Pre-concert climb up to, and wander around Stanage Edge near Sheffield. Ideal preparation for an evening of #Chopin , I hope. Music in the Round

📣 Tomorrow:
Tim Horton (piano) | Music in the Round, Sheffield | #Concert
🗓 6 April 2024 | 7:00 pm
📍 Upper Chapel

Tashmina Artists Tim Horton Music in the Round @ChapelUpper #classicalmusic
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Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/2024…

All of the Leonore Piano Trio recordings for Hyperion Records Ltd are now available to stream on Spotify. Leonore Piano Trio Rayfield Allied open.spotify.com/artist/77XjAMh…

Fantastic day of recording yesterday, completing our Ensemble 360 /Claire Booth #Pierrot disc, with music by Musgrave, Schumann, Debussy, Mark, Kowalski, Poldowski, Beach and this gem from Korngold (as well as #Pierrot Lunaire of course, already in the can!). September release!

Here’s something special from our recording session yesterday, gemma rosefield and Tim Horton sounding lush in Korngold. Look out for our #Pierrot CD release in September. There’ll be this and many more delights! #schoenberg150

The band is back together! Sheffield here we come 🥰 ⁦Ensemble 360⁩ ⁦Music in the Round⁩ ⁦

I had a great if exhausting day recording Beach, Musgrave, Marx, Kowalski, Poldowski, Debussy, R. Schumann and Korngold at The Music Room with Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth. Look out for all things Pierrot later in the year.

NEW AUTUMN CONCERTS!

Our Autumn 2024 concerts in Sheffield are now on our website! From Mendelssohn to a Minotaur, and string quartets to qanun, there’s a wide array to come along to!

Priority booking opens 10am, Wednesday 3 April
General booking opens 10am, Wednesday 10 April

Top quality journalism from BBC News (UK) this morning.

Currently led by the worst of us

My thoughts are with all of ENOs chorus, orchestra and music staff we can't stop fighting - otherwise we simply lose the artform to the wealthy

Well, there it is.

I’m not quite sure why Arts Council England has the word “arts” in its name.

Last ever curtain call of this incarnation of English National Opera before the orchestra etc is disbanded. Coincidentally my 2 boys’ (8 & 11) first ever opera (Magic Flute). They were enthralled and thrilled. Those who have let this happen to ENO should be ashamed.

Thomas Blunt Welsh National Opera Lord Ed Vaizey Lucy Frazer MidWalesOpera Years of Tory cuts to ££ for arts and creative sector and delegating inappropriate aspects of govt policy have taken a terrible toll. If there is a The Labour Party govt I will as culture secretary urgently review all financing of creative sector from public to private.

Spare a thought for chorus, orchestra & music staff at English National Opera, for whom a new era begins today, one of reduced contracts & huge uncertainty, both professional & financial. ENO won’t be seen at the Coliseum until next season, depriving London of great opera thanks to Arts Council England

It’s desperate times for opera, with the focus now shifting to Wales and Welsh National Opera and MidWalesOpera, who are both struggling in the face of tough cuts. It’s not an understatement to say that we collectively feel our artform is at grave risk in the UK.

Blessed are the desperate, for they shall be deported…

Daily Mail plumbs new depths today with their shocking front page attack on Angela Rayner. Where were your shock headlines on Mone, Harding, Gove etc., involved in corruption on a massive scale, costing the taxpayer billions? This is politically motivated misogyny and it stinks.

As Jesus said, according to John Hegley, ‘if that’s a Good Friday I wouldn’t want a bad one’