Karen Adams

@PaulWilliams207 @UniofStaffs Honestly we couldn’t agree more. youtube.com/shorts/-7jyo6I…

The Oscar win for 'No Other Land' should scare Israel. Israel's genocide is succeeding right now. But this film winning an Oscar underlines how Western public opinion and culture is shifting against Israel. One day, that will mean no more arms and support for Israel's crimes

@StevenIsserlis 🖼️

Someone drew this at the concert tonight in Barcelona, and presented it to me afterwards. What a manic-looking cellist - haha. But I like it!

@StevenIsserlis Oh my goodness 😱 Did the stress and tension outwork positively in your performance? People would pay a premium for such stunts...

My dream this am: in Barcelona - had forgotten to put the clock forward, so overslept. Rushed out; taxi ride took 20 mins - and I'd got the the wrong hall! Ride back, to a hall just by my hotel, took 25. So my first notes of the day were onstage. Nightmare; but this one was real!

@StevenIsserlis Beautiful. Thank you and Amen! Happy 2025!

A chorale prelude for New Year's Eve by Bach, which I recorded with organist Francis Grier c 35 years ago in Eton College Chapel. A sad piece - but maybe not inappropriate for 2024? Let's hope that in 2025 our fears lessen, our hopes grow. Happy New Year! soundcloud.com/user-908660452…

@StevenIsserlis @gmisserlis Thank you @gmisserlis 👏👏👏

Today is officially International Cello Day! I love that - particularly because it was founded as en experiment by @gmisserlis. A few years ago, he asked me on which day a Cello Day should be. I suggested today, because of Casals' birthday - and it seems to have taken off; ha!

@StevenIsserlis Your dream was expressing a hidden, flamboyant desire to perform a comedy piece in the style of the much loved/admired Harpo Marx, but when faced with the challenge, you panicked, but quickly found yourself back at home with the celli...

Last night's travel dream: I was checking in for a flight, with my cello (for some reason) draped in a cloth. I removed the cloth - and there was a harp! I panicked totally, ran right around the airport - and eventually located my cello in a room full of cellos! Strange...

@StevenIsserlis @rowenamezzo @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 Happy Birthday!

@rowenamezzo @PetrocTrelawny @BBCRadio3 And I've never met my birthday twin!

Good morning. The bright lights of Portland Place shine and @BBCRadio3 Breakfast is live with a quartet of Noels from English Consort & Trevor Pinnock,Coco Tomita helping Irving Berlin dream of the snow, Ethel Smyth writing a quintet and @StevenIsserlis on his birthday.

@WhatsApp Am getting unwanted ai drafts that don't even make sense. Didn't ask for this. Don't want it.

starting a reply to a message and getting distracted… we know what that’s like 😵‍💫 which is why we’re introducing drafts! when you start a message and don’t finish it, you’ll see a draft indicator on the chat so you remember to hit send

Rachel Maddow, imploring the agencies that protect the United States of America to wake the fuck up about the dangerous national security threat that is Elon Musk. 😳👇

BREAKING: Will.i.am just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris. This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.

We don’t need four more years of arrogance and bumbling and bluster and division under Donald Trump. America is ready for a better story – we’re ready for a President @KamalaHarris.

@StevenIsserlis 'my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear' Me watching this performance of Va, Pensiero youtu.be/GS6L_9xUT5E?fe…

Lovely thoughts from Verdi b otd 1813! "I adore art...when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear." "Let us turn to the past: that will be progress." "A man like Verdi must write like Verdi."

Is Donald Trump going to get someone to pretend to shoot him every time his ratings go down? #Trump #shooting

A thread on different kinds of graveyards... Some of these are beyond imagination..! 1. Car graveyard after Chinese company went bankrupt

Absolutely disgusting ableism from Toby Carvery. This needs calling out and they need boycotting. #tobycarvery

@StevenIsserlis Such a precious gift; from his past to your present ✨ And a lovely photo too!

In Patmos, about to rehearse - and I was told today that it was in this very building that John Tavener composed The Protecting Veil! Poignant. I hardly knew him then - and didn’t realise a) how successful the piece would be or b) how important John would become in my life.

A majority of the public want the UK to end arms sales to Israel. A Foreign Office official has resigned over arms sales to Israel. Our common humanity demands an end to arms sales to Israel. Why won't the government listen?

"Its actually quite clear... the state of Israel is perpetrating war crimes in plain sight" Foreign office official Mark Smith, whose job was to advise the govt on the legality of arms sales, explains why he's resigned over UK arms sales to Israel.

Yeah, I’m voting Kamala Harris.