@MackinnonDonald @arthistorynews This event very much reminded me of the Churchill/Sutherland unveiling.
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Mark Spalding
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Outsider organist/Presbyterian pianist/musical maverick. He/Hymn Projects: Philip Glass; #Arbroath composer Morris Pert; Wighton Harpsichord 40th anniversary;
Angus, NE Scotland, UK. Katılım Temmuz 2013
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@arthistorynews Not quite a monarch, Churchill was at the unveiling of his portrait by Graham Sutherland, and almost succeeded in concealing how much he hated it. His wife later burned the painting in their garden. I hope Camilla doesn’t take that as a precedent.
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I very much like the look of Yeo’s new portrait of the King. I also like the way the King was at its unveiling, supporting the artist. A first for British monarchical portraiture, I think.
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This is a superb piece of work by @ianpacemain exploring the rise of mobbing in universities, and its implications for individuals and academic freedom. A must-read. Thanks to @SexMattersOrg for publishing.
sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…
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Comprehensive and powerful article by Ian Pace on the phenomenon of academic mobbing. A must read.
sex-matters.org/wp-content/upl…
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@AndreasKoureas_ After the war De Valera also denounced reports of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as "anti-national propaganda". This was because the Holocaust undermined the main assumption underlying Irish neutrality: moral equivalence between the Allies and the Axis.
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‘Academics across the country are talking about the reading problems they are seeing among traditional-age students. Many, they say, don’t see the point in doing much work outside of class. Some struggle with reading endurance and weak vocabulary.’
chronicle.com/article/is-thi…
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The article from earlier this year by Adam Kotsko, also on students being unable to read anything of any weight.
slate.com/human-interest…
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Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger died on 11 May 1916. I find it hard to characterise this unconventional composer. He tended to look back at classical and baroque forms - Fugues! -
rather than face progressive music. What are your favourite Reger works and recordings?
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This Amazing document from the British archive reveals, Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, served as a spy for Nazi Germany.
Holocaust Remembrance Day is an opportunity to reveal the deep relationship between the Nazis and Muslim Brotherhood.
A thread 🧵
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"We will crush all creativity"
Apple have given the game away with this advert - exposing a deep disrespect for existing culture and the belief that they can rip, scrape and literally crush all culture and creativity to make their hi-tech toys.
I won't buy @Apple in future
Tim Cook@tim_cook
Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip. Just imagine all the things it’ll be used to create.
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E-gates... The British library hack... Cashless and cashierless shops... Why are we handing everything over to "digital" so nothing functions when the systems go down? Haven't we learned yet that it makes us vulnerable?
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Brahms and Tchaikovsky both b otd (!833/1840). Both geniuses - but so different! Brahms, the romantic classicist: "Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind." Tchaikovsky the classical romantic: "Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music."
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A tuning fork owned by Beethoven. Whereas the standard tuning pitch in the early 1800s is generally thought to be A=423.5 HZ, this fork produces A=455.4 HZ(!) Western tuning levels weren't standardized until 1939, when A=440 HZ was chosen at an International Conference in London.
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@WalkerMarcus Becoming part of the heritage industry/winning prizes only goes so far. When parishes ceased to educate listeners then such music was on borrowed time. Worsened by anachronistic attitudes: e.g. provincial musicians acquiring "Oxbridge" accents to fit into the Cathedral scene etc.
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@WalkerMarcus Looks like DEI is the "how" rather than the "why".
"Why" is more likely "because they can".
Unfortunately the self-defeating musical establishment has set itself up for this sort of fate in numerous ways, but most importantly by losing touch with reality. 1/
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This. Also live performance is great but weird & sometimes wonky/flawed & it’s just not great that stuff could end up online that we as performers really don’t want there. Let live be live plz. If we want to film/share, that is our (performers/composer/publisher etc) decision
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If I - a performer - want to share a clip from a concert with an ensemble, I have to get permission from all the players. If the piece is in copyright, there are big hoops (+ money) with publishers. How did we get from there to current discourse without any in between steps?
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