If you need a pick-me-up then recommend the BBC Prog Rock Prom on iPlayer and @bbcsounds.bsky.social iPlayer has advantage of seeing the full commitment of a cor anglais player acing Emerson Lake and Palmer #BBCProms
Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton)
@lisacolton.bsky.social
Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
New thread in which I post the weirdest shit Vinted showed me that day
Walked to the village bookshop and back, and that’s movement done for the day.
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves confirms the Clacton by-election will go ahead "It is a farce and a desperate distraction. But if he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him"
Packed this evening for three days in Oxford, based on weather here in Yorkshire. Now actually looking up weather Oxford, which is apparently some kind of tropical heatwave. May need to rethink.
Minions Beach Fun
ALT: Minions Beach Fun
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This 1679 “Sabionari” Stradivarius is the only playable guitar by Antonio Stradivari left in this world.🤗 So take just a moment to hear a sound that’s well over 300 years old! @55SweetThing #globalmuseum #music #guitar #Stradivarius
Is it healthy to use a movement snack to acquire an actual snack? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Want to feel happier at work? Take a five-minute walk
Sitting for prolonged periods is associated with health complications – but you can counteract the risks of a sedentary life.
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Look, Americans, British homes aren't designed with air conditioning in mind. Our architecture values other things: heat retention, space management, trapdoors, automated breakfast-serving mechanisms which can be operated by a literal dog
Was so tired today I drank extra coffee this morning and now I’m not going to be able to sleep. And so the cycle continues.
Fluffy Kitten Needs Coffee
ALT: Fluffy Kitten Needs Coffee
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Sitting on an ants’ nest while gardening on Sunday was an error. Pesky, bitey critters. 🐜 🐜 🐜
Our Composer of the Week is that enigmatic, ubiquitous, time-travelling creator: Anonymous. Donald Macleod celebrates pieces whose authorship has been lost, unrecorded or deliberately obscured. With @lisacolton.bsky.social & @fayhield.bsky.social 4pm @BBCRadio3 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Overjoyed for Catherine Tackley, Justin Williams and Katherine Williams for securing over £1million from the AHRC to research Big Bands at University of Liverpool and University of Bristol #BigBand @sotauol.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/news/s...
Professor Catherine Tackley secures £1.089m AHRC grant to explore community jazz big bands in England | Stories | Department of Music | University of Liverpool
news articles created in terminal 4
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My fabulous colleague Dr Paul Turowski has co-authored this new book, reflecting his work in both composition and game design. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #GamefulCompositions @sotauol.bsky.social #NewMusic #Games
Gameful Compositions in Interactive Computer Music
This book introduces and examines digital gameful compositions, i.e. interdisciplinary media works that integrate both digital games and music performance
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Cry of need from a leper in the margin: 'sum good my gentyll mayster for god sake' BL Lansdowne 451; 15th century; f.127r @blmedieval.bsky.social
Postdoctoral fellowship at All Souls includes History of Music www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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UNCG School of Music is hiring a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting!! spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/350...
Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting
The School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting to start August 1, 2026. We seek an artist/teacher wi...
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May you stride into your week with the confidence of this Chaffinch not using his wings. #MondayMotivation 📷 Kiran Simpson
I'm in @uk.theconversation.com today on the #BayeuxTapestry, 1066, and insights into English experiences of the Norman Conquest in some remarkable #medieval texts. theconversation.com/the-bayeux-t...
The Bayeux Tapestry tells only the winner’s story – but the other side can be found in old English texts
The story of the losers is full of meaningful silences and William of Normandy’s terror.
theconversation.com
Going a bit mad with work BUT have been signed off further treatment from the orthoptic outpatient team. Half success.
![[Scene is the Tudor royal court. ladies and gentlemen standing round. In the corner a very fat HENRY VIII is hunched over playing a lute.]
1
LADY:
Hey Anne Boleyn -
Who’s that lute player?
ANNE BOLEYN:
I dunno
[Determined face]
But I’m gonna find out.
[Title lettering panel]:
THIS SUMMER
[Scene is now two musicians - one with a harp, the other is Henry VIII again playing the lute]
HARPIST:
Yo Henry VIII -
Who wrote that sick lute riff yo’ jamming?
HENRY VIII:
Why...
[Looking around, modest, surprised at the attention]
I did…!
[Title lettering panel]:
SEE THE STORY
[Scene is now a tudor record producer with ruff and wearing dark sunglasses]:
PRODUCER:
Congratulations Henry
Your lute thing is a hit and your story is now one of uncomplicated musical success!
[Show a panel with lots of Beatlemania-style scenes of success for Henry the musician - swooning tudor girls, playing lute on stage, waving to fans as he descends from his golden carriage. In the middle of it in Tudor lettering are the words]:
“UNCOMPLICATED MUSICAL SUCCESS MONTAGE”.
[Another scene - a man is saying to Henry]:
MAN:
Say Henry VIII -
Are you doing anything outside this narrative that is very bad or weird?
HENRY VIII:
No.
[Title lettering panel]:
…OF A MUSICAL GENIUS
who definitely didn’t do anything outside this narrative that was very bad or weird
[Scene with Thomas Cromwell]
THOMAS CROMWELL:
Hang on Henry aren't you also a -
HENRY VIII [jumping in front of him with his lute held aloft]:
LUTE SOLO!
[Final film title panel]:
HENRY VIII:
Rock Biopic
[rated U]
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Still waiting on Kirklees council results. Trying to focus on the fact that there are just as many good and kind people in the world as yesterday.
Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes
This coming Tuesday #medievalsky #disabilitystudies #histmed
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds@leedsims.bsky.social · 3mo agoJoin us for our talk on medieval disability next week. 5 May 2pm. To attend online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/zMBAKAxSpP. All welcome. Free. #medievalsky #histmed #disabilitystudies #disability
JOB KLAXON! New permanent, full-time job in Game Design, based within the Dept of Music at the University of Liverpool. Closes 11 May. Teaching & Research contract. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ097/l... Please share widely.
Lecturer in Games Design at University of Liverpool
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Games Design opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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It's royalties day! And lo, the earnings do not meet the minimum threshold for paying out this year. Maybe I'll get there next year.
