/playwright; philosopher/astronomer/classical scholar/animal rights activist etc. And composer For gravitas try the Requiem; originality the 2nd piano trio; melting beauty Calme des nuits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1976177055407685661)  2025-10-09T06:45Z 42.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Charles Ives b otd [----] Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ear lie back in an easy chair. Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know is not a great inspiration. Stand up and take your dissonance like a man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1980145705764209054)  2025-10-20T05:35Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Conductors on using words in rehearsal: Solti (b otd 1912):"I can achieve much more when I am quiet and not shouting." Haitink (d otd 2021): "I want to create a communication with an orchestra.with your hands and with your musical personality. Words dont help then anymore.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1980509351715684475)  2025-10-21T05:40Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Bizet b otd [----] What a master - and a wonderful man too: "When a supposedly civilised society tolerates even encourages stupid and useless monstrosities. honest and intelligent men must come together agree love one another enlighten one another and pity the idiots.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1981961419966103935)  2025-10-25T05:50Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Paganini b otd [----] His performances as a violinist are still the stuff of legend; but he should also not be under-estimated as a composer. His music is full of unique charm and originality - and like his playing not just fireworks. As Schubert put it: 'I heard an angel sing.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1982717652834345068)  2025-10-27T07:55Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Evelyn Waugh b otd [----] O God make me good but not yet. When we argue for our limitations we get to keep them. All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day. In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. ()"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1983080544041619821)  2025-10-28T07:57Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Don Giovanni premiered otd in Prague [----]. What a timeless masterpiece expanding well beyond mere beauty; the music ranges from the seductive to the terrifying - and retains its power to shock as well as charm. An opera that can convert those who claim to hate opera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1983441673590861825)  2025-10-29T07:52Z 42.7K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Wit/wisdom from R B Sheridan (b otd 1751): The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. "There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy." "Won't you come into the garden I would like my roses to see you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1983804816594714754)  2025-10-30T07:55Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Wonderful thoughts (applying to musicians too) from Henri Matisse (d otd 1954): The artist must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. An artist should never be a prisoner of himself prisoner of style prisoner of reputation prisoner of success etc.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1985251599632179615)  2025-11-03T07:44Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Beloved Gabriel Faur d otd [---] years ago A quiet genius who never pushed himself who aimed for musical simplicity while expressing the most profound thoughts and emotions creating a unique world full of tenderness controlled passion and joy. And a truly wonderful man too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1985616504142930065)  2025-11-04T07:54Z 42.7K followers, 11.5K engagements


"Felix Mendelssohn d otd [----] age 37.Astonishing master charismatic man idealist: "This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings that it throw open the window of the soul.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1985616504222871650)  2025-11-04T07:54Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@BluntThomas And Enesco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1985747397583258046)  2025-11-04T16:34Z 42.8K followers, [--] engagements


"What a day for superlative premieres Is there a more touching slow movement than that of Schumann's 2nd symphony (1st perf otd 1846) A more glorious melody than Vltava from Ma Vlast (1st perf otd 1882) Or a funnier tone-poem than Till Eulenspiegl (1st perf otd 1894)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1985977885539323972)  2025-11-05T07:50Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Tchaikovsky d otd [----] - a horrible ending (though I really don't believe that it was suicide). But the story shouldn't colour our view of his music - so much charm grace & sheer beauty as well as tragedy So important for performers to bear in mind T's adoration of Mozart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1986339014925033667)  2025-11-06T07:45Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Voices for their generation: Joni Mitchell (b otd 1943): We are stardust we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden. Leonard Cohen (d otd 2016): The sweetest little song: You go your way I'll go your way too Do not be a magician - be magic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1986702661266153651)  2025-11-07T07:50Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday to [--] charismatic vocal legends Thomas Quasthoff (b otd 1959): The voice is the mirror of the soul. Bryn Terfel (b otd 1965): 'Its an incredible feeling when singing a role again and again until you feel you live inside of it and the role lives within you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1987422404046721232)  2025-11-09T07:30Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Extraordinary day for composers' relatives - all b otd all musicians themselves: two fathers - Leopold Mozart tyrannical but indispensable 1719; Johann van Beethoven drunken bully 1740; and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel wonderful composer & person adored sister of Felix 1805"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1989238118013178354)  2025-11-14T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy birthday to Daniel Barenboim Alas his health isn't good - but he's unstoppable Amazing strength; and an amazing mind. And so right: "Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1989601009099043257)  2025-11-15T07:47Z 42.8K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Sir Charles Mackerras b otd [---] years ago What a character - charming brilliant irascible and a musician who made a real difference. (Would Janek's operas have become so beloved without him for instance) And a fine wide-ranging and passionate scholar too. A treasure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1990346167729922527)  2025-11-17T09:07Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Carl Maria von Weber b otd [----]. Perhaps underrated today A major influence introducing magical romanticism into opera. And this: "Music is love itself - it is the purest most ethereal language of passion showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of colour and feeling.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1990687669324554282)  2025-11-18T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Our beloved Franz Schubert d otd [----] aged just [--]. Has any composer taken us to heaven so effortlessly The openings of works such as the Bb piano sonata the F minor Fantasie etc - he opens a door and we are transported to a world of fathomless beauty. Miraculous music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1991049805754163560)  2025-11-19T07:44Z 42.8K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Robert F Kennedy b otd [---] years ago A timeless voice: "What is objectionable what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant." "An uncontrolled or uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness not the voice of the people.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1991413703787573401)  2025-11-20T07:50Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Looking out from my dressing room in the Alfredo Kraus auditorium Las Palmas - probably my favourite view from any artists room (along with the Sydney Opera House). Though I do feel (a bit) sorry for the surfers who tumble down violently beneath the surface"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1991456844808597889)  2025-11-20T10:41Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 60th to Bjrk - a unique character/artist. I was once in a group accompanying her in some of Pierrot Lunaire - she was lovely I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean and with nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1991772820188356653)  2025-11-21T07:37Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"George Eliot b otd [----] Has there ever been a more intelligent empathetic novelist "What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other" It is never too late to be what you might have been. "Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1992137220929536170)  2025-11-22T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Benjamin Britten b otd [----] - a true master of music as composer in almost every form as well as conductor and pianist. And fascinating brilliant man: "It is cruel you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1992138982545830108)  2025-11-22T07:52Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Spinoza b otd 1632: I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule not to bewail not to scorn human actions but to understand them. No matter how thin you slice it there will always be two sides. When a man is prey to his emotions he is not his own master"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1992863254738333875)  2025-11-24T07:50Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Sergei Taneyev b otd [----] - teacher of Rakhmaninov Scriabin Medtner; and my grandfather But also a wonderful composer himself. Musicians who get to know his complex passionate music fall in love with it; but it needs more than one hearing - which makes it hard to popularise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1993224636163838020)  2025-11-25T07:46Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@IsadoraClarus Not sure But he knew Scriabin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1993261701697773906)  2025-11-25T10:13Z 42.8K followers, [--] engagements


"I love these thoughts from Jimi Hendrix (b otd 1942): "Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world then it can only happen through music." "Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens." "Excuse me while I kiss the sky." "Music is my religion.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1993949663356178839)  2025-11-27T07:47Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Strange unsettling genius William Blake b otd 1757: He whose face gives no light shall never become a star. The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind. He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1994311548148281795)  2025-11-28T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"D otd: Monteverdi (1643) 'the father of opera' whose sublime music talks to us through the ages; Puccini (1924) whose operas enthral and touch us so deeply; and beloved George Harrison (2001) - not only life-changing musician but (apparently) the kindest of men. Thank you all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1994675068258189623)  2025-11-29T07:49Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Beloved irreplaceable pianist Radu Lupu would (should) have been [--] years old today What a musician - the depth the tenderness the poetry the profound strength of his playing spoke to his listeners with unforgettable unique intimacy. And the music was a mirror of the man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1995032549572096214)  2025-11-30T07:30Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Two major birthdays today Bette Midler (80): Find your Light; They can't love you if they can't see you "After thirty a body has a mind of its own." Woody Allen (90): "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1995401857301361011)  2025-12-01T07:57Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Maria Callas b otd [----] An extraordinary artist who gave her all. Famously difficult - but with reason: "To me the art of music is magnificent and I cannot bear to see it treated in a shabby way." "I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1995763112738488521)  2025-12-02T07:53Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Ozzy Osbourne would have been [--] today - what a character Truly a one-off. "Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most." "I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots." "I can't do anything in moderation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1996122732376019025)  2025-12-03T07:42Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Underrated (I think) author Samuel Butler b otd [----]. Passionate about music especially Handel; but not exactly a modernist. From 'The Way of All Flesh": I would like modern music if I could." And pray where do you consider modern music to begin With Sebastian Bach"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1996487133461196906)  2025-12-04T07:50Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Alas Mozart d otd [----] aged [--]. One hopes he still felt this way: "I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me but is indeed very soothing and consoling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1996845746784461243)  2025-12-05T07:35Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Cicero d otd [--] AD - so wise and relevant after [----] years: Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joys and dividing our grief. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Where is there dignity unless there is honesty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1997573793641070788)  2025-12-07T07:48Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Two extraordinary composers b otd: Jean Sibelius (1865): "Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music." Bohuslav Martinu (1890): "The artist is always searching for the meaning of life his own and that of mankind searching for truth.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1997934168345567327)  2025-12-08T07:40Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Olivier Messiaen b otd [----]. Another deeply religious French composer - a musical missionary "My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1998663983017144700)  2025-12-10T08:00Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Striking memory from Edvard Munch (b otd 1863): I was walking along a path with two friends the sun was setting suddenly the sky turned blood red. My friends walked on and I stood there trembling with anxiety and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1999384978111483917)  2025-12-12T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Alban Berg's Wozzeck premiered otd [---] years ago Powerful haunting opera. I can't say that I find it uplifting exactly; but its emotional strength its depth of characterisation and its strangely lyrical beauty ensure its continued popularity. A masterpiece unlike any other"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2000112773733478614)  2025-12-14T07:57Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Ida Haendel (b otd 1928) on her beginning: "When I was [--] I saw children playing with dolls I said thats not who I am: I am the violinist here. I took the instrument. I did not attempt to play; I played. I knew I was a violinist. Maybe the answer is reincarnation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2000473400020759002)  2025-12-15T07:50Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Pope Francis (b otd 1936): A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just. The worship of the golden calf has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money. A person who thinks only about building walls and not building bridges is not Christian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2001199937305104473)  2025-12-17T07:57Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Alas Kurt Masur d otd [----] - such an important figure. I worked with him - and really liked him despite his rather fearsome reputation. We even discussed it: "A friend of mine once told me: 'When they start to say how nice you are you're in trouble.' " he said. But he WAS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2001921818953945277)  2025-12-19T07:45Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Frank Zappa b otd [----] Without music to decorate it time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff. Music is the only religion that delivers the goods"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2002646720560201774)  2025-12-21T07:46Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Beloved Victor Borge left us otd [--] years ago - thank you for the pure joy "A smile is the shortest distance between two people.' "I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano." Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2003382696324792792)  2025-12-23T08:30Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth Goodwill to Men and Batteries not Included. You know youre getting old when Santa starts looking younger. "Dear Santa Ive been good all year. Most of the time. Once in a while. Never mind - Ill buy my own stuff.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2004101053940142337)  2025-12-25T08:05Z 42.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Rasputin was killed otd [----] by Russian nobles. Earlier he'd told the Tsar: "If I am killed by common men you and your children will rule Russia for centuries to come; if I am killed by one of your stock you and your family will be killed by the Russian people" A bit scary"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2005909218218631543)  2025-12-30T07:50Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"A little New Year greeting (sorry - recorded on my phone so sound is awful). An etude in major (ie happy) and minor (sad) by Kabalevsky; but major triumphs. Happy New Year to all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2006515726564339851)  2026-01-01T00:00Z 42.9K followers, 34.6K engagements


"Happy New Year "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." - Bill Vaughn "Now is the accepted time to make your annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." Mark Twain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2006663518695641449)  2026-01-01T09:47Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@hugh_canning If I only use my little finger to type am I keeping you perky with my pinky (Haha - a joke for our generation.) Happy New Year to you too My tweets may be a little less frequent this year - takes time But they'll be there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2006808130882252871)  2026-01-01T19:21Z 42.9K followers, [---] engagements


"George Martin b otd [---] years ago Classical musician comedy producer.and then pop producer including a rather famous group from Liverpool. I was lucky enough to meet him a few times because even when he lost most of his hearing he could still hear the cello. Charming man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2007356504752509399)  2026-01-03T07:41Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Memorable thoughts from T S Eliot (d otd 1965): To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2007717885712707856)  2026-01-04T07:37Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Piano day Amazing - three greats b otd: Michelangeli legendary master of the keyboard (1920); Brendel influential intellectual specialising in music of the great Germanic traditions (1931); Pollini also a great intellectual but very different - more forward-looking (1942)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2008083545449701771)  2026-01-05T07:50Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Day of pop legends B otd: Elvis Presley (1935): "Music should be something that makes you gotta move inside or outside." Shirley Bassey (1937): 'I'm not getting old - I'm getting better.' David Bowie (1947): "What I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2009170708866453738)  2026-01-08T07:50Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@rowenamezzo Amazing I didn't know that. And I think that Paul McCartney once went to the Wigmore to attend a Berio concert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2009555674464686466)  2026-01-09T09:19Z 42.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Agatha Christie d otd [--] years ago Gripping yarns - and characters: Poirot" I said. "I have been thinking." "An admirable exercise my friend. Continue it. "Jane Marple. I tell you that woman knows more about different kinds of human wickedness than anyone I've ever known"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2010616485618618849)  2026-01-12T07:35Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Hugh Lofting creator of beloved Dr Dolittle b otd [----]. The man who could talk to animals. Animals dont always speak with their mouths said the parrot in a high voice raising her eyebrows. They talk with their ears with their feet with their tails- with everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2011345036600873376)  2026-01-14T07:50Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Martin Luther King would have been [--] today - how we wish. "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2011706165600583903)  2026-01-15T07:45Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy birthday to Marilyn Horne Wonderful: Whenever you think you're getting too big for the people around you remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat. "A singer at best is half artist half athlete.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2012073838385963196)  2026-01-16T08:06Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Rather than a quote a question today: is anyone else here a fan of the writer Elizabeth von Arnim (1866-1941) I read 'Vera' and am now reading 'The Pastor's Wife'. They seem to me to be among the funniest and also most shocking novels I've read. Why isn't she more famous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2012429934757601788)  2026-01-17T07:41Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"What a day for laughter - love them all Oliver Hardy (b otd 1892): "If you must make a noise make it quietly." Cary Grant (1904): "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." Danny Kaye (1913): "Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2012794084038168813)  2026-01-18T07:48Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@LucySussex I know. I joined - strange. It gladly took my annual fee - and then I went to the site and found.nothing Not very impressive so far. Not like the wonderful Wilkie Collins Society"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2012809217086812480)  2026-01-18T08:48Z 42.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Unexpected/wonderful pairing: happy 80th to both Dolly Parton: Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. Julian Barnes: Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2013159365927379422)  2026-01-19T07:59Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 75th to Ivan Fischer - such an inspiring insightful innovative musician. A gift to the music world On conducting: 'Being inside the orchestra makes the emotional experience much more intense. There you feel the human motivation the expression of each performer.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2013515588497289469)  2026-01-20T07:35Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"John Dowland d otd [---] years ago Such deeply expressive music - extraordinary. Musicke: the Noblest of all Sciences: for the whole frame of Nature is nothing but Harmonie as wel in soules as bodies. And. "Who loves not music and the heavenly muse That man God hates.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2013875711245971609)  2026-01-21T07:26Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Well that was a nice surprise: going through security at Madrid airport an official took trouble helping me repack my bag and then explained: I love musicians - and started singing the prelude from the first Bach suite Doesnt ALWAYS happen at airport security"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2014339192285786545)  2026-01-22T14:07Z 42.9K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Samuel Barber d otd [----] - a true 20th century romantic who wrote as he pleased 'without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible. Successful as he was in his younger years he was soon 'unfashionable'. But that may pass - his music is so warm so touching"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2014603758538203175)  2026-01-23T07:39Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"ETA Hoffmann romantic author influence on so many composers - most famously Schumann - and a composer himself b [---] years ago today Nothing is more wonderful nothing more fantastic than real life and that all that a writer can do is to present it as "in a glass darkly""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2014968914581622789)  2026-01-24T07:50Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Lord Byron (b otd 1788): All who joy would win Must share it -- Happiness was born a twin. Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange Stranger than Fiction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2014242754738721200)  2026-01-22T07:44Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Jacqueline du Pr would have been just [--] today. What a spirit She played from the heart to the heart; and was as deeply loved as a person as she was as a musician. "I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2015691299425521932)  2026-01-26T07:40Z 42.9K followers, 30.6K engagements


"Our family Dandie Dinmont terrier Dandy b otd [----]. An intellectual genius And a strong kinship with his birthday-twin Mozart: he would howl when we played his (and only his) music; and would stop and glare at us if we deviated from the text. Could he have been a reincarnation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2016052303397322828)  2026-01-27T07:35Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus (Wolfgang Amadeus to us) Mozart b otd [----]. His mastery of music remains astonishing the perfection of his expression breathtaking his sense of beauty unparallelled. For interpreters the task is - largely - not to get in the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2016056833320870161)  2026-01-27T07:53Z 42.9K followers, 10.4K engagements


"John Tavener b otd [----]. What a presence musically and personally Some of his pieces may be long; but he had a path to beauty an instinct for communication an artistic grandeur that were unique. His music moves people. And as a friend: he is still somehow a part of our lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2016419975968301238)  2026-01-28T07:56Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Remembering beloved Lynn Harrell b otd [----]. So warm-hearted affectionate almost childlike (in the best ways). And as a musician - a singer whose voice was his cello. As he put it:Imitating the singing art is the highest achievement on any instrument. He achieved it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2017141983828234241)  2026-01-30T07:45Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Sorry for the embarrassing plug.but Connie's and my new CD is released otd 1851: the year in which all of the pieces (bar one - Gounod's Ave Maria) appeared - as well as the beautiful Erard piano on which Connie played. And SO many other connections between the works too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2017143745008021708)  2026-01-30T07:52Z 42.9K followers, [----] engagements


"@deborah_feder @WQXR @FriseSally @bekibrindle @jamesmeredithd1 @mikeirons12 @CullivanPeter @hyperionrecords Yes Bach/Gounod - with Connie. But on the disc there's another element"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2017494683107070023)  2026-01-31T07:06Z 42.9K followers, [--] engagements


"Franz Schubert otd [----] The story of his famous song Stndchen tells us a lot: encountering a friend sitting in a beer garden with a book Schubert picked it up and found the poem. 'I wish I had some music paper.' His friend drew some staves on a menu - and the song was born"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2017506384578023598)  2026-01-31T07:53Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Buster Keaton d otd [--] years ago What a wonderful comedian - travelling with his own pure logic through a mad world. And the amazing physical daring the perfect timing the supple grace and the beautiful features. A great artist who gave us not just laughter but true joy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2017870030701211689)  2026-02-01T07:58Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Violin day Two utterly different masters b otd: Kreisler (1875) - his warm-heartedness charm and lyricism made him perhaps the most beloved violinist of all time. Heifetz (1901): his absolute mastery and white-hot intensity made him perhaps the most revered of all violinists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018231663755411748)  2026-02-02T07:55Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Relearning a comparatively little-known work by Schumann his Andante and variations for [--] pianos [--] cellos and horn. Pure genius. And: AI will never in a million years learn to replicate the joy of creativity the boundless imagination the exquisite tenderness of this music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018284051891728834)  2026-02-02T11:23Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"@playinglesshurt Just watched it - wonderful I'm pretty sure this was the first piece I ever heard him play - and I was immediately smitten. And still am"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/2018366118310621668)  2026-02-02T16:49Z 42.9K followers, [---] engagements


"Anti-Nazi pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer b otd [---] years ago Brave wise humane and compassionate: Judging others makes us blind whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2018957446077690147)  2026-02-04T07:59Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 80th to wonderful Charlotte Rampling Thoughts on acting: You give actually what you have in your inner world through your emotion and feeling. Thats what you can give; its not so much about acting in a sense of playing something thats very different to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2019317569099096108)  2026-02-05T07:50Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Alban Berg b otd 1885: "Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge; it requires from its disciples composers and performers alike not only talent and enthusiasm but also the knowledge and perception which are the result of endless study and reflection.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2020767246382166265)  2026-02-09T07:50Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 99th to the great Leontyne Price On her art: To sing is the most human of the art form delivery.You are the tuner; you are the vessel. Everything depends on how you feel as a person. From you to you with much much love.There is no love like that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021130766621503877)  2026-02-10T07:55Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom - and encouragement - from Thomas Edison (b otd 1847): A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework. There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. I never did a days work in my life it was all fun"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021853780795396117)  2026-02-12T07:48Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Wonderful Jack Benny b otd 1894: "My wife Mary and I have been married for [--] years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder yes but divorce never." "Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022578556690403412)  2026-02-14T07:48Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Galileo b otd [----] Timeless. The Bible shows the way to go to heaven not the way the heavens go. It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved. Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe "Passion is the root of genius.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022939434308767815)  2026-02-15T07:42Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"Surprisingly neglected British composer Charles Avison b otd [----] in Newcastle. I love his concerti based (partly) on Scarlatti sonatas. 'The capacity of receiving pleasure from music is a peculiar and internal sense; but of a much more refined nature than the external senses.'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023305093861515545)  2026-02-16T07:55Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy birthday to much-loved Joyce DiDonato - such a great communicator onstage and off. "I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift so I try not to take it for granted and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022216672275218841)  2026-02-13T07:50Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"I just had a session here in Budapest working with Gyorgy Kurtag who turns [---] Thursday. At one point he kept telling me to play a pizzicato note louder. But its marked softer than ppp I objected. He looked at me severely If its pppppp it must still sound. Fair enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023374340373283291)  2026-02-16T12:30Z 43K followers, [----] engagements


"The London sky tonight"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1149782523880378373)  2019-07-12T20:48Z 42.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Alas the great Hungarian cellist Janos Starker d otd [----]. Feared by many students - but by the time I got to know him his heart of gold was showing clearly Mouth twitching in constant amusement his musical/personal mission was to avoid excess to be sincere. We all loved him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1255032871498256385)  2020-04-28T07:15Z 42.1K followers, [---] engagements


"The wonderful George Burns b otd [----] (d age 100) on age: "You can't help getting older but you don't have to get old." "When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick." "Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1351817699802886145)  2021-01-20T09:03Z 42.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Thomas Mann b otd [----] "Music.a magical union of theology and the fine sport of mathematics." "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil. Art is the funnel. through which spirit is poured into life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1401466189793144832)  2021-06-06T09:09Z 42.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Poet/wit Ogden Nash b otd 1902: "The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo the other milk." "Oh what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive." "The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1428268521671303170)  2021-08-19T08:12Z 42.7K followers, [--] engagements


"Grandma Moses (who became a painter at age 78) b otd 1860: "Memory is a painter it paints pictures of the past and of the day." "Life is what we make it always has been always will be." "I look back on my life like a good day's work it was done and I am satisfied with it.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1435137249226678275)  2021-09-07T07:05Z 42.7K followers, [---] engagements


"HmmI thought my practice was going okay until the local music critic came in sat on the desk and gave me her honest opinion of my intonation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1484213135590498305)  2022-01-20T17:16Z 42.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Happy Birthday to Stevie Wonder "Music at its essence is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives the more memories we have of it." "Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision." "Time is long but life is short.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1525019314771922945)  2022-05-13T07:45Z 42.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Robert Kennedy b otd 1925: Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that never were and say why not. Whenever men take the law into their own hands the loser is the law. And when the law loses freedom languishes. When there is plenty poverty is evil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1594315193081024512)  2022-11-20T13:02Z 42.7K followers, [---] engagements


"Hmmm.I looked at the BBC's list of notable people who have died this year. It included tributes to many sorts of musicians - but not one 'classical'. I was hoping to see at least Radu Lupu's and Lars Vogt's names - but no; classical music is really sidelined. Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1608774667732660224)  2022-12-30T10:39Z 42.7K followers, 153K engagements


"Musical truths from conductor George Szell (b otd 1897): "In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." "Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra not choreography to the audience." "There is no possible improvement to Mozart.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1666368574674411524)  2023-06-07T08:56Z 42K followers, 34.6K engagements


"Composers' markings (dynamics accents slurs etc) - so many composers offer too few or too many I find that Beethoven gets it perfectly right; his markings are so helpful - essential even - but never bewildering. He trusts his interpreters Schubert too - unfussily accurate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1671521931319713792)  2023-06-21T14:14Z 42.4K followers, 11K engagements


"Thoughts on music from Mick Fleetwood (b otd 1942): The blues need not always a woeful sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel. And Jeff Beck (b otd 1944): If I don't break the rules at least [--] times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1672533638435557377)  2023-06-24T09:14Z 42.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Essence of romanticism PB Shelley (d otd 1822): A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. "Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought. Soul meets soul on lovers lips. If Winter comes can Spring be far behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1677584270221615106)  2023-07-08T07:43Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"For me Shostakovich is the most cinematic of the major composers. Many (eg Schumann) conjure up specific stories; many (eg Sibelius) landscapes; some (eg Strauss) are more programmatic. But I feel that having been a cinema pianist left an indelible mark on Shostakovich's music"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1677680395830034432)  2023-07-08T23:50Z 41K followers, 15.4K engagements


"A very happy 96th to the extraordinary Herbert Blomstedt I love music so much that I just cant give up.There are always things that I want to learn. Im never satisfied.Satisfaction lies in the hope of even better possibilities in the future. I want to take those chances.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1678663116509310976)  2023-07-11T07:21Z 41K followers, 18.5K engagements


"Beautiful words from Pablo Neruda (b otd 1904): "You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming." "Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread." "A great book.is a ship of thought deep freighted with truth and beauty.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1679027239453687819)  2023-07-12T08:57Z 40.4K followers, 12K engagements


"Farewell Milan Kundera - such treasures. "To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." "There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. most of the time we are ageless.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1679082638626156544)  2023-07-12T16:06Z 41K followers, 23.8K engagements


"Happy birthday to Carlos Santana "There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody then you connect immediately with the heart." "The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1681918535369474050)  2023-07-20T17:38Z 41K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Two thoughts from Guy de Maupassant b otd 1850: Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. A strange art music the most poetic and precise of all the arts vague as a dream and precise as algebra"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1687731938264576000)  2023-08-05T07:47Z 40.6K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Inspiration from Rabindranath Tagore (d otd 1941): "The one who plants trees knowing that he will never sit in their shade has at least started to understand the meaning of life." "Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love." "Reach high for stars lie hidden in you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1688441061612326912)  2023-08-07T06:44Z 40.2K followers, 12.8K engagements


"Shostakovich d otd [----] A man whose life-story is fascinating moving - but his music far more so A master of form a peerless story-teller with a wonderfully dramatic imagination and sense of beauty. His music often tells us about his life true; but it speaks for all of us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1689182727721897984)  2023-08-09T07:52Z 41K followers, 20.8K engagements


"Glazunov b otd [----] - a man treated unkindly by posterity. Now mentioned mostly in connection with the disastrous premiere of Rachmaninov's 1st symphony and as Shostakovich's teacher Glazunov was a wonderful composer in his own right a warm-hearted master of melody and colour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1689564390679351296)  2023-08-10T09:08Z 41K followers, 10.6K engagements


"Leos Janacek d otd just [--] years ago What a composer - a true original his use of speech rhythms making his musical language unique. But so many elements make his music essential: his soaring imagination fervent empathy blazing passion glorious melodies/harmonies. A genius"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1690280706428030976)  2023-08-12T08:34Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 75th to Kathleen Battle - what a voice "The question is not. if art is enough to fulfill my life but if I am true to the path I have set for myself if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1690631339731554304)  2023-08-13T07:48Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy 78th to Steve Martin - funny man A day without sunshine is like you know night. Boy those French: they have a different word for everything I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't. I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1690998937920876545)  2023-08-14T08:08Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Oscar Peterson b otd 1925: "The music field was the first to break down racial barriers because in order to play together you have to love the people you are playing with and if you have any racial inhibitions you wouldn't be able to do that." "I play as I feel.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1691401257884254208)  2023-08-15T10:47Z 41K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Mae West b otd 1893; wow I'll try anything once twice if I like it three times to make sure. I consider sex a misdemeanour; the more I miss de meaner I get. If a little is great and a lot is better then way too much is just about right. To err is human but it feels divine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1692074759352197501)  2023-08-17T07:23Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Last night's musical nightmare: I was playing a set of Beethoven variations with a pianist I didn't know being filmed for German TV. We started - I was playing the wrong variations. Restarted twice - horribly out of tune; stopped. Stony-faced the TV crew started to pack up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1692081843229626409)  2023-08-17T07:52Z 41K followers, 36.1K engagements


"Robert Redford is [--] How can that be Happy birthday to him anyway - and thanks for all the joy "I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1692441999620579507)  2023-08-18T07:43Z 41K followers, 11.6K engagements


"George(s) Enesco(u) b otd [----]. Wonderful violinist - such aristocratic deeply touching playing; fine pianist marvellous conductor; and a composer of stunning originality passion and mastery. Also by all accounts a virtual saint a paragon of wisdom culture and kindness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1692846996762103965)  2023-08-19T10:32Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Arriving blearily at Sao Paolo airport at [--] am today I was greeted by a driver holding a sign with a name and photo. 'Maestro' he said. Flattered I started to leave with him; but then looked at the sign. It was for the conductor Masaaki Suzuki. Hmmm.do we really look similar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1693199324862116331)  2023-08-20T09:52Z 42.7K followers, 73.5K engagements


"Oleg Prokofiev artist & son of Sergei d otd [--] years ago. Such a charming gentle man always friendly and welcoming never seeming to resent talking about his father or his music. I just wish I'd asked him more questions - but I felt I had to be careful; Oleg was his own man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1693257008344867084)  2023-08-20T13:41Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"A very happy 90th birthday to glorious Dame Janet Baker - what an artist She touched our hearts through her mastery sincerity profundity and dedication. On recitals: "You hold something very precious in your hands for two hours and God help you if you drop it." She never did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1693586746091389307)  2023-08-21T11:32Z 41K followers, 22.9K engagements


"Claude Debussy b otd [----] Perhaps not the most sympathetic of men (and a bit of a kleptomaniac); but what a composer He created a whole new world of magical sounds a whole new language. "I want music to seem to rise from the shadows - and indeed sometimes to return to them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1693951505584255147)  2023-08-22T11:41Z 41K followers, 70.9K engagements


"Wow - [--] years today since the Beatles released 'She Loves You' in the UK A record that changed our lives. Almost my first memory is of opening a birthday present - and there it was. Wonderful to think that Paul's Dad advised them to sing 'She loves you - yes yes yes'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1694312180265488888)  2023-08-23T11:34Z 41K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Wisdom from Jorge Luis Borges b otd 1899: "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me but I am the fire." "Life itself is a quotation.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1694683226822820175)  2023-08-24T12:09Z 40.4K followers, [----] engagements


"And a very happy birthday to the wonderful @stephenfry "It is a cliche that most cliches are true but then like most cliches that cliche is untrue." "If ignorance is bliss why aren't there more happy people in the world" "You are who you are when nobody's watching.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1694700593997050339)  2023-08-24T13:18Z 41K followers, 11.8K engagements


"Leonard Bernstein b otd [----] On music: "Life without music is meaningless music without life is academic." "Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food." "Music stands in a special region unlit by any star but its own without meaning . except its own.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1695025768940654635)  2023-08-25T10:50Z 41K followers, 18.6K engagements


"Ivry Gitlis would have been [---] today A beyond-talented violinist who tore up the rule book a sometimes impossible man whom one couldn't help loving a warm friend ceaselessly curious with a genius for communication - that was Ivry. Much-missed - he lit up our lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1695027982853624030)  2023-08-25T10:58Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Last night at the buffet here in Rio de Janeiro - I wasnt that tempted somehow"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1695035405349896203)  2023-08-25T11:28Z 40.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Revered conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch b otd [---] years ago A passionate idealistic musician. "Music is the only art to combine all races all generations all nations all people. Its really the greatest possibility for the best communication between all people in the world.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1695383045870588039)  2023-08-26T10:29Z 41K followers, 16.4K engagements


"Goethe b otd [----] To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking. There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. I love those who yearn for the impossible. Nothing is worth more than this day"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1696128502402068651)  2023-08-28T11:52Z 42.6K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Musical wisdom from Charlie Parker ('Bird') b otd 1920: "'You've got to learn your instrument. Then you practice practice practice. And then when you finally get up there on the bandstand forget all that and just wail." "Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1696537097916875041)  2023-08-29T14:55Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Seamus Heaney d otd [--] years ago Since when" he asked "Are the first line and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends Was music once a proof of Gods existence As long as it admits things beyond measure That supposition stands. Poetry is language in orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1696844623077904722)  2023-08-30T11:17Z 40.1K followers, [----] engagements


"On my way home (I hope. [--] hours late - cello always first to be kicked off a flight) from my first tour of S America for [--] years Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro Montevideo Buenos Aires: wonderful places beautiful halls - and some of the warmest-hearted people I've ever met"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1696947431487815700)  2023-08-30T18:06Z 41K followers, 19.9K engagements


"@PeledAmit My beloved friend - I have two pictures of him up on my music room wall so that I can see him as I practise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1696950721990512704)  2023-08-30T18:19Z 41K followers, [--] engagements


"Happy birthday to the great Itzhak Perlman "Teaching is really very very important.When you teach others you teach yourself." "There is no such thing as getting rid of nervousness.". "As for minimalism I don't care don't care don't care to repeat myself repeat myself.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1697265388038377873)  2023-08-31T15:09Z 41K followers, 23.5K engagements


"JRR Tolkien d otd [--] years ago May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. Do you wish me a good morning or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1697914054910632372)  2023-09-02T10:07Z 41K followers, 17.9K engagements


"About to play Britten's Cello Symphony first time in many years. As always one feels the hand of an absolute master; but it's also so deeply felt- almost an instrumental War Requiem. Strange that it's so neglected - composer Colin Matthews considers it Britten's masterpiece"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1697969396843454551)  2023-09-02T13:47Z 41K followers, 12.5K engagements


"Thought for Sunday - relevant for musicians - from ee Cummings (d otd 1962): To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1698260838581141644)  2023-09-03T09:05Z 41K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Anton Bruckner b otd [----] "They want me to write differently. Certainly I could but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me of all people this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there if I followed the others and not Him""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1698612978914861284)  2023-09-04T08:24Z 41K followers, 17.5K engagements


"A very special character author/translator Edith Aron b otd [---] years ago Born German then lived in Buenos Aires/Paris/London she was the first to translate many S Americans (Borges Cortazar etc) into German; was friends with Paul Celan and so many others; and was adorable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1698615695741780395)  2023-09-04T08:35Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"A year ago since beloved pianist/conductor/personality Lars Vogt left us. The worldwide outpouring of grief at that time bears testament to how much he was loved cherished and revered - the warmest person imaginable. So much missed - and still so hard to believe that he is gone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1698960399452733647)  2023-09-05T07:24Z 41K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Queen Elizabeth 1st b otd [----] on men: "I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married." "One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without." "I have the heart of a man not a woman and I am not afraid of anything." "Men fight wars. Women win them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1699681024857240044)  2023-09-07T07:08Z 41K followers, 10.3K engagements


"Antonn Dvok b otd [----] A truly great composer who never lost his essential simplicity - and humility: "I am happy and blissful in my work as has always been the case up until now and God willing will continue to be so for my motto is and will be: God love homeland""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1700053531879735712)  2023-09-08T07:48Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Wisdom from Tolstoy b otd 1828: We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. When you love someone you love the person as they are not as you'd like them to be. Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1700402670396121459)  2023-09-09T06:56Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Henry Purcell b otd [----] Such a very great composer - arguably the last major English composer until Elgar [---] years later. "As poetry is the harmony of words so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory so is music the exaltation of poetry.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1700796062036906059)  2023-09-10T08:59Z 41K followers, 12.9K engagements


"A very happy birthday to the great Arvo Prt: I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. Silence is the pause in me when I am near to God"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1701112893389832381)  2023-09-11T05:58Z 41K followers, [---] engagements


"Rameau d otd [----]. I've always loved the story of the unfortunate priest chanting Rameau's last rites being sternly admonished from the bed of the dying man for singing out of tune A composer of extraordinary sophistication and imagination: "I try to conceal art with art.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1701523440581095457)  2023-09-12T09:09Z 41K followers, 16.1K engagements


"Two VERY different composers b otd - but both musical idealists. Clara Schumann (1819): "My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art." Arnold Schoenberg (1874): "If it is art it is not for all and if it is for all it is not art." (Yes sir)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1701891381730419014)  2023-09-13T09:31Z 41K followers, 11.1K engagements


"In my many years at Open Chamber Music in IMS Prussia Cove I have worked on SO many wonderful piano quintets: masterpieces by Elgar Faur Bloch and Taneyev gems from Medtner and Fruhling etc. This year another: Vtzslav Novk's quintet op [--]. Exciting passionate adorable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1702057993947226552)  2023-09-13T20:33Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Nadia Boulanger surely one of the greatest musicians ever b otd [----] "Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for." "To study music we must learn the rules. To create music we must break them.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1703046781779562524)  2023-09-16T14:02Z 41K followers, [---] engagements


"Wisdom from Dr Johnson master of the English language - b otd 1709: "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." Yes to both"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1703682627956326529)  2023-09-18T08:09Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Wonderful to visit India - pity it was only for two days What wonderful people - incredibly warm hospitable; and the little I saw of Mumbai was beautiful. The orchestra too was lovely: so many fine players and a special atmosphere. And the food. (Is this a good review)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1704928597570437206)  2023-09-21T18:40Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"@FriseSally Thanks I'm already home; ridiculously short trip - but so lovely"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1705119158034170109)  2023-09-22T07:17Z 41K followers, [--] engagements


"Musical birthdays John Coltrane (1926): "My music is the spiritual expression of what I am." Ray Charles (1930): "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts" Bruce Springsteen (1949): "I'm always in search of something in search of losing myself to the music.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1705476201249137102)  2023-09-23T06:56Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Dmitri Shostakovich b otd [----]. A composer of burning talent - the works of his youth are mesmerisingly vivid. The challenge throughout his life was then to keep the flame of that talent alive under impossible circumstances - but he managed it A quiet hero who spoke for an era"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1706212273256124899)  2023-09-25T07:41Z 40.6K followers, 19K engagements


"Glenn Gould would have been [--] today - he's been gone far too long. Brilliant genuinely different occasionally infuriating (musically) always fascinating surprising - a major figure in 20th century music-making. And (reportedly) as a man truly charming and warm. Much missed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1706216006127927405)  2023-09-25T07:56Z 40.4K followers, 62.3K engagements


"George Gershwin b otd [---] years ago "Life is a lot like jazz. it's best when you improvise." "All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique." "It is always possible to create something original.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1706581678527828019)  2023-09-26T08:09Z 41K followers, 13.8K engagements


"Oh no: that moment at check-in when the passport doesnt seem to be in its usual place and one thinks (with a little smirk): this is always happening. And then one realises that it really isnt there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1706686882669593009)  2023-09-26T15:07Z 40.2K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Cervantes b otd [----] Ah Quixote: When life itself seems lunatic who knows where madness lies Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams - this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness and maddest of all: to see life as it is and not as it should be"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1707647581617062204)  2023-09-29T06:44Z 41K followers, 12.3K engagements


"Beloved Jessye Norman d otd 2019: "The very best thing that could happen to a voice if it shows any promise at all is when it is very young to leave it alone and to let it develop quite naturally and to let the person go on as long as possible with the sheer joy of singing.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1708061659002966378)  2023-09-30T10:10Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Vladimir Horowitz b [---] years ago today What magic he produced - unique. "Piano playing consists of common sense heart and technical resources. All three should be equally developed. Without common sense you are a fiasco without technique an amateur without heart a machine.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1708403609786802628)  2023-10-01T08:48Z 41K followers, 38.3K engagements


"Conductor Stanislav Skrowaczewski would have been [---] today Well he nearly made it - conducting (wonderfully) well into his 90s. Such a lovely man: we toured S America together with the Hall in the early 90s. He was so kind - and so in love with music A musical aristocrat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1709211308304797807)  2023-10-03T14:18Z 40.3K followers, 10.5K engagements


"Wisdom from the late great Desmond Tutu b otd 1931: "If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1710574229538693382)  2023-10-07T08:34Z 41K followers, 10.8K engagements


"Beloved (still) Kathleen Ferrier d otd [--] years ago. The warmth sincerity and beauty of her singing speaks to us so powerfully - given added poignancy of course by her tragic story. What a wonderful person One can feel it through her face as well as her voice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1710949305656209742)  2023-10-08T09:24Z 41K followers, 16.8K engagements


"Giuseppe Verdi b otd [---] years ago "I adore art.when I am alone with my notes my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear." "Let us turn to the past: that will be progress." "A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1711675631329587219)  2023-10-10T09:30Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Edith Piaf d otd [--] yrs ago "Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth." Journalist: If you were to give advice to a woman what would it be Edith Piaf: Love. Journalist: To a young girl Edith Piaf: Love. Journalist: To a child Edith Piaf: Love"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1712041203489816931)  2023-10-11T09:43Z 41K followers, 14.4K engagements


"Jean Cocteau like Edith Piaf d otd [--] yrs ago What a man. If a poet has a dream it is not of becoming famous but of being believed. Art is science made clear. Living is a horizontal fall. An artist cannot speak about his art anymore than a plant can discuss horticulture"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1712051966031933805)  2023-10-11T10:26Z 40.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Pavarotti b otd [----] Sensible man: One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1712368995280531464)  2023-10-12T07:25Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"Happy Birthday Paul Simon So right about so much: "There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next." "Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you following you right on up until you die.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1712753274586116411)  2023-10-13T08:52Z 40.2K followers, 15K engagements


"Thoughts from e. e. cummings (b otd 1894): "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." "Kisses are a better fate than wisdom." Lovers alone wear sunlight. I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1713163029699821644)  2023-10-14T12:01Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"PG Wodehouse (b otd 1881) - genius He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat but certainly no more. Already a second edition of his chin had been published. "I could see that if not actually disgruntled he was far from being gruntled.'""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1713468721140797545)  2023-10-15T08:15Z 41K followers, 15.2K engagements


"Oscar Wilde b otd [----] As wise as he was witty: "Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life." "Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious." "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1713843727414792354)  2023-10-16T09:06Z 42.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Chopin d otd [----] (surrounded by swooning society ladies apparently). What an astoundingly original voice His music - with its aristocratic sense of dance his unique melodies and harmonies combining to draw sheer magic out of the keyboard - touches our hearts in a unique way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1714197189327528221)  2023-10-17T08:30Z 41K followers, 12.5K engagements


"A very happy birthday to the wonderful Wynton Marsalis Everything comes out in blues music: joy pain struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance. Through improvisation jazz teaches you about yourself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1714550062758457693)  2023-10-18T07:52Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"David Cornwell aka John Le Carr b otd [----]. Wonderful wise man: The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing. By repetition each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed. A committee is an animal with four back legs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1714934047351156898)  2023-10-19T09:18Z 41K followers, [----] engagements


"My musical nightmare last night: I was playing the Elgar concerto for several young cellists. I started - horrible Out of tune scratchy weak. I apologised tried again - no better. Everyone made suggestions - to no avail. I just couldnt play the chords So glad to wake up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1714956959382691954)  2023-10-19T10:49Z 40.1K followers, 12.3K engagements


"Bold defiance from Charles Ives - b otd 1874: "Stand up and take your dissonance like a man." "I don't write music for sissy ears." "You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality reality and substance." "My God What has sound got to do with music""  
[X Link](https://x.com/StevenIsserlis/status/1715314500667077079)  2023-10-20T10:30Z 40.1K followers, [----] engagements

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