The Festival website now has details of all this year's events. Check it out at www.little-missenden.org and please share! We'll feature performances by @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social @horatioclare.bsky.social @zebsoanes.com @drkkennedy.bsky.social @inecho.bsky.social Booking opens on 24th August

Anghiari Festival, loving every minute. @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social #AnghiariFestival #Italy #ClassicalMusic #FestivalLife #MusicianLife #Travel #Tuscany

Barefoot rehearsals for #GuerreroBaroqueCollective’s recital today at #StBirinusFestival. And the heat brought a grass snake in to shelter by my cello case! 🐍🎻 We’re playing with sackbuts and cornets, and now a serpent! #BaroqueMusic #ClassicalMusic #LiveMusic #CelloLife #MusiciansOfInstagram

So excited to be performing my favourite work of all time - Monteverdi Vespers, with #GuerreroBaroqueCollective at #StBirinusFestival 🎶✨ – here’s a preview… We’ve got 3 performances on 10/11th July at @Dorchester Abbey ⛪️ Book here: stbirinusfestival.co.uk#festival-sch... #Monteverdi #LiveMusic

🎻✨ Our next #GuerreroBaroqueCollective performances are at Dorchester Abbey for the #StBirinusFestival .
 📅 10 July, 11am - FREE performance (booking req) 📅 10 July, 12:30pm – Lunchtime Recital (link below)
 📅 11 July, 6:30pm – Concert (link below) 
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Help secure the future of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing 🤝 . There are many ways you can support us - even through a repost! - find out more here: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/oclw-15th-an... #Oxford #LifeWriting @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @torchoxford.bsky.social

🎶 Join us this Saturday! A powerful evening of rediscovered music ✨ The Southwell Consort present the #GuerreroBaroqueCollective conducted by Simon Over brings you a modern premiere. 📍 St Clement Danes, London 🗓️ Saturday 30 May, 7-9pm 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/musick-sup... #ClassicalMusic

Musick Suppress'd / Musick Restored

Two composers and the story of the survival of England’s choral tradition. Featuring Guerrero Baroque Collective and Simon Over, conducting.

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"Patrons and Donors who support the Centre give writers the confidence and the skills to use their own voices to tell their stories"— Tan Twan Eng The Dorset Foundation will match all gifts to OCLW—doubling the value of every donation. Support our 15th Anniversary Appeal today: buff.ly/qbGGFsf

Spotted - in #Naples airport, apparently!!! - @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social #OCLW #Cello

Sad to leave Italy behind, but always lovely to come home and see what’s in flower. #OCLW

Stopping on the road to #Arezzo because…. a tortoise was crossing! The guy on the other side of the road is rescuing it. Wish I’d got there first - a pet #tortoise could have been fun. #OCLW

Exploring #Anghiari - the joy of introducing new writers to our beautiful Tuscan home never wears off. @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social. #OCLW

Room with a view! Hard not to be inspired to write here! @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social #OCLW

Evening discussions - Sarah Ogilvie on her work on The Dictionary People, the forgotten and eccentric voices who helped shape the Oxford English Dictionary. @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social #OCLW

A few weeks ago: doing the morning coffee run, Tuscan style - keeping our writers fuelled on our #writing retreat in glorious #Anghiari. @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social #OCLW

✨ Last week the story I love the most from #Cello — that of #PalHermann, the Jewish cellist who was murdered but whose cello we recovered — was told at the Memorial Concert at @concertgborkest.bsky.social: www.concertgebouw.nl/en/concerts/... #ClassicalMusic #Cello 🎶

It was such a privilege to be back at @hatchards.bsky.social to launch Kate McLoughlin’s magisterial 700-page tome with @academic.oup.com — Silence: A Literary History. We were anything but silent!!!! 📚✨🎉 Here's a short teaser of our discussion: #Books #BookLaunch #Literature #Authors #BookLovers

Wonderful to see this lovely review of our new opera in @theguardian.com 🎭✨ A privilege to see Making Arrangements brought to life at the @royaloperahouse.bsky.social's Linbury Theatre. Bravo to so many involved 👏🎶 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m... #Opera #RoyalOpera #Theatre

Tales of Love and Loss review – hauntings, tragicomedy and tweezer-sharp wit in Royal Opera triple bill

The Jette Parker Artists ran the full spectrum from sombre lyricism to frenzied satire via divorce drama in works by Elizabeth Maconchy, Charlotte Bray and Elena Langer

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Our #opera! The fabulous Charlotte Bray and me, re-living our collaboration 14 years ago on Making Arrangements. Fabulous singing by Jette Parker Young Artists and the @brittensinfonia.bsky.social playing up a storm. #ClassicalMusic #ContemporaryMusic #LiveMusic #OperaLife

Lovely to talk to the wonderful @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social about her new novel Ice Shock at @hatchards.bsky.social Bookshop in Piccadilly. A totally compelling exploration of human connection, even at the end of the earth. #Bookstagram #NewNovel #AuthorEvent #LiteraryFiction #LondonEvents

Very proud of my husband Simon Over as he hosts Queen Camilla and shows her @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social. #Queen #classicalmusic #music #royalfamily @royalfamily.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfwe...

Queen Camilla Enjoys a Stunning Orchestral Performance in London

YouTube video by The Royal Family Channel

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✨🎶 Starting TONIGHT and all this week on #BBCRadio3 🎶✨ This week Mon–Fri at 21:45, I’m broadcasting a special five-part series from the collections of the #MuseumofMusicHistory. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social

BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Stories from the Museum of Music History - Episode guide

All episodes of Stories from the Museum of Music History

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Join OCLW's life-writing class to learn craft and form in a supportive, expert-led environment. Led by experienced tutor and award-winning author, Rebecca Abrams. 📆Mondays in term time | 11am 📍Wolfson College + Online Open to all buff.ly/dpvWVs6

Sir Stephen Hough was rather taken with the digitorium, a bit less frightening than the dactylium, which is half village stocks, half finger trap. Nightmare. What ARE we up to?! All will be revealed on BBC Radio 3, week beginning 19 Jan. #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory #VictorianCuriosities

Sir Stephen Hough doesn’t really need his fingers, does he?! Having fun torturing him with eccentric and deservedly forgotten finger strengthening contraptions from the C19th. They didn’t do #Schumann much good, perhaps Stephen will do better? #ClassicalMusic #PianoLife #MusicHistory

There are few things more Christmassy than a Messiah 🎄🎶 — and Wild Arts’ semi-staged (#TomMorris) memorised Messiah is on another level for storytelling and audience engagement. 
At @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social it was a triumph 👏✨ Catch it at Chichester or Chelmsford if you can!
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Wild Arts

We innovate

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‘Non-fiction can’t do justice to the times we’re in’ — Olivia Laing on her novel The Silver Book at @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social lecture last night ✨📚🎤 #OliviaLaing #TheSilverBook #Oxford #OxfordCentreForLifeWriting #AuthorTalk #WritersOfInstagram #BookLovers

Delighted to share @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social selected my book as one of their #BooksoftheYear2025! Need a Christmas present?! Thank you to Tony Curtis who discovered it via @lrb.co.uk. Read here: thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b... #Books #WritersOfBluesky #Cello 🎻📚✨ #Christmas2025

Books of the Year 2025 / Part One

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.

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Our #BooksoftheYear special includes work by @charlottewood.bsky.social Kevin Curran @lilliputpress.bsky.social @fflurdafydd.bsky.social @drkkennedy.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Liadan Ní Chuinn @stingingfly.bsky.social & @poetrybuspress.bsky.social thelonelycrowd.org/2025/12/06/b...

Books of the Year 2025 / Part One

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.

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Thrilled to announce the launch of a new baroque ensemble: Guerrero Baroque Collective! 🎶✨ Come hear us on: 📅 Saturday 6 December 🕢 19:30 ⛪ Catholic Church of Saint James, London Ft. Ana Beard Fernández and friends from Southwell Consort. 🎫 Book tickets: www.guerrerobaroquecollective.com