@Baerenreiter Worth any amount of waiting; their chorale is sublime
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David Gordon Duke
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David Gordon Duke
@davidgordonduke
Curmudgeon at large; writes a bit
Vancouver, British Columbia Katılım Ağustos 2022
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Footage of the guys in the first three movements :)
Sheffield Philharmonic@SheffieldPhil
The trombones have to wait over 30mins before they play a note in Brahms Symphony No. 1, but when they do come in 😍
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When I said it wouldn’t be much work, I meant it wouldn’t be much work for me.
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@HewittJSB @Fideliocaf Can it be the second horn part the dog is going for?
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My friends’ dog in Helsinki, Sani, reacts to the opening of Brahms’ 1st Piano Concerto that I perform in London on March 9th with @Fideliocaf Orchestra. Wait for it, about 30 seconds in....!!!
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Have critics become softer with time?
Undeniably if reviews from @TheStradMag in the 90’s are anything to go by!
The reviews are fierce, big names regularly taken down with no holding back!!!
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Review: Vancouver Opera sets the stage for comedy Don Pasquale. vancouversun.com/entertainment/…
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@MichaelRosenYes Thé cassis isn’t too shabby either; great place
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If ever your on or near the Île de la Cité in Paris and you see a restaurant/cafe selling Berthillon ice cream/sorbet, go in and ask for citron vert (lime) sorbet. Incroyable!
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Im a very big fan of advanced degrees for those who have an aptitude for them. But this thread brings up important issues to think about
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@DrHannahScott @SML_Newcastle What a wonderful opportunity for someone
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📢PhD funding klaxon📢
Do you like Paris? Do you know someone who does? Would you/they like to do a PhD on it?
Fully-funded doctorate on any aspect of Parisian Cultural History in the Long Nineteenth Century with me at @SML_Newcastle (deadline April 10th)
ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f…
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Anna Dowsley singing Bolcom? It might just be the perfect combination. Catch the national tour between February 20 and March 10. Book today: bit.ly/LongLostLoves
📹 Anna Dowsley and Michael Curtain performing 'Amor' by William Bolcom
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Well: imagine the BBC reviving Excursion
Georgia Mann@MannGeorgia
On yer bike in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 today. It's by the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard, from her ballet Excursion. Where to from Bicycle Parade - which is about a bunch of disaffected youths careering around on a quayside?
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@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 The quayside was on one of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands; the bicycle interlude happens in the midst of a wartime romance…
The first ballet music written in this part of the world, it seems
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On yer bike in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 today. It's by the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard, from her ballet Excursion. Where to from Bicycle Parade - which is about a bunch of disaffected youths careering around on a quayside?
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@aliner A few weeks later I received a post card from TG professing to be charmed that his words had been set to music. Such generosity, indeed such class.
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What Thom Gunn does with that final line in "The Night Piece" is sublime.
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@aliner When I was a foolish young composer, I set this for tenor and piano — without thinking about copyright. Years later, it turned out a colleague had a nodding acquaintance with the poet and I asked him to bring up the awkward situation…
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We never eliminate departments. Some departments go extinct because they can’t adapt.
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Manchester Guardian editorial, September 11 1908: 'We cannot understand to what practical use a flying machine that is heavier than air can be put.'
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