Mark Austin

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Very much enjoying playing this brand new Steinway D at the stunning new @GarsingtonOpera studios 😊🎶🎶👍👍

Looking forward to conducting Haydn in beautiful Dorchester Abbey! @dorfestival @bamptonopera

After a successful first year we're now recruiting Choral Scholars for 2024/5 🎶 If you're a talented singer aged 17-25, or know one, we'd love to hear from you! Deadline 31/7; audition workshop 31/8 Apply now➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… More info➡️ WooburnSingersCS@gmail.com

Thanks ⁦@gavhiggins⁩ for sharing ⁦@TheBachChoir⁩ recording of your fantastic Bach Inspired composition as part of This Classical Life! A fascinating interview ⁦@BBCRadio3⁩ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@ChrisHopMusic We should move away from the notion that the fastest 100m sprinter is the best

@ianpacemain Quite! It would have been rather more interesting if they had instead commented on the idea that “excellence” has often become limited to accuracy and technical precision, and they would try to fund expressivity and communication instead 😈

“Terms like excellence,” the ACE authors advise, “are indicative of the way in which opera and music theatre still retains unhelpful hierarchies about what kinds of work are valued.” Does this apply to the Covid vaccine, engineering or the Armed Forces?? theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Heartfelt and virtuosic Tchaikovsky 6 from @Gewandhaus in Paris under Andris Nelsons. Hard to imagine it better. Come to London please!

@nfmusic @MarkValencia @southbankcentre I’m afraid not

@MarkValencia @Mark_Aus_tin @southbankcentre dare I ask if the doors are fixed yet?

This new-look, minimalist bar and foyer area at the Royal Festival Hall is just the thing for chronic back sufferers. @southbankcentre

@nfmusic @MarkValencia @southbankcentre I have just asked about this at the information desk. It’s not a Brechtian move. They have all been moved temporarily for the children’s festival and will be back soon!

@MarkValencia @southbankcentre Er what?

@Orch_ofthe_City It was a total pleasure…thank you for having me

Many thanks to @Mark_Aus_tin for taking our rehearsal this evening. We had lots of fun and hope to see you again soon. #kashperova

First time I have ever seen a photo of a politician playing a musical instrument (actually…Bill Clinton too) 👍👏🎶

Why does everyone miss Elgar's cryptic clue to the Enigma?. . He once wrote, "the principal Theme never appears". 🤨 Never. . . 🤔 never. . . So the theme which appears is . . . "never"🧐 Now please sing Rule Britannia, and slow down for "Britons never, never, ne-. . . "

Gripping Electra @RoyalOperaHouse, what a piece. Nice touch from the director to have Brahms onstage wandering around looking confused by all the chords

Inside a 250 year old French Violin. Photographed with a Medical Laparoscope adapted to a Lumix G9ii Camera. A 1770 violin by Augustin Chappuy. #music #art #photography

@colla_voce Ideal, if sadly non-extant answer: Silent Night arr. Henze

OK, let's skin this one a bit differently... C20/C21 German-language a cappella mixed-choir pieces about sleep, evening, night (obliquely, death, perhaps)?

Christmas music, a beautiful church with Christmas tree, @johnmrutter and @TheBachChoir …many wonderful things in one place 🎶🎉🎄

@DrCaroSummers Congratulations! Wonderful news

Resisting the temptation to interpret this as an allegory