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Thrilled to announce we're closing
#R1liveloungemonth
with
@the1975
at
@TheBplTower
on 30 Sep! 😱💃🏼🎻🎤
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Are you listening to
@BBCR1
breakfast show? Tickets for our concert with
@The1975
@TheBplTower
on sale TODAY!!
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THE COUNTDOWN BEGINS
@BBCR1
@TheBplTower
@the1975
@samswallowmusic
@claraamfo
#the1975livelounge
#R1LiveLoungeMonth
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🎁🎉 Happy Birthday
@RealSirTomJones
from all of us here at the BBC Philharmonic 🎶
@BBCRadio2
@BBCNorthPR
@bbcarts
@BBCWales
@BBCRadioWales
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#Friyay
definitely feels appropriate today! Packing for
@TheBplTower
for tonight with
@The1975
@samswallowmusic
@BBCR1
and
@claraamfo
😱😍🎢
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Arrived in beautiful sunny Lucerne after a 6 hour coach journey. Now rehearsing with
@david_garrett
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🚨 EXCITING NEWS ALERT
We are delighted to announce that your favourite 'drumming weatherman'
@OwainWynEvans
is the newest addition to our orchestra - joining the percussion section with his
#PercussivePrincess
.
We're really excited to welcome Owain into our family 💖
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🎹🎶Listen again to Four Notes, Paul’s Tune (orchestrated by Dan Whibley)
@bbcpaddy
@BBCRadio4
@BBCBreakfast
@mrnickharvey
#bbcradio4
#bbcbh
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The full clip from this morning's
@BBCBreakfast
. Orchestra Director Simon Webb spoke to the amazing Paul Harvey and his son
@mrnickharvey
about a very special collaboration and the power of music.
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“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything”- Plato
#WednesdayWisdom
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“Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music”- Nina Simone
#MondayMotivation
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⚡️ She's Electric by
@oasis
, performed by the BBC Philharmonic ⚡️
🎧 Listen to the full track:
As suggested by the listeners of
@BBCRadioManc
for the
#GreatNorthernPlaylist
@BBCNorthPR
#Oasis
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Sir Andrew Davis (1944-2024)
We are all deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Sir Andrew Davis. Our relationship with him was forged over many years of performances and recordings, and the legacy he left and the laughter he brought will not be forgotten by our musicians…
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"I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin." - Albert Einstein
#ThursdayThoughts
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"Her roster of music students reads like the ultimate 20th Century Hall of Fame. Leonard Bernstein. Aaron Copland. Quincy Jones. Astor Piazzolla. Philip Glass. John Eliot Gardiner. Daniel Barenboim. Elliott Carter.." Nadia Boulanger
#bornonthisday
in 1887
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Apart, but still making music together, members of our viola section ❤️
💃🕺Dance of the Tumblers from The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. for 8 violas by Matthew Compton.
Violas: Steve, Matthew, Fiona , Alex, Nick, Ruth, Roisin & Rachel
#BBCPhilatHome
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Delighted to have been asked by
@bbcpaddy
to orchestrate & record Paul Harvey’s beautiful 4 note improvisation 🎹
Our musicians will be recording it at home and you’ll be able to hear it soon on
@BBCRadio4
’s BH🎶
@mrnickharvey
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"Any working composer or painter or sculptor will tell you that inspiration comes at the eighth hour of labour rather than as a bolt out of the blue" - John Williams
#MondayMotivation
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Thanks to everyone who came to our Relaxed Prom today!
@bbcproms
@RoyalAlbertHall
@GernonBen
@JuanFloristan
#bbcproms
#relaxedprom
@CarrieGrant1
@DavidGrantSays
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“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major-“ Prokofiev
#WednesdayWisdom
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It's
#BluePeter
's Big 60th Birthday! Excited to be performing with
@JonasBlue
,
@HRVY
,
@TheVampsband
&
@SophieEB
with conductor & arranger
@samswallowmusic
- all live from 5pm on the
@cbbc
channel
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Keeping lots of things crossed for
#BBCMusicAwards
. Our
#The1975LiveLounge
with
@The1975
is up for some award love!💜
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Our friends
@CBeebiesHQ
have a lovely treat lined up for Valentine's Day from the wonderfully talented actor & singer
@TheRealLukevans
👇❤️
Chocolates ✔️
Flowers ✔️
Lights dimmed ✔️
This Valentine's Day
@TheRealLukevans
will bring you a very special treat on
@CBeebiesHQ
🐻❤️Tune in to CBeebies on Feb 14th at 6:50pm 📚💫
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"I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin." - Albert Einstein
#thursdaythought
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"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something"- Shostakovich
#MondayMotivation
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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones”- John Cage
#wednesdaywisdom
#bornonthisday
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“I do think there's a connection between being a musician and being very childlike. We never really grow up. We just look at everything creatively with a fresh mind." –
@YujaWang
#mondaymotivation
#pianist
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🏊🎾🏇🏉
Our musicians really did commit to
@bbc5live
's Sports Medley Challenge, here's the evidence!
Listen to the full version
@BBCSounds
(arr. Pete Willmott / sound engineer Joseph Reiser/ recorded by musicians at home)
#BBCPhilatHome
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“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it” - Igor Stravinsky
#ThursdayThoughts
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"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time" - Leonard Bernstein
#MondayMotivation
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“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major“ - Prokofiev
#WednesdayWisdom
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“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#MondayMotivation
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"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing"- Leonard Bernstein
#ThursdayThoughts
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“What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel”- Shostakovich
#ThursdayThoughts
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🔔DING DONG! 🔔
Tonight
@bbcproms
will be the first ever UK performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No.11 using the bells it was written for, thanks to
@liverpoolphil
.
Percussionists Rob and Graham tell us more...
@BBCRadio3
#BBCProms
@RoyalAlbertHall
@johnstorgards
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“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#MondayMotivation
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📣 We're delighted to announce that
@johnstorgards
has been appointed as the Chief Conductor of BBC Philharmonic.
John’s appointment builds on an existing fruitful relationship with the orchestra which began in 2010 and saw him become the Chief Guest Conductor in 2017.
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From Salford to London… we’re off for our last 2023
@bbcproms
performance tomorrow at the
@RoyalAlbertHall
.🚚
We couldn’t do it without our amazing Stage Management and Orchestra Management team amongst others – spotted in this video Ed, Tom, Will, Steve, Saltz and Mackenzie!🙏
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“I didn't even start playing the piano until I was about 13 or 14. I guess I must have had a little talent or whatever-you-call-it, but I practised regularly, and that's what counts”- George Gershwin
#mondaymotivation
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OH. WOW 💕 / / INCREDIBLE
@BBCR1
@TheBplTower
@the1975
@claraamfo
@samswallowmusic
#the1975livelounge
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“Music is the electric soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents”- Ludwig van Beethoven
#ThursdayThoughts
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With a heavy heart we share the news that Clare Dixon, First Violinist passed away earlier this month. Clare was a wonderful musician and a part of our orchestral family for thirty-three years.
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"My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require" - Edward Elgar
#thursdaythoughts
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How on earth is our
@The1975
@BBCRadio1
#The1975LiveLounge
over a month ago?! Luckily, it's still on iPlayer -
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Tonight we say a huge warm welcome to our newest members of the BBC Philharmonic, Elliot Gresty (Bass Clarinet) and Angharad Thomas (Second Bassoon).
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"I love classical music: Tchaikovsky, Kalinnikov, Shostakovich. It makes me feel alive" –
@lizzo
#ThursdayThoughts
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👕Hi there
@BBC6Music
- we're wearing our band t-shirts!
Any chance of playing our orchestral version of David Bowie's Sound & Vision????!!
👨🎤🎺🎶
#TShirtDay
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😊Keep your eye on the little blue trombone...
Thanks to our musicians Midori and Toby for sharing this lovely performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, what a talented family!
#BBCPhilatHome
#NYOdetoJoy
@NYO_GB
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🎬 Behind the scenes with our musician John Bradbury (Principal Clarinet) recording his part at home for Four Notes, Paul's Tune 🎶
@bbcpaddy
#bbcbh
@BBCRadio4
@mrnickharvey
@MusicforDemUK
@alzheimerssoc
#dementia
#music
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❤️🎶
"I just rang my husband and said 'can you come and pick me up early and bring my cello?' in the hope that it would boost the patients and the morale of the staff"
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"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy" - Tchaikovsky
#MondayMotivation
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📻🎶Make sure you listen to Broadcasting House on
@BBCRadio4
this morning 9-10am to hear our collaboration with pianist Paul Harvey!
@bbcpaddy
#bbcbh
#BBCRadio4
@mrnickharvey
@MusicforDemUK
@alzheimerssoc
#dementia
#music
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"If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth"- Shostakovich
#MondayMotivation
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This may not come as a big surprise but...
#AprilFool
However,
@OwainWynEvans
- you and the Percussive Princess are welcome any time!
🥁💕
🚨 EXCITING NEWS ALERT
We are delighted to announce that your favourite 'drumming weatherman'
@OwainWynEvans
is the newest addition to our orchestra - joining the percussion section with his
#PercussivePrincess
.
We're really excited to welcome Owain into our family 💖
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🤩This is incredible, we are honoured to be part of this!
Four Notes, Paul's Tune now available for download with proceeds to
@alzheimerssoc
&
@MusicforDemUK
Dad is number one on both Amazon and iTunes and I have tears rolling down my cheeks.
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French composer Maurice
#Ravel
was
#BornOnThisDay
in 1875.
In 2014,
@BBCRadio3
celebrated the composer, exploring everything from his house, his letters to Vaughan Williams and his musical legacy. Browse the content in one place, here:
🔎
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"It’s giving your personality and everything through the music but still keep it very, very reliable"
📺Watch
@yeoleumson
perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No.15 with conductor
#OmerMeirWellber
, 7.30pm tonight
@BBCFOUR
@bbcproms
@RoyalAlbertHall
#BBCProms
#Mozart
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Polish composer Frédéric
#Chopin
was
#BornOnThisDay
in 1810. Discover his captivating work
@BBCRadio3
Composer of the Week
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Caught up with Friday night's concert with
@The1975
? Our collaboration with them for
@BBCRadio1
is on iPlayer!
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We'll be LIVE from
@TheBplTower
ballroom tonight with
@The1975
! Tune in to
@BBCR1
with
@claraamfo
7-9pm or listen to R1 on
@BBCiPlayerRadio
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A very warm welcome to the newest member of our orchestra, Principal Trumpet, Tom Fountain who joined last Tuesday. Welcome Tom! 🎺
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"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it" - Stravinsky
#ThursdayThoughts
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“I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played”- Arvo Pärt
#thursdaythoughts
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Composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was
#bornonthisday
in 1875.
Find out more about him and the music he wrote in this
@BBCRadio3
programme 🎶
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🎻 Joseph Haydn's String Quartet in D, Op.20 No.4 (3rd mvt) 🎻
Performed by Lucy Baker (violin 1), Martin Clark (violin 2), Fiona Dunkley (viola) and Elinor Gow (cello)
As heard in the recent edition of
@BBCRadio3
's Words and Music,
#BBCPhilatHome
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“Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?”- Clara Schumann
#WednesdayWisdom
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We’re delighted to announce the appointment of Omer Meir Wellber as the BBC Philharmonic’s new Chief Conductor. Join us this Saturday, 7.30pm for his debut
@BridgewaterHall
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This morning we’re rehearsing for our studio concert this afternoon with our Chief Conductor
@johnstorgards
and violinist
@JamesEhnes
🎻
Here is a snippet of our rehearsals of Walton’s Violin Concerto which we will be also performing tomorrow at
@bbcproms
for Prom 26!
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Johann Sebastian Bach was
#bornonthisday
in 1685- here's our violinist Lucy performing the Gigue from his Violin Partita in D minor for her neighbours!
#BBCPhilatHome
@BBCSounds
@BBCRadio3
@BBCNorthPR
#Bach
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Take a break from warming up left overs and re-live all the magic from our
@bbcr1
Live Lounge Symphony with
@the1975
@bbcredbutton
&
@bbciplayer
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Drumroll please! We’re delighted to announce we’ve been shortlisted for
@GramophoneMag
Orchestra of the Year 2023. 🏆 We’re just one out of two orchestras based in the UK to be nominated! Public voting opens today and runs to September – vote now!
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"It's just such an amazing feeling when all the parts come in together" - hear from members of the BBC Proms Youth Choir as they prepare for Prom 14: The Creation 📖
📻🎶Listen live
@BBCRadio3
, 7.30pm tonight! 🎶
@RoyalAlbertHall
@bbcproms
#BBCProms
#OmerMeirWellber
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🔔 🎶 On loan from
@liverpoolphil
, it's the first time the bells have been played in Manchester at the pitch Berlioz intended for his piece Symphonie fantastique!
Come and see Paul playing these wonderful instruments tomorrow night
@BridgewaterHall
! 🎶🔔
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🎶🎻🎺🎷
We're really sad not to be welcoming schools to our studio this term so instead we’ve created this whistle-stop tour of the orchestra so children can see our players and their instruments close-up!
(Music by Dan Whibley)
#BBCPhilatHome
@GMMusicHub
#musiceducation
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🎶🕺💃
It’s impossible to keep still whilst listening to this one!
“Crazy Rhythm” by Roger Wolfe Khan & Joseph Meyer featuring Julian (violin), Matthew (accordion) & Pete (guitar/double bass)
#BBCPhilatHome
@BBCNorthPR
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Listen to
@BBCRadio4
’s Broadcasting House this Sunday to hear our collaboration with Paul! 🎹🎶
@mrnickharvey
@bbcpaddy
"You gave people a chance they wouldn't normally have had"
#BBCBreakfast
has reunited former music teacher Paul, who has dementia, with his ex-pupils; including a member of
@The_CuttingCrew
and a
#DoctorWho
composer.
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Did you hear our
@RealSirTomJones
medley earlier on
@BBCRadio2
?
Well, here's a snippet from our video, full version coming soon!
#BBCPhilatHome
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"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art." – Claude Debussy
#MondayMotivation
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One year ago today since we joined
@OwainWynEvans
in the studio for the end of his EPIC
@BBCCiN
#drumathon
🙌
#itsrainingmen
☔️
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"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing" - Leonard Bernstein
#ThursdayThoughts
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Gustav Mahler was
#bornonthisday
in 1860.
His 2nd Symphony (known as the "Resurrection Symphony") was first performed in 1895- here is the finale, arranged for 30 French Horns by Jonathan Barrett who also performs each part.
#BBCPhilatHome
#Mahler
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Need a moment of calm? 😌
Here's Rachmaninov's 'Vespers, VI. Bogoroditse' performed by the double basses of
@BBCSO
@BBCCO
@BBCPhilharmonic
@BBCSSO
&
@BBCNOW
, arranged by BBC NOW's Section Principal, David Stark
#BBCInstrumentalSessions
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‘I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.’- Igor Stravinsky
#mondaymotivation
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Hearing
@the1975
on
@BBC6Music
just now is making us SO EXCITED for our
@BBCR1
concert with them on September 30! Sounding AMAZING! 😱😍🙌🙌
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🥁The wonderful
@OwainWynEvans
is getting ready for a MAMMOTH 24-hour
@BBCBreakfast
Drumathon for
@BBCCiN
!
It’s taking place in & around our studio
@MediaCityUK
& will feature lots of guests & our musicians
Show your support at
#BBCBreakfastdrumathon
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🎶Welcome to the family, Ben Hulme! 😃
Ben joins the orchestra today as our Principal Horn. Listen out for him on today's
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast, performing an excerpt from Also sprach Zarathustra by Strauss with the rest of the section, Phill, Tom, Jonathan and Rebecca 📯
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☃️ "It's lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you"
🎄Hacker and Dodge singing with the BBC Philharmonic, Christmas 2015
@BBCNorthPR
@BBCRadioManc
@MediaCityUK
@HackerTDog
@cbbc
@CBeebiesHQ
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"If I miss a day of practice, I know it. If I miss two days, my manager knows it. If I miss three days, my audience knows it"- André Previn
#MondayMotivation
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