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fantasticdrfox.bsky.social
Composer, sometimes a writer about music. Lifelong European.
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Man sollte sich IMMER eine zweite Meinung geben lassen

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

This is the sort of post that annoys me. But I’ve been listening to Les Filles de Kilimanjaro all day and it’s the best Miles Davis record ever, probably because Tony Williams and Herbie Hancock are such incredible players.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Muriel Spark, Loitering with Intent! A meta-fictional tour de force, executed with a lightness of touch that seems to elude other novelists. store.virago.co.uk/products/loi...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

On 7th April, the wonderful Kate Ledger (I don’t think she is on here) performs music by @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social Linda Caitlin Smith and Christian Wolff and a piece by me in a concert in Berlin: www.km28.de

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, @yorkadventurers.bsky.social, last time we visited you we dropped our Iron Age hoard. If you see it can you send it back to us? Thanks! 🤞🤞

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Wie wohl das Passwort von Hegseth ist?

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Just finished the new piece. Can’t decide whether to act like a grown-up and proofread it properly or - much more exciting option - just send it off.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Grantham?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

A big part of the problem is stupid people have been convinced by rich people that AI is God, when AI is closer to an automatic dog food dispenser.

submitted 14 days ago • 730 comments

Wonderful @lporchestra.bsky.social concert in Manchester tonight. Glorious Mahler 5 preceded by an astonishingly beautiful performance of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, Francesco Piemontesi the perfect soloist. Bravo!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect pieces by Stravinsky - a long list, but this must be near the top.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting to see Starmer turning on the arms length principle. I think The Arts Council has had its day. Could easily be taken into DCMS.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

(Nicholas Cage voice) I’m going to pressure wash the Cologne Cathedral

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Another bandcampy thing I'm enjoying today, this lovely album by Quiet Music Ensemble, cracking pieces by @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social Kathy Hinde and others, including one of my favourite composers Rishi Singh quietmusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/snow-p...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

What’s that noise? Oh yes, it’s the world uncoupling from the USA. And away we go…

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Ich glaube, das ist der subtilste Bratschistenwitz, den ich je gesehen/gelesen habe 😂

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

just learning that the iconic canadian prog rock band "Rush" has introduced a devastating 5/8 tariff on all tempo exports to the United States

submitted 29 days ago • 164 comments

Go sound thy trumpet in the market-place

submitted 30 days ago • 9 comments

Have a listen to Quiet Music Ensemble’s recording of Christopher Fox’s ‘qui/nt/et’! Out now on Farpoint Recordings... @fantasticdrfox.bsky.social whatsnew.composersedition.com/new-christop...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

A man in a suit.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

from Ron Carter

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Romanian magic: m.youtube.com/watch?v=G774...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

So it turns out that Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Faust is his grandest achievement. Hurrah! m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gjs...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

"In it use is made of the theory of "sieves", a theory wich annexes the congruences modulo z and which is the result of an axiomatic theory of the universal structure of the music." #contemporary #masterpiece

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s musical delight: m.youtube.com/watch?v=DIfv...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

submitted 37 days ago • 86 comments

In the midst of socio-economic trauma, and after a shocking intervention by an unelected member of the current US ruling coterie, only 1 in 5 German voters wants the AfD.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

submitted 38 days ago • 150 comments

Thou draw not on thy danger and dishonor; For though usurpers sway the rule a while, Yet heav’ns are just, and time suppresseth wrongs.

submitted 39 days ago • 5 comments

Lots of lovely stuff just out on Farpoint Records, even a tune of mine! quietmusicensemble.bandcamp.com/album/snow-p...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a good moment in the creative process when it stops being like a journey without maps and becomes a lot more like flatpack assembly.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment