Unquestionably a sax solo. I’m guessing Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty. Final answer.

If you see this, post a trio.

Brahms’ Hamburg years - the installation

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In the last five weeks, orchestras on either side of the Øresund Bridge have played Elgar’s symphonies.

How should we sing an English song, in a strange land? thenorthernsilence.net/elgar-on-the-o… #elgar Elgar Society

Who is a character you are slowly turning into?

In Cardiff today for brush-up rehearsals Welsh National Opera I am strongly reminded what a superb chorus we have here: fabulous individuals who make up a world-class team. The accumulated expertise, experience, sheer quality is exceptional. Smaller roles in DiV all totally nailed.

I've popped some Dutilleux on #AtMyMums while she's got her hearing aid out.

Gabrieli Roar, a choral training programme that allows young singers to perform alongside professional musicians, has announced an award of £1 million from the Vinehill Trust. The award will help them introduce 30,000 young people to choral singing over the next five years. ❤️

Wish I could go - their recent Bruckner 3 was brilliant!

Thanks to The Symphonist for bringing this to attention. Anyone... feel free to put this on your list as my preferred gift for my upcoming birthday 😚

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The Symphonist Christian Hoskins The Funk and Wagnall's Beethoven 6th was the first LP I ever bought as a kid at Meijer.

If the media covered climate change the way it covers Trump, and Trump the way it covers climate change, we'd have neither.

#Comingsoon ...

#morninglistening to the composer who takes the cake: JosephHaydn in his op.76 string quartets w/the TakácsQuartet on Decca Classics. Which brings up the question of your fave recording of op.76, if you have one.

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#HaydnCuresAllProblems

#OTD Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) had its initial release in Japan. Critically rated as amongst the best films of all time, Kurosawa takes the samurai film to epic heights as farming villagers hire seven rōnin to defend their village from raiding bandits.