Joanna Wyld
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Writer, editor, librettist. Writing a biography of Vernon Elliott.
http://notes-upon-notes.com/
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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...
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier | Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pierre-laurent-aimard-bachs-well-tempered-clavier/#venue
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Remember: There's always Ecosia 🌳🌳🌳
www.ecosia.org
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Paintings of London
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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
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A little marginalia.
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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
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dr worldwide™️
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vale, Flott. 🕊️ Dame Felicity Lott (1947-2026)
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Final trio
YouTube video by rwprof
https://youtu.be/9pO-zbfpXKc?si=FGEVXLZF-H0Zd8h4
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Lev Parikian
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CARNYX ALERT
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Si vis pacem para Carnyx
YouTube video by Callum Au
https://youtu.be/IhIdon3zp5o?si=8rdf2aMCDUemsYYk
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Oh yeah
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Rallen
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I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.
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This is a lovely film about escaping a rainy UK spring: true to the book, great cast, score by Richard Rodney Bennett
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Enchanted April 1991 | Full Movie | Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Joan Plowright, Polly Walker
YouTube video by Elizabeth Darcy
https://youtu.be/6abrXxCC15w?si=RED_XP3aTJ5MTyKY
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Chris Barrett
7 days ago
chœuf bourguignon
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Good to see this, I'm chuf– [a single shot rings out]
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Choughs reappear at Tintagel Castle in Cornwall after decades of absence
King Arthur is said to have transformed into a chough when he died, its red feet and beak representing his bloody end
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/14/choughs-reappear-tintagel-castle-cornwall-king-arthur
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Migration Museum
7 days ago
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
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Migration Museum and British Library launch new Teaching Migration History Toolkit
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Teaching Migration History Toolkit, co-produced with the British Library. Developed with the help of teachers, this toolkit combines practical tips f...
https://www.migrationmuseum.org/teaching-migration-history-toolkit/
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Lev Parikian
8 days ago
“I wish I could say I starred at the V&A But I can’t” “You can!” “I can?”
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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
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We discovered the same footage works remarkably well with one of my brother's best songs. I miss playing this live
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Dance Like Nobody's Watching
YouTube video by faketeak
https://youtu.be/vsfdcRsjl6A?feature=shared
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Ita Bloyce
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#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
Day 13: a song with Q, X or Z in the title Olivia Newton John - Xanadu
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Olivia Newton John Xanadu Original Version Remastered HD (1980)
YouTube video by sacha oudot
https://youtu.be/cLi8fTlDEag?si=PT-iuyriMad0lxsI
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The Ballad of Wallis Island is on at the Herne Hill Free Film Festival tomorrow
freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival...
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Herne Hill Free Film Festival
We proudly celebrate our 13th year this May 2026 with 15 feature films, a pub quiz, a short film night, and the return of our much-loved 48 Hour Film Challenge. Since our first festival in 2013, we ha...
https://freefilmfestivals.org/filmfestival/herne-hill/
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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
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PLA + JSB + WTC + QEH = YES
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Andrew Tan
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"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
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Caroline Potter
12 days ago
This time next week in Ealing, Andrew Brixey-Williams is giving a solo performance of
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Vexations, in aid of the Young Minds UK mental health charity:
ealing.nub.news/whats-on/mus...
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Erik Satie's 'Vexations', solo
Come and enjoy Erik Satie's 'Vexations', solo at OPEN Ealing, Dickens Yard, W5.
https://ealing.nub.news/whats-on/music/erik-saties-vexations-solo-90456
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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...
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier | Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pierre-laurent-aimard-bachs-well-tempered-clavier/#venue
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University of Surrey
13 days ago
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...
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New-Cleckit Dominie
13 days ago
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...
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Life on Earth Soundtrack (1979) - Edward Williams
YouTube video by Jasper Bunschoten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH8YVv29S7w
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Balderdash
13 days ago
Happy hundredth birthday to this beautiful soul who embodies everything good about human nature - what a life, what an inspiration.
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Sam Freedman
13 days ago
Always worth voting...
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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...
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Pierre-Laurent Aimard: Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier | Southbank Centre
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/pierre-laurent-aimard-bachs-well-tempered-clavier/#venue
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Lev Parikian
16 days ago
The best niche crossover thread you will ever see.
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Wu Yize: Yu Ji WUUUUUUUUUUU / YUUUUUUUUUUU
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Wigmore Hall
17 days ago
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
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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
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Simon Spanton
21 days ago
"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
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maffe
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Hear me out: David Mitchell as Leo Bloom in The Producers
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This is a lovely thing: Dudley Moore, Michael Tilson Thomas and Barry Douglas chatting about Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto
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Dudley Moore - concierto upload 1, Rachmaninov 2. pianoconcert. Ned. ondert.
YouTube video by Roelof piano uit Groningen
https://youtu.be/_BdJg54PChc?si=Y33qt7Z8XtXkWuOu
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Royal College of Music
23 days ago
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
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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' 🤯
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Isabel Rogers
27 days ago
I don't miss living in London much (at ALL) but something like this damn it
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I'm sure this will be great - a refreshing way of interpreting Bach's music
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Archer's little brother
27 days ago
Buy it, get two friends and you've got yourself cheap cinema tickets
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Can't stop laughing at the perspective on this Vinted photo
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Simon 🪗
27 days ago
The cheese death is still a classic though. If they did another Voyager space probe time capsule time thing, it should be included.
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Jack Womack
27 days ago
Even more memorable than the lady crushed by falling Stilton-like cheeses
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Steve Reich
27 days ago
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.
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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
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Nick Fisher
28 days ago
I always thought he had a good handle on Berg's Three Pieces, the best thing Mahler never wrote.
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Three Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 6: III. Marsch
YouTube video by San Francisco Symphony - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtnJ_RuQ5g
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RIP MTT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fE...
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Rückert Lieder: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
YouTube video by Janet Baker - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5fEuj1mFXs&list=RDe5fEuj1mFXs&start_radio=1
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Andrew Tan
28 days ago
Rest in peace, Ruth Slenczynska
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Cian McCarthy
28 days ago
"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
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James Dalrymple
28 days ago
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
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