Remembering David Willcocks (1919-2015) A reflection from December 16, 2019 by John Rutter [Ken Gray] It is now ten years since the death of Sir David Wilcocks, organist, conductor, composer/arranger, and college administrator. One of my…

Ten years following the death of Sir David Wilcocks, a memory and appreciation take-note.ca/2026/01/03/r... #davidwilcocks #kingscollegecambridge #royalcollegeofmusic #choralmusic

Kaploukhii, Greenwich Chamber Orchestra, Cutts, St James's Piccadilly review - promising young pianist To St James’s Piccadilly to hear the young pianist Misha Kaploukhii give an impressive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, accompanied by the Greenwich Chamber Orchestra. Kaploukhii is a...

★★★★ #MishaKaploukhii #GreenwichChamberOrchestra #DavidCutts #StJamessPiccadilly - A robust and assertive #Beethoven concerto suggests a player to follow - the evening belonged to the promising young #RoyalCollegeofMusic pianist, says @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Kurt Cobain's green sweater from Nirvana's Unplugged performance at the Royal College of Music, London

Kurt Cobain's green sweater from Nirvana's Unplugged performance at the Royal College of Music, London

Nirvana's vinyls still live in my house, what are they doing behind a glass showcase at a museum...?

KURT COBAIN'S MARTIN D-18E GUITAR Introduced in 1959, the model D-18E was an early attempt by the C. F. Martin Company to create an electrified version of one of their popular flat-top acoustic guitar designs. Unsuccessful upon release, only 302 D-18Es were ever manufactured, making this a very rare instrument. Bearing the serial number 166854, Kurt Cobain's guitar was the seventh to roll off the production line. Some three decades later, this guitar turned up in a pawn shop in Alabama, where it was purchased by Lloyd Chiate, owner of the Voltage Guitars shop in Los Angeles, who sold it to Kurt Cobain. Following Cobain's death in 1994, the guitar passed to his daughter, Frances Bean Cobain and then to Isaiah Silva, Frances Bean's ex-husband. In June 2020, Kurt Cobain's Martin D-18E was sold for a record price of $6,010,000 at Julien's Auctions to entrepreneur Peter Freedman. With this sale it became the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction.

Not sure anyone that lived through it is quite prepared to see stuff we had hanging on our walls EXHIBITED BEHIND GLASS.

#KurtCobain #Unplugged #RoyalCollegeofMusic #London

Londoners know peace/solitude can always be found in one of City's near 5000 churches. Discover yesterday morning #StGeorgesHanoverSquare, #Handel's Church, has a Morning Calm Session, which includes meditative performance by #RoyalCollegeOfMusic student.
#LetsGuide #UniquelyLondon #ALondonersLife3

Royal College of Music Museum The Royal College of Music Museum contains over 15,000 musical treasures, including the earliest known guitar and most recognised portrait of Joseph Haydn.

#TIL that the #RoyalCollegeOfMusic in #London has a lovely little #museum of musical instruments. I discovered this purely by coincidence as I was looking at an old paper map to find my way through Kensington and it was marked as an attraction. https://www.rcm.ac.uk/museum/

A wander 👫 around a fav stomping ground, Kensington 😊
#Kensington #London #RoyalAlbertHall #Architecture #RoyalAlbertHallLondon #Mews #KynanceMews #Kynance #PrinceConsortRoad #RoyalCollegeofMusic

It’s not too late to celebrate the quasquicentennial of Poulenc!

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