@martinsmith
Husband, father, violinist; leader of cirrusstringquartet.com; conductor of rorchestra.bsky.social, enfieldchamberorch.org.uk, Winchmore Strings and anyone else that'll have me. Member/Board member of londonmozartplayers.com. Makes decent coffee. He/him
My problem is I'd practically memorised the book long before the radio adaptation, and none of the voices were the ones that were already in my head, so they were all wrong. No matter how good they were. See also: all the films.
Myttin da / Good morning Blue Skyπ
Wishing you all, along with the Cornish diaspora over the world a Happy St Piran's Day! / Gool Peran Lowen!
Including:
USA
South Africa
Australia
Mexico
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
#StPiransDay
#GoolPeranLown
Prince Philip was both.
I loved this. Bravo.
Brava
'Twas ever thus, unfortunately
Dydd GΕ΅yl Dewi hapus i bawb!
That was gorgeous.
I didn't until recently. It's very late. The slow movement has me in tears.
Ardderchog.
Also, based on the Violin & Horn concerto I'm working on at the moment, I'm becoming more and more impressed by Smyth. And the Serenade!
Itβs a running joke in academia that Matt Goodwin is bad at maths.
This sort of thing is why: the combined Labour/Green vote could have split in any way possible and Goodwin would have finished 2nd or 3rd. He did not lose because progressives coordinated. He lost *in spite of them not doing so*.
I would humbly add Alberga. Wonderful composer.
Basically he got round the House of Lords, which remained opposed to Jews in Parliament, by suggesting each House could modify its own oath of allegiance: thus the Commons could do what it liked and the Lords could stay the same.
Quite so. It was a modest intervention by Lord Lucan, of Light Brigade fame, that broke the deadlock.
I take the point that a professing Jew could not at the time have been Prime Minister. That changed in 1858 after a long campaign.
Fair, but his ethnicity was an issue at the time. Carlyle described him as "a cursed old Jew, not worth his weight in cold bacon".
Disraeli
Should be built with rock from the German Ardennes. The Tour Eifel
A 2000 year old Roman water channel that still flows today
This incredible underground aqueduct is hidden right inside the Smyrna Agora in Izmir, Turkey πΉπ· #thursdaymotivation
I have always thought the Christian names in his name had got transposed.
A bit?
Nominative Determinism took one look and went "no, not this time, too much for me, I'm outta here"
Noooooo, very good boi overdose, I die happy
Magnificent.
I laughed more than I should have at this.
Please do!
Curiosity got me googling without result, though it did bring up the unrelated fact that Xenakis had at one time worked under Le Corbusier! Whom are you referring to?
I am one hundred percent keeping this. And I'm English (mostly).
From the outside, at least
