This is really very good. The gloria of the Howells Gloucester Service might be the best thing. Such balanced singing from the choir and all musicians moving with perfect ensemble.
50 going on 15@50goingon15.bsky.social · last wk.100th anniversary Broadcast Choral Evensong from @westminsterabbey.bsky.social on Wednesday: Howells, Parry, Rose, Harris and a commission from Kerensa Briggs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Really enjoying the Steve Reich birthday concert on R3 atm 👏
100th anniversary Broadcast Choral Evensong from @westminsterabbey.bsky.social on Wednesday: Howells, Parry, Rose, Harris and a commission from Kerensa Briggs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Westminster Abbey
Live from Westminster Abbey to mark the 100th anniversary of BBC Choral Evensong.
bbc.co.uk
Saw the second of the de Gaulle films tonight, J'Ecris Ton Nom - or Liberté as we're supposed to be calling it in the UK. Here's the Éluard poem quoted in the title, performed in it's Poulenc setting, Figure Humaine youtu.be/JMQYwRQ4AdQ?...
Poulenc – Figure humaine | BBC Singers, Simon Rattle
YouTube video by lawrence dunn
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The @nytimes.com top 10 TV shows of the 21st century has two glaring omissions, both for the same reason: both (The Sopranos and The West Wing) started in 1999. youtu.be/Wmv07XfeC1E?...
The West Wing's Longest "Walk and Talk" | Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
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Lopud, one of the Elaphiti Islands in the Adriatic, just off the Croation coast, is home to an unlikely permanent artwork by Oliafur Eliasson called Your Black Horizon since 2007 (pictured here with the August solar eclipse, which seemed apposite) www.adjaye.com/work/your-bl...
Parsifal at the RBO. Guaranteed earworm for the next week (brass & low strings on particularly fine form)
Another evening at the Club for Acts & Artistes - this time a look at the latter part of Nöel Coward's life and career with. Fun 😊
This, from the @nytimes.com Daily, is a joyous overview of the Bayeux Tapestry* coming to London. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/p...
How a 1,000-Year-Old Tapestry Took London by Storm
The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain, and it’s causing a sensation.
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Open House day in London. We popped into the Tin Tabernacle, Kilburn... which, bizarrely, holds the original stage set altar from the 1964 film Becket (in this scene) youtu.be/FHCiziDnrS8?...
First time at Bechstein Hall this week with the New Paths Collective, including a standout Macmillan cello sonata... as to the venue 🤔
😔 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames
I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames
theguardian.com
Enjoying a local pint (brewed in Tottenham, no less). With a book. In a pub without music. What a lovely way to bring the summer to a close.
Professor Julian Jackson (Un Certain Regard de France) speaks at a Q&A following the Curzon Bloomsbury's screening of De Gaulle: Résistance ahead of its general UK release tomorrow. Entertaining film 😎
Very interesting podcast on the use of singing to address the affliction of Parkinson's via @moversand.bsky.social www.moversandshakerspodcast.com/podcast/epis...
Movers & Shakers Podcast | Episodes
Movers and Shakers finds six friends – Rory Cellan-Jones, Gillian Lacey-Solymar, Mark Mardell, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Sir Nicholas Mostyn and Jeremy Paxman – gathered in a Notting Hill pub to discuss the...
moversandshakerspodcast.com
Very pleased to see Zubaran (fils!)'s lemons on the last day at the National. Also, this kid knows more than he'd like about the nature of the circumcision panel on the monster altarpiece in the second room...
Trailer for a Radio 4 programme on the guitar lists guests as 'Pete Townshend, Johnny Marr, Justine Frischmann from Elastica, and Nile Rodgers' Given that this is an instrument Noel Gallagher claimed women don't play because we don't want to ruin our nails, why contextualise the woman only? Harumph
"NOW ENGLISHMEN, READ ON ABOUT THIS BATTLE FOUGHT AT LEWES' WALLS. BECAUSE OF THIS YOU ARE ALIVE AND SAFE. REJOICE THEN IN GOD. LAW IS LIKE FIRE, FOR IT LIGHTS AS TRUTH, WARMS AS CHARITY, BURNS AS ZEAL. WITH THESE VIRTUES AS HIS GUIDES, THE KING WILL RULE WELL." from the Song of Lewes, 1264
Fab Ballo in Maschera at Opera Holland Park tonight.
Sorcerer Coffee near (under!) Newcastle central station. Good coffee but that's about all - though it comes with a good view of a medieval city wall
‘Great Inventions, 1961’ Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope Artist: Robert Ayton
Saw The Odyssey today. I remember that I fed my year 5 children Thomas Adès (!) to try and explain the Sirens' song: youtu.be/U3x6t0qb3as?...
The Met Opera: Thomas Ades' Tempest Excerpt, Live in The Greene Space
YouTube video by The Greene Space at WNYC & WQXR
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The George, Southwark. I used to drink here after work with a friend who died last month 🍻
Nice to see that Walmer's RNLI station is returning the favour by selling books in front of the shed today 📚☀️
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3mo ago‘Everyone pretends not to feel seasick; peeing is hazardous. Boats carry a French phrasebook, oxygen bottles with masks small enough to fit a baby’s face, body bags. There is emergency chocolate.’ Susannah Clapp on Dungeness’s lifeboats. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
