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Bernard Hughes

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · Apr 14

Sound on for a short sampler of Hear My Heart Sing, in a new recording out later this week by the brilliant Epiphoni Consort.

Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart

Bernard Hughes - Hear My Heart Sing (extracts)

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 33m

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 36m

Would love that. Cycle round that area every day when I go to work and it’s horrible

Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 39m

I too have read this book for review. V interesting to see @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social’s take on it - lots we agree on. My review out on @theartsdesk.bsky.social shortly

Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 54m

Robin Holloway's Music's Odyssey is certainly an epic. I took the journey and lived to tell the tale
@spectator www.spectator.co.uk/article/robi...

Robin Holloway lambasts some of our most beloved composers

Irreverent, outspoken and unfailingly opinionated, with knowledge as broad as his vocabulary, Robin Holloway is exactly the person you’d want to sit next to at a concert. The warmest of interval chard...

www.spectator.co.uk

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leyrer @leyrer.bsky.social · 2d

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1h

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1h

Seems to me that saying ‘I will abolish stamp duty’ is the *only* easy bit in the whole process of abolishing stamp duty

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James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social · 12h

Occasional reminder that the "distracted boyfriend" meme has its origins in a pre-WW1 Punch cartoon about Anglo-German relations...

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 14h

He will have had all their addresses

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

An important (global) public service announcement from Ed Miliband on the day that renewables have over taken coal as the largest source of electricity.

"Clean energy, it's happening and it's the future."

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 14h

Did Keith dispatch you? (I ran into him last Wednesday)

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 1d

Interviewer: no, I meant do you have any questions about the job?

Me: so, what do you think of my time machine?

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 23h

Love this thread. The Apparatus!

Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 1d

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

My wife has swapped out our old bath mat, which we've had for the whole quarter century we've lived together, and it's made me really sad. I'm not good with change

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting, thank you

Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

And do you agree with the view that a stronger Conservative party is actually good for Labour, as it draws some of the Reform sting?

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

He's just a different calibre from today's generation

Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

What do you think about whether replacing Badenoch with Jenrick (which seems the likely swap) would be good or bad for (a) Farage and (b) Labour?

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great discovery - and always good to hear of some straightforwardly groundbreaking scholarship

‘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

www.theguardian.com

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

I thought it was Better Help, so I'm clearly not even listening to the end of the second word...

Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

The OP properly went fishing... and did indeed catch a whopper

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Bernard Hughes @bernardhughes.bsky.social · 1d

Just added a new track to my Soundcloud: Blue Window is a gentle little miniature for sax quartet. Wrote it a *long* time ago but always had a soft spot for it

(May of interest, @deltasax.bsky.social?)