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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪

@grahamrickson.bsky.social

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London-raised, Leeds-based primary music teacher, horn and ukulele player, film and classical CD critic, responsible dog and cat owner. Writing things for www.theartdesk.com (@theartsdesk.bsky.social)since 2009. Proud Irish citizen ☘️.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 17h

Isn’t the Britten great?

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 17h

Barnsley Town Hall is a magnificent building. Love this little museum

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 1d

'A beaten-up, dilapidated nation that’s a long way from the promised postwar utopia' ★★★★★ THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT - Ealing Studios' prescient black comedy, as sharp as ever - and Burnley looks like Berlin, says @grahamrickson.bsky.social - now on @studiocanal.co.uk blu-Ray

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 1d

Scientific progress goes boink in Alexander Mackendrick's brilliant black comedy The Man in the White Suit. Read more here: www.theartsdesk.com/film/blu-ray... @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @studiocanal.com #ealingcomedy #alecguinness #burnley #joangreenwood

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 3d

And the opening credits are clever too, I remember. Gorgeous film. Get yourself to Baker Street tube and look for the P&P blue plaque marking the site of their London office.

Art déco block where P&P had their office

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 3d

Roger Livesey was on stage in the west end and couldn’t do any location filming, so Powell had to use a double for some shots - the interiors where done in London. You can see its influence on Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero - phone box, remote Scots location, supernatural vibes.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 4d

I've got that set. It's decent!

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 4d

Idiot-proof! The only downside is that when I use a Trip 35 once in a while, I often forget about the focus.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 4d

I use this all the time. Unfeasibly sharp images and the light meter still works.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 4d

I really like the Sofia Sacco - haven't heard this one

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 4d

Not been inside the Cutty Sark since the revamp. Walking through the foot tunnel to the Isle of Dogs terrified me as a child - I was convinced that the white tiles would give way and I'd drown. I love walking around the Naval College buildings now.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

No - I grew up just across Greenwich Park. My home turf, despite having been in Leeds for decades.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

We barely have time to teach the standard curriculum. No energy or space in the day left to 'poison kids'. What a bizarre turn of phrase.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

Greenwich

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

We had this book. The matchbox paddle boat never worked. I still remember the disappointment.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

Nothing screams '60s and 70s low budget sci-fi' quite like that font. It's called Data 70 or Westminster

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 5d

Bought this second hand as I couldn’t resist the Supraphon sleeve art. Magnificent stuff. #supraphon #dvorak #karelancerl #czechphilharmonic

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 9d

I liked this, especially for Pappano’s 9th: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Classical CDs: Voice flutes, flugelhorns and froth

Corelli/Handel: Sonatas Michaela Koudelková (recorders), Monika Knoblochová (harpsichord), Libor Mašek (cello), Jan Krejča (theorbo) (Supraphon)

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 10d

As with Handel’s Messiah, I have never heard Gerontius. Any good?

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 11d

The latest #ClassicalCDs from @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @grahamrickson.bsky.social - Voice flutes, flugelhorns and froth in Baroque sonatas, English orchestral music and an emotionally-charged vocal recital www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 11d

Many years ago I was hired to provide music for a BBC radio play which starred Patricia Routledge. My composing/improvising career floundered soon after, but working alongside Routledge was fun.

Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 11d

What links Francis Poulenc and Cliff Richard? Find out here: www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social @londonsymphony.bsky.social #MichaelaKoudelková #recorder #holst #poulenc #cliffrichard #vaughanwilliams #dobrinkatabakova #ecm

Composer Francis Poulenc with his doggie

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 11d

I had a blow on one of these once - Selmer double with ascending third valve. Very confusing.

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 11d

And French composers used to treat the horn as another woodwind instrument

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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 12d

Optimism and hope for the future!