Notices by Megan Marie Hart (meganmariehart@mastodon.social)

@jacklaridian
Thank you! I’m happy you liked it!
If you’re interested, have a listen to „Letters to Fred“, it‘s a song cycle we premiered last month about my friend Joanne Herzberg’s Familie, who got murdered by the Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04
(Not much to see in the video, it’s just me singing, but it has subtitles.)

@jacklaridian
That’s the point: back then, no one would have thought to applaud them for choosing Nazis as villains because it was so ridiculously obvious that they are evil. Now, decades later, millions of people still watch these movies, and who knows how many kids have learned about fascism through them. Little things like this are important to preserve our collective memory.

Steven Spielberg is not getting enough credit for having the hero fight literal Nazis in his light entertainment adventure movies. Same goes for George Lucas’ dressed-like-nazis fascist protagonists.
Kids need that. We need that.

There once came a man to Nantucket
Who worshipped a Russian sock puppet
To show his devotion
He roomed at the ocean:
A Motel made from his trash bucket!

https://nantucketcurrent.com/news/cyber-stuck-first-tesla-cybertruck-on-nantucket-has-a-rough-day

#MotelASongPoemOrLimerick

#HashTagGames

I realize that Germany is much smaller and more densely populated than the US, so the distances to polling places are shorter. But on top of that, Germany votes on Sundays when the majority of eligible voters don't have to work. Democracy CAN be made easy if we WANT it!

When my husband voted in the last election (for the EU) it took him a bit over 12 minutes. His time today, in the German #Bundestagswahl:

11:59,61

How long did it take you to vote last time you did?

#speedVoting

https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/112585538270620114

#dePol #usPol #wahl #wahltag #bundestagswahl #election #vote

I wonder what it’s like out there
Out there way beyond them mountains
Where the folks talk nice an’ the folks dress nice
Like ya see in the mail order catalogs

I aim to leave this valley some day
An’ find out for myself:
To see all them tall buildin’s and all the street lights
An’ to be one o’them folks myself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDrfostRvMQ&t=133s

#TouristSongsPoemsOrLimericks #HashTagGames #operaQuote #Susannah #CarlisleFloyd #opera #operaSinger

2/2
“Hart opened the morning with Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein’s ‘All the Things You Are’ in a golden timbre with, a delicate elegance that captivated the audience.
[…]
As an encore, the duo thanked the long-lasting applause with the prayer ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ set to music by by Max Janowski."

❤️ Thank you very much for the article, Thomas Krügler!

❤️ Thank you Mathias Mönius for performing with me, thank you Intendantin Kirsten Uttendorf and Landestheater for having me, thank you #Detmold!

„Mit Jerome Kern und Oscar Hammersteins ‚All the Things You Are‘ eröffnete Hart den Vormittag im goldenen Timbre mit einer zarten Eleganz, die das Publikum bannte.
[…]
Für den lang anhaltenden Applaus bedankte sich das Duo als Zugabe mit der Gebetsvertonung ‚Avinu Malkeinu‘ von Max Janowski.“

❤️ Vielen Dank für den Artikel, Thomas Krügler!

1/2 [english translation in the next post]

https://www.lz.de/kultur_alt/24031204_Megan-Marie-Hart-feiert-in-Detmold-die-Juedische-Seele.html

LETTERS TO FRED: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Song Cycle by Bracha Bdil

The terrible brutality of the Holocaust is so incomprehensible in its extent that it can only be understood on the basis of individual fates. This song cycle quotes from letters to the only survivor of the #Herzberg family from #Detmold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04

#LettersToFred #BrachaBdil #songCycle #Liedzyklus #operaSinger #Darmstadt #artSong #HolocaustRemembrance #NeverAgain #Jewstodon #Mazeldon

Someone didn't give me my cue … if you catch my tenor.

#ExcusesForForgetting #HashTagGames

@jens well …

@jens Ih, no worries, I accidentally posted before I was done writing, because I felt I should check the privacy setting, and while I was editing you had already replied!

It’s a pun, but also based on oh so many real life examples. Somehow it’s always the tenors messing things up. They are super rare and sought after, and because of that can get away with almost anything, and they know it.

@jens There was an article I was interviewed for several years ago about gender discrimination in opera, that touches on the subject of male to female ratio in the business:
https://www.middleclassartist.com/post/excluded-penalized-indebted-harassed-a-study-of-systemic-discrimination-against-women-in-opera

@jens During college, the ratio is about 5 female singers to 1 male, the ratio gets worse over time, and the majority of male singers are baritones. Big voices (dramatic and spinto) mature decades after college, so by the time a tenor can sing the high profile lead roles, they get insane amounts of money, and on top of that get away with behaviour that would get any soprano fired on the spot.

@GossiTheDog And now we all know for certain why he put x on everything. Expect the rebrand with four hooks any moment.

“ The first thing members of the Counter Extremism project did was to attach a mezuzah to the front door”

Our mezuzah is inside. Because there are new Nazis outside.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/17/europe/home-next-door-auschwitz-opening-doors-intl/index.html

Names of Nazi collaborators in the Netherlands kept secret for 80 years. 23% of Dutch millennials and Gen Z believe the Holocaust is a myth or that the number of Jews killed has been greatly exaggerated.

Post-truth started in 1945.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/07/nx-s1-5249956/nazi-collaborators-netherlands-archive

On wikimedia.de is a page with donation comments, does anyone know if there is one for .org and maybe others? I want to see the burns! 🔥

https://spenden.wikimedia.de/list-comments.html

#spaceKaren #wikipedia #wikimedia #wokepedia #yuleLog

Happy Holidays Everyone!

#hanukkah #christmas #holidays