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LOVE’S PILGRIMAGE (2000)
by Juliana Hall
Text: Shakespeare
for baritone & piano
32 mins

julianahall.com
MorningStar Music

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...

A little girl carries her younger sister on her back as they flee bombing in Rafah.

Thousands of children are orphaned, left to look after other children.

This is what ethnic cleansing looks like.

ALL EYES ON RAFAH

Depressing that this ad was thought to be okay. Grim.
Apple
Tim Cook

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LONDON (2008)
by Martin Butler
Text: William Blake
for baritone & piano
4 mins

Oxford Music

global.oup.com/academic/categ…

Holy crap, this is the BBC’s most senior political “journalist” on the BBC Newscast sneering at Starmer and showing her absolute nauseating bias. She has to go. #Kuenssberg #ToriesOut

And yes, that includes the curtain call. In a live performance that is, or should be, a crucial shared moment between performers and audience. You can be a part of it. Or you can waste the moment making a crap film of it.

Incredible.

Conservatives trounced in the local elections, but the bbc flagship politicial programme #bbclaurak lead “interview” is an unchallenged rant from the delusional, divisive, twice-sacked, right wing crank, Suella Braverman.

Why was she platformed?

#LauraKuenssberg

The Tory candidate has won our local PCC election and honestly, I could cry with anger.
#ToriesCorruptToTheCore

Roll up! Roll up! English Touring Opera are in town!
Come & support this terrific travelling troupe!
#CambridgeArtsTheatre

englishtouringopera.org.uk/whats-on

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RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG (2024)
by Silvina Milstein
Text: Sophocles/Yeats
for baritone & piano
8 mins

silvinamilstein.com
Silvina Milstein
Composers Edition

composersedition.com/silvina-milste…

To the MPs who voted for the Rwanda bill - you have blood on your hands. You made a choice to allow this bill to go through rather than fight for safe passage. They should feel ashamed. RIP to the victims who were simply seeking sanctuary ❤️

🚨BREAKING: The inhumane Rwanda Bill has passed.

Hundreds, if not thousands of men, women and children now face banishment to an unfamiliar and unsafe country.

All they did was try to find safety and family. We stand with them today. 💔

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TWO BLACK CHURCHES (2020)
by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins

shawnokpebholo.com
Shawn E. Okpebholo

Do you remember Twitter? A more supportive, friendly place than X but hey, we’re still here! Thanks for reading my Tweets! #MyXAnniversary

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SPRING DIARY (2010)
by Rhian Samuel
Text: Anne Stevenson
for baritone & piano
13 mins

Rhian Samuel
rhiansamuel.com
Stainer & Bell

bbc.co.uk/news/education…

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