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Chris Barrett

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Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover Cycling/Walking Everywhere https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/ Nottingham, UK

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23d

New Blog Post: Holiday Listening 1 (The Necks In Northumberland). A little look at a record I took on holiday...
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Holiday Listening Part 1 (The Necks in Northumberland)

My last holiday listening piece looked at music conceived for specific locations - duets for musicians and resonant buildings. This time ro...

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 13h

the odd decent pun thread

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 14h

#np Szymanowski - 1st Violin Concerto/3rd Symphony - Tetzlaff/VPO/Boulez

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 14h

Actually, might have been Dave Smith.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 14h

Yes.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 16h

Yeah, might be a few forms involved.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 17h

I'm begging of you please don't take my bread.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 18h

People got badges, like the sew-on ones you got for swimming distances.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 18h

It got used at my primary school, but not by me. There was an awards scheme for gymnastics - BAGA.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 18h

Nice. I was once sent to his flat to interview him as part of my college course. Students dispatched to meet experimental composers across the capital.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 19h

🎵We could be herpes / For more than one day🎵

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h

I reckon he'd have liked it.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h

He was a Beavis and Butt-Head man.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 21h

Sibelius *could* have watched the Panorama spaghetti tree hoax.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 22h

Don't Speak On The Subway.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 23h

Primary school at the end of our garden. Based on observation, I'd say a very important part of being a successful teacher is the ability to deliver a playground "ERRRR....THANK YOU" in the correct tone. Seems to work a charm.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

"Went sheep shearing. Every single one had a white face."

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

find them in the morning

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best things about not working tomorrow is that you don't have to spend any of your evening working out where in your house you might have left all your essential things.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

Could be the making of them.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

alright. let's look at the score and you be the judge.

Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

They loved him in Huns On The Run.

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I always wondered that, but never really heard an answer...

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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?)

Blue Window

A short and quiet piece for sax quartet, dedicated to the memory of Antony Hollaway

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

She didn't go full Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, though....

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Chris Barrett @mrchrisbarrett.bsky.social · 1d

righto