Here is a box a musical box, wound up & ready to play. But this box can hide a secret inside. Can you guess what is in it today? I am now @gram63 at Bluesky
The Nor'westerlies
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Graham Kenyon retweeted
Cellist Rostropovich, composer Shostakovich, and pianist Richter share a backstage moment. #music #cello #piano #composers
Graham Kenyon retweeted
What a rich and romantic evening of music from @tonhalle orchestra, violinist Augustin Hadelich and conductor @paavo_jarvi 👏🤩
The orchestra’s encore at the end of the evening was a lively rendition of Hugo Alfven’s Valflickans Dans 🎶
#bbcproms
ALT Conductor Paavo Järvi and violinist Augustin Hadelich looking triumphant
ALT The full orchestra on the stage
ALT Augustin Hadelich and Paavo Järvi take a bow together holding hands
ALT Paavo Järvi conducting the orchestra with arms stretched out wide
Graham Kenyon retweeted
A self-portrait c. 1650-55 By Elisabetta Sirani, born 1638. She established a school for female artists in Bologna before dying young #otd 28 Aug 1665.
(Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)
Graham Kenyon retweeted
“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
Graham Kenyon retweeted
Third week 'on the buses'. This is the 219. Let no one say folk don't wish to use public transport. Get them to run when passengers want to use them and then public transport lives up to it's name.
Graham Kenyon retweeted
🎶Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesdaye grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care not for thee
-- But Fridaye Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou mayest fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte breake
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
-- But Fridaye Ich am yn love🎶
Graham Kenyon retweeted
"How much harder is it to come to terms with impatience today, in an age which is so hectically speeded up, in which you take for granted instant knowledge of all word events, problems, and catastrophes, and demand an equally instant remedy.
-Leonard Bernstein, @TanglewoodMA 1970
![[📷 Leonard Bernstein speaking at the TMC Opening Exercises, 1970. Weissenstein, Heinz (Whitestone Photo), courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3M0o6_WoAAjel4.jpg?name=orig)
ALT [📷 Leonard Bernstein speaking at the TMC Opening Exercises, 1970. Weissenstein, Heinz (Whitestone Photo), courtesy of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives]
Graham Kenyon retweeted
What a wonderful way to start a Sunday with music by Bach and Mozart from @DunedinConsort, Lucy Crowe, @NardusWilliams, Jess Dandy, @ben_hulett and Robert Davies, conducted by John Butt #bbcproms
📷 @SisiBurn
Graham Kenyon retweeted
Seo Durham moors @DurhamBirdClub @BirdGuides @britishbirds @Britnatureguide @BirdGuides @BBCSpringwatch @WildMag #BirdsSeenIn2023 @Natures_Voice
Graham Kenyon retweeted
Of the 30 hottest days ever recorded, no fewer than 21 have occurred THIS MONTH. Temperatures in July 2023 could well be the highest for 120,000 years. This story is the lead on the BBC website, 7th on The Times, 69th on The Daily Mail, & hasn’t yet been mentioned by The Sun.
Graham Kenyon retweeted
Please don't apologise on behalf of others. Bear in mind that, as an Englishman, I'm not outside of this. I'm part of this.
Graham Kenyon retweeted
Within the past two weeks, on a visit to the city of my birth, London, I have committed:
1) The crime of being Black while studying the interior of a church (I did church architecture as part of pre 6th form O Level art &, though an atheist from the age of six, retain an interest in the buildings). The only other civilian in the church, a worshiper, had clearly felt threatened and had called the Priest who enquired as to why I was in the building.
2) The crime of being Black while hailing a taxi for hire (taxi sign on) in broad daylight.
The first driver saw me well enough to deliver a comedic wave before driving on; the second merely looked me in the eyes, dismissed me and drove on.
&
3) The crime of not being what I apparently, in this instance, had a duty to be:
After dinner in my hotel, I've just been racially profiled by another guest (vanilla) who assumed I was a member of staff as we all waited for the lift/elevator on our way to our rooms.
The last of these instances made me laugh. The first two were annoying. As I told a young, white and helpful policeman many years ago, "You get used to it".
He replied, "You shouldn't have to!".
Graham Kenyon retweeted
This is the oldest surviving camera photograph. It was taken in 1826 and took 8 hours of exposure (but more recent studies suggest that the exposure must have continued for several days)
[read more: bit.ly/2lBM3Hw]
Graham Kenyon retweeted
And Ich wolde reade 500 tweetes
And Ich wolde reade 500 more
But Ich kan not reade a thousande tweetes
Because El*n ys ridiculouslye terrible at runninge thys syte
Graham Kenyon retweeted
If you'd rather England had made 460, batted into day two, and the game had meandered into a draw, fair play to you. That is, of course, fine.
I much prefer the way it went.
