Jessica Duchen

This is nice! Thank you a thousand times, @prestomusic.bsky.social 🙏❤️🎶🎹🥳

The arts will play a key role in the government’s agenda. But, it is crucial that artists remain free to 'irritate, shame and annoy,' and highlight where society continues not to be a level playing field.

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Multicultural Britain needs new music for Christmas Handel's Messiah has monopolised the festive season for too long - that's why I've co-written a new choral piece

I wrote about it why Roxanna Panufnik and I are going head to head with Handel’s Messiah. Come and hear the result on Sunday at Symphony Hall Birmingham!

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This is why we insist that arts and humanities matter. And it turns out they can cure cancer, too.

YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG Jonas Kaufmann, Marlis Petersen - Korngold: Die Tote Stadt: "Wunderbar!" (Excerpt)

Erich Wolfgang Korngold died on 29 November 1957, aged 60. Heads-up to planners: he has two big round number anniversaries in '27.
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Allan Schiller & John Humphreys piano duo Allan Schiller & John Humphreys piano duo Farewell Recital

Allan Schiller and John Humphreys grace the stage at Wigmore Hall this afternoon for their farewell recital after over 50 years of their duo partnership, offering a programme of Mozart's sonatas and enchanting works by Schubert 🎹⭐

🕰️ 1.00pm
🎟️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202511291300

LPO/Gardner review — I’d happily drown in this singer’s magnificent voice Mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor brought five-star conviction to this all-Elgar programme conducted by Edward Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall

Magnificent Elgar from Beth Taylor, Edward Gardner and the @lporchestra.bsky.social
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.

Not connected to 'Die tote Stadt', I take it?

So excited to hear this at last! A very special composer who carried a complex, startling story.

Out of the shadows: why Avril Coleridge-Taylor deserves to be heard The daughter of the British composer Samuel made controversial choices that took her on a different path to her father’s activism. Ahead of the premiere recording of her piano concerto, its soloist lo...

Fabulous article by Dr Samantha Ege ahead of tomorrow’s release. @leahbroad.bsky.social

Jack A short story

I wrote a short story.

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Arts give young people well-being boost valued at £10,000 - Arts Professional Young people who take part in arts and cultural activities experience a significant improvement in life satisfaction, equivalent to that experienced by an

Young people who take part in arts and cultural activities experience a significant improvement in life satisfaction, equivalent to that experienced by an unemployed adult who gets a job, according to researchers at the University of Manchester.

‘The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible.’

Jessica Duchen – Wagner’s Women The topic is a look at Wagner’s path towards creating the most extraordinary female characters in the operatic world of his time.

Tonight it's WAGNER'S WOMEN for the Wagner Society of Scotland, in cyberspace - please log on at 6.30pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jessica-du...

light text on dark blue background: "Henselpushers 220th birthday checkup" font is like 8-bit gothic style

WHAT DOES HENSELPUSHERS DO?

A lot! In honor of Fanny Hensel's 220th birthday today, here is an overview of everything on offer.

I've grouped henselpushers' activities into four categories:

1) Free scores
2) Arrangements & special editions
3) Directories & resources
4) Events & Videos

Jessica Duchen – Wagner’s Women The topic is a look at Wagner’s path towards creating the most extraordinary female characters in the operatic world of his time.

In case you'd like to hear WAGNER'S WOMEN but couldn't make it to the London Singers' Collective evening at National Opera Studio yesterday, I have a short-notice repeat run tomorrow, >online< at 6.30pm, for the Wagner Society of Scotland.
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(The true function of a libretto!)

Wagner's Women An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.

Quick reminder to Wagnerites that we are doing this at the National Opera Studio, Wandsworth, tonight...
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Wagner's Women An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.

Looking forward to talking WAGNER on Friday! With music from soprano Valerija Iljin and pianist Daniel Silcock, at the National Opera Studio.
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Sign the Petition Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham

Petition protesting the closure of Nottingham's music department ✍️

Out today: Avril Coleridge-Taylor: ‘In Memoriam - To the RAF’ (1945).

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Why we need to stop telling classical musicians to 'shut up and play' Too often musicians' voices are silenced on politics. But we need them now more than ever

We need to listen to musicians, not tell them to ‘shut up and play’, and here’s why.

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Wagner's Women An exploration of the development of Richard Wagner's early operatic heroines.

Looking forward enormously to doing a little Wagner evening...I'll be talking about Wagner's musical cauldron and the soprano Valerija Iljin sings extracts from Senta, Elisabeth, Sieglinde and the Wesendonck Lieder. 14 Nov, National Opera Studio
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"Her rise to fame has been breathtaking, as is her versatility," @jessicaduchen.bsky.social writes in the new 'Opera Now' cover story, 'Julia Bullock: A Universal Voice.' You can read it at www.gramophone.co.uk/opera-now/fe...

Oh blimey guv… 🤨

Thangam Debbonaire to head new UK opera trade body
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Off to @wigmore_hall to hear @fhvln and @MartinRoscoe1 strut some formidable stuff tonight. And fortunately it takes my mind off packing for tomorrow (I love being in new places, but hate having to get there…).

Coming up on Friday: Lara Melda and I tell the story of Myra Hess in the National Gallery, in, what else, a lunchtime concert. We will be in the same space she used, Room 36! Admission freeeeee. Please join us!

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