Helston getting dressed for Flora Day tomorrow.

still hearing echoes of the fantastic music at yesterday’s Cadgwith Cove Inn folk session.

CORONATION COMPOSERS REASSEMBLE! Well, at least some of us - fantastic reunion with John Rutter nigel hess Karl Jenkins shirleythompson SHIRLEY J. THOMPSON MUSIC & OPERA PRODUCTIONS. & Roderick Williams and even Andrew Nethsingha dropped in! Other composers greatly missed but we ate & drank for them! 💕🎶

Such a brilliant response to our James Bond-themed Friday Night is Music Night
BBC Radio 3. The BBC Concert Orchestra, Alice Fearn and Oliver Tompsett on fine form Chichester Festival Theatre — all presented by Trelawny…Petroc Trelawny. Available now BBC Sounds 🎥 🎶

a brief diversion from the A303 to see The Garrison Church of St Alban the Martyr at Larkhill Camp.

Breakfast is go BBC Radio 3 Today Brendel plays Beethoven, Ethel Smyth offers a symphonic serenade, poet Lynn Peters asks why Dorothy Wordsworth is not as famous as her brother, and Elgar (& Dame Janet Baker) search for coral. The perfect end-of-the-week mix - live until 0930

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Yuja Wang plays Brahms, Dutch composer Henriette Bosmans dreams of a calm night, Violinist Viktoria Mullova & pianist Alasdair Beatson play Beethoven, and in a Donizetti opera. Beppe is delighted when his wife’s first husband returns from the dead.

There are many outstanding things to eat in Georgia but more ought to be said about the tiny potatoes that are on menus come May. Served with green tkemali, sour plum sauce, and dill… I dream of these. Wish I was there.

NEWS: The Festival-style Alexander House in Finchley (1960) is set to be demolished, after C20's listing application was rejected.
Designed by Montagu Evans for the Anglo-Dutch Cigar Co, it features a striking mural by Indian abstract artist Avinash Chandra, which we hope to save

Happy 25th Birthday to RTÉ lyric fm Very proud to have been a small part of it during the early years .. happy memories of times presenting its Drivetime show from RTÉ's Limerick studios (and indeed from studios in Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Letterkenny & Galway).

RTÉ lyric fm celebrates 25 years on air rte.ie/news/2024/0501…
via RTÉ News
#RTÉlyric25 #WhereLifeSoundsBetter

Good Morning. BBC Radio 3 Breakfast is live - today music by Hugo Alfvén to accompany a Swedish midsummer day, Fela Sowande introduces Nigerian nostalgia, Grieg & Elgar as we mark the centenary of the BBC reaching Edinburgh and Prokofiev’s Wolf is charmed by Joanna Lumley.

this should be fun - and great to see Nicholas Chalmers conducting Royal Opera House

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today the great Australian horn player Barry Tuckwell plays Robert Schumann, Salieri tells tales from a village inn, Jenny McLeod at a rural NZ fair offering agricultural pleasure and Felicity Lott crosses shimmering waves with Schubert. Come join us.

this is a glorious thread …

Jesus Christ Superstar has arrived ahead of opening night tomorrow in the Cornwall Playhouse!

With over 5000 tickets sold, performed by a visiting company over 50 actors, musicians & crew, a prestige show like this has a huge impact on the life and economy of our city and region

along with political defections, public lavatories, defence funding and the medical use of rum and cointreau, Bach Before Seven features on the ⁦The Telegraph⁩ letters page today. ⁦BBC Radio 3⁩ #R3Breakfast

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3 Today Victor Ewald – pioneer of Soviet building methods & writer for brass quintet; Carolyn Sampson 🇪🇺 seeks coffee, Fritz Wunderlich hears a lark in The Merry Wives Of Windsor and where is Breakfast off to this summer ? Join us - now on until 0930.

exciting news of summer travels will be announced BBC Radio 3 Breakfast just after 7.30 tmr morning ...

I was lucky enough to be at Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice tonight, it was fabulous, but mostly I was moved by the sensitivity and virtuosity of the orchestra, under threat of a 15% pay cut-7 weeks less work a year. Please do sign this to support them.
megaphone.org.uk/petitions/prot…