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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 9h

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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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 6h

The British conservative project is now upheld by people largely outside the Conservative Party (Gauke, Heseltine, Buckland). Discuss.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 6h

For World Mental Health Day; My eldest's portrait of the Black Dog (2021)

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 6h

The great benefit of that production is that you have ample time to write the review (or probably two or three) during the interminable scene changes in Act Two....

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 7h

I think waffle can be more benign than bloviating.... It's not necessarily inflated or self-important. Indeed it may be caused by uncertainly and hesitation.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 8h

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11h

See you tomorrow!

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 19h

It’s a fantastic insight into Victorian male paranoia about loss of masculinity in the face of a) exotic attractive foreigners and b) liberated women.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 20h

A wise colleague advised me never to say anything in rehearsal that I couldn't say in my *third* language to avoid excessive waffle; and whilst I get that not all situations are so pressured, it's left me pretty short-tempered with people who hold the floor without contributing concrete thoughts.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 20h

I went to a conference recently and was astounded by how long people were capable of speaking for to no obvious point. Despite some old myths, my profession have it driven into us that time is money so hard that I’ve become even less tolerant than I might once have been….

Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 1d

Men claim women talk too much, but boy if you get that man on a panel, he will over talk every woman present in the room.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

And several interviewers who seem to have had a superhuman ability to understand what I meant rather than the verbal slop that came out of my mouth.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

To be scrupulously fair, most Boomers that I know are acutely conscious of how lucky they've been, and would be more understanding about this than politicians fear. The tabloids though....

Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 1d

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Has anybody seen the Secretary of State lately?

a desert landscape with a blue sky in the background and a few trees in the foreground .

ALT: a desert landscape with a blue sky in the background and a few trees in the foreground .

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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted with this review of my new book in The New Statesman. The reviewer really gets what the book is all about.

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

When did opera become elitist?

Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to lords

www.newstatesman.com

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed; not least because almost everybody of note studied with her.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Aargh - I've clearly not used one for a while. SO weird to reproduce it in a brand new edition....

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Prior to the 20thC it would be hard to isolate something so specific though, because musical language evolved more seamlessly from each generation to the next. It's not clear to me that that Haydn, Mozart or Beethoven 'invented' techniques so why would we expect it of Martines?

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

As representative of a profession who often don’t even get to the pub until 10.45 after a show, I see no downsides.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

It’s bedtime, human subjects.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Ah ok. No comment…

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Any particular reason?

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Our most intelligent cats (three back) wouldn’t turn a hair at explosions or gunfire on TV - they seemed to absolutely know it was fake. But an episode of The Avengers with a tiger sent them batshit…

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 1d

Why did I never do this?!
(I did accidentally leave a copy of Private Eye down my bell for several months….).

👻 Costumes by Allison @allisonportnow.bsky.social · 1d

In related news. theonion.com/symphony-goe...

Symphony-Goer Heads To Seat Carrying Novelty Tuba Full Of Nachos

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but…

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 4d

First hint of Autumn sun and all dignity leaves the building…

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