Friday 2 October - we mark the Festival of Britain 75th anniversary at St John's Waterloo with @colla-voce.bsky.social!Choral music from festival programmes sits alongside some surprising omissions, while tracing themes from the lost Lion & Unicorn pavilion www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)
Abram Games London Zoo, Regent's Park (Poster for London Transport), 1976
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...
@everyheron.bsky.social One for you.
National Trust@nationaltrust.org.uk · 2mo agoYou know those live wildlife cameras we've got? Well, they've captured footage of something we didn't expect to see... A rare black-crowned night heron – a scarce visitor to the UK – so rare in the UK its distribution can’t be mapped. And we spotted it on our beaver cam.
If you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 2mo agoNEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Born on this day in 1606, in Leiden, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. Painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and extraordinary at them all. One of the true greats of my or any century. Here by himself in 1629.
I prommed before the mushrooms were installed and heard the echo.
Bernard Hughes@bernardhughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘Verify your age’ I remember a horse-drawn rag-and-bone man in London
Still experiencing bitonal earworms.
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe had three hot but fabulous days at St Alban's Holborn recording fantastic music by John Joubert with @colla-voce.bsky.social for release by SOMM Recordings next year - the brilliant Adrian Peacock and Dave Hinitt behind the desk and the wonderful Rebecca Lea and Nick Pritchard as soloists.
We had three hot but fabulous days at St Alban's Holborn recording fantastic music by John Joubert with @colla-voce.bsky.social for release by SOMM Recordings next year - the brilliant Adrian Peacock and Dave Hinitt behind the desk and the wonderful Rebecca Lea and Nick Pritchard as soloists.
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
Yet another exceptional programme from @colla-voce.bsky.social. Our band will include a theorbo, that most photogenic of instruments as featured in @levparikian.bsky.social and @isabelrogers.bsky.social's recent podcast. Early-bird ticket offer expires at midnight on 3/5.
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 4mo 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
Rehearsals start today for this @londiniumchoir.bsky.social extravaganza, and I can't wait! Ascension Vespers to be performed two days after Ascension, with fabulous winds and strings from @ecse1610.bsky.social and the Monteverdi String Band.
A very enjoyable rehearsal yesterday with Clare O'Connell. It's another cracking AG programme.
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 6mo agoA glorious concert on 27 March with @colla-voce.bsky.social and the wonderful Clare O’Connell – Richard Rodney Bennett’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’, John Tavener’s ‘Svyati’ plus Tallis, Schütz, Joubert, Mauersberger, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, and Lucy Walker. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
A glorious concert on 27 March with @colla-voce.bsky.social and the wonderful Clare O’Connell – Richard Rodney Bennett’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’, John Tavener’s ‘Svyati’ plus Tallis, Schütz, Joubert, Mauersberger, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, and Lucy Walker. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe’re thrilled to share a 20th birthday message from Joanna Marsh, another of our favourite composers! Our celebration gig with @colla-voce.bsky.social is 'Fireworks' on Friday week (13 Feb) at St John's Waterloo - fabulous music + 🍷. Info/tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnother lovely 20th birthday message from a favourite composer – Francis Pott! We celebrate the anniversary with a fabulous @colla-voce.bsky.social programme - ‘Fireworks’ on Friday 13 February at St John’s Waterloo ‘Earlybird’ tickets until the end of Sunday: www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are thrilled to be giving the world premiere of @nicomuhly.com's beautiful 'Abidynge' tomorrow (Friday), and here he is with a birthday message for us! Come to hear it conducted by @colla-voce.bsky.social in Fireworks’, 7.30pm at St John’s Waterloo. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe’re thrilled to have this lovely 20th birthday message from Cheryl Frances-Hoad! We will be celebrating with @colla-voce.bsky.social in ‘Fireworks’, a concert full of fabulous music, on Friday 13 February at St John’s Waterloo. Find out more: www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt's fabulous to share another lovely 20th birthday message from a composer friend of the choir, Ben Parry! Our celebratory 'Fireworks' with @colla-voce.bsky.social will be this Friday at St John's Waterloo. Do join us if you can! www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events #londinium20
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo ago"A jewel in the crown of the London choral scene" - a lovely 20th birthday message from composer @bernardhughes.bsky.social. We're delighted he will be with us and @colla-voce.bsky.social to celebrate with 'Fireworks' on Friday at St John's Waterloo! (Info www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events)
I did a schools show of classical song in Brighton some years ago. One audience of kids were particularly engaged and up for it. Their headteacher told us that it was the first time in a theatre for most of them, first time off their estate for some. Nearby and accessible are two distinct things.
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe are thrilled to be giving the world premiere of @nicomuhly.com's beautiful 'Abidynge' tomorrow (Friday), and here he is with a birthday message for us! Come to hear it conducted by @colla-voce.bsky.social in Fireworks’, 7.30pm at St John’s Waterloo. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo ago"A jewel in the crown of the London choral scene" - a lovely 20th birthday message from composer @bernardhughes.bsky.social. We're delighted he will be with us and @colla-voce.bsky.social to celebrate with 'Fireworks' on Friday at St John's Waterloo! (Info www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events)
Londinium@londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 7mo agoIt's fabulous to share another lovely 20th birthday message from a composer friend of the choir, Ben Parry! Our celebratory 'Fireworks' with @colla-voce.bsky.social will be this Friday at St John's Waterloo. Do join us if you can! www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events #londinium20
