Anna Lapwood
@annalapwood
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⫸ Organist / Conductor / Broadcaster ⫸ Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge ⫸ #PlayLikeAGirl ⫸
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This was so moving. Spontaneously stopped off at the London Bridge station organ to play a couple of pieces for the Queen. This lovely security guard, Marcella, asked if I could play Lascia ch'io pianga. Turns out she trained as a singer! ❤️😭
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THREAD: I've just had the most extraordinary morning. I was waiting to get on the train to work & an elderly man asked me if the train was going to Cambridge. I said it was, & we got chatting - his name is JJ.
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(And yes - she got the audience and applause she deserved by the end!! We ended up doing a whole load of duets and it was pure joy ❤️)
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I'm certainly someone who is guilty of living my life at a million miles an hour & in normal circumstances might not have stopped to chat to him. I'm SO glad I did.
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When you’re a massive Whovian and suddenly find yourself getting to play the
@bbcdoctorwho
theme on the organ of the
@RoyalAlbertHall
for
@russelldavies63
& Murray Gold. Couldn’t stop grinning for the entire concert - had to count rests out loud to stop myself getting too carried
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Got a new iPad. ‘It will be fun’, they said. ‘You can turn pages with your face’, they said. Safe to say I have not mastered this yet.
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When I was a child I was so obsessed with David Tennant
@bbcdoctorwho
that I made a CD of me playing the piano & carried it around with a handwritten note for OVER A YEAR in case I ever bumped into him 😂 couldn’t resist an organ version of this when I heard he was returning…!
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Gosh. Thank you everyone for your kind words - I can't quite keep up and reply to everyone in person, but just to say JJ's phone is fixed & we're arranging to meet up - I'm trying to get some dogs to join too! I'll introduce him to all of you when we do ❤️
#HisNameIsJJ
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Sad news this evening. Someone from my year at uni has just died of Covid. 24. Otherwise healthy. Been on a ventilator since June. Please: get the vaccine. Wear a mask. We can’t be lulled into a false sense of security.
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At 1am on Friday I was practising
@RoyalAlbertHall
& someone shouted up ‘play The Toccata’. I did, & offered to show them the organ. Well, turns out they were
@si_bonobo
’s band. 12 hrs later they had written me an organ part & I helped them close their show…! Best. Night. Ever.
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Every day is leg day when you play the organ… A little video explaining what we are doing with our feet when our hands are busy!
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A little shoutout to
@mjr_organist
who has just started as organ scholar at St George’s Windsor and is playing some of the music before the service this afternoon. Is this the first time a female organist has played at a state occasion? Quite possibly ❤️
#PlayLikeAGirl
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I AM NOT CALM RIGHT NOW. Benedict Cumberbatch pretending to be the Phantom of the Opera. He played some Bach. I didn’t ask him to say the word penguin.
@RoyalAlbertHall
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I can’t quite believe I’m typing this, but I’m now Anna Lapwood MBE!!! Thank you to all of you for your support along the way, but particular thanks to everyone at
@pembroke1347
& the
@RoyalAlbertHall
❤️ eeeeeeee!!!
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We swapped numbers & have arranged to go for a drink soon - 'just platonic, don't worry', he said with a wink. <3
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Another spontaneous duet at
@LBG_Station
-
@mattduncan01
was walking past & asked if I could do Stanford in G 😍 I think we need to do a London Bridge Evensong - as many London singers as we can possibly cram under one arch, tag team of organists,
@RevRichardColes
officiating…
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Started the day with a swim on the edge of Victoria Falls! No, this isn’t photoshopped (much to my parents’ horror…)
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We ended up going for a cup of tea and chatting for another 2 hours; he was a soldier for 22 years and was shot twice saving a 19 yr old new recruit.
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Still processing yesterday…!! It was incredibly moving to receive my MBE from Princess Anne in a ceremony at Windsor Castle. In case it’s not clear from the photos, it was a morning of SUCH joy - getting to share it with my parents and my fiancé was so, so special. None of this
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We kept chatting on the train - his dog also had to be put down just before lockdown - by this point we were both crying and he said that he didn't mind because sometimes it just feels good to sob with someone else.
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Surreal doesn’t even begin to cover last night. Not going to forget this in a hurry…! ❤️
@RoyalAlbertHall
@LudovicoEinaud
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He didn't mind because he said 'at least I was doing what I was trained to do & making a difference.' He has lived the most extraordinary life & seeing him light up talking about it was just so moving.
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He had been shielding for 5 1/2 months & said his mental health had hit rock bottom. He dropped his phone 1 week in while cleaning it & the screen smashed, but he had no way of contacting anyone to arrange a replacement so he just didn't speak to anyone that whole time.
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EEEEE!! I can't quite believe I'm typing this, but I'm so excited to share that I've signed a recording contract with
@SonyClassicalUK
& the first track from my new EP comes out next week! Can't wait to work with them to introduce even more people to the magic of the organ ❤️
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We reached Cambridge and he was struggling to get over the footbridge - he revealed he had emphysema and stopped to take his inhaler - he said he's scared to go out because of all the people not wearing masks, but he just missed people too much.
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HAPPY CHRISTMAS from me and my favourite chord! I hope you all have the happiest day full of love, music and joy ❤️
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Good morning. This is my new favourite video on the internet. That is all.
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He has no family, & struggled to get food because he couldn't go to a cash machine for money to pay food delivery.
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I didn’t say either of these��things, and I am extremely disappointed that the
@thetimes
implied I did. Newspapers sometimes write inflammatory headlines that don’t correspond with the content of the article or the views of its subject.
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When you get home from work, open TikTok, wonder why you have so many notifications and then see this…!! 🤯
@OfficialALW
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The music at Prince Philip’s funeral is simply extraordinary & sums up everything that is so special about the English choral tradition. Music has the power to move, to uplift, & to carry the weight of grief. Perfectly judged & sung with such elegance.
#HRHPrincePhilip
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GUYS. There’s an organ at London Bridge station. It’s opening in a couple of weeks and anyone will be able to play it 😍😍 yes, I did take a half hour detour just to see it, and yes, I did get to have a go. SO COOL.
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The
@RoyalAlbertHall
has magic powers. Difficult to put into words how emotional this was last night. Music is the best.
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Yesterday was heaven.
@violincase
and I spontaneously decided to take a Bach organ fugue & turn it into a duet for violin & organ - this was our first time trying it out. Such fun experimenting & responding to each other in real time ❤️ I learnt so much from this!!
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When you get a bit too carried away while you are practising and completely fail to notice the caretaker coming into the chapel and up to the organ loft 😂 my heart rate has just about returned to normal…!
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If you ever had any doubts about the organ being the coolest instrument, this organ has a stop called a Tibia Liquida which opens a hidden drinks cabinet. Thanks to Ben Teague for bringing this most important discovery to my attention.
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Practising at
@salisburycath
ahead of tonight’s recital & this just happened. A tourist spontaneously started singing & so I joined in. I ran downstairs to try and find him straight after but he had already gone. Whoever you were: this made my day ❤️
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What an incredible thing
@WAbbeyChoir
@ChapelRoyalHCP
James O’Donnell & Peter Holder are doing today. Perfectly judged music to reflect & absorb the grief of a nation. Let us never take for granted the professionalism & fearlessness of our musicians.
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I think I have just discovered the best composer name of all time.
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London Bridge sessions ep 3, filmed about 20 mins before the previous one! This is the last of the duets I captured that day. I think it’s so important that classical music is something people can stumble across in everyday life like this. Hooray for music & hooray for humans ❤️
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Eeeeeeeeee I actually cannot believe this. No. 1 in the classical charts, and the fastest selling classical album of 2023 *faints* 🤯 This wouldn’t have been possible without this extraordinary online community, so from the bottom of my heart: THANK YOU ❤️
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So great to meet the
@sidemen
and show them the
@royalalberthall
organ! I’m not sure how much crossover there is between our audiences but this is part of the joy of music: the ability to break down boundaries! Thanks as always to the RAH team for thinking outside the box ❤️
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Posted a video of some John Williams over on TikTok & a few people got grumpy. I get comments like this relatively regularly & I think it’s a REALLY important conversation to have, so I thought I would bring it here too. Film music etc is NOT ‘crap’, & has the potential to bring
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This was one whole week ago and I am still not over it. Also whoever suggested
#CumberBACH
is a genius.
@RoyalAlbertHall
@chooselove
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These potatoes might be my finest achievement. I wish I could describe how good they tasted 😍🤤 hope you have all had a lovely day full to the brim with crispy potatoes.
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🤯 An incredible evening at last night’s
@royalphilsoc
awards & an immense privilege to be given the ‘Gamechanger Award’ for ‘creating a new blueprint, inspiring generations of younger musicians to see how they too might rise up to meet the world.' I may have had a little cry 🥹
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I can hardly believe I’m typing this, but I’ve just found out we’ve passed 1 million total followers across all my platforms. 1 MILLION. From the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of you who help make this such an awe-inspiring adventure.
#PlayLikeAGirl
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On a very empty train to London. The next carriage is completely empty other than one man who is practising the cello. This makes me unbelievably happy.
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Still on a high from last night - getting to play for
@TopGunMovie
at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
is something I’ll never forget. Huge thanks to
@Lornebalfe
for getting me involved! Also: yes, I really did give Tom Cruise an organ lesson, and yes, I still haven’t recovered 😂
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I’ve now got a great system in place with the
@RoyalAlbertHall
crew. I can play as loudly as I like as long as they can shout up a couple of requests. One of them asked if I could play The Simpsons for his nephew ❤️ found a piano score online, et voila!
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@Honeybee0104
That would be amazing! We're planning on meeting at the Jolly Postie at some point in the next couple of weeks and a friend of mine has offered to bring a dog so that he can have some dog cuddle time....
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On the to do list yesterday: have coffee at one of my favourite coffee spots in Livingstone, visit my friends in Mukuni, relax. Not on my to do list: meeting the President of Zambia….!
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Favourite moment of the Coronation so far: seeing one of the choristers exchange a smile with
@ANethsingha
after the big semiquaver run in Zadok. This is what choral music is about.
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A little bit of a boost for your Friday morning…
@ClassicFM
asked me to write an organ part for the Star Wars Finale
@RoyalAlbertHall
. This was pretty epic. Full concentration face because the part was only finished last week and we only got to run it once before the show…!
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Another moment from this week’s
@bbcdoctorwho
prom
@bbcproms
. I LOVE the attention to detail from Murray Gold & Alastair King - introducing the organ for Sutekh’s theme because it was a pipe organ which summoned Sutekh in the 1975 Pyramids of Mars episodes!!
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I had just started practising
@RoyalAlbertHall
last night when I realised some people were watching from the stage. I invited them up as always, and, well, that’s how I gave
@LudovicoEinaud
a mini organ lesson in the middle of the night.
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On this day 10 yrs ago I received the letter saying I had got the organ scholarship
@magdalenoxford
. I was still convinced I would be a harpist but would do the organ for fun! Best of luck to everyone doing organ trials this week & remember: musical journeys are rarely linear ❤️
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When you’re on hold for 70 MINUTES and the same Mozart is on loop for that entire time there is only one thing for it. Of course this was the moment they finally took me off hold...
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A little clip from rehearsals for Sunday’s encore - Saint-Saëns for 5 organists!
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This genuinely doesn’t feel real 🤯 I have followed the
@spotifyuk
Classical New Releases playlist for YEARS & love using it to discover new music. Well. I never ever ever would have thought I would be on the cover of it… 🥹 Thank you thank you thank you.
#PlayLikeAGirl
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Devastated & furious at the announcement to scrap the
@BBCSingers
. How many singers/composers/conductors have they supported & nurtured? How many more have they inspired? What message does this send to young people considering a career in music? No words.
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I get lots of questions about how I spend the day before one of my night shifts at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
so I did a little video diary yesterday…! I do this about once a month, doing a lighter work day before I head in for the evening. It’s tiring but I love it!
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Please can we just all take a moment to appreciate this terraced house WITH A BUILT IN PIPE ORGAN. This is what dreams are made of.
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More fun from the Zambian organ loft - Chrispin & Owen, both self-taught, both utter legends ❤️
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It was good to speak at the All Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education & have the chance to discuss
@BBCSingers
today. Music education doesn’t stand a chance if we are simultaneously eradicating the careers our young people are aiming for.
#WeAreTheBBCSingers
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Today is a day I will never, ever, ever forget. I got to play the two largest organs in the world!!!!!!! Somebody pinch me. HUGE thanks to the teams at Wanamaker & Boardwalk Hall for making it possible.
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Beginning the long journey home from my favourite place in the world. See you next year, Zambia ❤️😭
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Eeeeeeeeee. A bit of a ‘pinch me’ moment
@MusicMagazine
. Huge thanks to
@RichmoMusic
for writing such a lovely article.
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One of the highlights of my recent US tour was getting to meet Nykoda - 9 years old, self-taught & a glorious human being. I had seen some of his videos online & started plotting with his mum to get him to
@BoardwalkHall
as a surprise. Then he sat down and played Widor 😍 this
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Just a little tweet checking in to make sure you are ok. It has been a pretty horrific week for the choral world & I know many of us are struggling to find motivation right now. Be patient with yourself, keep finding joy in the small things, & most importantly keep singing. ❤️
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@lalabiso
I know, I’m so sad about that! I had just left my phone running after the previous thing I had been playing and wasn’t quite expecting this so hadn’t checked the camera angle 😭
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Lots of people have asked why my organ scores are so colourful - they are colour-coded
@Postit
notes which I use to annotate my score with the information I need for that specific recital on that specific instrument! I’ve tried to explain below… 🧵
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Thrilled to have been appointed as an Ambassador of
@_cathedralmusic
alongside
@XanderArmstrong
. I’m really excited to work with them to support choral music-making at all levels and to help consider how we balance the need for innovation with the beauty of tradition. ❤️
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LEG DAY! Still a work in progress, but I adore this page of Bach. I honestly think riding the wave of a Bach fugue is one of the greatest feelings in the world.
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Working on a new arrangement of ‘No Time for Caution’ from Interstellar. I believe this is what is called ‘turning up to 11’. If you want to hear how epic this sounds in the
@RoyalAlbertHall
then put your phone horizontal under your chin!
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World: The organ is a boring instrument.
Thomas Ospital, improvising a voluntary at St Eustache: tell that to my feet.
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Anyone else cry when they saw the first shot of the boy and girl choristers together singing I was Glad? ❤️
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Please enjoy the brain massage that is the 64’ at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
. Can you guess the piece from just the first note…? Yes, the organ part does just consist of 2 pedal notes and one massive chord. Yes, that chord makes me grin every time.
@ClassicFM
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A glorious few days in Birmingham with the
@TheCBSO
- what an organ. Here’s a little clip from Jonathan Scott’s Christmas Celebration - a very good core workout…! Rather fun having 1/2 the orchestra joining in on sleigh bells for this bit in the concert 😍
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A little bit of joy for your Monday. My old friend Chrispin is helping encourage others to find their voices - yesterday we spent 2 hours sightreading through anything & everything - this captures the joy 😍 They are entirely self-taught, learning through watching YouTube videos!
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Woke up this morning to see a little tick next to my name on here. Might have had a little squeal. Here’s to the power of social media to break down barriers & bring the magic of music (of all kinds) to as many people as possible, no matter their age or background.
#PlayLikeAGirl
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@NoelRock
@ProfJohnCrown
I’ve always been terrified of old age and of the loneliness that goes with it - seeing that distilled in one individual was utterly heartbreaking but also showed how transformative a single conversation can be. I think our cup of tea will stick with me for a very long time.
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Before lockdown I had been working on a transcription of Britten’s 4 Sea Interludes, a favourite from my harp days. Today was supposed to be its 1st outing, so here’s Dawn on the organ of
@Ely_Cathedral
, with Ely’s sunrise captured by
@SharpeImages_UK
.
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In case you are in need of a smile this evening, please enjoy this video of
@LudovicoEinaud
trying the organ of the
@RoyalAlbertHall
for the first time with his crew cheering him on. ❤️
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SO MANY REASONS TO SMILE TODAY.
1) BBC Singers cut has been suspended!
2) New single out today and it’s How To Train Your Dragon!
3) I got my passport back from the US Embassy (with 3 hours to spare 🥵) so I’m off to America!
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Today’s organ experience for girls was more than a little bit emotional. 73 signed up, 48 of whom already played the organ. Seeing this many girls excited about the possibility of being an organist makes my heart sing.
@seam100
#PlayLikeAGirl
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One of the most stressful travel days I can remember (6:30am start, 1 cancelled flight, 1 missed flight, multiple connections involving running through airports & 1 lost suitcase) but that has all faded away now I’m here. This is my current view for the night shift.
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This has been a year of ‘pinch me’ moments, none of which would have been possible without such an incredible support network, so thank you! So excited for another year of exploring what this incredible instrument can do & having lots of fun along the way ❤️ Happy New Year!!
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Sending all my love to the musicians of
@StPaulsLondon
who have had less than 24 hours to prepare for tonight’s televised service whilst also coming to terms with the news themselves. Particular love to one of my closest friends,
@willjfox
, who is playing the organ. ❤️
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