Full PhD scholarships available! I would like to invite PhD applications from those interested in performance practices and/or music before 1800. I am particularly interested in music in central and eastern Europe (esp. Czecho and Austria) and Britain. canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/exp…

Famous paintings and their real life locations: 1. The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh (1890)

Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)

Start with 20 litres of cooking oil and go from there.

Contemporary Scottish painter Caroline Walker, who captures everyday aspects of women's lives #WomensArt

Give Errollyn Wallen ‘s Desert Island Discs a listen. The best interview I’ve heard in a long time - I was gripped, inspired, laughed and cried! What a hero! 🎶 BBC Sounds

about to drop the hottest britten song cycle record of the summer

Being force fed ropey renditions of Für Elise, Einaudi, Amelie, and Adele on the public piano at Toulouse airport. My heart sinks when I see one, I must admit. 🎹

Welsh Government has provided an extra £1.5m to improve resilience in the arts sector. To better understand the scale of likely demand so we can distribute funding as effectively as possible, we need to hear from organisations by the end of September 2024 bit.ly/3MVPo32

So let me get this right: Cardiff Council can’t afford to keep St David's Hall operating, Welsh National Opera whose home is in Wales Millennium Centre is being dismantled & BBC Cardiff Singer of the World going under, but there’s money for a new building for digital content. Priorities??? #SaveWNO Delyth Jewell AS / MS

Christmas has officially started with the annual batch of Nigella Lawson chilli jam! Nadolig Llawen! 🌶️

Join us this afternoon in our Concert Hall at 5pm for a John Bird Research Seminar. Professor Caroline Rae and PhD candidate James Brookmyre will present a lost work, recently discovered, by French composer Darius Milhaud.

Wigmore Hall withdrawing from ACE subsidy, having little time for the ‘Let’s Create’ programme and substitute of ‘social worker’ aims for artistic ones. Other institutions should listen. Wigmore Hall refuses Arts Council money in row over community work thetimes.com/article/6ebbc0…

Bravo to John Gilhooly & Wigmore Hall in finding a way to cut themselves off from relying on the financial support of Arts Council England, which is systematically destroying our classical music & opera sector. Margaret Hodge’s review is vital, but I fear it’s too late to #SaveWNO.

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'Rhossili Beach' by contemporary Welsh painter Sarah Evans #WomensArt

Still Life with Stock Cubes - oils on panel, 30cm sq. Just finished with this study of random objects culled from my studio and kitchen, in an attempt to avoid the usual organic forms and palette. Very much an exercise for myself, developing observing from life as well as ideas

A heartbreaking #Satie letter to Emma Debussy: he was deeply hurt by Debussy teasing him at a rehearsal for Parade and writes 'it's better that the "Precursor" stays at home from now on - at a distance.' But he says in a PS that he'll write often and loves them all - very much...