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jkaconductor.bsky.social
Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
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Mozz being particularly helpful…

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The grandeur of the Midori Margarita.

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It’s brilliant. Made waiting around on jury service for days on end an absolute pleasure.

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I just have no words for the staggering levels of ignorance and backwards thinking in this piece. I know there's no money, but abusing the sector with spiteful badly-informed drivel is low.

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I love the fact that in the Bond books: a) He's only five years from retirement, and b) The retirement age (for SiS) was 45

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The question is, why would I follow a journalist/publication for detailed critical political insight if they're too obtuse to recognise a Hitlergruß when it's show to them from multiple angles?

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“I would love to kindle in modern audiences just ten per cent of that readiness to go into a concert hall and be surprised and delighted in the unexpected”

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“I would love to kindle in modern audiences just ten per cent of that readiness to go into a concert hall and be surprised and delighted in the unexpected”

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Honoured to be the subject of this month's BBC Music Magazine interview, which you can read in full (££) here: www.classical-music.com/magazine

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Honoured to be the subject of this month's BBC Music Magazine interview, which you can read in full (££) here: www.classical-music.com/magazine

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And good night from Mozz.

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Grace Williams #BOTD in 1906; And a finał round up of the very nice reactions to our recent disc.

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Blaise Malaba sings 'Épouse quelque brave fille' from Massenet's Manon PART 2 Blaise will join Opera Holland Park for Verdi's magnificent Quattro pezzi sacri in concert at Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, on 27 February. Book now via the link in bio! #Verdi #concert #opera

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😳😬😳😬

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For many ‘puritans’ a ‘church’ was the gathering of people, not the building itself. Moreover, for some, cathedral buildings were too redolent of ‘catholicism’ to be comfortable as places to gather in. Fortunately they were too well built to be easily demolished!

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Born #OTD in 1906, Welsh composer, Grace Williams. Pupil of RVW & fellow RCM student with Britten, output incl an opera, 2 symphonies, concerti & a mass. The Ballads (1968) were premiered by Royal PO & Charles Groves at 1968 National Eisteddfod. open.spotify.com/track/1tlQos... #britsymphyear

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Meanwhile despite almost never wearing one, I seem to have acquired an extremely fine set of ties over the years. Perhaps I will in future embrace the Edwardian gentleman look. It’ll please @paullay.bsky.social of no-one else….

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Can state for the record that I have never once been asked for my pronouns, nor ever been given a list of outlawed language or terms. And I work in the performing arts….

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This fabulous. Venus, Jupiter and Mars are SO bright at the moment!

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