Remember: There's always Ecosia 🌳🌳🌳 www.ecosia.org

This week's theme is 'People of London' - a celebration of ALL the people who make and have made London the beautiful city it is. ------ 'The London Underground' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek

A little marginalia.

Sad about Felicity Lott. Alongside her amazing voice and generosity, she has a special place in my heart for one of her beautiful recordings with Graham Johnson, which was also one of my first liner note commissions; a huge confidence boost at 23. RIP

vale, Flott. 🕊️ Dame Felicity Lott (1947-2026) youtu.be/9pO-zbfpXKc?...

@joannawyld.bsky.social CARNYX ALERT youtu.be/IhIdon3zp5o?...

Oh yeah

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

This is a lovely film about escaping a rainy UK spring: true to the book, great cast, score by Richard Rodney Bennett youtu.be/6abrXxCC15w?...

chœuf bourguignon

Good to see this, I'm chuf– [a single shot rings out] www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Calling all teachers, educators, learners – and anyone who wants to engage with themes of migration sensitively and with confidence: We are delighted to share our new Teaching Migration History Toolkit, co-produced with @britishlibrary.bsky.social.

“I wish I could say I starred at the V&A But I can’t” “You can!” “I can?”

Went to the Elsa Schiaparelli exhibition at the V&A before work today and it's dazzling and playful and fun: loads of imaginative, ahead-of-their time creations, plus art by Picasso, Dalí and Man Ray, all of whom she influenced

We discovered the same footage works remarkably well with one of my brother's best songs. I miss playing this live youtu.be/vsfdcRsjl6A?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge Day 13: a song with Q, X or Z in the title Olivia Newton John - Xanadu youtu.be/cLi8fTlDEag?...

The Ballad of Wallis Island is on at the Herne Hill Free Film Festival tomorrow freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival...

There's something very Cabin Pressure coded about that footage of Benedict Cumberbatch arguing with a fellow cyclist, all it needs is for him to be more flustered and wearing a bigger cycling helmet and for his bike to be called Icarus

PLA + JSB + WTC + QEH = YES

"this volume evolved out of existing teaching materials into a compendium that was formalised later. ... A definitive version of Book Two is therefore almost impossible to pin down. Bach kept refining it, treating it more as an organic, evolving resource" - Joanna Wyld

This time next week in Ealing, Andrew Brixey-Williams is giving a solo performance of #Satie Vexations, in aid of the Young Minds UK mental health charity: ealing.nub.news/whats-on/mus...

Felt very lucky to be asked to write the programme notes for Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 9 May. View the programme here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pie...

Wartime records of the Dorking Refugee Committee – set up by E.M. Forster and Vaughan Williams to help people fleeing the Nazis – are going online for the first time. Surrey researchers and Dorking Museum are making them publicly accessible. www.surrey.ac.uk/news/wartime...

Go on, treat yourself. If you grew up with the greatest TV documentary series ever made, close your eyes and you will be able to see comb jellies dancing across the darkness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH8Y...

Happy hundredth birthday to this beautiful soul who embodies everything good about human nature - what a life, what an inspiration.

Always worth voting...

Felt very lucky to be asked to write the programme notes for Pierre-Laurent Aimard's performance of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on 9 May. View the programme here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pie...

The best niche crossover thread you will ever see.

Wu Yize: Yu Ji WUUUUUUUUUUU / YUUUUUUUUUUU

Join members of the renowned Chineke! Orchestra as they return to Wigmore Hall this afternoon for a lunchtime recital of Carlos Simon, Coleridge-Taylor and Still ✨ 🕰️ 1.00pm 🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202605041300

Lovely programme, really enjoyed writing the notes: Coleridge-Taylor's gorgeous Nonet, folk inspired pieces by William Grant Still and Carlos Simon's tribute to five Giants: Bessie Smith, Maya Angelou, Ronald E. McNair, Cornel West and Herbie Hancock

"Such rich music, as though the notes' Ore were changed to a rare metal At one touch of that bright bill. You have heard it often, alone at your desk In a green April, your mind drawn Away from its work by sweet disturbance Of the mild evening outside your room." A Blackbird Singing

lol

Hear me out: David Mitchell as Leo Bloom in The Producers

This is a lovely thing: Dudley Moore, Michael Tilson Thomas and Barry Douglas chatting about Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto youtu.be/_BdJg54PChc?...

Inspired by Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, five RCM composers create new works using recordings of lark song. The works will be performed for a special panel including Nicola LeFanu on 29 April. Learn more: bit.ly/rcm-larks 📸 of RVW: Gerald Festus Kelly, RCM Museum Collection

Just interviewed the brilliant Tony Britten, who composed the Champions League anthem among many other things, and without going into detail the conversation ended with him saying 'I'm just off to see UEFA now so I'll ask them' 🤯

I don't miss living in London much (at ALL) but something like this damn it

I'm sure this will be great - a refreshing way of interpreting Bach's music vimeo.com/1166525870?f...

Buy it, get two friends and you've got yourself cheap cinema tickets

Can't stop laughing at the perspective on this Vinted photo

The cheese death is still a classic though. If they did another Voyager space probe time capsule time thing, it should be included.

Even more memorable than the lady crushed by falling Stilton-like cheeses

MTT was a great musician and a lifelong friend. He championed my music starting in 1971, when he and I and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed my "Four Organs" in Boston and two years later in Carnegie Hall.

Oliver Knussen wrote this piece for his 'close and supportive friend' Michael Tilson Thomas, to celebrate MTT's first season as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Alongside references to Stravinsky's Fireworks, Knussen embedded LSO (A, E-flat, G) and MTT (E, B, B) into the score

I always thought he had a good handle on Berg's Three Pieces, the best thing Mahler never wrote. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtn...

RIP MTT www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fE...

Rest in peace, Ruth Slenczynska

"This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, sunset, dawn & gloaming, on sea & continents & islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls." ~ John Muir

First watch: The Big Country (1958, dir. William Wyler). Epic, astonishingly beautiful Western with Gregory Peck as an urbane Easterner who goes out west to marry his sweetheart, only to find himself caught in the middle of two warring clans, one seemingly respectable, the other ne'er-do-wells. 1/4