Edward Seckerson
@seckerson
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Writer, Broadcaster, Presenter, and Musical Theatre aficionado. Faces the Music with Patricia Routledge. In another life was Peter Stephens in The Archers.
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The great Dame Routledge at Liverpool tonight. Adore this woman.
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One for the ages. So proud to share platforms with not one but two great Dames - Janet Baker and Patricia Routledge
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My friend and sometime stage partner - the great Dame Patricia Routledge 95 today. Love and respect.
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No words. Such a blessing sharing ANY stage with legend that is Dame Janet Baker
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Such a privilege to share the stage with this great lady…
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HAYDN GWYNNE… such a talent lost way too soon. Thinking of the cast of Old Friends tonight. Especially Clare Burt. So tough 🙏
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Honoured to be in the the company of the great DAME JANET BAKER once more
@ryedalefestival
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STUPENDOUS Mahler 2
@bbcproms
@londonsymphony
from Sir Simon Rattle. Possibly the best thing I have EVER heard him do and certainly the most inspirational performance of the piece in recent times. Still reeling
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Stephen Sondheim would have been 94 today. I pass this treasured memento daily in my hallway…
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Happy 90th to the legendary Dame Janet Baker. Will forever treasure out three encounters last year
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The great ANGELA LANSBURY is gone. Legendary. Such style, such erudition. Such memories. I was privileged to have spent a whole day at her cliff top bungalow in Ireland recording two one-hour radio programmes for the BBC. Time to revisit them and hopefully share…
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Decibel alert. I’ll be considering recordings of Shostakovich’s LENINGRAD Symphony tomorrow morning at 9.30
@andrewCDmcg
@BBCRadio3
Expect loud. Very loud.
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SONDHEIM. Simply incomparable. Time to return the compliment. 💔💔💔
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50 glorious years. Pride of place in my hallway with its treasured inscription....
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Such a joy and a privilege to share the stage with this great lady…
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Excited to announce that I am to be Editorial Consultant and, of course, contributor to a brand new magazine…coming soon…
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Close encounters with a legendary ‘old friend’ LEA SALONGA who’ll be adorning the front cover of
@MusicalsMag
, yours truly scribing…
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The entire Festival Hall
@southbankcentre
stood for the Ukrainian national anthem
@LPOrchestra
before Prokofiev and Rachmaninov stirred and soothed our souls. How terrible the irony.
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Lively catch up/rave with
@mrmichaelball
ahead of my cover feature in
@MusicalsMag
and the much anticipated revival of ASPECTS OF LOVE
@OfficialALW
34 years on from its West End premiere
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Super-delighted that
@GramophoneMag
has chosen to re-run my landmark 1991 interview with LEONARD BERNSTEIN for its centenary edition. Proud moment.
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BACHARACH gone. Like all the great originals, unique. Inimitable.
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So distressed to hear of Dame Diana Rigg’s passing. We shared a stage only last year and her feistiness and erudition were undimmed. What a career.
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No Shostakovich symphony moves me more than the 11th with its fabric of revolutionary songs, brutal militarism and one heartbreaking cor anglais solo.
@johnstorgards
@BBCPhilharmonic
@bbcproms
dug deep, thrillingly summoning the final clamour of bells from high in the RAH dome...
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Only Vladimir Jurowski could dig out a Henry Wood orchestration of Rachmaninov’s C sharp minor Prelude as an encore at his marvellous
@bbcproms
with the Berlin RSO. Now that’s relevance. Iridescent performance of the Rachmaninov 3rd Sym too.
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Every Christmas I happen upon THE SOUND OF MUSIC and every Christmas I say I’ll just watch a few minutes. Three hours later... It really is the most perfect of movie realisations... and that score. ‘Something Good’ written for the movie floors me every time
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You expect virtuosity from John Wilson and his eponymous orchestra but what lingered most in the memory from his centenary WEST SIDE STORY
@bbcproms
was the finesse, the utterly gorgeous and diaphanous string playing. Tony and Maria were’t alone in succumbing
#swoon
#masterpiece
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A very happy, healthy and busy 2023 to all you lovelies out there 💝
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As with last season’s stupendous Mahler 2 from Simon Rattle
@londonsymphony
@bbcproms
his valedictory 9th eclipsed pretty much everything in its proximity. Startling insights, breathtaking quietudes. I remember his Vienna Philharmonic debut with this very piece. What a journey.
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Dear ANDREW DAVIS - a deceptively major talent. I once played THE cymbal crash in Bruckner’s 7th Symphony under him. He made me feel so very important. He’ll be missed by so many.
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Lise Davidsen
@LiseDavidsen
@bbcproms
Spectacular. The sheer range and variety of what that magnificent instrument can do. Reckon she could be heard over in Notting Hill… ❤️
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Easy to forget what a hell of a singer Cilla Black was…here she is live with the great Bacharach in one of those haunting melodies which seems to unlock in the singing of it…priceless…
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Walk past this in my hallway many times a day reminding me why I’m in this business…
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Thrilled to be launching a brand new strand
@CrazyCoqs
Big names from the world of music and theatre in conversation with yours truly. Stay tuned for the announcement of our first guest star next week!
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How unutterably moving it is to watch talented youngsters
@RoyalAcadMusic
deliver that final number ‘Our Time’ in Sondheim/Furth’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. The end of that show is essentially the beginning of the rest of their lives. Gulp. There’s something in my eye…
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Utterly sensational concert from John Wilson
@SinfoniaOfLondn
@BarbicanCentre
Never want to hear the truncated revision of Gershwin’s An American in Paris ever again and could drown in the sensuality and theatricality of
@AliceCoote
in Ravel’s Scheherazade. Wow, just wow
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The very first piece I ever wrote for GRAMOPHONE - front cover in 1987 - now handsomely reproduced in the magazine’s brand new MAHLER bookazine
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JENUFA
@RoyalOperaHouse
What a thing of wonder this piece is - an oppressive tragedy tempered with the perpetual glimmer of hope. Hats off
@AsmikGrigorian
- its beating heart - and the great
@MattilaKarita
who fills any house with her thrilling vocal and physical presence
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Such an emotional day. The sound of massed pipes and drums still resonate. James MacMillan too. But the removal of the Imperial Crown, Orb and Sceptre from the late Queen’s coffin brought it all home. Duty done. Pace.
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Remembering Steve (Sondheim, that is) on his birthday. A treasurable keepsake…
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Dress rehearsal for Barrie Kosky staging of CARMEN
@RoyalOperaHouse
Absolutely stunning. Most excitingly blocked and choreographed show I’ve seen on the operatic stage for a very long time
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Honestly the 50th Anniversary concert of PIPPIN
@TheatreRoyalDL
might be the best example of its kind I’ve yet seen in the West End. The jokes actually landed, vocals were off the scale (Alex Newell - OMG). It sounded fresh, exciting and lush. Schwartz’ ears were surely burning.
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Beautiful tribute to BERNARD HAITINK
@JohnBridcut
@BBCTwo
capturing his great modesty, humanity, and affecting shyness. My most treasured Haitink night: Wagner’s Meistersinger
@RoyalOperaHouse
and the profound warmth of its embrace
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How gratifying hearing the young bloods of
@RoyalAcadMusic
rise so thrillingly to the elemental extremes and emotional highs of Mahler’s wondrous 3rd Symphony
@southbankcentre
Super-idiomatic conducting from Semyon Bychkov. Such character, sensitivity, understanding. Luminous
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Jerry Herman gone. An immense talent which one underrated at one’s peril. I met him just the once and his old world courtesy and charm shone as brightly as his melodies. Just one word for the ballads (which as everybody knows are my penchant): magnificent.
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Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
@bbcproms
@londonsymphony
The sleekly industrial meets the coolly Apollonian. Simon Rattle favoured the latter. But what a piece. So much intrigue, so many amazing textures. And that blinder of a final chord.
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Just watched Lonnie Price’s embraceable film about the rise and fall and rise and rise of Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along... BEST WORST THING THAT EVER COULD HAVE HAPPENED. Astonishing footage. Blissful. And moving. Feeling more human having watched it...
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Heading to my hometown LIVERPOOL for a homecoming with the Dame of Birkenhead…
Limited Availability - Join Dame Patricia Routledge and
@seckerson
for 'Facing the Music' live at
@TungAuditorium
in Liverpool on 23rd March. Tickets:
#LiveShow
#Theatre
#Liverpool
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CHITA RIVERA has left us. I’m not usually lost for words 💔
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The Romanza from Vaughan Williams’ Fifth Symphony is the aural manifestation of an illuminated manuscript - a movement so beautiful and so mystical that it seems to have crossed centuries to reach our ears. Edward Gardner and
@LPOrchestra
more than renewed those impressions
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So it’s the last night and how can I resist celebrating the company I’ve kept. She’s the business alright.
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I honestly doubt a better case could be made for the mightily flawed but musically sublime satire that is ANYONE CAN WHISTLE than Georgie Rankcom’s wacky, gaudy, high octane staging
@swkplay
Great ensemble driven by the brilliant comedic and vocal skills of Alex Young
@alexdeboo
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ANDRE PREVIN. The complete musician. And then some. I recall talking to him about his innovative score for ELMER GANTRY. Just strings and brass. ‘Ah, that must have been the week I discovered Hindemith’s Music for Strings & Brass’. Funny and probably true.
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Probably the only political Tweet I'll ever send but why is so much energy being expended on Cummings and other variations of the blame game in this crisis when our Arts institutions are in such dire straits. Prince Charles is making his voice heard; why not the opposition?
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PHANTOM THREAD. Beautiful. Seductive. Exquisitely enigmatic. Just heaven.
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We’ve come expect revelations from Vladimir Jurowski but his elemental account of Mahler’s 5th Symphony
@LPOrchestra
@southbankcentre
was musically, stylistically, sonically the greatest I have heard since the heyday of Bernstein and Tennstedt
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What an emotional rollercoaster is Janacek’s JENUFA - nervy, passionate, infinitely tender. Not a nuance unturned in Simon Rattle’s incandescent account
@londonsymphony
@BarbicanCentre
Ace cast. And isn’t that astonishing middle act an opera in itself.
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SIX
@sixthemusical
is just about the smartest , funkiest new work to kickstart the senses and lift the spirits in an age. Five centuries of sexual revolution, six wives, one contest, and the most insidiously catchy hooks in any current West End score.
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There is nothing quite as agonisingly intense as the pent up passions of Janacek’s Katya Kabanova or indeed those explosive releases. Simon Rattle and
@londonsymphony
laid the great score bare
@BarbicanCentre
and Amanda Majeski was heart stopping in the title role
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So the news is out! Absolutely thrilled to share a stage with this legendary star...
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Still processing the loss of opera director Graham Vick. But let me single out that revelatory production of EUGENE ONEGIN which christened the new
@glyndebourne
house. The Independent gave me 1500 words to reflect on it. They weren’t enough. I can see and feel it right now.
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Super-compelling Deborah Warner staging of Britten’s PETER GRIMES
@TheRoyalOpera
seething with incident and physicality and a visionary Grimes
@fatboyclayton
Mark Elder on fire. And isn’t that aching quartet for the women in act two one of THE most evocative numbers in all opera
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Feeling quite honoured to have been asked to write the liner note for the 50th anniversary reissue of the inaugural recording of the masterpiece that is Leonard Bernstein’s MASS.
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Talking LEONARD BERNSTEIN - my favourite subject - with his daughter Jamie on the release of MAESTRO
@bachtrack
@netflix
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The divine
@sierraboggess
talking all things musical theatre for a long-form audio podcast
@MusicalsMag
ahead of her upcoming concerts on Sunday
@cadoganhall
@f_w_live
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Thrilled to be a part of Chichester’s autumn adventures...
.
@mrmichaelball
, Sheila Hancock and Patricia Routledge will be
#FacingTheMusic
in conversation with
@seckerson
about their lives in musical theatre
#Autumn2020
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Antonio Pappano on fire for his final RIGOLETTO
@RoyalOperaHouse
and perhaps the best Gilda I have ever seen from the extraordinary Lisette Oropesa
@Lisette_Oropesa
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The death of Edward VII weighed heavily on Elgar in the second movement of his Second Symphony. The death of Queen Elizabeth II unlocked a quite extraordinary intensity in Simon Rattle’s impassioned account with
@londonsymphony
@BarbicanCentre
Gosh Rattle is soaring right now.
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The middle act of Janacek’s JENUFA is always a tough watch but when Jennifer Davis and Susan Bullock ignite
@E_N_O
there is nowhere to hide. Add to that a really terrific ENO debut from Richard Trey Smagur as the shambling beleaguered Laca and the heartbreak becomes very real.
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Plaudits to these beauties
@JulianOvenden
@Gina_Beck
@robhouchen
@DanielGwynEvans
@ChichesterFT
for taking such great care of a wonderful show and ravishing score
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When the sound desk crashed at the lovely LUCIE JONES matinee today
@cadoganhall
showbiz magic descended with ‘a little help from her friends’. On came
@SamRyderMusic
and joined Lucy in a rendition of ‘For Good’ from Wicked that I for one won’t forget in a hurry…
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What a thing of wonder is Mahler’s cosmic Eighth Symphony and how impressively Vasily Petrenko
@rpoonline
chronicled its ascendancy. There was drive, there was rapture, there was a mystique you could inhale. Quite marvellous.
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On Lenny’s birthday, boy did his presence shine through the soaring dance interludes of ON THE TOWN
@bbcproms
@londonsymphony
Lonely Town Pas de Deux really did it for me
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Heavenly lengths to ponder in Rachmaninov’s 2nd Symphony
@BBCRadio3
@andrewCDmcg
And it’s a cut-free zone…Join us 9.30
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Fasten your seatbelts. Delighted to welcome the gifted and so much larger than life OSCAR CONLON-MORREY
@Oscar_C_M_
to
@CrazyCoqs
17 October 3pm for chat and songs and more
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Mining the archives (as one does at this time of the year). Baby Seckerson with baby Spielberg (Steven, that is) post Jaws at Cannes
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Watching WHITE CHRISTMAS for the zillionth time. Not a moment, not a gag, not a note, not a costume, not a dance step that isn’t complete and utter perfection. Not Christmas without it.
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My cup runneth over....
Beginning on 24 Feb
@seckerson
will return to host more of our popular
#FacingTheMusic
events with much-loved stars from the world of musical theatre
#PatriciaRoutledge
#ImeldaStaunton
@GilesTerera
#PhilipQuast
and
#SheilaHancock
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Their recording opened my ears and imagination in ways I wouldn’t have thought possible but Kirill Petrenko and
@BerlinPhil
in Mahler’s technically challenging and sonically flabbergasting 7th
@bbcproms
was something else. Never heard a more illuminating account. Breathtaking
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Totally overwhelmed once more by the insanely wondrous thing that is Leonard Bernstein’s MASS
@southbankcentre
An astonishing achievement for so many young unprofessional performers. Each performance is an occasion and only one man could have written it.
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With the Friedmans following Alfie’s cabaret debut
@CrazyCoqs
in my COMPARING NOTES series. And the divine Maria makes three!
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Yet another extraordinary afternoon celebrating the musical theatre credentials of the great DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE
@MenuhinSchool
We’ve shared the stage for over a decade and she never fails to surprise and move me. All rise…
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Only closed minds and the terminally purist could fail to thrill to Tim Sheader’s bravely reimagined and reheard revival of CAROUSEL
@OpenAirTheatre
@tomdeering
@DrewMcOnie
@tomscuttdesign
Gritty, honest, moving. And that act two ballet…that searing soprano cornet…wow
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Candid and insightful - comparing notes with the great Sarah Connolly...
COMPARING NOTES: DAME SARAH CONNOLLY
@spconnolly
discusses her new recording of Das Lied von der Erde, singing Handel at Glyndebourne and ENO, Fricka in Wagner's Ring Cycle, admired directors and dream roles with
@seckerson
@AskonasHolt
@PENTATONEmusic
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Remembering the one, the only, LEONARD BERNSTEIN and the precious hour I spent with him back in 1989
#careerhighlight
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Yours truly will be celebrating LEONARD BERNSTEIN (in the interviewee’s chair for a change) with esteemed colleagues
@PetrocTrelawny
@julianovenden00
@XtinaBianco1
@_ryanmackenzie
@KingsPlace
@jlfbookweek
SUNDAY 3 MARCH 8pm
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Still reeling from Laura Pitt-Pulford’s
@LPittPulford
storming performance of the heart wrenching eleven o’clock number ‘Anything But Lonely’ from ASPECTS OF LOVE. So nostalgic to revisit what is in some ways Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most integrated score in this elegant revival
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Remembering Richard Sherman. We chatted at the piano (the best place to chat with him) for my erstwhile BBC radio show when CHITTY hit the West End. As the songs of all our childhoods go the Sherman Brothers had it pretty much wrapped up. They sing on…
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So proud of my association with DAME PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE, a dear friend and colleague. Richly deserved.
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Watching SIAN PHILLIPS AT 90
@BBCTV
brought back memories of our stage encounter
@RoyalWelshMT
back in 2016. Glamour and spirit in abundance
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Hair-raising performance of Shostakovich’s renegade Fourth Symphony from Simon Rattle
@londonsymphony
@BarbicanCentre
Rattle probing for the method in the madness of this stupendous and wickedly subversive piece. It really doesn’t get much better than this.
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A concert
@LPOrchestra
@southbankcentre
to set our collective spirits soaring. The sweet harmony of 16 solo voices that is Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music seeming to unlock the stark home truths of Tippett’s A Child of Our Time. Emotive, uplifting, fabulously sung, special
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What’s that sound? A collective sigh of relief, I fancy....
ARTS NEWS
🎭A £1.57 BILLION emergency support package
🩰 Weeks in the making to make this world leading fund to help the arts weather the storm of Covid
🎶 I said I wouldn’t let the arts down.
Culture and the arts matter, and this Govt backs you
@RishiSunak
@ace_national
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Surely the concert of the year so far
@philharmonia
under the quietly sensational MANFRED HONECK. The French pianist ALEXANDRE KANTOROW is a poet and revealed subtleties in Liszt we’d forgotten existed. Honeck’s Bruckner 9 was world class and truly a summation. No more to be said
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Things I love about JENNA RUSSELL
@jennarusselluk
She’s real, she’s honest, she’s funny, and she breaks your heart. She was all those things
@cadoganhall
And, hell, I’d cross time zones to hear her do Days and Days from Fun Home. Here’s us during lockdown…
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The wondrous Barbara Cook is gone. That most luminous sound will always be with me and I shall treasure our encounters.
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