Excellent idea and I have put something similar to the Arts Council as a way of government helping creativity and preparation for the lasting damage from Covid by matching support for initiatives which increase activity, build audiences, protect employment and foster new skills

This initiative is a beacon on the pathway to a new future for creativity and innovation in music and the arts

I was lucky enough to hear him life in many deeply sincere and convincing performances including in particular Mahler and Elgar - also with Janet Baker

Thank you - you can reach me very easily via the details on our website - very happy to speak this w/e

God luck - and the world owes you a very big thank you for your incredible achievements and advocacy this last year and longer

It is truly shameful the way that this matter has been seized upon by the gutter elements in the media and even more surprising that Oliver Dowden and even Boris Johnson should intervene when there has been so little understanding or support for the crisis in music and arts

Confident nations which also treasure the richness of the diversity in their culture arising from countless waves of immigration and integration sustain and invest in and support the values inherent in culture and creativity and do not indulge in outdated jingoistic divisiveness

Shoutout to super team Boosey & Hawkes for anticipating that I might have outdated score and sending revised one quickly-also fab work on the new edition!My eyes are thanking you all!🤓

Very shocking and worrying - this is the beginning of the pathway Viktor Orban has laid out and followed ....

Congratulations to Khatia Buniatishvili Marin Alsop the musicians of Orchestre de Paris and the courageous leadership of Laurent Bayle and all of his colleagues at Philharmonie de Paris - we need such concerts so badly in London

We hear that over 1500 truck drivers have been stuck for two days without refreshment except a single energy snack bar - Shame on Priti Patel MP Rt Hon Sir Grant Shapps : is it difficult to organise delivery of a basic food and water parcel to stationary drivers ? Use the army or supermarkets

Tory ministers saying “we owe it to children to keep schools open” might want to explain to me why they closed my youth centre, cut mental health services, underfunded my secondary school, stripped free school meals from my peers, tripled uni fees, demonised climate strikers...

Chiswick House Park crowded but 95% without masks - also in Chiswick streets can Boris Johnson Matt Hancock not understand that since extreme measures are already imposed mask wearing must be enforced in all public spaces and people will comply to save lives and shorten lockdown

Why would you do a trade deal and call it a success when one of your biggest money making industries, the Arts, doesn’t even get a mention, and nothing is in the document to help artists from the U.K. or EU work with each other? 😳

Me playing chess at ages 8, 16, 18, and 23 ♟

What do we expect ? This government has no understanding that music and the arts are the sustaining root system which sustain our societies and encourage all of the best aspirations for young people around the world - and the withdrawal from Erasmus will do still more damage

And so our young people will fall still further behind in learning foreign languages and about the riches of diversity in the world’s cultures - instead more inward looking little England thinking

March on Rome, the insurrection by which Benito Mussolini came to power in Italy in late October 1922. ... The March marked the beginning of fascist rule and meant the doom of the preceding parliamentary regimes of socialists and liberals. Alas no one learns from history

Brilliant !!!!

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