David Cloke
@DavidCloke
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Lover of classical music and opera (Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Elgar). Enjoy cities, their buildings, art and culture, good food, most drink and chat
Transpontine London
Joined April 2011
RT @YCATrust: 🎻 The Fibonacci Quartet is touring Italy next week! 🇮🇹. 📅 13 Aug, 8pm - Todi.📅 16 Aug, 8pm - Provincia di Varese. 🎶Playing a….
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The Death of the Fourth American Republic - Jamelle Bouie.
nytimes.com
The Supreme Court may extinguish a law that more than any other made the promise of American democracy a reality.
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RT @jsdhenderson: Our 1st concert of the 2025 Ed Fest got off to a great start with a rousing performance of the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony….
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Thrilling Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony in the 2nd half, helped by Myung-Whun Chung taking the piece seriously, giving it a certain earthiness, his great pacing of the work & with the organist Hansjörg Albrecht ensuring that the end was the real climax not the organ’s grand entrance.
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Great start to our @edintfest 2025. A Ravel Piano Concerto of crystalline beauty & virtuosity from Bruce Liu, working in sympathetic partnership with the woodwind principals of the NCPA Orchestra. He seemed suitably self-effacing in the Ravel but more demonstrative in his encore.
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RT @ukcoffeebeat: @DavidCloke @Filmhouse The transformation sounds spot-on—Manchester’s indie revivals have nothing on that Filmhouse art d….
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Back in Edinburgh for the Festival and our first visit to the re-opened @Filmhouse. I have to say they have made very good use of my modest donation. The place looks great with echoes of the art deco golden age of cinema. Will have to come back and see a film while we are here!.
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Might this be of some interest ���@LibHistoryToday? Unfortunately, the text doesn’t mention that Sinclair was leader of the Liberal Party for ten years from 1935.
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That Bastard Puccini @ParkTheatre is an enjoyable, amusing and slightly sentimental tale. The author wears his operatic knowledge lightly and it’s not heavy-handed in the contrast between talent and genius. Indeed, it hints that genius needs the merely talented for motivation!.
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Interesting thoughts on American politics that have some resonance in the UK:
nytimes.com
If Democrats can come up with an alternative vision of how to repair the social and moral order, they might be relevant in the years ahead.
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RT @thevicsoc: The conversion work has resulted in the loss of historic stained glass. Following a decision at the High Court Runnymede Bor….
bbc.co.uk
A former councillor has been fighting to safeguard a former church's historic features.
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RT @jessicaduchen: Talking Korngold today, starting in just over an hour, 7pm UK time. Available to log on free everywhere, to the best of….
lockdownuniversity.org
First a child prodigy in Mahler’s Vienna, then a superstar composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) subsequently survived World War II in Hollywood, where he scored classic films such as The...
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RT @euromove: “Tate Modern alone welcomed 609,000 visitors from Europe, between ages 16 to 24, in 2019-20 but then 357,000 in 2023-24.". ht….
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Maria Balshaw says upheaval has kept young Europeans away from London sites, contributing to a 27% attendance drop since 2019
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RT @GramophoneMag: @the_halle @GramophoneMag Richard Lawrence reviews Mark Elder's recording of the original 1857 version of Verdi's Simon….
gramophone.co.uk
Why the Hallé Orchestra deserves your vote for the 2025 Orchestra of the Year Award
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RT @OperaRara: Wonderful to see our colleagues @the_halle nominated for this year's @GramophoneMag Orchestra of the Year Award - click belo….
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RT @HistParl: #OTD 1868 the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Act received royal assent. This act transformed the way t….
historyofparliament.com
Today marks the 150th anniversary of the passing of the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Act, an important part of the electoral
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RT @MunicipalDreams: The 1919 Housing Act - the Addison Act - received the royal assent on this day 106 years ago. 176,000 council homes we….
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RT @LoveInner: A thread for each Vaughan Williams work, to celebrate the music and recordings as I listen to them. This one is for the one-….
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RT @StevenIsserlis: Alas, Robert Schumann died, abject and alone, otd 1856. The story of his last years is unbearably tragic; but it must n….
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