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Here’s something we’ve put together in lockdown. youtu.be/66W7pysiNv8 We’re so grateful to the NHS and other amazing key workers. Hope this brightens your day. #ShineStayInside @TakeThat #ThankYouNHS #ThankYouKeyWorkers #CoronavirusLockdownUK #StaySafeStayHome @GaryBarlow
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Well done to Malakai. Not easy to sing the lower part of this piece, let alone sitting on all those top Abs in the solo version! Good luck for the next stage.
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Office for the Royal Maundy 11.00am @York_Minster: Jackson responses; Psalm 138; My eyes for beauty pine (Coxhead); Beati quorum via (Stanford); Wash me throughly (Wesley); Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake (Farrant); Love bade me welcome (Weir); Zadok the priest (Handel).
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Rehearsing with choir of HM Chapel Royal @York_Minster for #royalmaundy tomorrow.
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Morning!
Your reminder…
That election rigging doesn’t come more obvious than this:
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Fabulous evening with @HuntSchoolMusic @HuntingtonYork at their #LiveLounge event. Not only showcasing exceptional talent, but making a plea for funding to run GCSE and A'Level music. @GillianKeegan it is time music, art, drama and dance were valued. #MusicForAll
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Word of the evening is the Finnish invention ‘hyppytyynytyydytys’: the act of falling with a contented sigh onto the nearest available sofa.
Literal translation: ‘bouncy cushion satisfaction’.
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More questions about BBC Singers and orchestras in the House of Commons, with @Offord4Hendon asking what discussion government has had with the BBC on the cuts
Penny Mourdant notes the BBC has 'demonstrated great skill at doing pragmatic U-turns in a very short space of time' 👇
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NEW LETTER:
The chief conductors of *ALL* the European radio choirs are uniting against the planned closure of the @BBCSingers!
We urge those responsible @BBC to reconsider. This world-class choir must be at the centre of any new strategy for choral music.
#WeAreTheBBCSingers
Anyone know what Gautam Rangarajan, erstwhile tenor Choral Scholar at @ChoirOfKingsCam and now Group Director of Strategy and Performance at the BBC, thinks of the plans for @BBCSingers? bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare…
A reminder of something of the character of the man who faces the Commons Privileges Committee on Wednesday
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Calling all music academics! If you're teaching or studying music anywhere...
Letter for Music Academics to sign in protest against proposed BBC Music cuts: uob-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/…
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Past & current winners of BBC Young Musician have organised a letter about the cuts to @BBCCO @BBCPhilharmonic @BBCSO @BBCSingers We profoundly disagree with the cuts-they cannot be allowed to happen. Please RT widely. @ISM_music @KevinBrennanMP @dailytelegraph @HarrietHarman
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A joint letter to @BBC from Richard King, CEO of Faber Music with John Minch @Boosey and Chris Butler @WMClassical on the proposed closure of @BBCSingers: fabermusic.com/news/uk-class…
#WeAreTheBBCSingers
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More of Less - Orchestras - part 2
“Are we in an area here where we can make some kind of positive statement of intent?”
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The Save Gary campaign has won. Now let’s Save The Singers …. Leaked letter: 'A toxic culture of fear and paranoia' at the BBC, from the D-G down - SlippediscSlippedisc | The inside track on classical music and related cultures, by Norman Lebrecht slippedisc.com/2023/03/leake…
There is something very wrong the top of the BBC
slippedisc.com/2023/03/leake… – at Sowerby, England
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A short statement from the Trustees of the Michael Tippett Musical Foundation about @BBCSingers
