31st March 2023 marks Bach's 338th birthday - and what better way to celebrate the musical genius' day than take the Idler Guide to Bach with Sandy Burnett online course? Available on-demand now on the Idler Academy, £35. Sandy Burnett idler.co.uk/article/4-grea…

Probably the best thing you'll see today. In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world. The results 🧵 1/22

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Exploring four operas by the great Giuseppe Verdi in our next online Listening Club series starting 23rd May: Nabucco I Lombardi Il Trovatore Falstaff Join us! details here: sandyburnett.com/buy/p/vivaverdi

Last call for our Listening Club Viva Verdi! series starting on Tuesday next week - join online live or catch up later. First up we're exploring Nabucco of 1842 with its heart-rate-raising Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves ... dates and deets are here sandyburnett.com/buy/p/vivaverdi

Are you an aspiring sound designer - or do you know someone who is? The #SoundFirst scheme is an opportunity to learn from the best in the business. The deadline for applications is Friday 2 June: good luck! 👇

Zoe Francis, Jim Mullen, Ross Stanley at the Parakeet in Kentish Town tonight - chamber jazz of the highest order #london

Morning! Today it’s AUSvIND at the Oval, tonight it’s Il Trovatore at Covent Garden - now that’s what I call a day off 😎

Intrigued by the sound world of Sarah Angliss’s Giant on day 2 of the Aldeburgh Festival - eighteenth-century instruments meet live electronics, delicate tuned percussion and a specially-adapted one-note accordion Britten Pears Arts

Dashing to Glyndebourne for Dialogue of the Carmelites - chop chop!

Just Stop O*l protest stops performance here at Glyndebourne …

First gig of my month-long lecture tour down under, and already the Australians are great value. On the Rite of Spring, one said: “it reminds me of the time I had my MRI scan!”

ADFAS lecture tour day 10 - all aboard for Wagga Wagga 🤓

Fancy a bit of early access to tonight's concert interval? Sandy Burnett considers the efforts of Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and Leonard Bernstein to introduce the African-American experience to opera & sacred music. rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/…