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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 14h

Vivaldi composed 39 bassoon concertos. Some would say that this is too many bassoon concertos. I, however, say it is far too few

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 14h

Love that Vivaldi wrote a nocturnal-themed bassoon concerto with a movement titled 'Ghosts'. Spooky bassoon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0h...

Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV 501 "La Notte": II. I Fantasmi. Presto

YouTube video by Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Topic

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 21h

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 1d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 1d

★★★★ #EchoVocalEnsemble #SarahLatto @unionchapeluk.bsky.social - An eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance, with beautiful singing at the heart of an imaginative and stylistically varied concert - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Echo Vocal Ensemble, Latto, Union Chapel review - eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance

Echo Vocal Ensemble have their genesis in Genesis. Sarah Latto’s group were initially formed by a cohort of the Genesis Sixteen young artists’ programme – and she has turned them into one of the most ...

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

And the one on Lordship Lane closed recently as well…trouble in Poundland

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve never read Jilly Cooper but she came in to do a signing the week I did work experience in a book shop in Basingstoke. She seemed nice (and was surprisingly small)

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

A few moments didn’t quite come off for me but there was lots to enjoy and overall it was a worthwhile attempt to do more than just stand up and sing (though the singing was very good). Not a concert I’ll quickly forget

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

Very imaginative concert from Echo Vocal Ensemble, timed around dusk. A varied programme with lighting and spatial effects to exploit the Union Chapel acoustics and create atmosphere. Dancer Jamal Sterrett was mesmerising. Would like to see more concerts as theatrical as this!

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a combination of dream-like dystopian fantasy and a coming of age story in mid-century Glasgow

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

Just finished this strange and rather extraordinary book

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

huge if true

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.

Vincent price says
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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

who doesn’t love a damp swish round the ol’ ankles

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

Got absolutely drenched on the ride home in a way I haven’t been in a long long time. Fun!

I particularly appreciate Storm Amy sending strong winds to slow me down so I could spend more time taking rain in the face until I could feel the water between my toes, lovely stuff

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

I have some reservations about let me tell you but it has some beautiful passages and textures, let me tell you

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

4 with the LPO

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

Me? Going to hear a Mahler symphony? With my reputation?

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5d

Ciabatta was invented in 1982, it's only slightly older than me (arguably I'm more stale)

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 6d

in his little hole planning his little crimes

drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 7d

sound on

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Mark Valencia 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @markvalencia.bsky.social · 7d

As a classical music writer of sorts my greatest bugbear in others is the word 'blistering'. One of the most inane qualifiers ever coined, yet out it trots with, er, blistering regularity.

Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 7d

Classical music writers just love the word 'gossamer' don't they? I rarely encounter it in any other writing. Now I've learned it's the name of a big hairy Looney Tunes character. From now on I'll assume this is what you mean when you wax lyrical about the gossamer texture of the violin writing.

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 7d

“Well you won’t be seeing many prison movies where you’re going. Prison!’

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 7d

what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 7d

they look so thrilled to be there…

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 7d

there's more

Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 7d

am I hallucinating or is this really the London Symphony Orchestra performing Baby Shark for its 10 year anniversary???? www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXVa...

🎶 Baby Shark with London Symphony Orchestra (Live Performance Ver.) | Baby Shark 10th Anniversary

YouTube video by Baby Shark Official

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