Steve Thomas
@stevecacophony.bsky.social
Happy unschooling dad of 2, husband of 1. Podcast bringing you great (classical) music http://cacophonyonline.com and Women's World Cup of classical music. works at City of London Sinfonia. Plays horn (not with them though).
Anyone close to Edinburgh when this is on: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... should go and see it. And to take everyone you know - I saw Ursula’s [I guess preview] in London and it’s warm, funny, moving and I think everyone should see it.
Wheelchair Access, Wheelchair Accessible Toilets
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This article is quite the read! Eye-opening and depressing in equal measure. When can we end the relentless extraction?
Pete@ouch-that-hurts.bsky.social · yesterdayTo be fair it needs an additional part because in those times the upper middle could find and afford to buy quality products www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookw...
What can you get in Central London for £8? Cinema ticket? No. Coffee & sandwich? Just about. Tonight you could have heard 105 musicians of the BBC Philharmonic playing Betsy Jolas, Sibelius & Strauss at the BBC Proms. Some of world’s finest players are there every night until Sept 12. For £8. Go!
Jeez what's with the meeting the prime minister videos? Just awful. Are these filmed in arrival before they know whether they're in or out or what government job they've got...or after? 'Come back in and embody "energy secretary"'; ' Come back in and embody "Secretary of State for shitfuckNo! OhOK"
The Proms starts tonight. Warm up with a brief bit of relevant podcast action: www.cacophonyonline.com/2023/04/30/1...
145. Representation and taxation: Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
A short podcast about the shortest of pieces, yet Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man still packs a punch and seems to point to big issues. ‘No taxation without representation’? …
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Not to mentioned New London Harmonia! www.instagram.com/p/DaXwujLAZgV/
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w agoLondon is absolutely buzzing this weekend. ☀️ Wimbledon finals ☀️ England v India at Lord's ☀️ Lewis Capaldi at BST ☀️ Kaleidoscope Festival ☀️ England's World Cup quarter final on screens across the capital Whatever you're into, there's nowhere quite like London in the summer.
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newlondonharmonia on Instagram: "Our season finale is one you won't want to miss. Rachmaninoff's epic Piano Concerto No. 2 takes centre stage, performed by the exce…"
Our season finale is one you won't want to miss. Rachmaninoff's epic Piano Concerto No. 2 takes centre stage, performed by the exceptional Thomas Kelly, recently awarded 2nd Prize at the International Liszt Utrecht Competition.Tickets are selling now. Book yours before they're gone.
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Can't believe they had no space on bbcfour for a longer prog with interviews. Today of all days. A long overdue moment for Women's cricket but, still... No room for women to speak! @bbcsportbot.bsky.social #thecricket
Doesn't almost every office worker in a city, even school kids in my city, have to wear a lanyard? It's not woke, it's safety driven.
I've been playing the horn for 40 years. On Saturday night, for the first time, I'll be playing standing in front of an orchestra! Schumann with Portobello Orchestra in Notting Hill and my friends from New London Harmonia, Jonathan West , David Claydon and Christopher Owen
Never mind the football, go and look at the moon and...Venus?
I know it’s practically blasphemy to say so, but society should not require everyone to work. Some people can’t. Some people shouldn’t. Some people contribute more by *not* working than they would by working. Work isn’t that important.
Simply have to share the sight of a family of coots trying to RAFT their way down the Limehouse Cut!
This feels like a very telling observation. Not sure I can even imagine him laughing
If you put Trump's and Musk's collective joy in a matchbox, there'd still be room for Vance's charm.
Look, I don't think this is difficult, but apparently it needs to be said? If you do not like the casting of a film, don't see the film. The person making the film DOES like it, and has every right to make it, and the people who agree with them have every right to go see it. Just shut up.
Life naturally comes with difficulties, the way oceans come with tides and gardens come with weeds. The mistake is to think that struggle is a sign you are doing life wrong.
Appointing Wes Streeting as the next leader of the Labour Party would be as popular as appointing Jose Mourinho as the next Liverpool manager. For non-football people, they are both total cunts that good people will never love.
The next Labour leader must move decisively away from the status quo to beat Reform. That means giving power and wealth to working class people. It means a democratic revolution, rent controls and public ownership of water. It means someone who isn't Wes Streeting.
Yes, the media holds Labour to higher standards than the Tories and Reform. So do I. I expect higher standards from Labour. That should be part of the main point of Labour. We expect Tories to be self-serving, corrupt and nasty. We expect Reform to be bigots and racists. Labour, not so much.
I knew it all along, Nigel Farage wants Sharia for the UK 🇬🇧 Welcome my brother
We've already missed a few of my favourites, but keep a special eye out for Avril Coleridge-Taylor on the 7th, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel on the 10th, Maconchy on the 11th, @errollynwallen.bsky.social on the 13th and Ethel Smyth on the 31st.
For Women's History Month, a monthlong composer spotlight
Every day in March, with the exception of Sundays, a different woman composer will take the spotlight at WRTI, with her music played at the start of the 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. hours from Monday through Fri...
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
*dapper man in a dinner jacket lights a woman’s cigarette at a roulette table in a Monaco casino* ‘What’s your name?’ ‘The name’s And The Giant Peach. James And The Giant Peach’
Siegfried’s Long Call from Twilight of the Garage (Gäragerdämmerung)
Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division
After a mere 17 years, delighted to be playing again with Brent Symphony Orchestra. playing right-back tonight in Mahler 1. much fun to be had! With Lev Parikian Jay Sewell Chris Marquardt and about 80 others @levparikian.bsky.social
