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My Opinions About Classical Music on YouTube! https://youtube.com/@myopinionsaboutclassicalmusic
Today's listening: Warning to the Rich - Thomas Jennefelt
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Today's listening: Helios Overture Op. 17 by Carl Nielsen
youtu.be/zHLFCuNwSW8?...
Today's listening: Holberg Suite, op 40: Preludium - Edvard Grieg
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🌟 Applications are OPEN for the 2025 Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition! 🌟
A great opportunity for emerging conductors to launch their careers with the LSO. 🏆 £15,000 + a year as Assistant Conductor!
👉 Apply now: bit.ly/49z2n5s
Deadline: 3 April 2025
🎉 Today marks 159 years since the birth of Jean Sibelius!
Celebrate the iconic Finnish composer with 7 facts about his life and music. 🎻 While you’re reading, immerse yourself in his symphonies, remastered in Spatial Audio and conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
What’s your favourite Sibelius piece?👇
An audience member capturing a Christmas concert with the Orchestra and a choir at the Royal Albert Hall on their phone with the text 83% of adults in the UK will engage with classical music this month'
New research from the RPO suggests that adults in the UK engage with classical and orchestral music this month more than any other time of the year.
Additionally, 51% of adults with no prior relationship to classical music say they will give it a try over the Christmas period.
Photo of the Chief Executive of The Ivors Academy Roberto Neri in a suit with the text: Songwriters and media composers face losing nearly a quarter of their income by 2028 due to generative AI. It's urgent that legislators act. Tranparency, fair pay and control and non-negotiatable
‼️ Songwriters and media composers face losing nearly a quarter of their income by 2028 due to AI.
At the same time, AI companies stand to gain €4bn from the unlicensed reproduction of creators’ works.
@robertoneri.bsky.social responds to CISAC's study 👉 bit.ly/4f2yStC
#GenerativeAI #MusicAI
Our expertly curated 'Useful Links' page provides an invaluable list of research tools and teaching resources to help you explore Ralph Vaughan Williams' life and music in more detail.
Find it here:
Slide showing a smiling violinist at a CoMA event, with the text: Take your music to new levels / CoMA MidWinter Composers Course / 2nd-6th January 2025 / 2 more places available / Last chance! 1 place left
Slide showing a violinist performing as part of an ensemble and the text: 5 days of workshops at St Hilda’s College & Jacqueline du Pré Music Centre, University of Oxford / Group tuition and 1-to-1 learning with Gavin Higgins / Last chance! 1 place left / Discount for full-time students
Slide showing a group of musicians rehearsing in an informal space, with the text: Write for string orchestras or chamber ensembles / Sessions with a professional string trio / Collaborate to create a collective work / For composers of any style or background / Last chance! 1 place left / Discount for full-time students
❄️LAST CHANCE TO JOIN OUR MIDWINTER COMPOSERS COURSE!❄️
Today is the last day for signing up to our MidWinter Composers Course – and we have just one space left!
❄️Student discounts available❄️
❄️Sign up and take your music to the next level in 2025: buff.ly/4e63OZq
Is Mozart the G.O.A.T when it comes to composers? 🐐 What do you think?
Episode 1 of our new podcast Pitch me Classical is out now: lnk.to/pitch-me-classical
Slide showing a smiling violinist at a CoMA event, with the text: Take your music to new levels / CoMA MidWinter Composers Course / 2nd-6th January 2025 / 2 more places available
Slide showing a violinist performing as part of an ensemble and the text: 5 days of workshops at St Hilda’s College & Jacqueline du Pré Music Centre, University of Oxford / Group tuition and 1-to-1 learning with Gavin Higgins / 2 more places available / Discount for full-time students
Slide showing a group of musicians rehearsing in an informal space, with the text: Write for string orchestras or chamber ensembles / Sessions with a professional string trio / Collaborate to create a collective work / For composers of any style or background / 2 more places available / Discount for full-time students
❄️MIDWINTER COMPOSERS COURSE NEWS❄️
Two more places have opened up on our MidWinter Composers Course in January – don’t miss your chance to join and take your music to new levels in 2025!
❄️Apply by Weds 4 Dec❄️
❄️Discount for full-time students❄️🧵1/3
Hullo Bluesky community!
Our website has a wealth of resources related to the life and works of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - including a treasure trove of beautiful downloadable photographs.
📷 Find them here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/discover/rvw...
ICYMI I also made a playlist of women composers from 1910–present. It is still growing:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Thank you, that is very kind of you🎶
26.11.2024 06:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Feeling super excited and grateful for the fact that after only a few days on Bluesky, I have reached 100 followers! I appreciate it a lot, and I'm excited to create a community together on here🦋🎶
26.11.2024 03:30 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We're creating a Bluesky 'starter pack' for choirs, leaders and singers involved in online choirs / virtual choirs. Let's connect our harmonious digital community! If you would like to be added, just reply and let us know! 🙂🎶 go.bsky.app/S1LTut8
20.11.2024 14:23 — 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 10 📌 1Taking a moment to listen through this recording I recorded of Hadelich playing Tchaikovsky VC in Aarhus with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra. This performance single-handedly changed my perspective on the VC, and is the reason I will cite it as inspiration for my own VC for my MA project this spring.
25.11.2024 17:12 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
My wonderful @guildhallschool.bsky.social colleague Hollie Harding is leading this short course for composers over 21. Come write for brilliant pianist Ben Smith and the queen of clarinet multiphonics, Heather Roche. Oh, and you get to talk to me too. Priority Booking opens today!
25.11.2024 10:29 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The National Youth Choir is looking for 2 new conductors for residential courses for singers aged 9-15.
Apply by midday on Monday 9 December:
bit.ly/3B2oBjb
Today's listening includes contemporary Danish composer Niels Rønsholdt's "Hvor de ikke kan se noget" / "Where they cannot see anything" from his opera "Den siste olie" /"The last oil".
Find it here:
open.spotify.com/track/7A0jZX...
Find some great contemporary classical music accounts in this starter pack!🎶
23.11.2024 18:07 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next weekend we welcome acclaimed violinist James Ehnes to the Jack Singer Concert Hall stage. Learn more about the piece he's performing, Brahms' Violin Concerto, in this new article from Calgary Herald.
calgaryherald.com/entertainmen...
La Boîte à Pépites invite à redécouvrir des compositrices méconnues de façon ludique : dans un calendrier de l’avent musical et pictural (à partir de ce 1er décembre sur les réseaux sociaux), puis en concert à la Philharmonie de Paris ( @philharmonie.bsky.social ). Détails de l'initiative. 👇
22.11.2024 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
✨Job Opportunity. ✨
We are seeking an experienced professional musician to join the Ulster Orchestra in the position of Section Leader Viola.
Closing date: 9 Dec 2024.
Find out more on our website.
👉 www.ulsterorchestra.org.uk/careers/curr...
🎼 Heute spielen Janine #Jansen & Sakari #Oramo mit dem #NDR @elbphilharmonie.bsky.social Orchester
• #VERDI Ouvertüre zu "La forza del destino"
• #BYSTRÖM "Shortening Days" für Violine und Orchester
• #ELGAR Sinfonie Nr. 2 Es-Dur op. 63
Zur Zeit ist Pause, gegen 21:10 geht der Livestream weiter!
OPERA PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! I need your help spreading the word…
Applications for our Young Artist Programme at Waterperry Opera Festival are open, and the deadline is tomorrow (Tues 19) at 1700.
More details about the programme in thread, and info on how to apply at the below link.
Please share!
An hopefully expanding starter pack! Welcome to all🎶😁
18.11.2024 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Suffolk Sinfonia concert poster, with orchestra logo at the top, programme details to the left, and a photograph of Cologne Cathedral at night to the right.
Announcing Saturday's concert - the enchanting prelude of Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel; folk melodies in Kabalevsky's lively lyrical flute concerto; and Schumann's third symphony. Stall seats are still available (balcony sold out).
🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo...
#classicalmusic #orchestra #burystedmunds
