James Francis Brown

Season's Greetings from Hertfordshire Festival of Music - and Dates for your Diary Our latest newsletter with a message from our Artistic Director ⁦@JFBMusic⁩ mailchi.mp/c574d41f025e/d…

Grateful thanks to everyone who helped make this year's festival so enjoyable & successful Special thanks to our sponsors/supporters @HertfordTC @hertscc @Longmores @AzetsUK @EastHerts @AllSaintsHertf Soundbites, Harpenden Music Foundation, The Williams Church Music Trust

In keeping with this year's theme marking the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2, tomorrow morning join art historian Barry Dodge & composer @JFBMusic to explore three paintings by renowned war artist Paul Nash Taster here Tickets/info below ⬇️

Thank you @StortfordIndie for the feature! Book now - this year's Festival opens a week today ticketsource.co.uk/hertfordshire-…

We're delighted to welcome tenor Guy Elliott to this year's Festival. He'll be performing Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings with horn player Chloe Harrison in our Finale concert on Saturday 14 June

A big thank you to our generous sponsors & supporters, without whom the festival would simply not be possible (we receive no Arts Council Funding) @Longmores @AzetsUK @HertfordTC @hertscc @EastHerts @AllSaintsHertf Harpenden Music Foundation & The Williams Church Music Trust

Announcing the 2025 Hertfordshire Festival of Music 2025 - Box Office now open! - mailchi.mp/0cc803c501f1/h…

Hear a brand new work by our Artistic Director James Francis Brown @JFBMusic, part of @BusheySO's 50th Anniversary Concert on 18 May 2025 at 3pm - mailchi.mp/5ff1590506bf/a…

Thank you to everyone who came to the @HertMusicFest 2025 inaugural concert and launch event on 6 March. It was wonderful to see so many friends and supporters there- mailchi.mp/a8c894bcf525/m…

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@EricRWeinstein May I recommend the writings of Dr Iain McGilchrist @dr_mcgilchrist - his very pertinent understanding of the brain hemisphere theory? I think his insights are indispensable in these troubling times. He explains the attention we pay to the world in a non partisan way.

Here is what I will say: I will work with anyone to restore my country. I have been an expert on what is wrong with our CPI inflation gauge. I was an expert in immigration in the 1990s and early 2000s. I wrote one of the earliest (peer reviewed..ha) academic papers on the danger of Mortgage Backed Securities back in 2001. And I know how and why the science system and the physics with a prayer to get us out of the solar system is being dismantled by our government. I co-ran the Sloan Science and Engineering Workforce project at Harvard and the NBER. I refuse to take all that hard work and just flush it down the toilet on these campaigners. These campaigns are horrific. They destroy the ethos of our nation. I don't want lawfare. I don't want insecure elections. Or insecure borders. I don't want bullying. I don't want Government departments named to promote financial instruments. I don't want reproductive mutilation of our children. I don't want free speech to allow anonymous accounts to stalk and ruin actual people. I don't want censorship. I don't want tech companies to be front ends of the security state. Etc. I don' t want a naive American foreign policy in a dangerous dangerous world. We need to be muscular. And I don't want to go around the world screwing over or killing good people because they happen to live on top of mineral resources. I don't want endless wars. I don't want isolationism. Etc. I want common sense, and some concept of civility, charity of spirit and decency. I want a world free from endless utopian, reactionary, progressive or revolutionary nonsense. I am not giving you my recommendation. The risks are profound and very very very different on both sides. I have a guess where the bigger risks lie...but that is only a guess. I am rolling up my sleeves. If any of you want my help, I am here for either team should you win. I do not believe that ANYONE on the Blue team will EVER do anything to contact me other than get hit pieces written against me. Even though I am a registered democrat, you have become a cult that brooks no dissent. So be it. That said, I would love to be proven wrong. Try me. There aren't that many technical US born Harvard Stem PhDs / MIT post-docs with a huge audience. If you can't work with me, that's on you. As for the Red team, three of the big six of you know me. I am here to help get things done on: Science Policy and Higher Ed Physics beyond Relativity and the Standard model. Inflation / CPI / GDP / Index construction Immigration / Migration National Reconciliation AI and Labor Markets Coasian Solutions to AI and Migration problems Those are my core competencies where I have something unique to offer you. If loyalty to campaigns matters to you, I am sorry. I am loyal to the country as I understand it, and the campaigns weren't in my idiom at all. They felt almost totally wrong to me. No hard feelings. Let's get things fixed. Or not. Up to you. I'd opt for the former. Let's unf*ck ourselves as soon as this is over. 🙏

I am failing this election. I tried. But, I simply failed. I cannot work within these concepts. My world, my country, my America is not on the ballot.

Fascinating discussion with one of the leading thinkers of our times @dr_mcgilchrist, which took place during this year's @HertMusicFest Part 1 has received over 2000 views - watch both parts on the festival's @YouTube channel @hertfordshirefestivalofmus1267/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@hertfordshire… #TheBrain #Neuroscience #BrainAndMusic #DividedBrain #ThePowerOf2

Music and the Divided Brain (Part 1): A discussion with Iain McGilchrist youtu.be/Eb-gaA0uPwE?si… via @YouTube

MUSIC AND THE DIVIDED BRAIN (PART 1): A discussion with Dr Iain McGilchrist @dr_mcgilchrist, which took place @UniofHerts during this year’s Festival. Hosted by @JFBMusic with violinist Sara Trickey youtu.be/Eb-gaA0uPwE?si… #musicandthebrain #neuroscience #music

Fascinating discussion with @dr_mcgilchrist from this year’s @HertMusicFest 👇🏼🎵🧠

What's on at the Festival today? 'A Composer's Landscape' with David Matthews A screening of a documentary about this much-loved & revered British #composer followed by a discussion & Q&A session with @JFBMusic ⏰4pm #Hertford St Andrew's Church ticketsource.co.uk/hertfordshire-…

Much-loved British composer David Matthews in conversation, composer to composer, with @JFBMusic today at 4pm at St Andrew's Church, Hertford ticketsource.co.uk/hertfordshire-… Later in the evening @TangoSiempreUK perform Tangos by David Matthews alongside music by creator of #tangonuevo Astor Piazzolla ticketsource.co.uk/hertfordshire-… #tango #composer #contemporarymusic #musicfestival #hertford

.@HertMusicFest continues this week: Thurs - masterclass with @KatyaApekisheva Fri - Composer David Matthews in conversation with @JFBMusic; St Andrew’s church choir in concert; a journey through tango music with @TangoSiempreUK Sat - #worldpremiere of @TomRandle_Music’s Sonata for Clarinet & Piano with @PoppyBeddoe & Timothy End Sat - Festival Finale with dazzling duo @KatyaApekisheva & @owenpiano ℹ️🎟️ hertsmusicfest.org.uk/performances-a…