@rasalmon.bsky.social
Trains (restoration thereof, esp. woodworking) and Choral singing (tenor). Trustee of 5 Charities/organisations - that surely makes me "economically active", even if unpaid! Retired research engineer/colour scientist.
Our next Concert:
Saturday 15 November: Handel's MESSIAH
7.30pm at St. Mary's Church, Reigate (RH2 7RN)
Reigate & Redhill Choral Society is excited to present, for the first time in a decade, Handel's classical favourite, MESSIAH.
Tickets available online via www.rrcs.org.uk
Great interview on Desert Island Discs.
I’m glad I’m not the only research scientist to have had their best ideas in the morning shower!
Am glad I’m not the only research scientist to come up with their best ideas in the shower!
23.05.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Composers! This is going to be a wonderful project.
11.03.2025 15:44 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0This is a complete and utter scandal. It will be an outrage if the university that made me redundant can profit financially from my publications. I always thought publishing prolifically would be the thing that saved me. Turns out they can have my publications without paying me.
11.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
🔈 Calling musicians in Cardiff!
Musicians, students and alumni will be gathering tomorrow in a mass protest against the proposed plan to close Cardiff University School of Music
✊ Every young person in Wales should have the chance to benefit from arts education
“I’ve watered down the ‘assisted dying safeguards,’ grandma”
From the new Private Eye, out now.
Hey! HEY!! Don't tell anyone but we just released more £30 tickets for our opening show #DasRheingold this Sunday at #Yorkhalla (Bethnal Green, London) there will also be a small number of £25 rush tickets on the day, but we're very nearly full don't miss it! Www.ticketsource.co.uk/regents-opera
07.02.2025 12:37 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Station bosses: "We can't say the platform till 5 mins before departure in case ppl go to the platform early, but we'll hide departure time 3 mins before departure in case ppl go too late"
Train geeks: have a permanent RealTimeTrains tab in their phone's browser
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The new UK eurostar terminal in Amsterdam opens on Monday. Direct trains to London return. Sneak preview here ⬇️
07.02.2025 15:58 — 👍 117 🔁 20 💬 12 📌 0
RIP the legend that is Janey
31.01.2025 11:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
I don't buy papers or watch TV... but listen to the radio all the time! Following her death they've re-run her last radio series this month.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Tonight, Angel Blue debuts with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá in the opening concert of their 2025 season.
Full details here: https://buff.ly/4hfN84d
The colour science in the article is all good, but orange, pink, white and many other colours are also a mix of different spectral colours, not just purple. So it's the attention-grabbing headline about purple being in some way special that is simply wrong.
30.01.2025 12:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is true however is that the sensation of colour is entirely down to the human brain (with a bit of help from our eyes). But that's true for every single colour, including pure spectral colours (single wavelengths), not just purple.
Pure spectral colours only really exist from lasers anyway.
Sorry, that's complete and utter rubbish. Very few colours exist as pure wavelengths. Total twaddle!
30.01.2025 12:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are thrilled to announce we have been shortlisted for the 2025 #RPSAwards in the Impact category for our Re:Discover Festival, along with the amazing Ex Cathedra - Singing Medicine and @worldheartbeat.bsky.social! 🎉 Find out more at streetwiseopera.org/2025-rps-awa...
@royalphilsoc.bsky.social
The carriage in the photo (LCDR 48) came to the Bluebell Railway in 1962, having been in departmental service. Used as a mess van and workshop for some years, it's now in a storage shed to protect it from the weather.
A similar carriage has been restored: www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pic...
Swanage Railway brought it back from a museum in the USA in 2007. It was never going to be scrapped. It's stored at (and will be on display once it opens to the public) at The One:One Collection in Margate.
www.theonetoonecollection.co.uk/the-one-one-...
Horsted Keynes, Bluebell Railway, 6.5.1989
#HorstedKeynes #BluebellRailway #HeritageRailway
#1980s
A chance encounter at Horsted Keynes, the North London tank is working an engineering train, back when the Bluebell was 100% steam worked and not connected to the Network.
SNCF Réseau orders lower emission steel rails https://www.railwaygazette.com/infrastructure/sncf-reseau-orders-lower-emission-steel-rails/68200.article
28.01.2025 06:00 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to @yolandabrown for the shout out on Magic Classical @scalaradiouk 📻 for our concert this coming Saturday at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square.
Tickets...
tinyurl.com/CEFCWorldOWo...
People in the UK, if you have a problem with the likes of Elon Musk
donating £100,000 to the Reform Party, please sign this Parliamentary Petition: Tighten the rules on political donations, and please share it widely
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
One year ago. A sight we thought we’d never see again! Celebrating great work by @gordon3417.bsky.social who care for this unit on behalf of the bluebell. Please donate to help 3417 achieve even greater things this year!!
#BSMRGUK #TMRGUK #BritishRail
As part of our follow up on misogyny in the music industry, we're hearing from:
Laura Snapes | Black Lives in Music | Lucy Cox | Independent Society of Musicians | @wearethemu.bsky.social | Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority
Watch on Parliament Live at 2.20pm, Tuesday 28 January.
Amazing to think it was a year ago! It had been a huge effort to get it to Waterloo in January, and still more to make it fit to carry passengers on the Bluebell Railway last September. Further maintenance and enhancement work is currently in progress to prepare it for several outings this year.
27.01.2025 22:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
To mark
#HolocaustRemembranceDay, here's my website on Jewish Viennese pianist & Clara Schumann student Emilie Goldberger (1858–1942)–teacher of Émile Zuckerkandl–, whom I rediscovered by chance in February 2023 & whose life I was able to (roughly) reconstruct.
goldberger.susanne-wosnitzka.de/en/
Have you ever wondered what happens at the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, over Winter, when the trains aren't running?
We take an exclusive behind the scenes tour at Woody Bay showing what it takes to get the railway ready for the 2025 season.
youtu.be/lAbd4JoxKXM
I'm singing in the performance of Toward the Unknown Region tonight at the Barbican - isn't it just a fabulous piece!
It's on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 28th.
During our open rehearsal on Tuesday we were joined by this beautiful Peacock butterfly. It took great interest in the music we were rehearsing (Britten's St. Nicholas)!
If you're interested in singing with us, just flutter in to next Tuesday's rehearsal! More details here: rrcs.org.uk
