Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
Music Lecturer at RHUL, working on music history and analysis, and Slavic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser (@rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h
https://danielelphick.co.uk
https://danielelphick.co.uk
Very excited for this Saturday, hosting the 2025 Conference for the Slavonic And East European Music Study Group (SEEM) of @basees.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to welcoming brilliant researchers to Royal Holloway and sharing our beautiful central London campus.
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Very excited for this Saturday, hosting the 2025 Conference for the Slavonic And East European Music Study Group (SEEM) of @basees.bsky.social! Very much looking forward to welcoming brilliant researchers to Royal Holloway and sharing our beautiful central London campus.
'That is one big pile of shit'
(Jurassic Park, 1993)
(Jurassic Park, 1993)
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
'That is one big pile of shit'
(Jurassic Park, 1993)
(Jurassic Park, 1993)
Excited to see a new Weinberg book, announced with a publication date of January 2026! It promises to be a fantastic collection of essays, including a modest one by myself.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
August 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Excited to see a new Weinberg book, announced with a publication date of January 2026! It promises to be a fantastic collection of essays, including a modest one by myself.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
From my Friday evening appearance on BBC Radio 3, speaking during the proms interval!
August 24, 2025 at 10:57 AM
From my Friday evening appearance on BBC Radio 3, speaking during the proms interval!
All set up at Glastonbury, come see us in The Park if you're on site this week!
June 25, 2025 at 6:05 AM
All set up at Glastonbury, come see us in The Park if you're on site this week!
Spotted in a couple of gigs at work last week!
June 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Spotted in a couple of gigs at work last week!
Well, this email looks legit, where do I sign up?
May 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Well, this email looks legit, where do I sign up?
A new suit for summer!
May 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A new suit for summer!
Rob Burrow Leeds marathon done, with a new personal best time of 3:42! Very pleased.
May 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Rob Burrow Leeds marathon done, with a new personal best time of 3:42! Very pleased.
At BFI for a showing of 'Slade in Flame', almost obliged to go to support Black Country culture. Curiously, showings are mostly limited to London and Dudley...
May 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
At BFI for a showing of 'Slade in Flame', almost obliged to go to support Black Country culture. Curiously, showings are mostly limited to London and Dudley...
Very pleased to get stuck into both of these over the bank holiday weekend (and I'm off to a Kate Bush tribute this evening!)
May 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Very pleased to get stuck into both of these over the bank holiday weekend (and I'm off to a Kate Bush tribute this evening!)
Really excited to be welcoming lots of brilliant researchers to Royal Holloway Music tomorrow and Thursday for the Society for Music Analysis theory and analysis graduate students' conference (TAGS). Look forward to hearing about some wonderful research projects.
April 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Really excited to be welcoming lots of brilliant researchers to Royal Holloway Music tomorrow and Thursday for the Society for Music Analysis theory and analysis graduate students' conference (TAGS). Look forward to hearing about some wonderful research projects.
Extremely pleased with today's find in a local charity shop!
April 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Extremely pleased with today's find in a local charity shop!
Pleased with my DIY work yesterday evening, assembling shelves for my home study. All a slow project of renovation, one room at a time.
April 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Pleased with my DIY work yesterday evening, assembling shelves for my home study. All a slow project of renovation, one room at a time.
Highlight of the film 'Russian Ark' (watching this evening)
March 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Highlight of the film 'Russian Ark' (watching this evening)
And done, with a new pb faster by a minute than previous! A great race with fun atmosphere.
March 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
And done, with a new pb faster by a minute than previous! A great race with fun atmosphere.
Today at Royal Holloway: I'm giving a lecture on the music of Galina Ustvolskaya as part of the music department's New Sounds Festival - all welcome! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
March 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Today at Royal Holloway: I'm giving a lecture on the music of Galina Ustvolskaya as part of the music department's New Sounds Festival - all welcome! www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
Watched 'Hiroshima mon amour' for the first time this evening. My goodness, what a film.
February 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Watched 'Hiroshima mon amour' for the first time this evening. My goodness, what a film.
Excited to be bringing the BASEES music study group conference to Royal Holloway later this year! Call for papers is now available (see here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...) We welcome all submissions, including ones related to our theme of 'music and gender' in Slavonic/East European music.
February 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to be bringing the BASEES music study group conference to Royal Holloway later this year! Call for papers is now available (see here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...) We welcome all submissions, including ones related to our theme of 'music and gender' in Slavonic/East European music.
Very sorry to hear of the death of Bernd Feuchtner, the president of the Deutsches Schostakowitsch Gesellschaft. He was a key figure in Shostakovich research, as well as an advocate for early and new opera, opera production, and directing. He will be sorely missed.
February 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Very sorry to hear of the death of Bernd Feuchtner, the president of the Deutsches Schostakowitsch Gesellschaft. He was a key figure in Shostakovich research, as well as an advocate for early and new opera, opera production, and directing. He will be sorely missed.