Queen Elizabeth , 1953: ‘I have recently befriended two charming homosexuals in Aldeburgh, Suffolk - a composer and singer I believe - to which one should I wish a Happy International Women’s Day?’
A glance at the paywalled preview - the answer is however you want, but don’t ‘let on that you have spotted who is the stud’…🙂
Also of interest to classical music folk is that the question is from a ‘J.O.’ of Snape
I’d also try white vinegar if that doesn’t work
Mandelson also went for the one at Manchester Uni (I voted for Lemn Sissay who won), and got the one at Manchester Metropolitan six months later.
Lovely
If Baz & Stokes go at the end of this series (quite possible IMO) - who’s going to do it? Brook I suspect? He might make Bazball seem like Geoffrey Boycott…
My ‘Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe)’ for 5 lower strings, aced by 12 Ensemble:
youtu.be/kT9wQak1d5s?...
I wrote a thing for Music Patron, with some insights and sketches of my BBC Proms piece, 'Monologues for the Curious'.
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Pretty excited for this one – new piece for Allan Clayton & BBC Phil – 'Monologues for the Curious' at the BBC Proms this July.
May contain eroticism, grief, surreal dreams, an eccentric Tinder bio, and Allan playing a harmonica.
Tx
New piece for the ORA Singers premiering this month – 'Souling' – wandering spirits and pagan trick-or-treating. Manchester's Stoller Hall on 29th April! x
www.fabermusic.com/news/ora-sin...
Happy birthday Pierre! I'm talking at the Royal Academy of Music at the 4.45 and 6pm pre-concert talks, ahead of the evening concert where the Manson Ensemble will be tackling the *unbelievably* virtuosic 'Sur Incises' amongst other things.
www.ram.ac.uk/whats-on/bou...
'Gymnopédies' has its Australian premiere this weekend with Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
www.fabermusic.com/news/austral...
12 Ensemble are giving the UK premiere of my Prelude (after Monsieur de Sainte Colombe) on Tuesday – a chocolatey treat for five low strings. Alongside gorgeous stuff!
www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...
album cover for 'Pieces that Disappear'
Two interviews/blogs about my recent album Pieces that Disappear:
1. With Presto Music: www.prestomusic.com/classical/ar...
2. With NMC Recordings: www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/tom...
@prestomusic.bsky.social @nmcrecordings.bsky.social
I've written something for Music Patron, in two parts, about my favourite music in the world – Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
musicpatron.com/composer_upd...
A rare foray for me into tweeting reviews, but I've got an album to promote, so sue me…
I've collated some reviews of my @nmcrecordings.bsky.social album. All pieces performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and friends.
www.tomcoult.com/pieces-that-...
Difficult to overstate the impact Boulez's beautiful beautiful beautiful music had on me when I first found it. Can't be at the LSO gig tonight but will be a proper fanboy at the Barbican Immersion day – Anna Dennis performing Pli Selon Pli 😍😍😍
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Aldeburgh Festival announced today: I'm writing a new one for Allan Clayton & @dunedinconsort.bsky.social…premiered June at gorgeous Blythburgh Church.
It's my fridge-poetry take on the Book of Lamentations, maybe with a bit of Sussex folklore mixed in…
Tx
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/duned...
Honoured. When I was a kid I lost my tamagotchi on holiday in France, and was so distraught that my parents had to put up 'missing' posters around the campsite.
I'd rather write a piece called 'Subito Subbuteo'
My new disc of orchestral music featured on Record Review on Saturday – a little taster from 54:19.
Begins with the phrase "Do you remember the British composer Tom Coult?", as if I'm Subbuteo or Tamagotchis or something:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I've made a new version of my 'O Ecclesia' for
Aidan O'Rourke & Sean Shibe – premiere is at Kings Place on Friday, also performances in York and Perth. Will be lovely gigs x www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/fol...
A Faber writeup on my new album with a few details of the pieces, in case you are looking for a Christmas gift for a loved one, a friend, or an enemy (to heal the wounds) www.fabermusic.com/news/coult-p...
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! From stone cold repertoire classics, to new music and new discoveries, my playlist of the week's symphony and orchestral #NewReleases has something for you! It's updated every Friday, and these are just four of the delights in store this week ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Is it the wrinkled old crackhead's *hair* that is waving a paintbrush around? Is the hair doing so in the unwearable couture? Is it the passenger lift that they start redecorating?
This is absurdly bad writing from Giles Coren.
The first sentence: mercifully short. The remainder: 99 words in two enormous, un-parsable sentences dizzyingly full of subordinate clauses. Is the Pride rally *itself* dressed as Boney M? Is it the Ivan Drago flat-top that is wielding a sledgehammer?
This kind of thinking is always bullshit, except when it prompts imagination that wouldn’t happen otherwise - a potential prompt, not a divine intervention
OUT TODAY: Tom Coult - Pieces that Disappear @tomcoult.bsky.social
🎻 BBC Philharmonic, Anna Dennis, Daniel Pioro, Elena Swartz, Martyn Brabbins
Listen now: nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
OUT NOW: Pieces that Disappear, my new portrait disc, all beautifully performed by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and various friends!
Available to stream in all the normal places, or get it on CD/FLAC/MP3 from
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social
Links – nmcrecs.lnk.to/PTD
Happy disappearing comrades…
Why yes, nascent and therefore quiet Bluesky! It is indeed Vivaldi’s ‘Spring’ from Four Seasons! Those seasons are masterpieces of form as well as obviously of melody.