Please would someone inform these elderly vandals that the Magna Carta removed absolute power from the Crown, established the law as separate from government, and is the foundation of our rights as citizens. Methinks they may not have understood its significance…🙄

Thanks KURIER! The audience reception to Mahler 3 with Klaus Mäkelä and Concertgebouworkest last night Musikverein Wien was overwhelming, it really was a special evening.

“Hence the glee at the arts councils: their supposedly anti-elitist mission is well on the way to being accomplished. Yet in Wales of all places, opera has never been an elitist art-form, and WNO’s outstanding community and outreach work supports this…” telegraph.co.uk/opera/what-to-…

I loved being a BBC Radio 3 NGA and had a brilliant 2 years. Good luck all of those joining this amazing programme!

With yesterday’s performance of #Mahler3 we say goodbye to the Concertgebouworkest and Klaus Mäkelä and thank them for a memorable visit. We'd also like to thank the Vienna Boys Choir, the Wiener Singverein and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnston for immersing us in Mahler’s world ✨🎶

About last night…

Mahler 3 with Klaus Mäkelä and Concertgebouworkest at Musikverein Wien

Another death knell for music education in the UK. Without Junior conservatoires, where will our talented young people go to learn to play their instruments at an advanced enough level to be able to apply for undergrad? Where are all the talent pipelines?

.Jennifer Johnston sings #Mahler ’s Symphony No.3 with Concertgebouworkest tonight at the Wiener Musikverein, under the direction of Klaus Mäkelä.

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If Carlsberg did orchestras and concert halls…

Concertgebouworkest Musikverein Wien

Someone fixed it for you, Apple Tim Cook

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.

Really not the context that anyone in the arts wants to see the word ‘orchestra’ used. When’s the General Election?

If that’s how children are being taught to hold instruments, no wonder we’re in trouble…

Well well well. And as Jude Kelly said: “I’m glad that men who were previously comfortable with the club being men-only have thought again and decided that they are now uncomfortable with that arrangement.”

A big gold star to amelia gentleman for her work.

There’s no extra money in any of this, the Hubs aren’t going magically be able to provide music education to every young person in England, whatever Arts Council England would like people to think. We’ll have to wait and see if this reorganisation has any benefit to young people.

Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop, but what if it was rubbish? Audiences are allowed an opinion… theguardian.com/stage/article/…