Listening to last night's Through the Night and it kicks off with the most INCREDIBLE recording of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony from Sweden, conducted by Daniel Harding. Every hair on my arms standing on end. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
So, farewell then,
The Danish Postal Service.
Will it be marked by playing
The Last Post?
Ironically, it is trending,
Because people are posting about it.
Giving it a first-class send-off,
Before it is stamped out.
(Hans Christian Thribb, 17 and a half kronor)
This is a very silly headline in The Times
Ciaran Jenkins and I have recorded another Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration for Christmas. This year we play The Coventry Carol. To all who are celebrating, wishing you a happy, peaceful Christmas.
Just had a revelation. I shd be listening to R3's "Through the Night" through the day. Knowledgeable presenters introducing the music in excellent, broadcast-trained voices; full concert pieces of all types, often from interesting live performances around the world; why am I not already doing this?
“Starved of investment, British theatre has been cut to the bone. On the fringe, you can see the bones, and you can see them crumbling in front of your eyes.”
Polished fringe shows from overseas shine an ugly light on UK arts funding, says Lyn Gardner 👇
Message from Feedback’s Andrea Catherwood: ‘ #BBCSounds is blocked outside UK today, so if you’re in Ireland or overseas let me know how it affects you - Lots more on this ep of @BBCR4Feedback where I talk to Jonathan Wall head of Sounds (if you can still access it) 👇🏼’
The Senate voted to approve a $9 billion rescission package aimed at clawing back money already allocated for public radio and television — a major step toward winding down nearly six decades of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. https://n.pr/44QnXjT
Macron: "He's a very clever cat"
Merci monsieur le président x
The final scene would have been David Davis showing up without any documents to Brexit talks with Barnier
Le pianiste autrichien Alfred Brendel s'est éteint à l'âge de 94 ans. Interprète majeur de Beethoven, Schubert ou Haydn, il laisse derrière lui un large legs discographique ➡️ https://l.francemusique.fr/C33
www.theguardian.com/football/202... I once found myself sitting next to him in the Upton Park press box talking about the world of opera, which his son & my brother work in, & he dropped into conversation 'I was having dinner once with Pavarotti and Zefirelli...' just your standard West Ham chat.
‘In Chicago, a little-known recently appointed cardinal retweeted another attack on Vance’s statement: “J.D. Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” That cardinal was Robert Prevost.”
Colm Tóibín on Pope Leo, online now from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sorry about reality. My bad.
Peter Bolgar's newspaper obit. Horse Guards, Royal Academy of Music, and BBC. Survived by his wife, 3 children and 8 grandchildren who have happy memories of fun times together
Very sad news from @johnshea63.bsky.social. Peter was a very good egg and a great broadcaster
‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen
We need to act now if we are to save our Arts. Here’s my new blog on Brexit, the Arts Council and my personal experience of “levelling up” raenicholls.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/a...
It might be helpful to know... some quite good things happened in 2024.
Here are a few of them
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Occasionally
This is *definitely* the first time in my life that anyone’s said that to me!
I’ve been here for about twelve hours now, and the first two entities that I’ve reposted are you and God @thetweetofgod.bsky.social. Seems fair enough to me.
Stop trying to make "skeet" happen.
A lot of My new followers here are very reasonably asking if I will follow them in return. No.
