Classical music and satire, together at last.

London, England
Joined April 2015
Throwcase retweeted
Why more people don't get into German lieder I have NO idea
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That was a rubbish answer to "sum up Meistersinger in 10 seconds". Here it is in 3 words: Nuremberg's Got Talent. #r4today
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Revisiting this for an audition this evening; fair to say Arthur Jacobs's translation hasn't aged that well...
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If drawing is like taking a line for a walk, I love Mendelssohn for taking a tune and doing the same.
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So hard to strike the right note when titling your autobiography.
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This is a lieder audience. Elbow patches; pashminas; scarves; multi-gender perms; corduroy. And that's just me.
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Everyone trying to get to grips with the new office phone system sounds like multiple performances of Voix Humaine going on simultaneously.
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I liked a @YouTube video from @igudesmanandjoo youtu.be/6PQNgCsLiLU?a Yuja Wang is THE CLONE
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As a singer, I really can't stand the key of E minor. It gives me the E-B-G-Bs.
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PUBLIC RELATIONS is an anagram of ‘crap built on lies’.
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Why write in 4/4 when you can write in 4/8? 32nd/64th notes = complexity = skilled composer (jk tho - I'd never have 4 beats in a measure)
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A quality composition should be indistinguishable from a cry for help
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Boy, when Handel has nothing to say he sure likes to repeat it. – at Birmingham, England
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We need to reinstate the "sofa stalls" @wigmore_hall (@Olympic_Cinema has them 😍) xitter.cf/wigmore_hall/status/81…
Busoni Recital at the Hall – The hottest ticket in town on 26 November 1902
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Petition to once again have Ceci's aesthetic be Biker Chick With Impractical Gloves xitter.cf/wigmore_hall/status/81…
Cecilia Bartoli made her Wigmore Hall debut on 24 September 1989
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A Christmas Carol service in Sri Lanka has accidentally printed the lyrics of Tupac’s Hail Mary, instead of the prayer. #SriLanka #lka
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Can't help but feel we're playing with fire here.
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If you thought 2016 was bad - I'm releasing an album in 2017.
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NATTER-PARTY was 1930s slang for a noisy but inconclusive debate.
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‘To sing placebo’ meant ‘to flatter someone ingratiatingly’ in 14th century English.
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