Simon Leeson
@simonleeson.bsky.social
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Pianist and teacher. Lots of opera, not necessarily Wagner.
I used to have a bit of a blind spot with regards to Handel, so it's always a pleasure to see some with the friend who put me on the right track! Ariodante today.
about 16 hours ago
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"If music be the food of love, play on..." has been December so far, but now it's time for cakes and ale.
4 days ago
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I didn't know that Vicario's first name was Guglielmo. I'll now think of Cosi fan tutte whenever he lets in a goal.
8 days ago
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It's that time of year again when I apply what I know about accompanying strophic lieder to Little Donkey.
8 days ago
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I think my job is safe from AI at the moment.
13 days ago
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No better way of spending some rare time off than at La Rondine with Ermonela Jaho.
16 days ago
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Checking the Forest score after exams much better than checking the cricket in the morning!
30 days ago
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Rehearsing Mozart temporarily lifted the Ashes gloom.
about 1 month ago
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It would be fun to get candidates to answer the aural tests in the style of ABRSM mark forms. "Something of a monochrome feel to the tonal level"
about 1 month ago
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Playing for auditions in a room where the heating isn't working properly. Someone has brought Frozen, but I don't want to build a snowman.
about 1 month ago
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György and Márta, Olivier and Yvonne, Pavel and Samson.
about 1 month ago
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I'm practising Mozart accompaniments, one for flute and one for violin. You can tell which instrument he doesn't like.
about 1 month ago
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Impossible to continue with admin when the Adagio of K488 is on the radio. Have to stop and listen.
about 1 month ago
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As I left school today a child was impressively practising Feux Follets!
about 1 month ago
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His plaque is behind gates but I managed to find Schopenhauer.
about 1 month ago
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The Makropulos Case at Covent Garden, where the thing I enjoyed looking at most was Paul Smith's Christmas tree.
about 1 month ago
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My phone reminds me of this trip to the RFH to see Duke Bluebeard's Castle and its seven doors.
about 2 months ago
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Tonight's rehearsal of Dead Man Walking at ENO was outstanding. Such a powerful piece.
about 2 months ago
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A great day in Nottingham yesterday, and a beautiful morning today.
about 2 months ago
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Like Colin Calderwood a few years ago on Boxing Day, the manager has gone before I got home. That day from the City Ground, today just walking back from the pub!
#NFFC
2 months ago
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I don't know if anyone notices, but I always have fun weaving autumn themes into my between items improvisations at Harvest Festival.
2 months ago
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Wigmore Hall two nights in a row.
2 months ago
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Dashing for a train marked as late is a guaranteed way of making that train miraculously catch up time.
2 months ago
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Some children at school today were doing an ancient Greeks workshop and were dressed accordingly. At playtime it was very Monty Python.
2 months ago
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I can hear the William Tell overture without thinking of The Lone Ranger, but I can't listen to Atmosphères and not think of 2001.
2 months ago
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I've booked for Forest v Porto. The following evening Simon Trpčeski is in Nottingham playing the Grieg and I've booked that too, so I know I'll have at least one good night!
3 months ago
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Mooncake for tonight's full moon, which is very impressive if you go outside on this clear evening.
3 months ago
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reposted by
Simon Leeson
Sophie E. Hill
3 months ago
A thread of inspirational quotes from two of my idols: Kemi Badenoch and Ange Postecoglou (uh-oh, I may have gotten some mixed up... or have I??) 🧵
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I hoped it would he be quieter in the evening and it was. An unhurried chance to get right up close to Picasso.
3 months ago
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I was reading earlier about how much Evgeny Kissin practised. Has Ange ever thought of doing the same with defending set pieces?
3 months ago
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An entertaining game watching the team where I live playing the team where I was born. Sutton 1 Boston 1.
3 months ago
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It's the time of year when card shops decide that people don't really have birthdays between now and Christmas.
3 months ago
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A kindly publican has put the Forest game on one screen just for me.
3 months ago
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Ange ball going well then.
3 months ago
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This Washington band sound like they could give a good rendition of the theme from Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em.
3 months ago
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I watched Forest v Arsenal at lunch, then at The Lady from the Sea in the evening the actor playing Finn looked and sounded like Ange. I found Simon Stone's take on Ibsen more Forest than Arsenal.
3 months ago
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No Radiohead unlock code. Everything not in its right place.
3 months ago
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The alert test worked on the tube.
4 months ago
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Raining at The Oval, but on the plus side I made it just in time for 25% off drinks.
4 months ago
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I'm seeing Spinal Tap 2 adverts after the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony. This organ goes up to 11!
4 months ago
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Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in what I think will turn out to be my favourite Prom of the season.
4 months ago
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Wonderful Janine Jansen after Prokofiev's first concerto.
4 months ago
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It's always fun watching people's reactions when they realise they are sitting next to Ian McKellen.
4 months ago
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Alberich seizing the Rhinegold.
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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Well that was a worthwhile trip up the M1!
4 months ago
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Great views of London today.
4 months ago
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A glorious afternoon at Glyndebourne yesterday.
4 months ago
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A "sunny" afternoon.
4 months ago
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After concentrating for long periods of time in Bayreuth, I've come to The Hundred.
5 months ago
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I've just watched a t'way plane land. It looks like they should be from Yorkshire, not Korea.
5 months ago
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