Andrew Griffiths
@colla-voce.bsky.social
conductor | head coach @ National Opera Studio | keyboard & continuo | tenor @stileantico.co.uk | dad | cyclist | cricket tragic | maker of lists www.andrewgriffiths.info
Just home from an excellent @londiniumchoir.bsky.social tour to Aachen and Liège, at the end of which I was presented with this fine fellow, whose neglected oeuvre will be known to members of Kingston Choral Society, @ecse1610.bsky.social, veterans of Dartington, and others...
Goodness, Tippett Plebs Angelica is good. Not sure how I've avoided it til now.
Does anyone know any unaccompanied choral music which responds to the Suffragette movement? I'm aware of the Lucy Pankhurst piece but it doesn't hit the spot for me.
Very excited to share Grétry's 'Zemire et Azor' tonight with our audience at Bampton Classical Opera. I think it's a very special little piece, full of colour and delight, and I've loved this process!
Looking forward to a natter with Petroc Trelawny about our Bampton Classical Opera Grétry this evening on In Tune (BBC Radio 3). Listen in at around 6.15pm if you're able! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman in session
Live music from Sean Shibe and Karim Sulayman.
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Every day, another story. It's almost like the press is waking up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police investigating Reform donations - reports
The investigation is looking into donations made to Reform UK by the mother of the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, according to the Times.
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Instead of the entire world having to buy earplugs, you could just, I don't know, turn the damn volume down? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why are music fans choosing to wear ear plugs at festivals?
Ear plugs are becoming an increasingly popular accessory at music festivals.
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The fun thing about an opera based on Beauty and the Beast...
It is beyond me how Keir Starmer is out of a job but Rob Key is still in post.
This Tube strike is just incomprehensible. Public sympathy will be at zero.
Rather a fun day leading a workshop for North East Early Music Forum based on last week's Ascension Vespers extravaganza - brilliant to see so many people enthused about lesser-known Monteverdi, and to staff it with everything from cornett to curtal to sackbut and most known varieties of recorder!
There are many who will not mourn, but I've just finished my last rehearsal in Maida Vale 2, and I will really miss this place, with all its history and quirks and ghosts.
Super-excited for this on Saturday: an embarrassment of Venetian riches with @londiniumchoir.bsky.social, @ecse1610.bsky.social and Monteverdi String Band... absolutely wonderful music, especially the Selva morale 8-part Magnificat. Do come if you possibly can! www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
We've had all the weather in Beckenham this morning, barring a tornado.
This morning's conundrum: is that the neighbours' drilling work or my daughter's bassoon practice?
Never thought I'd be happy to see my council stay Tory.
All sorts of joy in store here!
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 3mo agoHear the sounds of early Baroque Venice on Sat 16 May at St Paul's Knightsbridge with @ecse1610.bsky.social, the Monteverdi String Band and @colla-voce.bsky.social - glorious music by Monteverdi, the Gabrielis, Cozzolani et al. Earlybird tx until Sunday! www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events/venice
An immortal piece of nominative determinism, after Blue Origin "was unable to get a satellite as far into orbit as intended." "Blue Origin's chief executive Dave Limp said the failure was caused by a lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine."
