Mark Armstrong
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Mark Armstrong
@markatpt
Jazz Trumpeter and Composer/Arranger. Artistic and Music Director: National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Professor: Royal College of Music. Dad x3.
London Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Lovely day in my FRCM robes yesterday at the RCM graduation ceremony! Congratulations to everyone there, especially making it through COVID lockdowns with such positive attitudes. #growthmindset
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
@mtpennycook You’ve got my vote if you commit to making this happen. I’m pretty disappointed that the Tories seem to be watering this down. Hope you win the vote though.
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
Labour will force a vote today on ending the archaic system of homeownership that is leasehold.
If the Tories abandon fundamental and comprehensive leasehold reform, a Labour government will finish the job.
standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@jemanners @BBCSingers @clareteal @conductorben @NYJOuk @QuincyDJones So pleased you’re back in business! Let’s do it again!
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
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Happiness is doing some programming for @BBCSingers and looking towards Christmas 2023 and beyond. Talking of 🎄- strong soundtrack for the day from @BBCSingers when we collaborated with @clareteal @conductorben @NYJOuk @markatpt for some @QuincyDJones
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Really pleased to read this!
Jonathan Manners@jemanners
Hope dawns once more. We are all overwhelmed & humbled by the continuing support for @BBCSingers from across the world. Thank you all. Here’s to this international musical gem and all who sail in it, with it and encounter it. Will be a great concert this afternoon. Keep singing x
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
@JohnFinnemore “Well, since you ask for a story about the perils of putting your Sul Ponticello before your slur I might be able to provide a short Divertimento…”
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Sorry, I meant, what are the technical terms involved? Here’s the line I’d ideally have, with placeholder words I know are wrong. What’s the right version? “Your [obbligatos] are all very well, but you need to put in some time [practising your scales]”
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Musicians! If you wanted to say a talented amateur violinist spent too much time showing off a show-boaty technique and not enough time just practising the basics, how would you put it?
(I’ll delete this when I’ve got a good answer, so as not to waste future answerers’ time…)
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It was a pleasure to hear some great playing from the students yesterday, including Finn here on the trumpet!
Simon Fairclough@snfairclough
Brilliant to have Mark Armstrong, Artistic Director of @NYJOuk, at @Cambridge_Uni yesterday to give a masterclass on musical directing!
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
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Great to workshop an arrangement by @FloriMaunders of a @ChickCorea piece with @NYJOuk and @markatpt ahead of their residency at Ronnie Scott’s later this month #jazz
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@JAGS_MusicDept It was great to work with @daisydrums at Ronnie Scott’s recently and brilliant she was willing to come and adjudicate for Eli!
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
PopFest2023 !! What an evening. Quality from beginning to end. Thank you to Daisy Palmer for a fab adjudication, standing here with duo winners Asia and Maya.
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@JAGS_MusicDept And well organised by Head of Academic Music my talented wife @elinorcmusic wish I could have seen my daughter and nieces performing. It’s a family affair!
Greenwich, London 🇬🇧 English
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@johnredwood As opposed to our appalling management of health and education in England? Which is beginning to feel like a ruse to sell it all off to some random US health provider who has taken enough of your colleagues out to lunch?
Lewisham, London 🇬🇧 English
Gordon Brown’s idea of always giving more powers to the Scottish Parliament encourages the SNP to press for independence. It takes attention away from why they manage the Scottish services badly. They have control of Scottish health and education so why aren’t they better?
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@NYJOuk @jewishmusicUK @Jw3nni what a spectacular afternoon if music - a room full of extraordinary talent and inspirational arrangers/conductors - thank you all so much!
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@johnredwood We could still have a viable and green(ish) coal industry if it hadn’t been run down by the Tories in the 1980s along with our other primary industries to “smash the unions”. Coal arrived from Brazil as free ballast in empty ships. No attempt to protect our own by the Tories!
Camberwell, London 🇬🇧 English
Once again we are relying on coal to keep the lights on. Our steel industry needs coal to survive. Why do Greens insist on us importing it when we could produce it at home and save CO2 on the transport?
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Celebrating nearly Krampusnacht with delicious Nigel Slater recipes from Christmas Chronicles: Pork Chop & Spinach Polenta, spicy chocolate cake… @ Blackheath, London instagram.com/p/Clwovhhr_Er/…
Lewisham, London 🇬🇧 English
When #NYJO do a function we like to go large! Great fun playing for #Salesforce this morning! @ ExCeL London instagram.com/p/Cll8o5nKYa1/…
East Ham, London 🇬🇧 English