John Andrews
@jkaconductor.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
Got caught by a very sophisticated publishing scam yesterday. Used an invite from a real festival, used the name of the real festival’s real organiser. Slightly odd TOV and opening question but people do use AI to write emails and some festival organisers are a bit inexperienced.
- And the first album ever dedicated to the music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor, including the world premiere recordings of her Piano Concerto, To April, To the Hills, Valse Caprice, Comet Prelude, and In Memoriams open.spotify.com/album/6EroQD...
Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works - Album by Avril Coleridge-Taylor | Spotify
Avril Coleridge-Taylor · album · 2025 · 12 songs
open.spotify.com
So far we've done: - the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth's second opera Der Wald: open.spotify.com/album/6DDAf5...
Smyth: Der Wald - Album by Ethel Smyth | Spotify
Ethel Smyth · album · 2023 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
It's a collaboration between me, Dr Samantha Ege, @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Resonus. Together we research unrecorded rep, collaborate with performers to create high quality recordings, work with writers to bring the composers’ stories to life, and work to publish unpublished pieces we record.
For women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...
Immensely proud to be a small part of this work.
Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 3d agoFor women's music to stay in the repertoire, we don't just need recordings. We also need score publication, composer info & advocacy. So I'm delighted to announce the launch of UNHEARD HERITAGE, a recording initiative marrying research & performance leahbroad.substack.com/p/announcing...
Also we have definitively answered where The North starts: If THE NORTH is still appearing on the motorway signs; you haven’t got there yet.
John Andrews@jkaconductor.bsky.social · 3d ago5 hour car journey with the firstborn turned naturally to The Odyssey, and puzzlement that Euripides and Aeschylus - living in a highly segregated society - wrote more complicated female characters than most modern screenplays.
5 hour car journey with the firstborn turned naturally to The Odyssey, and puzzlement that Euripides and Aeschylus - living in a highly segregated society - wrote more complicated female characters than most modern screenplays.
Released last year but now available on the streaming platforms:
The Seal-Woman - Album by Granville Ransome Bantock | Spotify
Granville Ransome Bantock · album · 2025 · 31 songs
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Passing the ‘Odysseus’ test with flying colours. (Yes it’s only been two weeks, but that’s a lifetime in feline affection).
Playing Election Observer. Greater Manchester needs a new Mayor.
Through Manchester is the centre of the political world now; the impending Mayoral election seems to be about pass by barely noticed…
Lovely deep-dive; I still need to see the film though…..
Alex Andreou's Podyssey@alexpodyssey.bsky.social · 2w ago🆕 ODD-POD: 🐴 A Deep Dive into Chris Nolan's Odyssey 🏛️ The one you've been waiting for. Every shot. Every choice. Every moment. Every controversy. What was in. What wasn't. All the experts. A review almost as long as the film. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/4WtT...
It’s official: starting today you can enjoy unlimited bus and tram journeys every weekend for the price of a single daily journey.
Many thanks @prestomusic.bsky.social !
David Webb and John Andrews on Arthur Sullivan
The tenor and conductor discuss their new album of Sullivan's sacred and secular music for tenor (including extracts from the Savoy Operas), recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and released las...
prestomusic.com
Quite extraordinary. Would Major be allowed to stand now? Would Thatcher (who had no truck with science-sceptics)?
Paul Sandars🏴@paulsandars.bsky.social · 2w agoBBC News - Shapps blocked from standing again for the Conservatives www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Many thanks @prestomusic.bsky.social !
David Webb and John Andrews on Arthur Sullivan
The tenor and conductor discuss their new album of Sullivan's sacred and secular music for tenor (including extracts from the Savoy Operas), recorded with the Academy of Ancient Music and released las...
prestomusic.com
The naysayers keep talking London down, but we’ll stick to the facts. Met data shows neighbourhood crime is down 14%, with 35,000 fewer offences and 13,000 fewer phone thefts in the last year alone. The evidence is clear: London is safe for all to enjoy this summer.
‘London is safe’: Crime rates fall again in capital with major dip in West End phone theft | LBC
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said the figures show “London is safe and getting safer each year”
lbc.co.uk
@jkaconductor.bsky.social Credit where credit is due. Idagio eventually succumbed to my lobbying. app.idagio.com/albums/sulli...
Sullivan: Songs for Tenor
Listen to Sullivan: Songs for Tenor by David Webb, John Andrews, Jennifer France, Charles Rice, Academy of Ancient Music, Arthur Sullivan. Stream now on IDAGIO
app.idagio.com
I love that Apple Maps can’t find Manchester’s Apple Store but Google Maps can…..
The biggest fallout from yesterday's World Cup game seems to be people wondering about the evident rift that resulted in The Electric Mayhem performing without Dr. Teeth.
BBC Radio 3 Classical Live Now Playing Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Samantha Ege, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & John Andrews Comet Prelude
It is worth remembering that flat-earthers are a relatively new phenomenon….
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2w agoAncient Greeks proved Earth was round using sticks and shadows. Eratosthenes calculated its circumference to within 2% accuracy over 2,000 years ago. No satellites needed.