An ideal sparring partner…. seckerson.libsyn.com

SOME OTHER TIME - LEONARD BERNSTEIN IN WORDS & MUSIC @CrazyCoqs Edward Seckerson ~ Kim Criswell ~ James Church brasseriezedel.com/events/some-ot…

INTER ALIA @NationalTheatre Tremendous. My goodness Suzie Miller knows how to build a drama and lay bare the moral debate. An avalanche of a performance from Rosamund Pike @rosamundpikeon

What a pleasure reminiscing @CrazyCoqs with the charming ADAM COOPER

Excited to announce TALKING POINT @CrazyCoqs A rare close encounter with the one and only ADAM COOPER brasseriezedel.com/events/talking…

Evita Opening Night @OfficialALW @JamieLloydCo At the risk of repeating myself this is for sure one of the great nights in musical theatre of recent times. A startling reimagining of a seminal show made vibrant and new and scarily resonant for the here and now. Thrilled and moved

What a privilege and a pleasure. Henry Goodman was on fire 🔥 in our close encounter @CrazyCoqs

EVITA @OfficialALW @JamieLloydCo so thrilling - as visceral and high-octane as it gets. The daring that rocked musical theatre back in 1978 seems to peak all over again. Breathtaking.

Ahead of SONDHEIM IN THE CITY 12 July @cadoganhall lend an ear… m.soundcloud.com/edward-seckers…

Immensely proud of this…

Excited to announce TALKING POINT @CrazyCoqs A rare close encounter with the one and only ADAM COOPER brasseriezedel.com/events/talking…

Very enjoyable afternoon yesterday spent at Crazy Coqs for Talking Point with #JohnWilson. @seckerson.bsky.social providing an excellent insight into a musical genius 👏🏻 Envious of anyone who has a career which is also their life’s passion! 🤩

A favourite diva in conversation @CrazyCoqs…relive it now…https://m.soundcloud.com/edward-seckerson/kim-criswell

An extremely rare event….

Private lunch (and muso chat) at Sydmonton with the man himself @OfficialALW and Paul Nicholas…gorgeous day…

Delightful encounter with PAUL NICHOLAS @NewburyFestival recalling an extraordinary career which all but kicked off in Sydmonton’s chapel theatre (so fitting for a bona fide Jesus) @OfficialALW where he showcased songs from an unusual little show entitled CATS

CHARLES STROUSE. A giant. I knew him, spent time with him, revered his talent. Consider a song like ‘Once Upon a Time’ from All American. That melody. Effortless, unforgettable, immortal. Just like him.

Excited to welcome this extraordinary actor to TALKING POINT @CrazyCoqs www.brasseriezedel.com/events/talki...

The more I have become immersed in Mahler’s symphonies over the years the more brightly the mighty Eighth has shone. Edward Gardner’s quite stupendous theatrically immersive ‘staging’ @LPOrchestra @southbankcentre was right up there. Thrilling. Moving. Visionary.

Happy Birthday Patti LuPone that is)… the only Broadway star I’ve ever taken to the opera. Elektra at the ROH with Hildegard Behrens in whom my guest recognised a kindred spirit!

Fully caffeinated and heading to the Record Review studio @andrewCDmcg for some lethal Shostakovich….live at 3 or listen again…

Tomorrow…fireworks…

What deeper irony might we take away from Shostakovich’s hectoring Lenin Symphony No 12? What lies beneath all the unisons and filmic bluster? Not sure it matters when it rocks the house in a performance as blistering as this from @londonsymphony under Gianandrea Noseda

Great banter with my great friend the one-off that is KIM CRISWELL @KimDCriswell @CrazyCoqs Always such a joy. Still tingling from the stunning live recording of Legrand’s ‘Piece of Sky’ with the RTE Orchestra and John Wilson…

Scorching performance of Nielsen’s extraordinary 5th Symphony with its renegade side drum and manic first clarinet, both on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Hannu Lintu @LPOrchestra lit the touch paper…

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK by Chris Whitaker. Quite the best novel I’ve read in a very long time. A rich, poetic epic full of heart and beauty. Magnificent.

LIZ CALLOWAY @LizGoesOn @CrazyCoqs A cabaret masterclass. So many highlights… but ‘The Story Goes On’ from Maltby and Shire’s BABY floored me. @TheoJamieson was his usual one- man-band thrilling. Special.

ADOLESCENCE @netflix Simply astonishing. Deeply upsetting. Heartbreaking. Horribly relevant.

Will be sharing an hour or two with the West End Jesus PAUL NICHOLAS at the Lord’s (Lloyd Webber’s) chapel theatre at this year’s @NewburyFestival 22 May

FESTEN @rbo_org So much already said…but honestly I think this may be Mark-Anthony Turnage’s best piece. Brilliant Lee Hall libretto propels a score where tenderness is in head-on collision with brutality. And underneath it all a wicked irony prevails. Wow.

Stonking account of Strauss’ Alpine Symphony @LPOrchestra - one of the very best things I’ve heard from Edward Gardner. Fabulous vistas from start to finish, a storm they’ll easily have heard across the river, and a first trumpet that’s still ringing in my ears…

So looking forward to this close encounter… join us… www.brasseriezedel.com/events/talki...

Lots of beautiful things in Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s terrific score but I’d cross time zones to see and hear Kerry Ellis blow the roof off with the banging eleven o’clock number ‘Always Starting Over’ 🤩

This lady has a few stories…join us next month @CrazyCoqs www.brasseriezedel.com/events/talki...

Tonight @LondonColiseum was extraordinary. There is only one PATTI LUPONE. The voice is unique, unmistakable, the fire of it undimmed. But it’s the lady’s feisty temperament which blazes through everything. Our association/friendship goes back decades and is treasured…

They’ll be re-plastering the ceiling at the Kit Kat Club after a few weeks of @marishawallace dispatching ‘Maybe This Time’ and the angriest invitation to the Cabaret @kitkatclubLDN And not a dropped stitch in her cut-glass Mayfair accent. All this AND @theebillyporter

Walt Whitman and Vaughan Williams - visionaries both. ‘Behold, the Sea!’ and there it is in great washes of choral and orchestral sound. Fabulous work from @LSChorus and @londonsymphony under an impassioned Antonio Pappano. Soprano @MasabaneCecilia was, in every sense, majestic.

Is there a better fit for @londonsymphony than Walton’s First Symphony? They pretty much have ownership of it from that classic Previn recording to this volcanic Pappano rendition with bullseyes across the brass section and a combustible smoulder from the strings. Thrilling.

Patti et moi…

Routledge and Seckerson back home in Liverpool…the rear view…

Does anyone still wear one? My cover feature for MUSICALS magazine. A true Broadway legend and I chat ahead of her return to the London stage…

Up close and personal with the inimitable and divine Dame Tracie Bennett @OfficialTracieB @CrazyCoqs

Another stonking Mahler performance from Rattle and the breathtaking Bavarian Radio Symphony….

Tickets shifting fast!

Refulgent performance of Vaughan Williams 5 from an ever enriching Simon Rattle @londonsymphony @BarbicanCentre The well named Romanza is food for the soul glowing from within like an illuminated manuscript. LSO strings, the evening was yours.

Excited for this…

Completely wiped out after seeing two special actors - Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield - run the gamut of emotion and conflicting timelines in WE LIVE IN TIME. Joyous and heartbreaking.

Seeing this after so many years and more convinced than ever that Matthew Bourne’s SWAN LAKE is a work of genius. So sexy. So much wit and wonder and passion. And the great Tchaikovsky’s score. Makes my soul sing.