A magnificent scene of a passing horse herd in the mountains of France. This is a transhumance of horses on the Couserans mountains: it happens every year in spring and back in autumn

[📹 lepetitmondedemaritchu]
[📍 Cirque de campuls, France]

I climbed Carnegie Hall without oxygen

We welcome fast rising start pianist Ariel Lanyi for the second of our Young Artist Lunchtime Series concerts on the 15th May (12:05) playing #Mozart #Beethoven #Reger tickets only £8 and FREE for Students! book here: tinyurl.com/Ariel-Lanyi-pi…

#OTD in 1855 novelist Marie Corelli celebrated her birthday. Have you seen our exhibitions? There is a display in the library and an online gallery flic.kr/s/aHBqjBkLFG#C… CadburyRL Shakespeare Institute

Frustrated with Royal Opera House 2024/25 as most operas only have one, if not zero (Onegin) weekend date, making it unrealistic for those outside London.

With the loss of touring opera like Welsh National Opera, it is becoming a luxury reserved for the capital.

Is this Levelling Up?

Look where Festival President Paul Lewis is performing before coming to Chipping Campden on the 24th May to complete his Schubert Sonata series - we are in great international company with Gilmore Piano Festival Vancouver Recital Society Peoples' Symphony - 9 tickets left tinyurl.com/Paul-Lewis

How glorious!

6am today May morning ,Oxford as Magdalen College choir herald the arrival of Spring from the top of the tower

What do we know about Mary Arden? What possible influences did she have on Shakespeare's life?

Join us online next week for our May #ResearchConversation with historian Michael Wood and producer-director Rebecca Dobbs to find out more.
👉 tinyurl.com/yupyuber
📅 8 May 5pm

Volume 5 with ARJ, Schubert and the Nocturne. Been a favourite disc ever since first hearing it . Special mention to Arleen Auger, Margret Price, Flott, Anne Murray, Peter Schreier, Goerne, JMA, Edith Mathis!! Argh, too many! All hail the unsurpassable Graham Johnson

A good reminder of a happy day. Thank you.

How interesting! I can see the similarity, Shakespeare B Trust #Warwickshire #Shakespeare

🌙 You’re invited to take part in a special programme of talks at Shakespeare’s New Place, as we explore the Women Who Made Shakespeare with a host of the best and the brightest academics and experts. ✨

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Prague is probably the world's most beautiful city.

Here's why... (thread) 🧵

“whether or not you…agree or disagree with the…things it says, this is a very bad document, so bad as to strongly suggest that an organisation that can publish such a report is unfit for purpose.” ⁦Bachtrack⁩ on ⁦⁦Arts Council England⁩ bachtrack.com/opinion-arts-c…

I wonder if the Prime Minister and Cabinet Ministers should also be paid in vouchers. After all they too are paid directly from public expenditure.

It’s publication day for the paperback of my edition of Fletcher and Massinger’s LOVE’S CURE (1615) in the Revels Plays.
Now available from Manchester University Press:
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526178800

Just putting on my pot of coffee as Bach's coffee cantata chirps away in the corner of my kitchen on 'Bach Before 07.00.' Thank you BBC Radio 3 Petroc Trelawny Sir Stanley Wells

Hurrah for BBC Radio 3 for playing Handel's 'Zadok the Priest' after news of our King's return to public duties. 'God Save the King', 'and all the people rejoiced.' Thank you Petroc Trelawny Sir Stanley Wells

After seeing WNO's superb Death in Venice last night, played to a sold out and hugely enthusiastic Bristol Hippodrome, I feel more LIVID than ever at ACE and ACW's crass and vindictive cuts to the company's budget. Nothing short of vandalism