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Patrick McDermott

@sibelian62.bsky.social

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OAP. Not a musician. Enjoy music, CBSO/HALLE, plus eclectic tastes. RT's not endorsements! Typos normal :-) Living in N. Shropshire UK.

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Patrick McDermott @sibelian62.bsky.social · Feb 26

UPDATED LIST OF CLASSICAL MUSIC SITES 26-2-2025
@ulsterorchestra.bsky.social
@royalphilorchestra.bsky.social
@royalbirmcons.bsky.social
@delphianrecords.com
@gracedavidson.bsky.social
@colla-voce.bsky.social
@kennethwoods.net
@rncmlive.bsky.social

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 16h

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h

As so often, @laylamoran.bsky.social finds gracious, unifying words.

"I choose to believe that peace is possible. Everyone who went on a protest, wrote to their MP, cares about it, shouted at their TV - from whatever point of view - what were those deaths for, if not for a sustainable peace?" ~AA

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London Symphony Orchestra @londonsymphony.bsky.social · 16h

Meet the two composers, Laila Arafah and Yunho Jeong, who have been commissioned to write for the LSO in 2026/27🎶✍️

Learn more: https://bit.ly/46Ois7v

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 16h

I can still remember my parents (now non-existent) landline…

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com · 16h

I’m in this, and I don’t like it.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 18h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 16h

More geek than hot....

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 17h

#NowSpinning Joly Braga Santos Symphony No.2. This is a very cool work, full of great ideas. The opening sounds almost like Bax.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h

Please support the work of @frontline19.bsky.social if you can

Frontline19 @frontline19.bsky.social · 3d

URGENT APPEAL on #WorldMentalHealthDay2025

We've supported a million frontline workers, helping save at least 77 from suicide. Our funds are very low & we urgently need your help to meet rising demand this winter.

Please consider donating to our Crowdfunder
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www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-suppo...

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

👏🏽 Trying to engage with bad faith politicians - however overpromoted - is pointless. Once you establish beyond doubt that they will not answer a question, that they are not there to provide information, but to spout conspiracy nonsense, there is no point in continuing to amplify them. ~AA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s not forget when the Tories were last in office - according to international Human Rights Watch - the UK was on course to make the list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights

We need to protect the ECHR, not leave it

youtu.be/ceukUFLBrFo?...

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

"We have had strong leaders before, but never have the instruments of governing power been bent quite so aggressively to service the ambitions and wishes of the chief executive."

This is very flawed, but interesting critique of Trump from a right wing standpoint. ~AA

www.wsj.com/opinion/forg...

Opinion | Forget Lawfare—Governing Well Is the Best Revenge

Trump owes his comeback to the Democrats’ legal abuse. Why would he now want to return the favor?

www.wsj.com

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19h

The Shoreline Management Plan sets out which of Norfolk's coastal communities will be defended and which will be surrendered to the sea. Few realise what that really means.

Read how the residents of Hemsby are starting to find out ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19h

Add Northumberland to the list. Two this week saying the couldn't find savings and will be increasing council tax. And two falling apart from internal soap opera fights. And one doing both. 🤣~AA

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 3d

Down but not out; North Northumberland Councillors Expelled from Reform UK

Reform UK Northumberland County Councillors, Nicole Brooke (Berwick North) and Patrick Lambert (Norham and Islandshires), have been expelled from their

thebridgeberwick.co.uk

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Love Your Classical Music Geek @loveinner.bsky.social · 18h

#NowSpinning Vladimir Ashkenazy’s Decca Sibelius 5. It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to this cycle. I’d forgotten how startlingly vivid the sound is!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18h

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 18h

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.

We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 18h

63 years ago tonight Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exploded on to Broadway. Uta Hagen played Martha and when she left the show she was replaced by, um, Elaine Stritch. Can you imagine? You don’t have to because 11 years later she recorded the whole damn thing.
AND HERE IT IS.
youtu.be/sx2qZmT4lGc

Whos's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Act 1 (Elaine Stritch)

YouTube video by Vodka Stinger

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18h

I applaud Michael Gove's fervent commitment to gov't transparency on intelligence matters, however newly-discovered it is. ~AA

Michael Gove
@michaelgove
Are we really asked to believe a single civil servant is alone responsible? I fear he may be being made a scapegoat. Why not publish the evidence, publish the correspondence between NSA and Deputy NSA, and have the NSA answer parliamentarians’ questions?
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The government says that Matthew Collins, the Deputy National Security adviser was entirely responsible for the evidence given to the CPS in the China spy trial

'The Deputy National Security adviser was given full freedom to provide evidence without interference'

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Tory minister repeatedly dodges questions on secret Russia report on UK interference as pressure mounts over 'cover up'
Michael Gove insists report being dealt with appropriately, as former MI5 boss says it should be made public

Andrew Woodcock
Political Editor
Tuesday 05 November 2019 10:38 GMT

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 18h

Those balls are pommes noisettes btw.

A box of pommes noisettes, small round potato balls

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · 18h

Currywurst tonight, but a bit healthier than with chips.

A plate filled with slices of sausage in curry wurst sauce, and pomme noisette in the side.

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Mark Valencia 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @markvalencia.bsky.social · 18h

Public service announcement:

My Handel double review of Susanna (Opera North) and Giustino (Linbury at ROH) has now
been published by Musical America ($) if you're able to read it.

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sangitamyska.bsky.social @sangitamyska.bsky.social · 18h

‘Is the UK complicit in genocide?’

As the humanitarian pause in Gaza gets underway could our government be held responsible for not doing more to end the war and if so, how?

Join me on ‘Long Story Short’ @MiddleEastEye. Subscribe to its YouTube Channel & turn on your notification bell on now.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17h

Words, and the corruption of the US government

The language used by media to report Trump’s grip on America and the role played by the US government

By J 'Masharubu' Strauss

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Words, and the corruption of the US government

The language used by media to report Trump’s grip on America and the role played by the US government

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Ulster Orchestra @ulsterorchestra.bsky.social · 17h

Friday night saw the world premiere of Amelia Clarkson's 'The Rain Keeps Coming' (a commission supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social & Ulster Orchestra Foundation), Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.5 with Vadym Kholodenko & Tchaikovsky's 4th. Andrew Gourlay conducted.

Male presenting pianist playing a grand piano seated wearing formal suit, musicians behind seated in formal clothing play string instruments.

Female presenting individual in grey floral pattern dress with high neckline crosses hands to chest with grateful expression.

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Richard Bates @discript.com · 17h

To end the #SewageScandal, the regulator must uphold the law, NOT allow the water utilities to continue breaking it.
Please sign the petition if you agree.

We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 3d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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