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Julia Jess @juliajess.bsky.social · 19d

🎧 Repeat of Words and Music on the topic of Work and Play

🎙️ Readings by me and Tommy Sim’aan until 1930 GMT today

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BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, Work and Play

Readings and music depicting millers, blacksmiths, office drudgery and downtime.

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · Sep 20

Victor Sjöström in "Wild Strawberries" - BOTD

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Ron Hallowe’evans 🎃 🇨🇦 🆚 @punicatthebyrsa.bsky.social · Sep 14

Evening Song.

Miles Davis - Moon Dreams (Birth Of The Cool, 1957).

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Miles Davis - Moon Dreams

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Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.social · Sep 14

R.I.P. Hermeto Pascoal, the legendary Brazilian composer & multi-instrumentalist, who died today, September 13, 2025. He was 89. Miles Davis once said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world." Pascoal had played on Davis' 1971 album 'Live/Evil,' composing several studio pieces.

Bio from All About Jazz:

Hermeto Pascoal is a prolific musician and composer who transcends category. Hermeto often uses unconventional instruments such as teapots, children's toys, found objects, and—sometimes, without harming them—live animals. He uses nature as a basis for his compositions, as in his Música da Lagoa, where the musicians burble water and play flutes while immersed in a lagoon. He is an energetic and virtuosic soloist who can play proficiently on almost any instrument: keyboards, button accordion, saxophone, guitar, flute, voice, various brass instruments, and various folkloric instruments. A Brazilian television broadcast from 1999 showed him soloing at one point by singing into a cup with his mouth partially submerged in water.

Hermeto's career began in 1964 with appearances on several Brazilian recordings with relatively small groups. These now-classic albums and the musicians involved (Edu Lobo, Airto Moreira, Elis Regina, César Camargo Mariano and others) established widely influential new directions in post-bossa Brazilian Jazz.

He initially came to the international public's attention through an appearance on Miles Davis' 1971 album 'Live/Evil,' which featured Pascoal on several studio pieces (which he also composed). Davis has said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world". Later collaborations involved fellow Brazilian musicians Airto Moreira and Flora Purim. From the late 1970s on he has mostly led his own groups, playing at many prestigious venues, such as the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1979.

Hermeto is a prolific composer, famous for his project Calendario do Som, in which he composed a song every day for a year so that everyone would have a song for his or her birthday.

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Julia Jess @juliajess.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · Sep 8

My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happy birthday to Maxine Brown. Here she is performing Oh No Not My Baby live at the Bitter End in NYC in 1968 (with a young Bernie Worrell on piano). The full song and interview is at youtu.be/UtY1Jj9uppU

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Anoushka Shankar @anoushkashankar.bsky.social · Aug 11

Final rehearsal ahead of my #BBCProms show! I can hardly believe that tomorrow night London Contemporary Orchestra, Robert Ames and I will be out on the Royal Albert Hall stage performing Chapters in its entirety.

Grab your last minute tix here! bit.ly/3J9twT9

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Julia Jess @juliajess.bsky.social · Aug 18

I’ve been one of the reading duo for several episodes of BBC Radio 3’s Words and Music and there’s a last chance to catch The Emperor’s New Clothes while it’s still @bbcsounds.bsky.social

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BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, The Emperor's New Clothes

Music and readings on our relationship with the clothes we wear - or sometimes don't.

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · Aug 8

Pause, and read...

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · Jul 25

Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa honors family legacy with his new single “Niña Con Violín” written by his uncle, acclaimed pianist Ernán López-Nussa, and performed in a trio with his brother Ruy Adrian López-Nussa on drums & Luques Curtis on bass: haroldlopeznussa.lnk.to/NinaConViolin

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · Jun 26

Here's some news to celebrate.

🦋 One of the UK’s rarest butterflies, the heath fritillary, is seeing a significant rise in numbers and range on the Holnicote Estate, Exmoor. This is bucking the national trend of butterfly decline.

Photo: Matthew Oates

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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · Jun 13

Why do #startups use animal metaphors like unicorns?

Robyn Vidra and George Iliev say now is the time to retire the unicorn and emphasise the agility and resilience of other animals in the global entrepreneurial zoo.

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The geopolitics of the entrepreneurial zoo - LSE Business Review

Animal metaphors have long been used in the startup ecosystem, but these figures of speech represent more than linguistic quirks to describe techno-industrial capabilities. Robyn Klingler-Vidra and…

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Melissa @laneutrina.bsky.social · Jun 4

Composition Florale (1930)
by Raoul Dufy

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Unofficial Time Out London Bot @timeout-london-rss.bsky.social · May 23

The City of London’s biggest and oldest park has reopened after a massive makeover

Finsbury Circus is back after more than a decade of closures.

www.timeout.com

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · May 11

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there! youtu.be/rvQpsEk4iyw?...

My Mother's Eyes

YouTube video by Horace Parlan - Topic

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Sam Benari @sambenari.bsky.social · May 5

From the series Through The Window
Untitled, Camden, London 2019

#streetphotography #Camden

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Middle Child @middlechildhull.bsky.social · Apr 30

T'is official. We can now call ourselves a resident company of @nationaltheatre.org.uk 😀 www.middlechildtheatre.co.uk/news/middle-...

A split screen image of the National Theatre in London and a wedding play by Middle Child. Text says Middle Child, resident company of the National Theatre.

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · Apr 26

Cool exhibit of Victor Hugo’s drawings at the Royal Academy of Arts

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Apr 26

"Do you even own a black suit?"

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Apr 26

Catholic culture is Bar Italia in Soho showing the Pope’s funeral like it’s a football match

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The RSC @the-rsc.bsky.social · Apr 25

'Blood and revenge are hammering in my head' 🩸

Your first look at Titus Andronicus onstage ⚔️

A man stands in front of coffin. Behind him, people in dark coats are sat down. Behind them is a wall of candles.

A woman in dark clothing is standing on a bench holding a plate in both hands. In front of her, a man in a chef's uniform with an apron has his arms in the air. In one hand, he holds a knife.

Wendy Kweh as Tamora and Natey Jones as Aaron kneel on the floor in black clothing. Natey holds Wendy's wrists in his hands.

Three people in grey clothing sit on a bench. Behind them are a wall of lit candles.

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Meristem Design @meristemdesign.bsky.social · Apr 22

Clerkenwell Green is looking blooming beautiful!

It’s been such a pleasure watching the beds come back to life, particularly with the addition of over 1300 daffodils.

🤝 Proud to be working in partnership with Islington Council and Central District Alliance

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European Movement in Wandsworth and Merton @emwandsworthmerton.bsky.social · Apr 14

Come to our strategy session and discuss how to best to focus our campaigns in these critical times for Europe and the EU

Marsha de Cordova, MP will open the meeting with a keynote speech.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/emwandsworth...

May 08, 2025; 6-8pm

The Omnibus Theatre, Clapham

Europe Day with Marsha de Cordova

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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