Michelle Edgerley
@michelleedgerley.bsky.social
Lover of classical music (especially opera and art song), compulsive reading, knitter, parent, fairy grandmother, public servant, has-been musician.
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New Boesch/Martineau album alert 🚨 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
New Boesch/Martineau album alert 🚨 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
Brahms & Wolf: Lieder
Brahms & Wolf: Lieder. Linn: CKD751. Buy CD or download online. Florian Boesch (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
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July 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New Boesch/Martineau album alert 🚨 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
New Boesch/Martineau album alert 🚨 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
Hello from a delinquent social media user. Hope you are well or otherwise doing your best. Here are some photos from my run this morning along Te Awakairangi | Hutt River. Autumnal morning runs are the best runs IMHO
May 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hello from a delinquent social media user. Hope you are well or otherwise doing your best. Here are some photos from my run this morning along Te Awakairangi | Hutt River. Autumnal morning runs are the best runs IMHO
Ping @sinceritasc.bsky.social The sample tracks on this new album are wonderful. Think I'll be listening to the whole thing later today www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
Bizet: Les Mélodies
Bizet: Les Mélodies. Harmonia Mundi: HMM90538890. Buy 3 CDs or download online. Cyrille Dubois, Marianne Croux, Coline Dutilleul, Guilhem Worms
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May 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ping @sinceritasc.bsky.social The sample tracks on this new album are wonderful. Think I'll be listening to the whole thing later today www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
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Makereti Papakura: born New Zealand,1873, her mother was a high ranking Te Arawa woman, her father an English shopkeeper. She was raised by her maternal relatives until aged 10, Her thesis, published in 1838, considered Te Arawa customs through a woman-centred lens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Posthumous degree for Oxford's first indigenous female student
Māori scholar Mākereti Papakura is believed to be the university's first indigenous female student.
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April 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Makereti Papakura: born New Zealand,1873, her mother was a high ranking Te Arawa woman, her father an English shopkeeper. She was raised by her maternal relatives until aged 10, Her thesis, published in 1838, considered Te Arawa customs through a woman-centred lens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I will add that a lot of bots get taken out by automatic systems within a few hours, so people are only likely to see those ones if that check Bluesky in the window before they are banned.
This also means for greater peace of mind, switch off phone notifications and check Bluesky less often.
This also means for greater peace of mind, switch off phone notifications and check Bluesky less often.
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I will add that a lot of bots get taken out by automatic systems within a few hours, so people are only likely to see those ones if that check Bluesky in the window before they are banned.
This also means for greater peace of mind, switch off phone notifications and check Bluesky less often.
This also means for greater peace of mind, switch off phone notifications and check Bluesky less often.
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Jagde, Grigorian, and Golovatenko in Otello, directed by David Alden next season in Madrid www.teatroreal.es/es/espectacu... (ENO/Amsterdam coprod!)
Otello | Teatro Real
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April 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Jagde, Grigorian, and Golovatenko in Otello, directed by David Alden next season in Madrid www.teatroreal.es/es/espectacu... (ENO/Amsterdam coprod!)
Today’s Bluesky stats:
23 accounts followed me overnight. 21 now blocked because of clear signs of botness.
2 genuine accounts.
1 account now followed back.
5 minutes of my life I won’t get back.
This level of bot glomming is unusual in my experience of Bluesky. Anyone else experiencing this, too?
23 accounts followed me overnight. 21 now blocked because of clear signs of botness.
2 genuine accounts.
1 account now followed back.
5 minutes of my life I won’t get back.
This level of bot glomming is unusual in my experience of Bluesky. Anyone else experiencing this, too?
April 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Today’s Bluesky stats:
23 accounts followed me overnight. 21 now blocked because of clear signs of botness.
2 genuine accounts.
1 account now followed back.
5 minutes of my life I won’t get back.
This level of bot glomming is unusual in my experience of Bluesky. Anyone else experiencing this, too?
23 accounts followed me overnight. 21 now blocked because of clear signs of botness.
2 genuine accounts.
1 account now followed back.
5 minutes of my life I won’t get back.
This level of bot glomming is unusual in my experience of Bluesky. Anyone else experiencing this, too?
One thing I will say about Middlemarch is that its bulkiness is not particularly backpack friendly. But I’m sure I will cope
March 23, 2025 at 7:06 PM
One thing I will say about Middlemarch is that its bulkiness is not particularly backpack friendly. But I’m sure I will cope
@sinceritasc.bsky.social Frog and Toad are here!
March 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
@sinceritasc.bsky.social Frog and Toad are here!
My George Eliot reacquaintance mission continues. Just finished Felix Holt. About to start Middlemarch
March 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
My George Eliot reacquaintance mission continues. Just finished Felix Holt. About to start Middlemarch
Ping @sinceritasc.bsky.social Relevant to your interests www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
THOMAS HAMPSON
THOMAS HAMPSON. Hänssler: HC24021. Buy download online. Thomas Hampson and Claudio Vandelli featuring Würth Philharmoniker, Thomas Hampson (baritone), Claudio Vandelli, Würth Philharmoniker
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February 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Ping @sinceritasc.bsky.social Relevant to your interests www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...
Sad times 😕 Turns out our pepper grinder is like Humpty Dumpty.
February 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Sad times 😕 Turns out our pepper grinder is like Humpty Dumpty.
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As a general rule when asked "How many versions of [Insert favourite classical work] should one own?" the answer is always "One more than you currently have"
February 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
As a general rule when asked "How many versions of [Insert favourite classical work] should one own?" the answer is always "One more than you currently have"
My Couch to 5k schedule. So rewarding to cross out a week with black pen 🤓 Only more week to go! Fingers crossed for continued clement weather
February 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
My Couch to 5k schedule. So rewarding to cross out a week with black pen 🤓 Only more week to go! Fingers crossed for continued clement weather
#NowPlaying There are worse ways to spend an evening than listening to “The Dude with the Smooth Voice”™️ (as my oldest son refers to him). It’s a wonderful album
February 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
#NowPlaying There are worse ways to spend an evening than listening to “The Dude with the Smooth Voice”™️ (as my oldest son refers to him). It’s a wonderful album
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‘Magna Carta’ is the plural form of ‘Magnum Cartum’, the Latin for ‘ice-cream van’. The Vatican required the Latin name to be used and the vans to be heralded by monastic plainsong. Henry VIII famously broke from Rome so that the vans would be able to play Greensleeves instead.
January 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
‘Magna Carta’ is the plural form of ‘Magnum Cartum’, the Latin for ‘ice-cream van’. The Vatican required the Latin name to be used and the vans to be heralded by monastic plainsong. Henry VIII famously broke from Rome so that the vans would be able to play Greensleeves instead.
@fionaainsworth.bsky.social Hello! How nice to see you here 😊
January 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
@fionaainsworth.bsky.social Hello! How nice to see you here 😊
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So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all
January 28, 2025 at 4:49 AM
So many dolphins in Pōneke harbour that I had to film in landscape and still couldn't capture em all
Bringing classy lunchboxes to work since forever. Often it’s just a bread bag
January 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Bringing classy lunchboxes to work since forever. Often it’s just a bread bag
I have become a terrible social media person. Here are some photos I took when my husband and I popped across to Matiu Island recently. Highly recommend
January 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I have become a terrible social media person. Here are some photos I took when my husband and I popped across to Matiu Island recently. Highly recommend
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*Please share widely!*
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
PhD scholarship in English: Poetry and Negotiation | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
December 4, 2024 at 12:02 AM
*Please share widely!*
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields:
British 18C and/or Romantic poetry
Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty
www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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🖼️🤔👓 After much listening, extended brow-furrowing & enough tea to sink a battleship, here are my 25 albums of 2024 for ArtMuseLondon. I hope you find something to treasure!
artmuselondon.com/2025/01/15/r...
artmuselondon.com/2025/01/15/r...
Retrospecstive 2024: Adrian Ainsworth’s albums of the year
Time again for my annual labour of love, rounding up my favourite releases of the past year. As usual, I’ve ranged across genres as freely as I can in the time and space available – so I sinc…
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January 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🖼️🤔👓 After much listening, extended brow-furrowing & enough tea to sink a battleship, here are my 25 albums of 2024 for ArtMuseLondon. I hope you find something to treasure!
artmuselondon.com/2025/01/15/r...
artmuselondon.com/2025/01/15/r...