Andrew Mitchell
@chaconato.bsky.social
🇺🇳 🏳️🌈 classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
Emotional afternoon with TWPB at the Wells. Sweet Mambo: a nostalgia-hued dream paying homage to earlier Bausch obsessions, gradually darkening and becoming trapped in repetition. Superb performances, more dancing than in some of her works, probably the most coherent selection of music for any.
February 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Emotional afternoon with TWPB at the Wells. Sweet Mambo: a nostalgia-hued dream paying homage to earlier Bausch obsessions, gradually darkening and becoming trapped in repetition. Superb performances, more dancing than in some of her works, probably the most coherent selection of music for any.
Unused to a 4pm start time for a matinee, may have checked my ticket a few times.
February 15, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Unused to a 4pm start time for a matinee, may have checked my ticket a few times.
Bus ride home taking longer than the concert. At least I’ve ordered a new coffee grinder and some more clothes, dealt with emails, booked the Woolpack for a lunch out of town, and now working through the 45 likes I had on Bumble today.
February 14, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Bus ride home taking longer than the concert. At least I’ve ordered a new coffee grinder and some more clothes, dealt with emails, booked the Woolpack for a lunch out of town, and now working through the 45 likes I had on Bumble today.
Reposted by Andrew Mitchell
Happy Gothic Valentine’s ❤️
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René d'Anjou, Le livre du Cœur d’amour épris, 1460-1485
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René d'Anjou, Le livre du Cœur d’amour épris, 1460-1485
February 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Happy Gothic Valentine’s ❤️
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René d'Anjou, Le livre du Cœur d’amour épris, 1460-1485
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René d'Anjou, Le livre du Cœur d’amour épris, 1460-1485
A Valentine’s date with Monteverdi.
February 14, 2026 at 7:24 PM
A Valentine’s date with Monteverdi.
Any feedback from audience members on the music performance component at RBO Pierrot Lunaire? Am going twice this week for different casts.
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Any feedback from audience members on the music performance component at RBO Pierrot Lunaire? Am going twice this week for different casts.
Bus theory applying to Monteverdi and Strindberg, two concerts and two plays respectively booked in to be seen across the next couple of weeks.
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Bus theory applying to Monteverdi and Strindberg, two concerts and two plays respectively booked in to be seen across the next couple of weeks.
Is the interventionist staging of operas the same or a different category to the reimagining of spoken drama?
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Is the interventionist staging of operas the same or a different category to the reimagining of spoken drama?
All I want for Valentine’s Day is a circa 1985 DDR husband with a large moustache.
February 12, 2026 at 10:58 AM
All I want for Valentine’s Day is a circa 1985 DDR husband with a large moustache.
I understand the science (as much as it’s known) of the principle of sound/music-colour synesthesia, but I can’t grasp colour attribution to a key except with in a constant pitch frequency.
February 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I understand the science (as much as it’s known) of the principle of sound/music-colour synesthesia, but I can’t grasp colour attribution to a key except with in a constant pitch frequency.
I’m guessing that attempting to explain the difference between a cul-de-sac and a road closure is often a fruitless exercise.
February 11, 2026 at 11:01 AM
I’m guessing that attempting to explain the difference between a cul-de-sac and a road closure is often a fruitless exercise.
Gay man interested in galleries on dating app knew nothing of Saatchi assaulting Lawson, didn’t believe me, immediately searched internet to check, then described her request for divorce and health problems as over-dramatic. I’ve never typed expletives faster, checked he read them then blocked him.
February 11, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Gay man interested in galleries on dating app knew nothing of Saatchi assaulting Lawson, didn’t believe me, immediately searched internet to check, then described her request for divorce and health problems as over-dramatic. I’ve never typed expletives faster, checked he read them then blocked him.
Choreographic styles have more than changed since this production of Kraanerg in 1988 but it’ll do nicely for now. Would that RBO stage it, maybe with sets by Huyghe or Imhof or the whole production by Whitley? youtu.be/xBMvJrdoFP4?...
Xenakis: Kraanerg / Alpha Centauri Ensemble / Woodward
YouTube video by Roger Woodward
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February 9, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Choreographic styles have more than changed since this production of Kraanerg in 1988 but it’ll do nicely for now. Would that RBO stage it, maybe with sets by Huyghe or Imhof or the whole production by Whitley? youtu.be/xBMvJrdoFP4?...
Hot guy with a banjo has moved into the street here. Are those things compatible?
February 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Hot guy with a banjo has moved into the street here. Are those things compatible?
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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante
May seem odd to say this given the UK’s rain these weeks has lived up to its reputation, but as a serious ombrophile I’m looking forward to the rain scenes in the new Wuthering Heights. Rain in films is what I need.
February 8, 2026 at 9:39 PM
May seem odd to say this given the UK’s rain these weeks has lived up to its reputation, but as a serious ombrophile I’m looking forward to the rain scenes in the new Wuthering Heights. Rain in films is what I need.
Quick visit to the National for small exhibition of works by gay immigrant painter Edwin Abbey.
February 8, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Quick visit to the National for small exhibition of works by gay immigrant painter Edwin Abbey.
Obviously the strength of this series is in milieu-sounding rather than copy COTW‘s format. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
20th Century Radicals - Henry Cowell: Shock, scandal and the New York subway - BBC Sounds
Kate Molleson and Gillian Moore shine new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Obviously the strength of this series is in milieu-sounding rather than copy COTW‘s format. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Happy to be in a world where we can have both Rondeau and Lim playing variation XXV.
February 8, 2026 at 8:10 AM
Happy to be in a world where we can have both Rondeau and Lim playing variation XXV.
Adoring the Baroque Frenchiness of how the bassoons colour the harmonies in Ô rage! ending act II of Cardonne’s Omphale: classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
Jean-Baptiste Cardonne: Omphale by György Vashegyi — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Jean-Baptiste Cardonne: Omphale by György Vashegyi. 2026. 99 tracks. 2 hours, 19 minutes.
classical.music.apple.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Adoring the Baroque Frenchiness of how the bassoons colour the harmonies in Ô rage! ending act II of Cardonne’s Omphale: classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
Reposted by Andrew Mitchell
Big pat on the back for me: three years ago could hardly get out of bed or walk to the front door. Now I’ve moved an old king mattress and installed a new one all on my own.
February 7, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Big pat on the back for me: three years ago could hardly get out of bed or walk to the front door. Now I’ve moved an old king mattress and installed a new one all on my own.
I’m old enough to remember when Zurich Opera toured to the Royal Festival Hall.
February 7, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I’m old enough to remember when Zurich Opera toured to the Royal Festival Hall.
Chios Mandarin Marmelade turns out to be a success at my household’s breakfast table.
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Chios Mandarin Marmelade turns out to be a success at my household’s breakfast table.
6:01 on is much more fun than a spin class at the gym. youtu.be/68EYPpcq1sM?...
"The Chair” (1994), by Gerald Barry
YouTube video by Forrest Eimold
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February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
6:01 on is much more fun than a spin class at the gym. youtu.be/68EYPpcq1sM?...