Dan Elphick
@danelphick.bsky.social
Music Lecturer at RHUL, working on music history and analysis, and Slavic studies. Also a runner and TU organiser (@rhucu.bsky.social). Listen to Shostakovich. I wrote a book on Weinberg: https://tinyurl.com/5xs2h82h
https://danielelphick.co.uk
https://danielelphick.co.uk
It's not every night that you open a gig for Nick Cave! A truly wonderful concert, intimate and moving. And the beautiful surroundings of St. Bart's made it even more special. One to remember for a long time to come.
December 20, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's not every night that you open a gig for Nick Cave! A truly wonderful concert, intimate and moving. And the beautiful surroundings of St. Bart's made it even more special. One to remember for a long time to come.
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The joint conference of the RMA, SMI, and EADH (Queen's University Belfast, 29 Aug-1 Sept 2026) is extending its proposals deadline to noon (BST) on Friday 2 January 2026, as it has come to our attention that one key adjacent support network has not had a chance to disseminate news of the call.
RMA-SMI-EADH Conference 2026 | SARC | Queen's University Belfast
www.qub.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
The joint conference of the RMA, SMI, and EADH (Queen's University Belfast, 29 Aug-1 Sept 2026) is extending its proposals deadline to noon (BST) on Friday 2 January 2026, as it has come to our attention that one key adjacent support network has not had a chance to disseminate news of the call.
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🚨 NEWS!🚨 For everyone attending the Research Students’ Conference next month, due to an extended Christmas shutdown at BCU (our associated university), the last day of booking is Thursday 18th December.
BFE and RMA Research Students’ Conference 2026
BFE and RMA Research Students’ Conference 2026 The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and Royal Musical Association (RMA) Research Students’ Conference will take place at Royal Birmingham Conser...
www.bcu.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
🚨 NEWS!🚨 For everyone attending the Research Students’ Conference next month, due to an extended Christmas shutdown at BCU (our associated university), the last day of booking is Thursday 18th December.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
I have my last lecture of term today! It feels like it's been an especially long Autumn term.
December 12, 2025 at 8:13 AM
I have my last lecture of term today! It feels like it's been an especially long Autumn term.
(blowing the dust off my youtube channel to re-share a video)
Here's my 7-minute video on the 'Word' chord in 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpG...
Here's my 7-minute video on the 'Word' chord in 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpG...
The Best Christmas Chord of all
YouTube video by Cult of Musicology
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
(blowing the dust off my youtube channel to re-share a video)
Here's my 7-minute video on the 'Word' chord in 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpG...
Here's my 7-minute video on the 'Word' chord in 'O Come, All Ye Faithful'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXpG...
My next book has a presence on the Boydell & Brewer website. 'Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880: Sounding "Polish"'. Available Spring 2026!
boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...
Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880
Examines music's role in political and cultural images of Poland during a period in which Poland regained independence, suffered cruelly in warfare, was a member of the Soviet bloc, then overthrew com...
boydellandbrewer.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
My next book has a presence on the Boydell & Brewer website. 'Constructing Polish Musical Identities outside Poland since 1880: Sounding "Polish"'. Available Spring 2026!
boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/constru...
For the first time ever in my career, I have just clicked 'send' on an application for promotion. Time to have a cup of tea and de-stress, just a bit...
(before then heading into work to run a concert this evening)
(before then heading into work to run a concert this evening)
December 5, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For the first time ever in my career, I have just clicked 'send' on an application for promotion. Time to have a cup of tea and de-stress, just a bit...
(before then heading into work to run a concert this evening)
(before then heading into work to run a concert this evening)
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The Brexit project - via a very obviously empirical reality - is losing any economic, socially and political narrative that held up, to leave naked it's pure nationalistic, racist, England-centric rotten core.
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The Brexit project - via a very obviously empirical reality - is losing any economic, socially and political narrative that held up, to leave naked it's pure nationalistic, racist, England-centric rotten core.
'Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments
Exclusive: Group’s open letter says Reform UK leader must take responsibility for behaviour as a schoolboy
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
'Holocaust survivors call on Nigel Farage to apologise over alleged antisemitic comments'
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
From a friend: a cinema near me was offering 'Baby Club' tickets to see the 'Nuremberg' film. It's certified '15' and bears the warning that it features "images of real dead bodies".
It somehow doesn't scream 'child-friendly' to me?
It somehow doesn't scream 'child-friendly' to me?
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
From a friend: a cinema near me was offering 'Baby Club' tickets to see the 'Nuremberg' film. It's certified '15' and bears the warning that it features "images of real dead bodies".
It somehow doesn't scream 'child-friendly' to me?
It somehow doesn't scream 'child-friendly' to me?
I am referencing my own writing and other media appearances in a lecture tomorrow morning. I always show this image in lectures any time I have to reference my own writing.
November 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
I am referencing my own writing and other media appearances in a lecture tomorrow morning. I always show this image in lectures any time I have to reference my own writing.
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The simplest definition of "enshittification" is this:
Google has made it ridiculously difficult to google things and get a genuinely useful result.
Google has made it ridiculously difficult to google things and get a genuinely useful result.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
The simplest definition of "enshittification" is this:
Google has made it ridiculously difficult to google things and get a genuinely useful result.
Google has made it ridiculously difficult to google things and get a genuinely useful result.
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RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
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Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
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There is no viable path toward financial stability for anything in AI. It’s all gonna collapse and our economy is going to tank as a result of so many institutions carelessly hedging their bets on it.
Some great charts on #AI from the Wall Street Journal. t.ly/xvvbw "AI products would have to create an additional $650 billion a year, indefinitely, to give investors a reasonable 10% annual return. That’s more than 150% of Apple’s yearly revenue"
November 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
There is no viable path toward financial stability for anything in AI. It’s all gonna collapse and our economy is going to tank as a result of so many institutions carelessly hedging their bets on it.
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Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield awarded the AMS Otto Kindledey Award
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield awarded the AMS Otto Kindledey Award
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/
‘BBC apologise to Trump: “We asked Panorama to edit one of your speeches to make it make sense, but they couldn’t”’
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
‘BBC apologise to Trump: “We asked Panorama to edit one of your speeches to make it make sense, but they couldn’t”’
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Student Committee Election - Call for Candidates
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/12/student-committee-election-call-for-candidates-3/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/12/student-committee-election-call-for-candidates-3/
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Student Committee Election - Call for Candidates
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/12/student-committee-election-call-for-candidates-3/
https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/12/student-committee-election-call-for-candidates-3/
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
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I *still* believe that the BBC is excellent, despite its ever growing list of flaws.
*When* it's sold off for parts future generations won't know what they missed
*When* it's sold off for parts future generations won't know what they missed
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I *still* believe that the BBC is excellent, despite its ever growing list of flaws.
*When* it's sold off for parts future generations won't know what they missed
*When* it's sold off for parts future generations won't know what they missed