Day 1 of @icchamberchoir.bsky.social auditions for 25-26, and someone sang some Pelham Humfrey as their audition piece, which made my day.

Sure, why the hell not

Eeee the cover for the UK edition of How to Win a Trade War is out! Pre-order your copy here... www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-Trad...

Presumably the Archbishop is announced on Friday morning so they can go straight on Desert Island Discs and pick their 8 favourite hymns

Some personal news… Delighted to announce I have been appointed Archbishop of Banterbury

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

In a quiet reading room at the British Library, and someone’s laptop suddenly burst out with *ai voice* “here are several polished re-writes of your”

This is brilliant

Things only a comedian/producer would post: I AM LOOKING FOR A TRUMPETER IN BRISTOL AVAILABLE THIS WEEK. Long shot, but let me know. I will not block joke answers as some people do but I also won't laugh at them. I *might* roll my eyes indulgently.

Decided to stop work early and focus on cooking my son’s dinner. No great loss to academia today!

"Please be suspicious in the nicest way - of everyone."

In personal news, I have finally been allowed to put up the full-size DC metro map I bought as a souvenir on moving back to London in 2021. Or as my wife would describe it: “the worst possession anyone has ever bought”.

Whatever I hoped for from this Labour government, it was definitely not forced volunteering

Irrelevant to the wider world, I know, but the British Library is still a long way from recovering from the cyber attack in October '23. Access to books still much more complicated and unpredictable than it was pre attack. Amazing how long it takes to recover from something like this.

Just asked someone if they're free for a concert on March 14th 2207. It's been that kind of morning.

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

This day my oaths for drinking of wine and going to plays are out, and so I do resolve to take a liberty today, and then to fall to them again.

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

Träd would actually be a great band name

Anyone recognise this place? Warner Gothard had one of his studios in Wakefield, so that may be a red-herring. Reverse image search brings up some VERY similar places, but nothing quite matches the windows/adornments. #LocalHistory #Churches #RAOK

Discovery of the day: Haaland is an Ola Gjeilo fan

Look what we have here then.

artificial intelligence peaked with my email telling me I forgot to attach something

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

I often think our continental neighbours have the edge on us in so many ways, and then I remember that they drink UHT milk…

A worthy cause but I'm afraid I read this quickly and thought - well I'd like an organ but I've no idea where I'd put it

Biggest shock of Zurich so far is that it doesn't feel *that* expensive compared to London.

Manic Televangelists

On my way to join @icchamberchoir.bsky.social in Zurich for concerts tonight and tomorrow, and in Lugano on Thursday.

On Saturday, ICCC are flying out on our Summer Tour - a two-stop tour of Switzerland 🇨🇭! We have an Evensong & Eucharist plus 2 concerts in Zurich, then take the train to Lugano for our final performance. We would love to see you, all events are free! Details under Events on our website (link in bio)

A first for me today, when after rehearsal at evensong, an alto came up and asked permission to add their own descant to the final hymn, in addition to the soprano descant.

Just registered with Neighbourhood Watch in my area. Is this middle age?

Apply to be a University Teacher in Music Technology! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT479/u...

Blackfriars Priory, Gloucester, dating to 1239. Was a Dominican House. Dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Scriptorium a particularly rare survival. Restored 1960 & now an events space. Today, I was there for Gloucester History Festival #blackfriars #blackfriarsgloucester #dissolutionofthemonasteries

Anyone know a small record label that could press, distribute and post about 500 to 1000 vinyls?

WE'RE HIRING: Membership Manager 🤝 3 days left to apply! An exciting opportunity for a skilled communicator to be the key link between the core work of LYC and our 500+ members and their families. Deadline: midday, Monday 22 September www.londonyouthchoirs.com/work-for-lyc/

feels extremely bleak that promoting music as a classical artist these days involves streaming platforms wanting to know which of these categories you fit into

The deadline has now been extended! Note also the Musici Trust prize for a paper on music before 1600

Conductor who enjoys doing intros too much.

Erosion, rising seas and churning storms have caused the collapse of a dozen homes along a stretch of the Outer Banks in North Carolina over the past five years. The latest incident came Tuesday, when an unoccupied, two-story, wood-shingled home crumbled into the surf. https://wapo.st/4pL86wL

Niche post, but would anyone with a nice venue within a few hours of London (*hello vicars*) be interested in hosting an afternoon concert by Imperial College Chamber Choir on Saturday November 8th? 45 minutes, a cappella sacred music, retiring collection, that sort of thing.

Filing this thread under "PhD Ideas"

If we were serious about bringing the House of Lords into the 21st century we would confer the title of Edgelord as an actual rank of the peerage, perhaps intermediate between the ranks of Viscount and Baron

Niche post, but would anyone with a nice venue within a few hours of London (*hello vicars*) be interested in hosting an afternoon concert by Imperial College Chamber Choir on Saturday November 8th? 45 minutes, a cappella sacred music, retiring collection, that sort of thing.

I really think taking your shoes off in a British Library reading room should be a punishable offence.

Heading to Zurich and Lugano next week with @icchamberchoir.bsky.social. Do come and see us if you’re in the area!

101 sleeps to go…

Thank you LinkedIn for the career change nudge I needed.

Thank you LinkedIn for the career change nudge I needed.