Lover of classical music and opera (Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Elgar). Enjoy cities, their buildings, art and culture, good food, most drink and chat
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A privilege to attend this evening's launch event for a new opera company. Its first production: Handel's Rodelinda next February (27/28) at a venue that's new to me - The Tabernacle in Notting Hill.
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David Cloke retweeted
Jon Vickers aurait eu 100 ans aujourd’hui. Un timbre singulier, un Énée marquant : retour sur le ténor canadien et notre portrait d’archives.
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David Cloke retweeted
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to:
Johns Hopkins Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Fund
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Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Caregiver Resources
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Photo Credit: Tommy Garcia
David Cloke retweeted
James Baillieu to be take over from Tamsin Waley-Cohen as artistic director of the Two Moors Festival. My article:
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At Holy Trinity Church, Rotherhithe to hear Musica Antica, Harriet Burns and more perform a programme of music by Purcell, Eccles and Simpson
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If UK wants immigration to fall, losing tax revenues by £4 billion, higher taxes, lower spending, more borrowing must plug the hole. So much for the rightwing myth that migrants are a drain on their host country: if anything, they’ve been bailing UK out
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A Proms performance of Malcolm Arnold’s fifth symphony. Of interest @PlusTovell?
It was! Urging us to know how wonderful it is. A few years later I saw him conduct it again, this time at the Barbican. Excited to discover that he will conduct the 7th there next April, again with the @BBCSO. This Proms perf. was released on this disc which I found online.
David Cloke retweeted
I approached David McVicar's new Turandot for @ScottishOpera with great expectations… but hardly expected to see Miss Havisham herself on stage!
Review 👇
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David Cloke retweeted
Review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: City Lights ballet is a Chaplin triumph for the National Ballet of Japan @nntt_ballet
The City Lights ballet tells Chaplin’s silent story with absolute clarity, as Kosuke Okumura’s double tours and twirling walking stick bring the tramp to life. - @GWDanceWriter
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Looking forward to this tomorrow in a very atmospheric setting in South East London: musicaantica.org.uk/in-guilt…
David Cloke retweeted
The Glutton! A poster produced in 1909 by the Budget League, a pressure group formed of Liberal Party members to campaign for the passing of Lloyd George's 1909 budget, which faced fierce opposition from the Conservatives. Seen in the People's History Museum, Manchester.
David Cloke retweeted
3/3 At one time there were eight synagogues for different traditions on or just off of Cheetham Hill Road. All closed as communities dispersed and congregations moved to new buildings, but the best known is the former Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, now part of the brilliant Manchester Jewish Museum.
David Cloke retweeted
The High Court of New Zealand has ruled a blanket ban on puberty blockers for trans youth in the country is unlawful.
The regulation, due to take effect in December last year, would have prevented doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to new patients experiencing gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.
But in a judgment handed down on Wednesday, the court found the Health Minister’s decision was unlawful and the regulations should be set aside.
Justice Dale La Hood said it was “a discriminatory and disproportionate response” and there was “overwhelming clinical support” for the use of puberty blockers to treat gender dysphoria.
"Youth requiring treatment for gender dysphoria/incongruence are being denied access to clinically appropriate medicine to which their peers have access for different conditions,” the judgment said.
The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa (PATHA) brought the case against the NZ Ministry of Health over the ban.
David Cloke retweeted
For no good reason, I’ve sudden conceived a passion to re-watch a St. Trinians film. Many pluses: Ronald Searle’s credits, Malcolm Arnold marvellously jocular score among them. I remember my brother Robin and I giggling helplessly at Dora Bryan. Might I be hideously disappointed?
David Cloke retweeted
Birthday boy Malcolm Arnold wrote 130+ film scores and tons of orchestral music including 9 symphonies, the best of which is 5. I was at this @bbcproms performance and, at the end, conductor Sakari Oramo brandished the score at us in delight. A marvel! youtu.be/jHidl3IXo-o?is=I8lL…
