The 🇫🇷 press have all (including all local press) covered the story of adoption of 🇬🇧 controversial Bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda…. Here is a 🧵 of the coverage 1/7

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Looking forward to seeing my wonderful LiverpoolMozartOrchestra later for our first rehearsal on these two glittering masterpieces 🔥

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Blood, tears and taboos – how periods affect a singer's voice: thetimes.co.uk/article/4dcda6…

Really happy to have this feature in The Times and The Sunday Times today – it's about a subject we should all be less afraid of talking about. (1/2)

Is there anything better for the soul on a rainy day?

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‘Excited’ doesn’t quite cover it…!

🚨 NEW: George Galloway, who promised to be his constituency’s voice on Gaza, is absent from the current Urgent Question on Gaza in the Commons

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THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/

It was such a pleasure to join the wonderful LiverpoolMozartOrchestra and the amazing Robin Wallington last night to perform Lucy Armstrong’s Saxophone Concerto for the second time. Thanks for having me, it was so much fun! ☺️

Fantastic rehearsal last night working on Lucy Armstrong’s Saxophone Concerto with Gillian Blair & Robin Wallington.

We’re performing it on Saturday (2 March, 7.30pm) at The Tung Auditorium along with Bruckner Symphony 4.

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The arts in Wales (and the UK) are no longer on the brink of total collapse - we are in the state of total collapse. The UK faces the immediate threat of being a nation with no art and no artists. We need our leaders to start shouting NOW.

On the Windrush line they kick you off the train if you can't produce every Travelcard you bought since 1987

So. Who defines this? The arts cannot afford to be wholly apolitical, and any attempt to qualify what is defined as political will surely involve some bias, intentional or otherwise. The former is, of course, literal censorship. That’s never worked out so well in the long run.

Rebecca Frecknall's interview in The Stage has prompted me to break out a thread I have sat on for a while. It breaks down what I think is the biggest obstacle in theatre but the least openly discussed... Pay

So here is the THEATRE PAY MATHS THREAD 🧵👇

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Lovely to sit with this panel of wonderful and fascinating people and share a little bit of what it’s like trekking around as a musician!

Someone at GBNews fucked up. They booked someone that knows what they're talking about...

Thinking about how the Arts Council stood by & watched the D'Oyly Carte bleed out, then coolly pulled the plug on Kent Opera & later tried to whack Birmingham Opera Company on an accounting technicality. And yet we act like its policy towards ENO is somehow out of character.

Reminder: the Rwanda policy was announced the day after the Sue Gray report came out.

It was only ever intended give the Daily Mail a one-day headline that didn't have to mention Partygate. It wasn't meant to actually HAPPEN. And it will never work.

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I love Dvořák, but is there any other composer so eye-wateringly inconsistent in detail? Handfuls of differences between editions from page to page in ties, slurs, dynamics, articulations, notes… plenty from early copyists, but plenty from the composer!

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