OUT TODAY!! My recording of #Haiku by Michael Berkeley in #Collaborations on Orchid Classics. This beautiful music captures the idiosyncratic motion of birds - blackbirds in a birdbath, languorous red kites and the swoop of a Barn Owl in flight🦉orchid-music.lnk.to/Collaborations

Really delighted our early recording of Michael’s marvellous cycle, Speaking Silence is included on this Collaborations disc…⁦Michael Berkeley⁩ ⁦Orchid Classics⁩ ⁦ALICE COOTE OBE⁩ orchid-music.lnk.to/Collaborations

Thank you, means a lot as that was what we were aiming for

On Private Passions at noon today BBC Radio 3 Professor Brian Cox who encourages us to understand that the universe is very large and our place in it very small. His music includes the jazz improviser Keith Jarrett, Mahler, Charles Ives and Richard Strauss.

This seems to be taking off
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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3 my guest is Dorothy Byrne for 20 years Head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4. She talks about the sexism and harassment she experienced as a young producer. With Mozart, Handel, Amy Beach, Nina Simone and Hildegard of Bingen.

tMany thanks for generous birthday wishes. This being released on June 14 a much appreciated offering:

Absolutely agree. A warrior on behalf of music and the arts.

Sir Bob Neill KC (Hon) Indeed, Sir Bob. We will need strong voices in GOV.UK speaking up for classical #Music and #Opera once both of you have gone. 😞@ThangamMP Kevin Brennan Alex Davies-Jones Simon Baynes Jo Stevens Nick Trench Michael Berkeley Baroness Randerson Lord Ed Vaizey

On Private Passions BBC Radio 3 at noon my guest is Imtiaz Dharker who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, and has published seven collections of her verse. She illustrates all her collections with pen and ink drawings.

On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3, Harry Cliff, a particle physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. He is passionate about explaining these mysteries to the widest possible audience and has curated two major exhibitions at the Science Museum in London.

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#Music #Science
Harry Cliff
Private Passions
Sunday 12:00
BBC Radio 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is the physicist Harry Cliff Harry Cliff, who works on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
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On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3, Alison Owen, one of the UK’s leading film producers. Her most recent film is Back to Black.Alison is the mother of a high-profile star herself: the singer Lily Allen.
Her music choices include Beethoven, Coltrane, Ravel and Puccini.

Can't bear that Covid kept me away from this but thanks be for the July broadcast on R3 in July

Well done, Martha. V happy to join your many sponsors, Michael

On Private Passions at noon BBC Radio 3 American writer Percival Everett. His latest novel is a powerful re-telling of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A horse trainer, cowboy and jazz guitarist he plays Dvorak, Schoenberg and a music from Holst’s The Planets.

We are delighted to welcome Robert Laidlow to the Music Patron platform 🎉

Robert Laidlow is concerned with developing new forms of musical expression through the relationship between advanced technology, scientific collaboration, and live performance.

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Great that the Government has compromised over infected blood otherwise it was facing another Post Office type scandal and national outrage,

If I was not laid up with COVID I would be there