Bernard Hughes
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Bernard Hughes
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Bernard Hughes - Hear My Heart Sing (extracts)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
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Sound on for a short sampler of Hear My Heart Sing, in a new recording out later this week by the brilliant Epiphoni Consort.
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
Hear My Heart Sing is a choral showpiece celebrating the joy of singing together through the biology and imagery of the heart
I’ve been a cricket nut for over 40 years but the T20 World Cup is filling me with nothing but indifference. Perhaps I’m just old - but this format of 9-an-over batting and 25-ball 50s has become nothing more than a dull lottery
#T20WC
#T20WC
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
I’ve been a cricket nut for over 40 years but the T20 World Cup is filling me with nothing but indifference. Perhaps I’m just old - but this format of 9-an-over batting and 25-ball 50s has become nothing more than a dull lottery
#T20WC
#T20WC
February 7, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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All of us during the Olympics:
February 7, 2026 at 9:13 PM
All of us during the Olympics:
A week today! My piece Hear My Heart Sing is kicking off this brilliant-looking programme of choral music on Saturday 14 at St Gabriel's, Pimlico in London. Tickets still available!
Very delighted to be the opener for this 10 years anniversary of the fabulous pro choir Sonoro in London two weeks tonight. Hear My Heart Sing is a favourite of my own choral pieces and I know will sound great. Tickets available now - do come if you can! www.ticketsource.co.uk/sonoro
February 7, 2026 at 10:56 AM
A week today! My piece Hear My Heart Sing is kicking off this brilliant-looking programme of choral music on Saturday 14 at St Gabriel's, Pimlico in London. Tickets still available!
As a teenager I read my sister's Judy Blume books, of course I did. On a whim I've just gone back to my favourite, Tiger Eyes, and boy does it still stand up. It's extraordinary. A beautifully observed and heartbreaking story of traumatic bereavement, it moved me to tears more than once
February 7, 2026 at 10:21 AM
As a teenager I read my sister's Judy Blume books, of course I did. On a whim I've just gone back to my favourite, Tiger Eyes, and boy does it still stand up. It's extraordinary. A beautifully observed and heartbreaking story of traumatic bereavement, it moved me to tears more than once
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Winter Olympics should just be all the Olympics events but on ice. Weightlifting on ice. Judo on ice. 110m hurdles on ice.
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Winter Olympics should just be all the Olympics events but on ice. Weightlifting on ice. Judo on ice. 110m hurdles on ice.
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Phil Spector's brother, Crispin, was Head of Quality Control for Walkers.
February 3, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Phil Spector's brother, Crispin, was Head of Quality Control for Walkers.
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★★★★ Massed forces for lesser-known Elgar oratorio: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hertfordshire Chorus, Temple, RFH, but a committed and high-class performance doesn’t quite overcome doubts about the piece says @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 AM
★★★★ Massed forces for lesser-known Elgar oratorio: Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hertfordshire Chorus, Temple, RFH, but a committed and high-class performance doesn’t quite overcome doubts about the piece says @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
A new score-follow video just up on my YouTube channel: my setting of Robert Burns' heartbreaking The Winter it is Past, sung here by the BBC Singers. Treat yourself to a listen!
Bernard Hughes - The Winter it is Past (score follow)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
youtu.be
February 1, 2026 at 8:16 PM
A new score-follow video just up on my YouTube channel: my setting of Robert Burns' heartbreaking The Winter it is Past, sung here by the BBC Singers. Treat yourself to a listen!
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This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life
This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
This piece of brilliance from @vizcomic.bsky.social is the story of my life
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Carole had her usual travel sickness so we will have to wash the car out tomorrow.
February 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Carole had her usual travel sickness so we will have to wash the car out tomorrow.
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you have not heard the end of thi
January 31, 2026 at 10:38 AM
you have not heard the end of thi
#np Bach Lutheran Masses vol 1
BACH LUTHERAN MASSES VOLUME ONE - YouTube
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February 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
#np Bach Lutheran Masses vol 1
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In April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)
January 31, 2026 at 8:55 PM
In April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)
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Very delighted to be the opener for this 10 years anniversary of the fabulous pro choir Sonoro in London two weeks tonight. Hear My Heart Sing is a favourite of my own choral pieces and I know will sound great. Tickets available now - do come if you can! www.ticketsource.co.uk/sonoro
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Very delighted to be the opener for this 10 years anniversary of the fabulous pro choir Sonoro in London two weeks tonight. Hear My Heart Sing is a favourite of my own choral pieces and I know will sound great. Tickets available now - do come if you can! www.ticketsource.co.uk/sonoro
Very delighted to be the opener for this 10 years anniversary of the fabulous pro choir Sonoro in London two weeks tonight. Hear My Heart Sing is a favourite of my own choral pieces and I know will sound great. Tickets available now - do come if you can! www.ticketsource.co.uk/sonoro
January 31, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Very delighted to be the opener for this 10 years anniversary of the fabulous pro choir Sonoro in London two weeks tonight. Hear My Heart Sing is a favourite of my own choral pieces and I know will sound great. Tickets available now - do come if you can! www.ticketsource.co.uk/sonoro
I haven’t posted about my favourite contemporary composer Guillaume Connesson for a while, so here is his exhilarating Flammenschrift, which I love from the first note to the irresistible final few seconds
CONNESSON Flammenschrift
YouTube video by Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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January 31, 2026 at 9:01 AM
I haven’t posted about my favourite contemporary composer Guillaume Connesson for a while, so here is his exhilarating Flammenschrift, which I love from the first note to the irresistible final few seconds
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You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
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★★★★★ Brutality and transcendence: Bryn Terfel stars as Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera, where deep sound under Mark Wigglesworth complements Richard Jones's vision finds @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/opera/boris-...
January 31, 2026 at 7:22 AM
★★★★★ Brutality and transcendence: Bryn Terfel stars as Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera, where deep sound under Mark Wigglesworth complements Richard Jones's vision finds @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/opera/boris-...
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Late music from a 20th century giant, a neglected symphony and an epic work for solo guitar: dirge canons, dances and a donkey feature in this week's classical CD round up chosen by @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
January 31, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Late music from a 20th century giant, a neglected symphony and an epic work for solo guitar: dirge canons, dances and a donkey feature in this week's classical CD round up chosen by @grahamrickson.bsky.social @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Rich man with home (homes?) doesn’t want other people having one too
January 28, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Rich man with home (homes?) doesn’t want other people having one too
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we call our cat Harold Pinter because of his long paws!!! also he had an affair with Joan Bakewell
January 27, 2026 at 3:11 PM
we call our cat Harold Pinter because of his long paws!!! also he had an affair with Joan Bakewell
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An intense but joyful recording session last Saturday of my upper voice choral repertoire. Great working again with Epiphoni Consort, with @mcdperc.bsky.social and @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social, and audio by @johncroft.bsky.social. A complete dream team - can't wait to hear the first edits!
January 27, 2026 at 10:28 AM
An intense but joyful recording session last Saturday of my upper voice choral repertoire. Great working again with Epiphoni Consort, with @mcdperc.bsky.social and @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social, and audio by @johncroft.bsky.social. A complete dream team - can't wait to hear the first edits!