Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
@ndanielmusic
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British/German musician Prof Trossingen Muho. Recipient of Queen's Medal for Music. Married to Piotr ❤️Mozart: Lomonaco Mgmnt. He/Him
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Happy Trans Pride Day. I’m a proud parent of a stunning trans woman and I love her and support her with my whole heart.
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Shocking and mind numbing news about
@BrittenSinfonia
who have lost their whole
@ace_national
grant in one cut. Just over 50% of budget. I know we will rise to the challenge but this is a real shock.
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A joy to be performing with Benedict Cumberbatch today, his voice is a flexible and beautiful as a Strad cello. And then there was a photo op later…. So happy to meet
@ArmisteadMaupin
and see these two talking 👼🏻👼🏻
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Thank you to everyone who has reacted to the news about
@BrittenSinfonia
. As the day has gone on I have become more and more shocked and angry about it, but also more determined to help BS fly free. It’s an astonishing decision against everything they say they are for.
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All of us previous BBC Young Musicians have signed this important letter. Please share widely and support freely!
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Happy Wednesday Mozart and cheese lovers
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@LittleMissFlint
@BerniceKing
I just donated because you are the most lovely person doing everything you can. Pay NO a mind to haters and keep doing your best. So impressed with your work and your whole raison d’etre. Nick
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"I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place". "I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this." Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Safe journey to heaven. ❤️🌈❤️🌈
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Thank you to John Eliot Gardner for this.
#useyourplatform
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, on the BBC, is not afraid to tell it how it is. Bravo!
@thoroughlygood
@nfmusic
@mrjamesob
@nicholascollon
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Past & current winners of BBC Young Musician have organised a letter about the cuts to
@BBCCO
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BBCSO
@BBCSingers
We profoundly disagree with the cuts-they cannot be allowed to happen. Please RT widely.
@ISM_music
@KevinBrennanMP
@dailytelegraph
@HarrietHarman
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The problem is NOBODY will understand how hard this evening was for the
@BBCSO
mostly because they sounded so utterly gorgeous, relaxed and ON IT. Guys, when we meet drinkies are on me!
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9 years ago today we made honest men of each other! 🌈🏳️🌈🌈🏳️🌈
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Yes, it was news from yesterday but it is NOT yesterday’s news.
@wilfriedzaha
wants Every Child to have music lessons & instruments for free and I agree, as do all the other winners of BBC Young Musician, and many, MANY other people RT
#everychildamusician
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With not a single case of transmission of this virus during a properly distanced concert or theatre or dance event, what could possibly be the reason for the extreme punishment this represents to arts professionals and their loyal audiences? Please do tell me
@OliverDowden
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Happy Trans Pride! Especially to my beautiful Daughter
@alliedaniel_
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Hello Twitter…. JUST HOW BEAUTIFUL IS MY DIVA DAUGHTER!!
@PriscillaTourUK
#notagimmick
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I simply could not be prouder of my beautiful daughter
@alliedaniel_
opening
@HadestownUK
tonight. Smash it babe. 🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️❤️🏳️⚧️❤️
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I love a good U turn. Now let’s have an even more equivocal one for the English BBC Orchestras. So happy for you
@BBCSingers
Holding out for you
@BBCSO
@BBCCO
@BBCPhilharmonic
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We had a wonderful morning at stunning Windsor Castle receiving my OBE from Princess Anne, who told me that she used to play the Oboe! Lovely to see Sir Sam and Lady Mendes there too (
@alisonbalsom
)
#Royalfamily
#classicalmusic
#everychildamusician
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I decided to share the email from Tim Davie to me (and ‘all’, all meaning every winner of BBC Young Musician). There is no doubt that we are still in a real fight for classical music on the BBC.
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Pretty astonishing news, but received here with gratitude, looking forward to the detail.
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I’m utterly sick of music and especially music education being seen as an easy target for cuts. It’s not, and such acts are foolhardy and harmful. Save the City of Belfast School of Music - Sign the Petition! via
@UKChange
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I shall be celebrating the shiny new letters after my name by going with my love to
@KingsPlace
for the
@LondonPianoFest
tonight, my first concert in 9 months. Do watch it online: And here is my short statement on my OBE.
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Rehearsals for the Prom this evening were such fun. Cool dudes
@natalieclein
@cellojohnston
@ShekuKM
and
@L_vd_Heijden
@bbcproms
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I try not to be too demanding here on Twitter, I know how busy you all are, but
@wilfriedzaha
calling for EVERY CHILD to have free instruments and lessons is direct from the gods needs your URGENT attention. Please retweet the fluck out of this. Nick
#everychildamusician
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Following my post about Trans performers yesterday, you might like to know that my INCREDIBLE daughter
@alliedaniel_
is on stage in Oxford today giving life and making history as Diva 3 in
@PriscillaTourUK
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#cameronmackintosh
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Today am full of happiness for my niecelette Helena Mackie who today begins as Principal Oboe of the
@liverpoolphil
. I was one of some fab teachers who guided her and I couldn’t be prouder. A legacy of great playing there too, with Jonathan Small.
@NYO_GB
photo plus 1 from later
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@ed_lyon
@OliverDowden
@BorisJohnson
@cj_dinenage
Ed, please can you write this in one piece and send urgently to maxmusicianandartist
@gmail
.com we are gathering late evidence for the Commons select committee from tomorrow. Perhaps you already have but it’s URGENT!! Nick
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This is a serious situation. Please sign. Petition: Seek Europe-wide Visa-free work permit for Touring professionals and Artists
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EVERY child in the U.K. deserves this. Now Scotland will be sailing ahead of England. Expect even more of the next generation of great musicians to come from Scotland.
@HarrietHarman
@ISM_music
@DJWarburton
@Keir_Starmer
@GavinWilliamson
@OliverDowden
#EveryChildaMusician
Instrumental tuition fees removed in Scotland 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🎉
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This is worse than disappointing. Please think again
@GavinWilliamson
. Music is the absolute right of every child, and a massive support to good education. Without the teachers there really is no hope.
@ISM_music
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And this is why all of us have to at least call out and report such vomit, and block the perpetrators.
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Regarding the
@BBCSingers
,
@BBCSO
@BBCCO
and
@BBCPhilharmonic
it’s very clear from very recent replies that we need to KEEP FIGHTING.
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News regarding
#everychildamusican
I have just requested a meeting with All-Party-Parliamentary group for Music with
@DamianHinds
and
@MattHancock
. We move on, our children deserve it.
@HarrietHarman
@SadiqKhan
@ShekuKM
@NickyBenedetti
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If we get tired and stop screaming about this they will have won and there are clearly some people there that just don’t care. This is whitewash and flannel and completely unacceptable.
@OliverDowden
sort it out.
In other words "last week
@OliverDowden
and
@DavidGHFrost
lied"
@WeAreTheMU
@ISM_music
@EquityUk
@paulwfleming
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Huge privilege to be there at
@BBCYoungMus
final. Three completely compelling performers who we will hear about in the future for sure, who delivered so much on the night, given the circumstances. Fascinating how much they had grown and changed in a year... let’s see in 5....
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Genuinely delighted to meet
@DrBrianMay
and plucked up courage to bother him for a photo. He says to say hi to everyone! … ps stalking not my normal habit 😱
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So happy to be playing my beloved Vaughan-Williams concerto at the
@bbcproms
with
@RNSinfonia
and
@dinispsousa
on August the 14th at 11AM
@RoyalAlbertHall
. If you cheer enough I might play an encore on this beauty: Leon Goossens’ 1911 Lorée oboe that gave the premiere in 1944.
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And here I am with my darling
@KatyaApekisheva
who I am proud to call friend and colleague. I’m so happy and surprised!
We are thrilled to announce that our Artistic Director,
@ndanielmusic
has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours for services to music. We are sure that his many friends, colleagues and admirers will want to join us in sending our warmest congratulations.
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To those just waking up in the U.K. good morning, and please RT this. Thanks for all the support yesterday. This now moves onwards and upwards.
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It may be simple or simplistic to say, but something surely can be done to bring Nazanin home.
I paid Richard Ratcliffe a visit last night and he kindly let me take this
#photo
of him. The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has gone on hunger strike outside the
@FCDOGovUK
to persuade
@trussliz
to do more to bring his wife back from her detention in Iran.
#FreeNazanin
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So it seems, after what feels like a head patting email from Tim Davie to all of the BBC Young Musicians via me, that we are FAR from out of the woods with
@BBCSingers
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BBCCO
@BBCSO
so the fight must continue.
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I thought you might enjoy the distraction of some live music with
@juliusdrake
and me from
@wigmore_hall
tomorrow. Live on
@BBCRadio3
and in HD video from the hall.
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I’m so happy to see Ewan Millar win tonight on our beautiful instrument. Bravo to him and here’s to all the young oboists he inspires.
@BBCYoungMus
Bravo to oboist Ewan Millar, winner of the Woodwind Category Final of
#BBCYoungMusician
2020.
Many congratulations to you and to all of our woodwind finalists for wowing the judges and audience. You are superstars! ❤️
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THIS. This is for my money is the very best of us happening here on these shores. Without a penny of state support (and an utterly bewildering recent failed application with you know who) and yet still they go on.
@Paul_McCreesh
and his team deserve all our support.
📢NEWS 📢
4000 school children join Gabrieli Consort & Players for Christmas concerts across 8 of England's great cathedrals 🎼
👇Read the full story!👇
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Warmest thanks for your wonderful and generous messages on every conceivable platform about our
@wigmore_hall
concert today.
@juliusdrake
and I felt the honour to play in this series most deeply. Cat is my cousin’s, with impeccable taste; and it was freezing when I got home!
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Whatever your regular news source is, if you care one jot about the Arts in the UK please do read this. I think it hits so many of the right buttons and chimes strongly with my own thinking.
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Ok
@British_Airways
“I’m mad as hell and I’m just not going to take it any more”. When your own website explicitly says instruments are fine why do you stress out my friends and say they can’t board because hard cases? Ms J Shave and Ms C Finnimore deserve an apology.
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Such a joy to be back before the Proms audience this morning, great turnout in train strike times! I felt so free on stage with
@dinispsousa
and
@RNSinfonia
, so huge thanks to them and the
@bbcproms
team. THAT is an audience. Feeling the love for
@RVWtweets
tonight.
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Please sign. Provide financial support to performers and creators during the COVID-19 crisis - Petitions
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Completely fabulous audience
@wigmore_hall
tonight, and when
@AmyHarmanBsn
and I walked out in stage together for Poulenc Trio I wonder whether people realised we represented
@E_N_O
and
@BrittenSinfonia
together? We do; most proudly.
@ace_national
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So much great support for our letter, see below. We have a hashtag, let’s get it trending
#everychildamusician
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Hugely honoured and delighted to be awarded the Cobbett Medal for Chamber Music last night by the
@MusiciansComp
. Old friends and new and everyone rather fabulous! Thank you to everyone who I make chamber music with and who writes for us. Will post my short speech separately. N
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My glorious daughter
@alliedaniel_
taking her curtain call alongside her fellow Diva
@Claudia_Kariuki
when she stepped in and stepped up in
@PriscillaTourUK
in Oxford yesterday as a Diva-newsflash she’s been one her whole life! 🏳️⚧️
#notagimmick
👀 Cam? 🏳️⚧️
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An extraordinary evening of music making with hundreds of young people singing at the most incredible level while we played gut strings and antique winds and brass. Elgar was the star and we all knew it.
@GabrieliCandP
@Paul_McCreesh
#gabrieliroar
#gerontius
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I feel that this petition is beautifully written and highly relevant.
#everychildamusician
@HarrietHarman
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@DeborahMeaden
You might say that, but the harm that she is doing to Trans people from her high tower & huge reach here unchecked, or checked only by her lawyers, is inestimable. I can’t believe a good person would deliberately cause so much hurt and pain unless out of hurt and pain herself.
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Dear
@Schofe
I have been through exactly what you are going through, and I remember the pain and the guilt so well. Don’t let it consume you, I PROMISE you’re going through the worst time now. I’m in with my Piotr now and very close to my kids and their mother. All will be well x
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Totally tone-deaf tweet. Highlights for who? Not any real music lover and not anyone hurt or offended by it. Why do you think people are making a fuss? They’re not just bored. Most musicians lie back and try not to think of England while playing or hearing it. Many better choices
Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory are highlights of the Last Night of the Proms
Share concerns of many about their potential removal and have raised this with
@BBC
Confident forward-looking nations don’t erase their history, they add to it
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It’s really sad and sick for so many of us. Sadly not all of us.
Scoop! Britain is the first country in world history to open up by pulling up the drawbridge! The sad reality behind this newspeak: less freedoms & opportunities for continental Europeans and British people alike. Everyone loses.
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Here’s a piece I wrote for
@guardian
about our premiere of Tavener’s Noche Oscura and the scandal of our almost invisible great composers.
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Devastating news about Simon Bainbridge. He wrote great music for Joy Farrall & me in earlier years-the Clarinet Quintet and the astonishing Double Concerto. He was truly a great composer, one of our best in a crop of greats, and his music deserves to be remembered & celebrated.
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I’ve signed. I hate to criticise an organisation I love, but this looks to me like a mistake. Protect Peter Pears' memory. Sign the petition! via
@UKChange
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I just realised today that the first composer I ever met and performed their music was Elizabeth Maconchy. Talk about starting hot out of the gate. I was 11.
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Stop the scrapping of the BBC Singers. Please sign.
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And so it begins…2 Lorée oboes, one from the year Elgar wrote Gerontius, 1899, and the Goossens AA89 1911 Lorée that Elgar wrote for at the end of his life.
@GabrieliCandP
@Paul_McCreesh
@nickythespence
#Gerontius
#loree
#GabrieliRoar
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I was lucky enough to be at
@WelshNatOpera
’s Death in Venice tonight, it was fabulous, but mostly I was moved by the sensitivity and virtuosity of the orchestra, under threat of a 15% pay cut-7 weeks less work a year. Please do sign this to support them.
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A few choice pics from today. Absolutely packed in like sardines and miles of it, fantastic atmos and friendly folks. We felt it was really good to be there.
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Musicians should know that
@HarrietHarman
is a true friend and ally. Thank goodness we have someone like that on our side.
Looking forward to talking with
@MaxMusicians
about the necessity for visa/permit-free EU touring and how we can work together to ensure the govt deliver it!
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I can now confirm that all 3 finalists for
@BBCYoungMus
2018 support our
#everychildamusician
campaign, having heard from Laura Zhang today during her GCSE exams, bless her. Let’s make this work.
@HarrietHarman
@MattHancock
@DamianHinds
RT.
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I have anger rising and rising and disbelief and utter confoundment that it could be true.
having thought about it over a night of sleep, I think the de-funding of the Britten Sinfonia in the NPO is the most monstrous arts news in recent memory and, frankly, it makes me sclerotically angry.
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Last night, as it turned midnight in Scotland, a gathering of us in her beautiful apartment in New York sang Thea Musgrave Happy Birthday, her 90th. She is so very special and very loved and we are celebrating her with a HUGE concert tonight with great new and old works. 🥂❤️💐
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So absolutely delighted to be able to break this news. Such a fabulous group.
We’re delighted to announce
@ndanielmusic
, OBE, as the new Artistic Director & Principal Conductor of the Orion Orchestra, starting in post in 2022.
The Orion Orchestra is also thrilled to announce the appointment of
@RobbieRinder
, MBE, as President.
#orionorchestra
#music
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Absolutely awful news. A visionary years ahead of his time, immersed in the community,
and with a deep understanding of the relevance and power of music.
We are devastated to announce that today 17 July 2021 Sir Graham Vick, Artistic Director, Birmingham Opera Company died of complications arising from Covid 19. We would ask all to respect the privacy of his partner and loved ones at this time.
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Feeling sad today, it’s hard to be away, but grateful that I was able to spend time with Her Majesty. She was absolutely unique: elegant, charming, and deeply funny, but my abiding memory is that I have met a person with the most profound spirituality and faith. Deeply affecting.
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13th century Iran. Mind blown.
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Hi all. I’ve decided that despite its benefits ‘Twitter’ has become toxic & it’s worsening. I’m keeping this profile but will build Instagram where I am ndanielmusic although name is wrong for the moment. 🤦🏻. Please join me there, and good luck here guys. Terfs don’t even bother
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Aldeburgh for the weekend and with
@MahanEsfahani
and Anna Dennis for a recital tomorrow evening, but tonight the priviledge of Mahan and an evening of Bach
@SnapeMaltings
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THAT'S the kind of Gay Conversion we like! So happy to be legally my husband's husband. Thanks to everyone who fought for it.
@stonewalluk
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@piersmorgan
You absolute idiot. It takes a real man to be a Father, and a really sensible man to know that having your baby close is best for them and for you. Why don’t you grow a pair yourself and realise that comments like that reflect so badly on you and are in no way clever or funny.
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This is entirely the
@ace_national
’s doing and they should be utterly ashamed of themselves. Huge sorrow about this and love to everyone in
@psappha
Psappha has made the very difficult decision to close. Thread ↓ (1/5)
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There is SO much disinformation out there. We do not expel great quantities of air.
‘The woodwinds and brass were five meters apart - as their instruments expel great quantities of air, during a pandemic that affects the respiratory system.’ PLEASE!PLEASE! THIS IS NOT TRUE
@BBCNews
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The massive outpouring of disbelief, anger and ultimately support for the BBC’s threatened ensembles continues. Will they listen?
#WeAreTheBBCSingers
#wearethebbcorchestras
Letter for Music Academics to sign in protest against proposed BBC Music cuts:
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A 50% cut to Arts subjects at HE when the Arts are about to re-establish themselves as fundamental to our lives as we recover from the Corona times. What utter misguided madness, and what a kick in the teeth AGAIN.
The Government has announced plans to impose a catastrophic 50% funding cut to arts subjects at higher education (HE) level in England, including music.
Have your say in the consultation before 6 May 👇
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We are all pleading with the government to do something about this.
🚨'Paying the price' is a major new report by the ISM about the impact of Brexit on UK musicians
💰It reveals the true cost, with almost 50% of musicians working in Europe less than before
🎵It provides a pathway to make Brexit work
Read more 👇
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Norfolk County Council are planning to take a scythe to their instrumental lessons in schools. A past student has started a petition. PLEASE consider signing it and sharing it.
@NickyBenedetti
@Paul_McCreesh
@MarkSimpson_88
@HarrietHarman
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The warmest thank you all of you who have donated for my darling daughter’s transition surgery. We are over half way there and you are all AMAZING.
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I couldn’t be prouder to be a member of this fantastic group of musicians and music lovers.
N xx
Congratulations to our Principal Oboe
@ndanielmusic
on the announcement of his OBE in the
#QueensBirthdayHonours
. So very deserved. We are proud beyond words of him for this amazing recognition of everything he has done for music and musicians.
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So. It’s half way through the
@rpoonline
’s concert and as they flew in yesterday it’s now approaching 5am by their body clocks and if you want to know the very meaning of professionalism you should hear how they are playing. ITS LIKE GODS.
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