Take your seat!
1: Complete silence the entire flight
2: Tells you his sordid love story
3: You leave feeling weirdly German
4: Swapping grooming product info
5: The most fun
6: Fretting that the plane might crash
7: French only need apply
8: Somehow better airplane food!
Was there last night - discovered a masterpiece! I donβt want to say βstunningβ - but thatβs what it was! LSO, Rattle and company at their peak.
Composer, scholar (and my teacher) Anthony Milner would have been 100 in 2025. Andrew McCrea and I will be celebrating his life and work - Royal College of Music, 21 January 2026. 5.15 pm.
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Now available to pre-order!
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My new favourite video of all time.
Celebrate any time of the year with #AlbanBerg's #Wozzeck...on ICE! 'Weh! Weh! ich wasche mich mit Blut! Das Wasser ist Blut...'
Oh miracle!
As one of those who was lucky enough to have had so many amazing experiences through the Erasmus programme itβs wonderful to see its return.
To celebrate todayβs news, a portrait of Erasmus (1466-1536); translator, scholar, humanist and fierce defender of reasoned debate. He insisted on arguing in Latin because the act of stopping and translating oneβs thoughts was an impediment to publishing anything intemperate or ill-considered.
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News from Signum Records. Out in April 2026.
Franz Liszt having a miserable time with his students.
Great culture can save lives. Literally.
Amazing letter in todayβs @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
happy bday German writer/philosopher Friedrich Schiller, b.1759.
βKeep true to the dreams of thy youth.β
βBe noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.β
βTruth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.β
An octopus doesn't have ears but it can detect low-frequency sounds using organs called statocysts. The brain is also decentralized; in addition to the one in the mantle, each arm has brain-like abilities.
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Love is the greatest gift you can give and receive π
Buddha
#Love #Gift #Rose #Buddha
Boosey & Hawkes today announces a leadership transition in 2026. After an extraordinary 46-year career, Janis Susskind OBE concludes her tenure as Managing Director in June 2026, handing the baton to Steven Lankenau, B&H Senior Vice President.
A consultation has progressed on proposals for a new national park stretching across north-east Wales and Powys
'Friday Night', Hammersmith (1958) by Ruskin Spear
(De Beers Art Collection)
A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.
My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed the programme!
βI sense Brussels is ready to be bold and ambitiousβ: hope mixes with anger on Brexitβs fifth anniversary
Post a pic you took with no description to bring some zen to the timeline
