Which classical musicians are on Twitter/Facebook and what are they doing?

Amanda Ameer, via her ArtsJournal blog, Life's a Pitch, has taken a look at selected classical musician's approach - or perhaps their publicist's approach - to both Twitter and Facebook, with minor mentions of wikipedia. The list includes several people you may have seen on a Celebrity Series of Boston stage in the  past, such as Sarah Chang, Hilary Hahn, Renée Fleming, Lang Lang, Maya Beiser, and Yuja Wang. Lady Gaga is included on the list, I assume for the sake of comparison.

Check out the complete post, Doin' What Comes Naturally.

UPDATE:

Here, in no particular order and for no particular reason, is a short list of other classical musician types that Tweet. I am not endorsing these accounts, and I can't verify if they are who the names claim (hint: referring to themselves in the third person says publicist to me, not that there is anything wrong with that); I bring them to you in the name of science ...

@eighthblackbird
@evanziporyn
@SteveReich
@DawnUpshaw
@GustavoDudamel
@MaestroMaazel
@silkroadproject
@GilShaham
@DavidKrakauer
@thomas_hampson
@simonrattle

Slipped disc, by Norman Lebrecht

Every once in a while, Aisle Be Seeing You takes turn about the blog gardens and discovers a new and engaging bloginator (I know, just what none of us needs in our busy lives, until we read one, of course). One such recent discovery is the Arts Journal blog of "author, novelist, broadcaster,cultural commentator," Norman Lebrecht, who some may know as the author of the 2007 book, The Life and Death of Classical Music. Mr. Lebrecht's entry into the blog derby is called Slipped disc, and subtitled Norman Lebrecht on shifting sound worlds. A few of my favorite posts are listed below:

What Lang Lang did next

What to do when a conductor throws up

More concert disturbances

Permission to listen? And to share what I feel?

Here's a bit of one of Lebrecht's posts (guess which one), and a good indication that he will share whatever needs to be shared to make good copy:

"I once heard Franz Welser-Möst heaving his guts out in the interval of
a Tokyo concert. He returned from the flush to give a Beethoven Fifth
of reckless intensity, so edgy that no-one's insides were safe. That's
music - you feel something, and you share it with others."