🩷🩷🩷 you can’t beat a Suffolk sky. Although we do have splendid ones here in west Dorset! And Chesil beach reminds me of the shingle at Aldeburgh 😊

Loving the cover artwork on this year’s Britten Pears Arts Festival brochure.

Composer David Matthews discusses his creative life & his love of the Tango with James Francis Brown ahead of a performance by Tango Siempre of David's own distinctive tango arrangements & tangos by the great Astor Piazzolla. Friday 14 June
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“Art eludes the mind of an activist. The best art doesn’t have an agenda, the activist has nothing else.”
Howard Jacobson on the Baillie-Gifford affair.

The anti-Baillie Gifford mob wants to police art. Writers must not give in - New Statesman archive.ph/2024.06.07-090…

Fascinating article (from 2022)

You can hear The Lark Ascending in the lovely arrangement for violin & piano on Wednesday 12 June, performed by Litsa Tunnah & James Francis Brown in a free lunchtime concert at All Saints Hertford
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Putting our stretch of the #JurassicCoast firmly on the musical map with Duncan Honeybourne

'Chamber Music Weymouth' - the new name for Weymouth Lunchtime Chamber Concerts crosseyedpianist.com/2024/06/08/cha… #Weymouth #Concerts #LiveMusic #ClassicalMusic

'we don’t have to reinvent the wheel, but we should own the pieces we perform'

#MeetTheArtist Alban Gerhardt, cellist meettheartist.online/2024/06/08/alb…
Appearing at this year's Aldeburgh Festival Britten Pears Arts

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What's on at the Festival today

Explore Dualisms in Modern Art with art historian Barry Dodge
⏰11am Hertford Museum

Debut of Mira Trio in music by Schubert, Beethoven & James Francis Brown
⏰6pm Friends Meeting House #Hertford
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Everywhere you go on trains you’re vocally reminded what to do and what not to do. You must have a ticket, no smoking, keep your bags out of the aisle, report anything suspicious. The travelling public largely keeps its side of the bargain, not sure it runs both ways

To show your support for Alexandra Wilson , can I urge you to go online and order copies of at least two of her books? Let’s get sales up.

Fab start to the HertMusicFest 🎶🎹🎼

A great start to this year’s festival. Grand hurrahs and bravos to Rossetti Ensemble & Tom Randle 🎵👏🏼🎉👏🏼🎵👏🏼

Took the Coastline Cruises ferry from Portland to Weymouth this morning. Passed the Mulberry harbours used at #DDay landings & today’s visitor to the port. Dolphin spotted briefly too 🐬

Neil Franks just supported @crosseyedpiano on Buy Me a Coffee! 🎉

You can buy me a coffee here — buymeacoffee.com/CrossEydPianis…

The piano at Petworth

⁦Petworth Festival⁩ presents a stellar line up of international pianists - Boris Giltburg, Joanna MacGregor ⁦Ariel Lanyi⁩ & ⁦Leeds International Piano Competition⁩ winner Alim Beisembayev 🎹🎵🎹 mailchi.mp/petworthfestiv…

Dazzling piano duo ⁦Katya Apekisheva⁩ & ⁦Charles Owen⁩
headline this year’s Hertfordshire Festival of Music ⁦HertMusicFest⁩
which opens tomorrow #Hertfordshire #musicfestival #pianoduo crosseyedpianist.com/2024/05/24/daz…

“the very highest level of music-making & extremely imaginative programmes”
- Judith Weir, DBE, Master of the King’s Music

Join us from 7 June

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What's on at the Festival today

My Life in Music with Tom Randle - a composer-to-composer conversation between our Featured Living Composer & James Francis Brown
⏰5.30pm St Mary the Virgin #Ware
#FreeEvent
Afterwards Tom performs with the Rossetti Ensemble
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Our first #livemusic event of the 2024 #Festival features our good friends the Rossetti Ensemble, who perform with our Featured Living Composer Tom Randle
Music by Tom, Vaughan Williams & Dvorak
⏰6.30pm today @ St Mary the Virgin #Ware
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#Concert

It’s an easy journey by train from London as Fran found out when she visited in February and our venues are a short walk from the station & town centre

Come & join us today!

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