The Stanford Society Particularly looking forward to hearing the violin and organ recital Darius Battiwalla opening our Festival 14.10 Leeds Cathedral Diocese of Leeds Music with Stanford’s pupil Coleridge-Taylor who changed from violin to composition and his guidance redviolin.co.uk/events.php

Hello NORTHERN 🚆 - if you have to cancel a train (1404 Blackburn-York) you should make sure the next service an hour later has more than 2 carriages

Hearing the sound of Couperin on this 1750 organ in Sarlat is an amazing experience, as is trying to play the right notes on the 1750 pedalboard

It is false, and insulting, for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to say it's just donors/elites who don't want the Dem nominee charged with stopping fascism to be a historically unpopular man who consistently fails to deliver our message and who 75% of voters don't think has the cognition to be president.

I guess the Burrell Collection in Glasgow wasn't what the reviewer expected? #Burrell #BurrellCollection #BurrellGlasgow

‘My God, how courageous’: the British choirboys taking on an Indigenous family’s painful story theguardian.com/music/article/…

Four cathedral organs playing simultaneously! - including Darius Battiwalla at Blackburn Cathedral - live-linked to the Dom Church Utrecht, for James Wood's 'Tempestas in Memoriam'. August 1st - live-streamed if you can't be there: ensembleinsomnio.nl/digital-concer… RCO

I’d recommend these to anyone connected with these cities, ⁦The Mill⁩ is brilliant - good writing, proper research, excellent journalism (arts coverage as well!) theguardian.com/media/article/…

Only two days to go - rehearsing with three other organists - over 1000 miles away - simultaneously is quite something!

One of the best people on Twitter Robert Komaniecki gets his own Guardian article! theguardian.com/film/article/2…

Sorry to be grumpy but If we win any more Olympic gold medals I’ll have to leave the room before they play that arrangement of the national anthem again, or I’ll start throwing things at the TV. Was it done by AI?

My followers are crashing... Because people are leaving this place? Because the algorithm is working against me? Because this site is blocking people from following me (that's already happened)? Please help me reach out to followers I've lost by RTing. And let's try to keep this

This amazing piece is going to be part of my life for the next few months (starting at the Edinburgh festival tomorrow). Stunning harmony and orchestration and incredible emotional intensity - give it a listen if you don’t know it! (The Gardiner recording is v good).

Announcing our 2024/25 season of International Organ Saturday Concerts at St Albans Cathedral, St Peter's St Albans and London’s Dutch Church organfestival.com/concerts/ (image: Bucket List Prints)

This wasn’t what I expected from the headline. An uncompromising piece but absolutely spot on. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

My family are sceptical but I honestly didn’t know this was on when I suggested a holiday in Alsace….and it would be rude not to go to at least one concert

The 2024/25 Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music programme has landed! 🤩 Concerts at Leeds Cathedral begin on Mon 16 Sep and are FREE, no booking required. Simply turn up and enjoy the music! To find out more visit leedsconcertseason.co.uk. Darius Battiwalla Leeds Concert Season Visit Leeds

Here’s the direct link to our Leeds 2024-25 organ series. A fantastic variety of music and musicians! leedsconcertseason.co.uk/uploads/2024/0…

In less than a fortnight Darius Battiwalla will open our 24/25 concerts series at St Albans Cathedral with music by Duruflé, Boulanger, Bach/Busoni and Whitlock. Entrance and programme are free. organfestival.com/events/darius-…

A hedge fund multimillionaire turned composer. A businessman with apparent links to the Russian state. A cohort of superstar performers all too happy to look the other way. Welcome to Shorworld, classical music’s lucrative parallel world. VAN Magazine van-magazine.com/mag/alexey-sho…