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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 5h

as the kids say, I’m

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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 7h

Kenton Library, Harrow

1939

Curtis and Burchett for Middlesex County Council

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A colour photograph of the modernist 1930s library at Kenton, Harrow

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 18h

I was also surprised to read, in the conductor’s programme note, that Handel composed coronation anthems for Charles II 😬 where’s a sharp-eyed editor when you need one…

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 19h

Handel’s Solomon. Fabulous music, but a tad implausible. Nobody would really accept half a dead baby, would they? That wouldn’t be good for anyone

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 1d

Now reading, for the first time.

NB I was not intending to camouflage my legs so well against this sofa

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 1d

Lovely to dine at Beza Ethiopian in E&C again last night they do one dish - this vegan platter - and do it well 🇪🇹 the spiced tea is also recommended

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 1d

just another Sunday evening consorting with harlots

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 1d

Pavarotti at the Albert Hall on BBC2! The big man sure could belt them. Queen Mother in the audience. Vinceroooooooo!

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

Finished with him playing bagpipes in Amazing Grace, now you don’t get that on your Oasis tour do you

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

Glen Campbell shredding with full orchestra at the Festival Hall in 1977, incredible scenes on BBC4 right now

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to hear this Bernard - get well soon!

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 3d

Someone pitched this for our next book group read last night. Thankfully my pitch for Frankenstein won

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 3d

Actually the only reason I remembered is because of a different 10/10 joke that just popped up in my Facebook memories 🙈

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · Aug 8

10/10 no notes

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 3d

How it feels when you’re on a date with a slow eater

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 4d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

we'll I've just listened on Youtube and it's in C major...

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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 4d

In this self-portrait by Pieter Van Laer (known as Il Bamboccio), ca. 1635–37, the artist portrays himself performing a magic ritual and, to his own horror, having summoned up some kind of demon. The sheet music has his signature and the words “il diavolo non burla” (“the devil doesn’t jest”)

"In one of the most remarkable self-portraits ever created, Pieter van Laer reacts with horror to the frightening claws of the devil that have suddenly come to claim him. Dressed in the black cloak and cap of a magician, the artist, with bulging eyes and open mouth, has witnessed this apparition while standing behind a table filled with books, some with alchemical notations, a variety of vessels, a snuffed-out candle, and a skull resting on hot coals" (Leiden Collection) https://www.theleidencollection.com/artwork/self-portrait-with-magic-scene/

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

*glancing at the news* wow, congratulations to Bill Bailey on the Nobel.

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

My guess would be that there are possibly a lot more of them from the 18th century than you’d reasonably think, from figures more obscure than Vivaldi

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

Vivaldi composed 39 bassoon concertos. Some would say that this is too many bassoon concertos. I, however, say it is far too few

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 4d

Love that Vivaldi wrote a nocturnal-themed bassoon concerto with a movement titled 'Ghosts'. Spooky bassoon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0h...

Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, RV 501 "La Notte": II. I Fantasmi. Presto

YouTube video by Academy of St Martin in the Fields - Topic

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 5d

Without one I just couldn’t balance work/kids and would have given in and bought a car. The biggest challenge for mass take-up is everyone’s buying them through regressive Cycle to Work tax dodge. So a £5k bike costs 12 x £241 monthly payments if you’re high earner or 12 x £416 if you’re in poverty.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 6d

Electric cargo bikes can replace many everyday car trips for the average family and “reshape suburban family mobility”, say Oxford University researchers. 49 British households were loaned e-cargo bikes for school runs, shopping trips, family outings and other day-to-day use.

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theartsdesk.com @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 6d

★★★★ #EchoVocalEnsemble #SarahLatto @unionchapeluk.bsky.social - An eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance, with beautiful singing at the heart of an imaginative and stylistically varied concert - review @bernardhughes.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Echo Vocal Ensemble, Latto, Union Chapel review - eclectic choral programme garlanded with dance

Echo Vocal Ensemble have their genesis in Genesis. Sarah Latto’s group were initially formed by a cohort of the Genesis Sixteen young artists’ programme – and she has turned them into one of the most ...

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Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social · 6d

And the one on Lordship Lane closed recently as well…trouble in Poundland

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 7d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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