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jonathanclinch.bsky.social
Lecturer, Royal Academy of Music.
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Parry (born on this day in 1848), Piano Trios... open.spotify.com/album/6aTwu2...

Just finished a first draft of an essay on Elizabeth Maconchy's orchestral works. The more I study, the more I think she was a total genius...

Marking the anniversary of the death of Herbert Howells with his Paean...playing from the copy he gave to Sir David Willcocks... ❤️

A beautiful song for the 50th anniversary of Eric Thiman's death. An inspiring musician, particularly for me, teaching harmony at RAM almost a century later. Songs, chamber music and a significant body of church music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyCd...

Looking forward to talking all things English Song tonight at the 1901 Arts Club. Music by Finzi, Howells, Venables & Muhly. 1901artsclub.com/whats-on.html

Listening to some Sunday night Howells and making this face at each delicious chord, ie pretty much every other bar

Research Round Up AUTUMN '24 www.ram.ac.uk/news/researc...

👇🏼Just signed. Please join me... 👇🏼 If you destroyed anything else this valuable you'd be locked up or sectioned... chng.it/2H7ZZcykJR

Madness. An outstanding music department (along with many others) is just going to be thrown in the bin. Have we lost all sense of value today?

7 hours of teaching 😃 98% coffee

Surreal to be teaching English Song, which sets poems from the Golden Treasury, in Palgrave's former home (now part of RAM).

Maurice Duruflé (born 11 January 1902) youtu.be/fwv3mGd06yg

Robert Saxton In the bleak midwinter (2023) (tune in tenor) youtu.be/YgawZWe7sj0

A new year virus has floored me this week, but the recovery time has been made infinitely better by the energy and life in Elizabeth Maconchy's orchestral works (book chapter hopefully coming soon)... open.spotify.com/track/61rzkm...

Very proud of @tomedney.bsky.social for his work editing AC-T's music. Who knows where a PhD will take you!?

Impoverished authors are told they should do it for the love. Try saying that to a dentist | Gareth Rubin

T. S. Eliot died on this day in 1965. This photograph showing his empty desk was taken at the Faber office on Russell Square the day after Eliot's death.

Me, on the end of The Musical Times. thecritic.co.uk/final-notes/

Time for breakfast.... #HappyNewYear2025

A gem...

Traditionally, Christmas really begins during midnight mass when the first drunk of Christmas falls over... this time *into* the choir 🎶🌲🎅🏼

#MerryChristmas The Holly and The Ivy Robert Saxton, 2023 youtu.be/wREDZx0QMTI?...

Christmas Eve = Chosen Hill and Finzi In Terra Pax, imho. I talked to Radio 4 about it... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All I want for #Christmas is... to get all the way through the season without forgetting which keys I'm supposed to be playing half the carols in... #transpositionisnotjustforChristmas

Yesterday's spectacular service from Notre Dame has sent me back down the rabbit hole of Olivier Latry's discography. Nothing quite like his #Messiaen for making you feel alive... open.spotify.com/album/5TCwJo...

Lord Britten. d.4th December 1976. open.spotify.com/track/6wE08X...

William Hague wins race to be Oxford university chancellor https://www.ft.com/content/b1145397-7bf6-4496-ac7e-0291774d93ac

Nothing says Merry Christmas like the golden head of J S Bach...

This is beautiful.

Howells: King of Glory (1949) youtu.be/AHiqTQ5BrYQ #ChristTheKing

Authors, I am begging you not to agree to this. Your work is worth so much more than what Harper is offering. And to be clear, they're offering a pittance of money, yes, with a very generous helping of obsolescence. This is absolutely shameful behavior on the part of a publisher.

Distinct lack of trains... 🥶🥶🥶

“I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by; And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking.” My Sunday.

This addictive performance by Sian Dicker of Walton’s ‘Old Sir Faulk’ from our latest album is doing some lovely numbers on Insta - so here it is for our new Bluesky family 🫶 youtu.be/h_xUX_rKxYA?...

The Howells Society Podcast. Composer David Bednall discusses Howells' legacy with @jonathanclinch.bsky.social youtu.be/SOYzx6AD6Hc

This is what the 'kids area' of every pub should look like. Small bench to sleep on in front of a fire 🔥 No music, no TV. Bliss.

There's a broadcast of Britten's 'Curlew River' on BBC4 tonight at 7:45, the Aldeburgh production earlier this year to mark the work's 60th anniversary.

Two new pieces launched into the world at Temple Church 😃 Happy organist, happy composer!

🎁 Present time! A new #Christmas piece 🎄 Robert Saxton, The Holly and the Ivy youtu.be/wREDZx0QMTI

Radio 4 at 3pm 😃 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Day 1 of auditions... Day 1 of Bluesky... Fingers crossed