No Nono?

Half-watching an Australian game show and someone just said Jeremy Hunt is the Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ecuador

People need to stop asking musicians this interview question

feeling homesick for london but this is helping

sorry what

There is not one line in this that isn't, by itself, the funniest thing I've ever read.
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…

BFI has a 1986 doc on the life and work of Cornelius Cardew up to watch for free for those in the UK (or just vpn it elsewhere!) player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watc…
(i've just finished watching it – thanks to Robin Rimbaud - Scanner for the tip!)

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

Another dash to the Netherlands coming up with Joseph Havlat in a month, courtesy of International Holland Music Sessions - IHMS — Ravel, Sibelius, C Schumann, Falla at Theater de Purmaryn, just outside Ams, May 26. depurmaryn.nl/agenda/seizoen…

This entire album is —completely— ravishing. thx 4 rec Hugh Morris
open.spotify.com/album/6J4lSQIC…

I’ve always thought Festen would make a bloody great opera and I am stoked that Mark-Anthony Turnage is actually doing it

Ofc I run away to rural Victoria, alone, only to meet several Londoners

anyway hi from here

Sooooo #babyreindeer completely brilliant and shattering. Hope the stage version comes back sometime

Last week, SWR Kultur (SWR) broadcast the WP of Christian Mason’s large scale cycle for vox, elecs, ensemble + theremin, ‘Hölderlin’s Madness’, recorded ZKM Karlsruhe last Dec w Explore Ensemble Thorwald Jørgensen + SWR Experimentalstudio.
Listen here:
swr.de/swrkultur/musi…

Very sad to hear we’ve lost the wonderful Sir Andrew Davis, such a shining light of enthusiasm and positivity in this industry. I’m so grateful I had the opportunity to work with him + Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2019 on one of his fave pieces. A beautiful conductor and delightful human.

So so sad not to be in London for this. If you are, go to Wiggy and cheer loudly for my lovely and brilliant dad ♥️

Wrapping up a lovely week in Melb/Naarm, workshopping a new chamber opera by Victoria Pham alongside cellist (and Mr. Pham) Daniel Pini. Big thanks to Arts House + City of Melbourne for bringing me here + making this possible! Now for a week off (!!???) followed by Canberra International Music Festival.

BRETTFEST (©️David Butt Philip) TOMORROW — 11am, 3pm, 7.30pm! 420 years of music, Benjamin Grosvenor, Doric String Quartet, Jennifer France, Nash Ensemble, Lawrence Power. Will be GR8

Great article in The New York Times about Vlad Jurowski and the role of politics in art, including some nice words about the new BayerischeStaatsoper Die Passagierin: “the performance, the staging and the architecture of the piece itself was shattering and stark”.
nytimes.com/2024/04/09/art…

Composers - another promising text for setting below - may require copyright permission...