Stephen Royle | Plenty Music
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Building an innovative sheet music resources site aimed at instrument players, particularly students & teachers in schools academies & colleges #musiceducation
“The arts are not the cherry on the cake — they are the cake.” Opening a debate in the House of Lords yesterday, Melvyn Bragg said the UK should realise the full potential of the arts to transform our economy and society.
I'm pleased to welcome the publication of my Alde Sandlings Mass. Written for a small group of churches in Suffolk, it can be sung either in unison or SATB, with organ. Score and separate congregational part available from Encore Publications @encorepubs
Alexander Armstrong's Choral Adventure 🗺️ It's day 1 and we're on our way to Edinburgh @StMarysCathEdin 🏴 Join @XanderArmstrong for Evensong at 3.30pm back where his own chorister journey began 🎶
Whose Portillo moment are you most looking forward to?
Idea for video game for over 50s: It’s called You Slaaag. Set in the seventies it’s all about coppers and baddies. Granadas, Transits, Capris, Jags etc. You start out as a young copper or baddie and have to work your way up with set piece ‘blags’. Sandbox play in 70s London
Today marks the birth in 1911 of Jehan Alain. Composer of brilliant organ works whose career was cut short in WW2. He was reportedly found beside his motorbike, with music papers lying all around. He composed the famously daunting piece "Litanies".
"The arts budget is effectively a rounding error." Lord @edvaizey acknowledged government support for the arts, including Lord @neilfmendoza's work during Covid, but said funding "could be increased substantially for the arts, insignificantly for what government spends overall".
Yes! “Music graduates possess the skills most valued by employers, including creativity, adaptability, critical thinking and the ability to analyse large amounts of complex non-linguistic information.”
Did you know Fanny had a brother?? And that he was also a musician? Today is his 215th birthday
