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Christmas time, cantatas and wine. - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. Joanna Wyld investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig. Every year one hears the plai...
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Wrote a guest blog for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the first part of a longer programme note for their performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio: oae.co.uk/christmas-ti...
More venues should have the film Xanadu playing on a loop imho
December 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
More venues should have the film Xanadu playing on a loop imho
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Francis Poulenc smoking a cigarette while cooking with his dog.
December 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Francis Poulenc smoking a cigarette while cooking with his dog.
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Gary Barlow: thanks for your input guys but I think we'll stick with 'magic'
December 8, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Gary Barlow: thanks for your input guys but I think we'll stick with 'magic'
He was, and as Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy (they should have stuck with him throughout rather than shifting to John Cusack, he inhabited the role much more convincingly)
He was magnificent in War and Peace
Saying Paul Dano is a weak actor genuinely shows a glaring gap in tarantinos judgement. He’s a uniquely talented character actor and it’s gobsmacking to hear Tarantino disparage him like that
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
He was, and as Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy (they should have stuck with him throughout rather than shifting to John Cusack, he inhabited the role much more convincingly)
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🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
December 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain!
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027.
📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili
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Medieval Christmas on Composer of the Week, people.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Medieval Christmas on Composer of the Week, people.
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Wrote a guest blog for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the first part of a longer programme note for their performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio: oae.co.uk/christmas-ti...
Christmas time, cantatas and wine. - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. Joanna Wyld investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig. Every year one hears the plai...
oae.co.uk
November 10, 2023 at 6:53 PM
Wrote a guest blog for the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. This is the first part of a longer programme note for their performances of Bach's Christmas Oratorio: oae.co.uk/christmas-ti...
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A Christmas classic, reimagined! ✨
Our percussion students bring new sparkle to ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ in this special arrangement by RCM student Guy Courtie.
Wishing you all a joyful and uplifting festive season filled with music and cheer!
#RCMChristmas #ChristmasCarols
Our percussion students bring new sparkle to ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ in this special arrangement by RCM student Guy Courtie.
Wishing you all a joyful and uplifting festive season filled with music and cheer!
#RCMChristmas #ChristmasCarols
December 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A Christmas classic, reimagined! ✨
Our percussion students bring new sparkle to ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ in this special arrangement by RCM student Guy Courtie.
Wishing you all a joyful and uplifting festive season filled with music and cheer!
#RCMChristmas #ChristmasCarols
Our percussion students bring new sparkle to ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’ in this special arrangement by RCM student Guy Courtie.
Wishing you all a joyful and uplifting festive season filled with music and cheer!
#RCMChristmas #ChristmasCarols
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The Seal Man: Rebecca Clarke's song reinvented with shadow-puppet animation by Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood from Positive Note, with mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, violist Max Baillie and pianist Anna Tilbrook. My spotlight:
www.planethugill.com/2025/12/the-...
www.planethugill.com/2025/12/the-...
The Seal Man: Rebecca Clarke's song reinvented with shadow-puppet animation by Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood,
The Seal Man: Rebecca Clarke's song reinvented with shadow-puppet animation by Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood
www.planethugill.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The Seal Man: Rebecca Clarke's song reinvented with shadow-puppet animation by Jeremy Hamway-Bidgood from Positive Note, with mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, violist Max Baillie and pianist Anna Tilbrook. My spotlight:
www.planethugill.com/2025/12/the-...
www.planethugill.com/2025/12/the-...
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The Cobbe collection, right? I stayed in that house once, guest of the Cobbe family, incl. father who had collected all that. After dinner, he played a load of them & talked about their history. Really magical - and bizarre.
December 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Cobbe collection, right? I stayed in that house once, guest of the Cobbe family, incl. father who had collected all that. After dinner, he played a load of them & talked about their history. Really magical - and bizarre.
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NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 35: phenomenal artist Michael Gillette joins me on the music textcast to talk about key purchases, plus: getting his big break with Saint Etienne, housesharing with Aphex Twin, and the lure of The Beatles. And much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/12/07/f...
FLA 35: Michael Gillette (07/12/2025)
Michael Gillette is an artist, a true artist. Over the past thirty-five years or so, as a painter, illustrator, cartoonist, designer and creative mind, he has produced a boggling torrent of materia…
firstlastanything.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
NEW! #FirstLastAnything ep 35: phenomenal artist Michael Gillette joins me on the music textcast to talk about key purchases, plus: getting his big break with Saint Etienne, housesharing with Aphex Twin, and the lure of The Beatles. And much more. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/12/07/f...
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One of those days when the light fades too soon and somehow I don’t leave the room. Stayed in with Nick instead.
youtu.be/KaWLZVR8HQ8
youtu.be/KaWLZVR8HQ8
Northern Sky
YouTube video by Nick Drake - Topic
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December 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
One of those days when the light fades too soon and somehow I don’t leave the room. Stayed in with Nick instead.
youtu.be/KaWLZVR8HQ8
youtu.be/KaWLZVR8HQ8
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December 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Roland Barthes is euphoric:
December 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Roland Barthes is euphoric:
Insane collection of keyboards at Hatchlands, and quite funny that after going through room after room stuffed with historic pianos and composer portraits you reach 'The Music Room' and go, so hang on, what were all the others...?
December 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Insane collection of keyboards at Hatchlands, and quite funny that after going through room after room stuffed with historic pianos and composer portraits you reach 'The Music Room' and go, so hang on, what were all the others...?
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Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Celebrate St. Nicholas Day with one of my favourite @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social paintings, St Nicholas of Bari banishing the Storm [Bicci di Lorenzo (1373–1452)]
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You can buy 'The Researcher's First Murder' by John Finnemore directly from him (he's had to pay for a storage unit to keep them all in). Unbound made sure it couldn't sell last Christmas, let's make it a hit for this one: johnfinnemoreshop.com/shop
John Finnemore Shop
All orders placed before 15th December will arrive before Christmas
johnfinnemoreshop.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
You can buy 'The Researcher's First Murder' by John Finnemore directly from him (he's had to pay for a storage unit to keep them all in). Unbound made sure it couldn't sell last Christmas, let's make it a hit for this one: johnfinnemoreshop.com/shop
Whenever I see something about the Unbound fiasco I'm always haunted by the thought that Daniel Postgate, whose Clangers book was published by them, died with the situation unresolved. If anyone knows how to buy his book in such a way that it supports his family, it would be good to know
We should put together a list of books you can buy this Christmas from authors who were robbed and had their careers sabotaged* by Unbound.
(*What makes me forever angry is that it's about so much more than money. You'd think people who read would be better at empathy and understanding.)
(*What makes me forever angry is that it's about so much more than money. You'd think people who read would be better at empathy and understanding.)
December 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Whenever I see something about the Unbound fiasco I'm always haunted by the thought that Daniel Postgate, whose Clangers book was published by them, died with the situation unresolved. If anyone knows how to buy his book in such a way that it supports his family, it would be good to know
In a bar where they serve free Bailey's popcorn, bless them they did not see me coming, they'll be charging for it by the time I'm done here
December 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
In a bar where they serve free Bailey's popcorn, bless them they did not see me coming, they'll be charging for it by the time I'm done here
Went to a student jazz band concert tonight and they played this; had forgotten what a great piece it is, especially with loads of conga in the percussion section 👌🏻
youtu.be/YkLBSLxo5LE?...
youtu.be/YkLBSLxo5LE?...
Duke Ellington - Caravan
YouTube video by nina katsiashvili
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Went to a student jazz band concert tonight and they played this; had forgotten what a great piece it is, especially with loads of conga in the percussion section 👌🏻
youtu.be/YkLBSLxo5LE?...
youtu.be/YkLBSLxo5LE?...
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A proper treat for you! 🎛️
New mini #BBCRadio3 series, every night this week 9.45pm #Electronicwomen
From Daphne Oram to Laurie Anderson… only 15mins each night, before NightTracks kicks in
HP x
New mini #BBCRadio3 series, every night this week 9.45pm #Electronicwomen
From Daphne Oram to Laurie Anderson… only 15mins each night, before NightTracks kicks in
HP x
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A proper treat for you! 🎛️
New mini #BBCRadio3 series, every night this week 9.45pm #Electronicwomen
From Daphne Oram to Laurie Anderson… only 15mins each night, before NightTracks kicks in
HP x
New mini #BBCRadio3 series, every night this week 9.45pm #Electronicwomen
From Daphne Oram to Laurie Anderson… only 15mins each night, before NightTracks kicks in
HP x
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Has any horror film ever started with the image/idea of Fig. 1? Especially if the flipside is something like Fig. 2?
December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Has any horror film ever started with the image/idea of Fig. 1? Especially if the flipside is something like Fig. 2?
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Scottish Ensemble's Concerts by Candlelight start again on 2 Dec. Scroll down this page for my notes on Caroline Shaw inspired by @barthesstudies.bsky.social, Mancini's Moon River, a UK premiere by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, and a few bits of Bach.
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Concerts by Candlelight 2025 - Scottish Ensemble
Music from the past and present echoes through some of Scotland’s most awe-inspiring settings to create a warm glow during the winter chill.
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December 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Scottish Ensemble's Concerts by Candlelight start again on 2 Dec. Scroll down this page for my notes on Caroline Shaw inspired by @barthesstudies.bsky.social, Mancini's Moon River, a UK premiere by Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, and a few bits of Bach.
share.google/eIY9v93qArul...
share.google/eIY9v93qArul...
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'A life-changing experience!' 💫 In the latest edition of #RCMUpbeat magazine, Dr Ingrid Pearson describes her unique instrument-making adventure, when she crafted a chalumeau (an early reed instrument) from boxwood to brass keys.
Find out more! 👉 bit.ly/Upbeat_chalumeau
Find out more! 👉 bit.ly/Upbeat_chalumeau
Crafting a chalumeau: Dr Ingrid Pearson on making a beautiful instrument
Dr Ingrid Pearson describes the fascinating process of creating an early woodwind instrument, the chalumeau.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
'A life-changing experience!' 💫 In the latest edition of #RCMUpbeat magazine, Dr Ingrid Pearson describes her unique instrument-making adventure, when she crafted a chalumeau (an early reed instrument) from boxwood to brass keys.
Find out more! 👉 bit.ly/Upbeat_chalumeau
Find out more! 👉 bit.ly/Upbeat_chalumeau