'...a belief that working class and ethnically diverse communities will be converted to high art if you dump it in front of them: alas, our educational system is not providing the necessary groundwork for this miracle to occur.' spectator.co.uk/article/arts-c…

THIS IS TOMORROW! Get those tickets!

Concentrating on being the best aunt ever.

Oh she’s on it. Homemade cheese straws for the first to arrive tonight at 8pm. Thanks Mary Gray See you all at Heath Street Church Bring cash to buy the album! CAAAAASH!

Abandon Twitter because the masses tell us over and over that it’s dying? Babe, I work in opera.

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Please, please, please sign the thing change.org/p/reinstate-th…

Thank you so much to everyone who came to support the launch on Friday. Nicole Johnson and I had a great time and, most importantly, so did Dorothy. I have great friends. Thank you

While we should have a proper strategic review of opera provision, this goes beyond opera. Indeed, it's about access to the arts and how we support British talent. Everyone will lose out by this decision. What ACE is doing is an utter dereliction of its stated aims. 2/2

Exactly! Same rate for radio plays. Buy the album direct from the artist (if possible) or label. Most record labels are small and struggling too.

It’s happening! COME ON MUUUUM!!

Please can someone programme John Foulds’ Dynamic Triptych soon? I’m desperate to see it live in my lifetime. Check out City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra performing it with Peter Donohoe youtu.be/LPMaR36NW_A

We did a little music video. I have mad arms. Nicole Johnson's arms do rather better. The Silver Swan - Eric Thiman youtu.be/oxtEBB_LR9Y via YouTube

I'm sad to say that my cousin Victoria Chick, professor emerita of economics at @UCL UCL Economics, died yesterday morning at her home in London after a period of illness. I knew her as a generous friend and brilliantly independent thinker 1/

Meanwhile, please don’t forget: