Greta Thunberg outside Eurovision: “I’m here to show we think it is outrageous and inexcusable for Eurovision to let Israel participate while committing a genocide.”
#ESC #Eurovision 2024 #Eurovision #ESC 2024

Three concerts of mainly new music by JACK Quartet Wigmore Hall today. Many premieres, more importantly amazing playing throughout. Glorious day culminated in Liza Lim's String Creatures. So many sounds (winds, electronics, amplification) but just a quartet! Quite miraculous!

5/11/31 Fritz Lang's M, w/Peter Lorre
[Co-W: then-wife + future Nazi Thea von Harbou (div 1933)]
More:
-scam likely/Film School Rejects: filmschoolrejects.com/m-fritz-lang/
-Chris Cabin: slantmagazine.com/film/m/
-kevin maher: thetimes.co.uk/article/m-1931…
-Geoff Andrew: bfi.org.uk/features/fritz…

Like See it, Say it, Sorted and so much else - that apostrophe is an index of the ILLITERACY of our society!

Chamber and String Orchestra music by Huw Watkins on Resonus Classics: shorturl.at/rvwAL

Crushing musical instruments isn’t my idea of incredible power, or of creativity. In fact, this advert is more than a little offensive, Tim Cook, and given how much of a struggle is faced by the music industry, more than a little tone deaf too.

Tonight Wigmore Hall Ian Bostridge saw me take a pic of him & Imogen Cooper after their excellent recital of Goethe songs by Wolf & Schubert. Before lovely Loewe encores, he happily explained this was permissible during applause, referencing his woeful recent experience CBSO

Recent concerts Wigmore Hall have been on a real roll. Especially in Brahms. Wonderful Brahms Piano Trios on Saturday (see previous posts); tonight his String Sextets by Belcea Quartet Jean-Guihen Queyras Tabea Zimmermann were, well, perfection (if such exists).

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Imagine you’re PM of the UK like Sunak and were chancellor before that and helped shifting billions and billions of pounds away from the NHS, the populations‘ Health System that the people of the UK finance via their tax. Away from patients, us.
And then you shift it to your…

The BFI Southbank's Italian Neorealism season continues tomorrow at 20.30 with Alessandro Blasetti's Four Steps in the Clouds + intro by season curator Giulia Saccogna.
For 2-4-1 tickets for this and all other films in the season quote: 'ITALY'.

Tonight's Italian postwar avant-garde fest Barbican Centre by BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus et al was exhilarating & beautifully played throughout. Seen live second time, Berio's remarkable Sinfonia felt overlong, but rest of programme dazzled, especially Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️ in great Maderna Oboe Concerto #3

Has any journalist done more to undermine the reputation of BBC current affairs for impartial, authoritative reporting than Laura Kuenssberg? She’s a cross between a gossip columnist and party activist.

Susan Hall in full sourpuss mode:
'I hope Sadiq Khan stops patronising people like me' 🙄😂

Off you tramp and take your grifting bots with you
#ToriesOut667 #MayThe4th

Two remarkable concerts on consecutive evenings Wigmore Hall - yesterday, lovely Beethoven & Schubert by Chiaroscuro Quartet & Christian Poltéra; tonight (& even better? it felt quite flawless!) the 3 Brahms piano trios by Igor Levit Julia Hagen & Renaud Capuçon - such a treat!

1st movement: 91-118; 123-176; 185-199; 226-341; 352 to end;
2nd movement: 14-19; 21-27; 29-30; 33-58; 71 to end;
3rd movement: 1-36; 46-98; 122-167; 188-238; 275-333; 337-368; 376-410; 418-426; 434-442; 448 to end.

I'm really excited to be playing Brahms 1 next season with one of my favourite orchestras: CBSO I'm happy to be filmed on phones by the audience except for the following bars when I really need to concentrate and could be distracted:

“whether or not you…agree or disagree with the…things it says, this is a very bad document, so bad as to strongly suggest that an organisation that can publish such a report is unfit for purpose.” ⁦Bachtrack⁩ on ⁦⁦Arts Council England⁩ bachtrack.com/opinion-arts-c…

Left: Former UK Prime Ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson say 'the world was safer under Trump', and 'another Trump presidency would be a good thing for the world'

Right: Nancy Pelosi, 'I don't know what they're talking about.. I didn't know they said that and I'm sorry they…

The Rwanda bill makes me sick.

Desperately vulnerable people may now be forced into unnecessary, irrational and ridiculous trauma to placate a culture of racist paranoia that has evolved dramatically under this unconscionable regime.

It would be tempting to label this…