So apparently the orange horror is about to announce a 'cure' for autism. I cannot adequately articulate how offensive this is to anyone with first-hand experience of ASD.

Quite proud of this programming - come and see how it all works!

For whoever needs to see this... something in my eye... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFjF...

What glorious singing from Louise Alder.

Well, Mandelson is toast.

Hasn't aged me a day...

One of life's more agreeable cities.

The state of all this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rather wonderful to be preparing some music by Britten (getting ahead for Autumn concerts) while staying in Britten's old boarding house at Gresham's School. I wonder which room was his?

Very happy to be heading to Gresham's today for the second instalment of the Music Summer School and Festival! I'll be conducting Israel in Egypt — and in my preparation I may have got a bit too interested in exactly which bits are borrowed from whom... www.andrewgriffiths.info/handel

Few things beat a really good coffee after a couple of hours riding around the Kent lanes.

A very enjoyable few days with @stileantico.co.uk, in Boppard am Rhein, the Wye Valley and Hereford!

Wait what you need to age verify to send a DM now?!

Theatre review: La Locandiera from Bampton Classical Opera at Bampton Deanery Garden www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/la-l...

No... CPDL down on a big programming day!

Another programming question: a cappella choral works about the Creation which are NOT by Copland?

Premiere of Salieri 'La locandiera' tonight for Bampton Classical Opera in glorious surroundings — it's been so lovely to be back here, with a great cast and orchestra! We bring it to @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on 16th Sep. Details & casting at www.bamptonopera.org/eventfutured...

This week's choral programming brainstormer... a cappella music which speaks to themes of temptation, desire, bacchanalia, excess, judgement, hell?

Er, wow.

Ye gods that was stressful.

Had forgotten just how restorative a two-hour bike ride on the Kent lanes can be.

It's an evening for sitting outside in your boxers. #sorrynotsorry (Does anyone have insect repellant?)

Novak's last match?

Bazball has become snoozeball, and I think I'm here for it.

"A festive banquet for the ears and soul" - thank you @klassiekcentraal.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Sunday's concert in Antwerp with @colla-voce.bsky.social!

Hell freezes over. England choose to bat.

Oh good...

This is *quite* the piece of writing...

Heading into the kitchen today to begin a stint as head chef on this tasty offering for Bampton Classical Opera! www.bamptonopera.org/eventfutured...

Going to bed, dreading tomorrow's headlines.

Two pertinent graphs from me tonight... First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS. Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...

Is it too early to start drinking?

Thrilled to announce I am now a bona fide conductor.

Siri, show me a metaphor for Elon's career... www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

That thing when you find out the whole manuscript of the C18 opera you're about to conduct from an unspeakably bad edition is digitised online, and you realise you're going to need to spend three non-existent weeks checking it all against the source...

Semantics are dead. "Back at the State Department briefing, spokesperson Tammy Bruce is asked about Trump's comments that he wants a 'real end' to the Iran-Israel conflict. 'We can take his word for his word,' Bruce says. 'But I'm not going to speculate in a larger sense on what that would mean'.

Longing for a day where the news headlines won't fill me with existential dread. Today is not that day.

Last chance to hear the fantastic @natoperastudio.bsky.social Young Artists in the wild tonight before they fly the nest... some excellent Britten scenes (with piano) in the gloriously shabby-chic Hoxton Hall. www.nationaloperastudio.org.uk/event/benjam...

A beautiful morning for the Tour de Penge... 🚴‍♂️

Absolutely loved The Residence on Netflix for some good clean escapism.

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Is there enough popcorn in the world for this one?

@annekescott.bsky.social I've just come across a 'con sordino' marking for horns in Salieri (in an opera of 1773). The edition is frankly dodgy, so I'm inclined to doubt it... but is such a thing possible? I can't think think of anyone more likely to know than you! Thanks.

If only Barcelona had beaten Inter in the semi...

Another shocking morning run.

Glorious day on the Isle of Purbeck... Corfe Castle, Tyneham, Worbarrow Bay, Kimmeridge Bay. Running, history, scenery, fossil-hunting, and a close encounter with a red kite. Perfect. 1/2

Morning run. Just dreadful.

Spending a long train journey listening to Quatuor Ébène's Beethoven cycle, and I need to tell you all how good it is.

Not too shabby for tonight's @stileantico.co.uk concert.

Has humanity ever created anything more arcane than the ABRSM exam booking system?