I’m sorely tempted to buy a Freudian slip (to go with my Freudian slippers)

Deadline extended to this Friday, 26 April! Please do be in touch if you'd like to publish details of your PhD in French Studies Bulletin 🌟

I moved to Wales for uni in 2009 because it was not only called 'the Land of Song', but actually was.

I had the opportunity to watch operas at Welsh National Opera, sing with and attend concerts by BBC NOW and be inspired by BBC Cardiff Singer of the World.

What will be left for future students?

Milhaud’s lesser-known work.

This Tuesday, the brilliant Riot Ensemble returns to Cardiff Uni Music for a concert of music by myself and my colleagues - looking forward to hearing 3 movements from my piano trio 'Mammals of Southern Africa'!
Tuesday 16.4, 7pm
Composers Edition

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Very pleased to be chairing a new RMA French Music Study Group.

We’re covering everything from des Prez to Debussy, rap to recit, and bringing together French music practitioners to share thoughts and research.

More details to follow!

François Proulx on Proust’s doodles in his letters to Reynaldo Hahn, including a rare self portrait, at #SDNLondon2024

Bonjour. ☕️🥖😊

Ed Clark.
Le peintre de Montmartre
1946. Paris

Very pleased to report that BCU Research has three - yes THREE - Music Education PhD studentships available, two listed under ADM Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, and one under HELS BCU HELS on this page: bcu.ac.uk/student-info/t… NB I've retired now, so can't answer detailed Q's - sorry!

WNO's Death in Venice totally sold out on tour. What should this tell the ACE?

Anyone wanting to question the appalling Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru | Arts Council of Wales decision to cut funding to Welsh National Opera & MidWalesOpera, here’s our chance… I’d like to know why “excellence” appears not to be one of its strategic priorities now. #SaveWNO Lesley Griffiths Rhianon Passmore MS Rebecca Gould

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

Defend arts access. Defend arts funding. Defend arts education!

Share your views here - we'd love to hear from you: campaignforthearts.org/stories/#contr…

It appears that we want future generations to survive, rather than live.

We will no longer have actors for films, theatre and television, singers for the songs we hear in shops or on the radio, or dancers on stages or music videos.

We’ll all just, survive.

PhD Scholarship Opportunity: Applications are invited for fully funded PhD studies in Music at Dublin City University. Deadline 26 April 2024. Click here to read more: journalofmusic.com/listing/28-03-…

Joyeuse Pâques à tous !

Enjoy Marcel Dupré playing his Symphonie-Passion in St-Ouen, Rouen.

Setting ourselves up for our papers on the Cavaillé-Coll at La Madeleine (Drew Cantrill-Fenwick) and French organ symphonies.

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Francis Poulenc’s ‘Tenebrae factae sunt’ for Holy Saturday.

One of the spectacular ‘Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence’.

Francis Poulenc : Tenebrae Factae Sunt - Ensemble la Sportelle youtu.be/bhwECOV1e8U?si… via YouTube