Raymond Scott tried to make music for babies to fall asleep to, and accidentally created an absolutely classic electronic minimalist album that predates other music like it by a decade or more (9/12)

NEWS: ⭐ MILLY WILLOWS WINS THE STEPHEN SONDHEIM SOCIETY STUDENT PERFORMER OF THE YEAR 2023 ⭐ Congratulations to @millywillows7 on being named winner of SSSSPOTY 2023 ✨ A worthy winner, with her hilarious performance of "The Worst Pies In London" from Sweeney Todd and her

Toxic behaviour, emotional abuse – is classical music teaching broken? bit.ly/3XJSnjC

Our talented students and very recent alum are up Edinburgh Festival Fringe again this year. The first show to shout about is The Adventures of Supernova de Louthbergh, at the Space on the Mile, 4-12 August. Check out details and book tickets here: tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/adven…

Royal Albert Hall The conductor’s view (almost) of the final moments of Handel’s Samson. Laurence Cummings directs our performance BBC Proms at 7pm, live on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Sounds!

What fun! Thanks to everyone who joined us for such a special evening with Handel’s Samson. Philharmonia Chorus BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall Allan Clayton

A fantastic performance of Handel’s Samson with an international cast 🤩 Huge thanks to Allan Clayton jacquelyn stucker, soprano @joelle_harvey Jess Dandy Brindley Sherratt Jonathan Lemalu, Will Pate, Philharmonia Chorus AAM & Laurence Cummings 👏 #bbcproms 📸 BBC / Sisi Burn

"an outstanding performance by the Philharmonia Chorus." theguardian.com/music/2023/aug…

Tonight!! ✨🌹✨

"Surely we are only given our eyes for weeping, aren’t we?" 🌹 It was a magical night at the opera yesterday Royal Albert Hall with Act II of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker and his opera Iolanta with Vasily Petrenko and Philharmonia Chorus, directed by Denni Sayers. 📷 Andy Paradise

obsessed with miles walking in and being greeted with the ghost of diane #TheTraitors

what I particularly like about this picture is the way that if you could see the street to the right it would look like an absolute shit hole

The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...

TW: CSA If I had been given proper appropriate sex education before 9yrs old I would’ve had words to talk abt what happened to me age 6. But I was shown a video about how sex = babies which was aimed at teens. My response after was to repeatedly tell teachers I was pregnant. 1/

Rest in peace Donald Sutherland. Here he is portraying Wilhelm Reich in Kate Bush’s ‘Cloudbusting’ music video

As someone who went to school when homosexuality couldn’t be taught because of Margret Thatcher, it is in incomprehensible that 21 years after section 28 was repealed we are here again. We are truly going backwards on LGBT rights & it’s incredibly scary to witness.

It is wholly inappropriate for politicians to have the power to ban a medication that is clinically indicated by every professional medical body with appropriate expertise.

kate bush, 1978

To every guy who came into comments on my Gisele Pelicot article to yell “not all men” & demand I give more props to good guys…It’s time to be quiet Investigation uncovered more than 70,000 users in Telegram group chats admitting to raping women & sharing tips to sedate them 🧵