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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
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★★★★ Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate celebrate Arvo Part's 90th birthday with Evelin Seppar an intriguing point of comparison writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate review - 90th birthday concert also celebrates younger composer
I have always been a bit ambivalent about the music of Arvo Pärt, recognising his achievement in crafting a new kind of choral music, while often finding it hard to love, especially in large doses.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
★★★★ Carice Singers, Parris, St Giles, Cripplegate celebrate Arvo Part's 90th birthday with Evelin Seppar an intriguing point of comparison writes @bernardhughes.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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Was a real-life genuine treat to talk to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today about my book Ghosts of Iron Mountain - and what light the story of the hoax that won't let go sheds on the current crazy.
From 02:35:31 (but listen to the whole show):
www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
From 02:35:31 (but listen to the whole show):
www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
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November 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Was a real-life genuine treat to talk to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk today about my book Ghosts of Iron Mountain - and what light the story of the hoax that won't let go sheds on the current crazy.
From 02:35:31 (but listen to the whole show):
www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
From 02:35:31 (but listen to the whole show):
www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
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Did you know
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321?
1/2
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321?
1/2
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Did you know
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321?
1/2
111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321?
1/2
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
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Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
October 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
You: Tell me more 😏
Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
..........................
hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s
Sadly I didn’t win at the Ivors Classical Awards tonight but very delighted to be nominated - and in very good company. Had fun hanging out with my collaborator on Hear My Heart Sing, Helen Eastman
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sadly I didn’t win at the Ivors Classical Awards tonight but very delighted to be nominated - and in very good company. Had fun hanging out with my collaborator on Hear My Heart Sing, Helen Eastman
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APOLOGIES! Coverage on The Arts Desk @theartsdesk.bsky.social has been disrupted in recent days, as we are moving to a new technical system. Please bear with us, we hope to resume normal service soon! Thank you for your understanding!
November 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
APOLOGIES! Coverage on The Arts Desk @theartsdesk.bsky.social has been disrupted in recent days, as we are moving to a new technical system. Please bear with us, we hope to resume normal service soon! Thank you for your understanding!
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This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is my latest novel. (It almost killed me.) One person who reposts this extract www.tom-cox.com/granny-kettl... will receive a signed hardback AND one of these fab original linocuts
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
You might like it if you like:
Folklore
Old buildings
Friendship
Records
The power & magic of landscape
..
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For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI:
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Bernard Hughes: Perhaps (Epiphoni Consort)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
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November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI:
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
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Others have said it better, but can we remember that the BBC is a lot more than the News teams and, if it falls, a huge amount of our cultural fabric will be collateral damage.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Others have said it better, but can we remember that the BBC is a lot more than the News teams and, if it falls, a huge amount of our cultural fabric will be collateral damage.
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23 years ago, I started work on a show Radio 3 called Night Waves (now Free Thinking), booking discussions about the issues troubling us.
So it was a treat, 23 years, many many documentaries and two books later, to come back and sit in front of one of the mics.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
So it was a treat, 23 years, many many documentaries and two books later, to come back and sit in front of one of the mics.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, The end of civilisations and societies
Peter Hitchens, Rhiannon Firth, Neville Morley, Phil Tinline, Luke Kemp join Shahidha Bari
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
23 years ago, I started work on a show Radio 3 called Night Waves (now Free Thinking), booking discussions about the issues troubling us.
So it was a treat, 23 years, many many documentaries and two books later, to come back and sit in front of one of the mics.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
So it was a treat, 23 years, many many documentaries and two books later, to come back and sit in front of one of the mics.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Not sure I can take nearly 3 more weeks of budget speculation
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Not sure I can take nearly 3 more weeks of budget speculation
For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI:
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Bernard Hughes: Perhaps (Epiphoni Consort)
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI:
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
Perhaps one day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue.
And feel once more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of You
A fun visit to the excellent John le Carré exhibition at the Bodleian library with fellow le Carré nut and old Oxford pal @philtinline.bsky.social. Nostalgia and espionage: the perfect combination
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A fun visit to the excellent John le Carré exhibition at the Bodleian library with fellow le Carré nut and old Oxford pal @philtinline.bsky.social. Nostalgia and espionage: the perfect combination
I’m very much not one of those musical bores who rails against ‘crescendo’ having a broader meaning in non-technical usage.
But I genuinely don’t know what Michael Jackson meant when he says ‘he struck you a crescendo, Annie’. Genuinely baffled
But I genuinely don’t know what Michael Jackson meant when he says ‘he struck you a crescendo, Annie’. Genuinely baffled
November 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m very much not one of those musical bores who rails against ‘crescendo’ having a broader meaning in non-technical usage.
But I genuinely don’t know what Michael Jackson meant when he says ‘he struck you a crescendo, Annie’. Genuinely baffled
But I genuinely don’t know what Michael Jackson meant when he says ‘he struck you a crescendo, Annie’. Genuinely baffled
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Listening to this piece of exquisite beauty. I'm at work, the only one in the office, but it's taking me somewhere else
#np #vaughanwilliams
#np #vaughanwilliams
London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron & Thomas Carroll - Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Listen to Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele, BWV 654 (Arr. for Cello & Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams) on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Listening to this piece of exquisite beauty. I'm at work, the only one in the office, but it's taking me somewhere else
#np #vaughanwilliams
#np #vaughanwilliams
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November 6, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.
November 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
House prices have gone up in the French town of Sauté since it's become gentlyfried.
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New video just up on my YouTube channel: it's the 'Tango' from my Partita Contrafacta, brilliantly played by @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social. Please have a listen!
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
Bernard Hughes - 'Tango' from Partita Contrafacta
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New video just up on my YouTube channel: it's the 'Tango' from my Partita Contrafacta, brilliantly played by @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social. Please have a listen!
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
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New video just up on my YouTube channel: it's the 'Tango' from my Partita Contrafacta, brilliantly played by @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social. Please have a listen!
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
Bernard Hughes - 'Tango' from Partita Contrafacta
YouTube video by Bernard Hughes
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
New video just up on my YouTube channel: it's the 'Tango' from my Partita Contrafacta, brilliantly played by @matthewmillsmusic.bsky.social. Please have a listen!
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
(It's based on an unlikely Bach source-piece, hard to spot I reckon.)
#classicalmusic
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Shout-out to whoever was the setter of the five-clue cryptic in today's i paper, for this spot:
"Let down by two white key separated by the black key between them (7)"
"Let down by two white key separated by the black key between them (7)"
November 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Shout-out to whoever was the setter of the five-clue cryptic in today's i paper, for this spot:
"Let down by two white key separated by the black key between them (7)"
"Let down by two white key separated by the black key between them (7)"
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