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Emma Butterworth Music

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Film & documentary composer | cellist | BAFTA Connect | 'Orchard Street: The Opera' | Bristol-based

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · Nov 14

I'm so excited to announce the publication of my report, 'The Unheard Symphony: How Composer Mothers are Fighting to Reshape the Music Industry', commissioned by the #IvorsAcademyTrust.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1q3SH...

#UnheardSymphony

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, sometimes short is good! I really liked his soundtrack to the show Mrs America, and the lovely track I heard yesterday was from The Good Robot 😊

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, immediate pregnancy insomnia tipped me off before any tests... 😴

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Quite often I hear some random track and think "ooh I like that" and then I check the composer and yes, it's Kris Bowers.

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Ian Hislop made a great series a while back about Victorian philanthropy and he concluded that a significant reason why many donated a lot of money was because their religion told them they must... Today's billionaires generally don't believe in anything except their own greed.

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 1d

My grandfather (who I never met) was born in 1895 and flew planes in WW1, and my granny (who I knew well) was born in 1908. It is definitely strange to think how close I am to the 19th century.

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes. I think my early childhood in the 80s was a lot better for some of this stuff.

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 2d

I await with baited breath the response of the sock company I just emailed 😆

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Do children's socks really need to be divided in to girls and boys?

(The answer is no)

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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 2d

OPEN CALL - SOPRANOS: In The Belly Of The Beast

We are looking for a a soprano to perform in Jonah and Jephthah alongside Gramophone Magazine's Artist of the Year 2024 @carolynsampson.bsky.social OBE, in a new project bringing to life Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre’s Cantates Bibliques.

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

You're probably right, but I found the percussive bits of The Village really scary when I was a teenager. I'm a massive wuss though. 😆

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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 3d

1. On reparation for transatlantic slavery.
I have not read Lenny Henry's book yet but I want to provide some general context in the face of his apparent shock suggestion

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Lenny Henry calls for slavery reparations for all black Brits

The comedian's new book supports the case for the UK to give £18 trillion in compensatory payments.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Cool new fund from @royalphilsoc.bsky.social:
'We will annually offer a number of grants to encourage UK-based performers, ensembles, venues and festivals to put exceptional yet overlooked music by historic women composers at the heart of their programming'

Introducing the new RPS Ambache Fund

royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

That makes a lot of sense...

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

When I heard about this being made, it kind of flabbergasted me that people would go to this amount of effort (and money) for the subject...

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

My husband thinks I should have just accepted the invitation.

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Pure insanity. No one has ever confused a veggie burger for a beef burger because of the word burger.

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Just had a call from someone inviting me to a posh global tech meeting in London to discuss financial markets and AI. It was all very confusing until we established that there's actually ANOTHER Emma Butterworth who's very important in the Bank of England, and they thought I was her 🤣

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 3d

www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... I know that this collection, and the other in the series this publisher has produced has done extremely well, so it seems like there is actually some kind of market, if they look for it. ❤️

Goodreads

Discover and share books you love on Goodreads.

www.goodreads.com

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 4d

YUP. This is why I'm not doing it.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 4d

I have a degree in social anthropology. Did it lead me to a well paid corporate job? No (though it probably could have). Did it completely change my world view and give me the tools to understand and critique the world we live in? 1000 times yes.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Just... Wow. And somehow she managed to identify with the baddies?

Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Ok so... I'm just supposed to die? I'm 100% behind looking for more sustainable ways to produce medicines, but that's rather different to shaming individuals for using life-saving devices (that there are no alternatives to).

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 6d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.

Inhalers contribute significantly to global warming, study finds

Millions of Americans using inhalers for chronic lung diseases like asthma may be unknowingly contributing to global warming, according to new research.

local12.com

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 5d

I love this kind of story. Makes me hopeful that all sorts of lost pieces might eventually be rediscovered 😍

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido and Aeneas and The Fairy Queen before his life was cut short in 1695, aged just 36. Now two significant discoveries of music by Henry Purcell have been made, to the excitement of musicians. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Emma Butterworth Music @emmabmusic.bsky.social · 7d

Wondering how many other classical/film music nerds got into Metallica via S&M with Michael Kamen? 😁

Charli @charli0800.bsky.social · 8d

In a thrash mood, how about the greatest thrash album ever made???!!!

Metallica- RIDE THE LIGHTNING (1984)