Andrew Mitchell
@chaconato.bsky.social
🇺🇳 🏳️🌈 classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
Wild horses couldn’t drag me to an exhibition of paintings by Stubbs, but the Van Eyck small but priceless exhibition opening in November 2026 at the National could trigger such Stendhal syndrome I’ll be worried for my sanity.
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wild horses couldn’t drag me to an exhibition of paintings by Stubbs, but the Van Eyck small but priceless exhibition opening in November 2026 at the National could trigger such Stendhal syndrome I’ll be worried for my sanity.
My poor Mitsumata doesn’t know what’s happening with climate breakdown: first winter followed by second autumn, so it’s trying to flower now rather than late February. The second photo shows the trichotomous branching, which no other known plant does.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
My poor Mitsumata doesn’t know what’s happening with climate breakdown: first winter followed by second autumn, so it’s trying to flower now rather than late February. The second photo shows the trichotomous branching, which no other known plant does.
Following the small but valuable Arundel Choirbook exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library now looking forward to works by Anonymous: rubiconclassics.com/release/the-...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Following the small but valuable Arundel Choirbook exhibition at Lambeth Palace Library now looking forward to works by Anonymous: rubiconclassics.com/release/the-...
Good to see the Venerable St John of T in the audience.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Good to see the Venerable St John of T in the audience.
To watch later, if time this evening. There are so many layers of misinformation in various books and articles on Stravinsky’s Œdipus Rex it’s quite laughable. youtu.be/DsEZ1hPOLD4?...
JOCASTA'S LINE Stravinsky / Samy Moussa – Wayne McGregor – Norwegian Opera & Ballet
YouTube video by OperaVision
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November 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
To watch later, if time this evening. There are so many layers of misinformation in various books and articles on Stravinsky’s Œdipus Rex it’s quite laughable. youtu.be/DsEZ1hPOLD4?...
Unchanged but deff had a glow-up.
November 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Unchanged but deff had a glow-up.
Excited to see that at long last Neuromancer will be on screen, and better that it’s a series not to miss detail - maybe Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive will follow. Hope not too unwatchably CGI or boringly normcore, and the producers choose music outside their mainstream.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Excited to see that at long last Neuromancer will be on screen, and better that it’s a series not to miss detail - maybe Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive will follow. Hope not too unwatchably CGI or boringly normcore, and the producers choose music outside their mainstream.
Intriguing Children of Albion exhibition in Fitzrovia, packed with visitors.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Intriguing Children of Albion exhibition in Fitzrovia, packed with visitors.
This year’s round of inocs completed thanks to the free health service. Makes a total of 18 diseases against which I have protection.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This year’s round of inocs completed thanks to the free health service. Makes a total of 18 diseases against which I have protection.
Anyone at GBSR/12 Ensemble St Luke’s this evening?
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Anyone at GBSR/12 Ensemble St Luke’s this evening?
Disappointed but not the least surprised that the group of three sitting next to me last night at RBO Perspectives had no ability to relate to a violin concerto in any way they could express.
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Disappointed but not the least surprised that the group of three sitting next to me last night at RBO Perspectives had no ability to relate to a violin concerto in any way they could express.
“o fay”. O tempora, o mores.
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“o fay”. O tempora, o mores.
New words of the day: Plateresque and bardcore (yes, it’s safe to search for both those).
November 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New words of the day: Plateresque and bardcore (yes, it’s safe to search for both those).
Catching up on Berio broadcasts today from Radio 3: New Music Show and 20th Century Radicals. Wondering if Laborintus II is peak Berio? Love Coro, now there’s the revelatory Norwegian recording, but LII seems to distill so much 1960s’ intellectual exploration into some genuine drama.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Catching up on Berio broadcasts today from Radio 3: New Music Show and 20th Century Radicals. Wondering if Laborintus II is peak Berio? Love Coro, now there’s the revelatory Norwegian recording, but LII seems to distill so much 1960s’ intellectual exploration into some genuine drama.
Going to have one more try at finding people to meet to discuss contemporary classical music. Past eight plus years have been derailed by work and illness, feels about time to have another go.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Going to have one more try at finding people to meet to discuss contemporary classical music. Past eight plus years have been derailed by work and illness, feels about time to have another go.
Looking forward to visiting this exhibition in December www.kunstsammlung.de/en/e be xhibitions/queer-modernism
Queer Modernism | Kunstsammlung NRW
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November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Looking forward to visiting this exhibition in December www.kunstsammlung.de/en/e be xhibitions/queer-modernism
Who’s looking forward to the new Lachenmann release? Besides me.
November 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Who’s looking forward to the new Lachenmann release? Besides me.
My father was a horrid man, tribally and blindly right-wing, with all the abhorrent prejudices that often go with that. But even he would be aghast at how today’s three right wing parties in the UK take huge funds and bribes from two of the most repressive and murderous countries in the world.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
My father was a horrid man, tribally and blindly right-wing, with all the abhorrent prejudices that often go with that. But even he would be aghast at how today’s three right wing parties in the UK take huge funds and bribes from two of the most repressive and murderous countries in the world.
In bed with Szymanowski. classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/182...
Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets by Belcea Quartet — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Debussy & Szymanowski: Quartets by Belcea Quartet. 2025. 10 tracks. 1 hour, 5 minutes.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
In bed with Szymanowski. classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/182...
Hullo Hello Halo classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/183...
Hello Halo - EP by EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Hello Halo - EP by EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. 2025. 6 tracks. 26 minutes.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Hullo Hello Halo classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/183...
Great news for managing your itinerary and travel time in the Roman Empire: the new release of itiner-e.org comes with a journey planning tool. Gratulationes omnibus investigatoribus et pecuniariis praebitoribus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire
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November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Great news for managing your itinerary and travel time in the Roman Empire: the new release of itiner-e.org comes with a journey planning tool. Gratulationes omnibus investigatoribus et pecuniariis praebitoribus!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Apropos the Faust story being in my artistic van for nearly half a century, I had to dispose of my Ecuadorean linen basket which came into my life at the same time. I don’t think the two were connected. Gloria to the women’s co-op weavers for the long-lasting warp and weft.
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Apropos the Faust story being in my artistic van for nearly half a century, I had to dispose of my Ecuadorean linen basket which came into my life at the same time. I don’t think the two were connected. Gloria to the women’s co-op weavers for the long-lasting warp and weft.
Imagining the horror for parents in Frankfurt thinking that Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy is a continuation of the series of children’s operas being performed earlier the same day.
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Imagining the horror for parents in Frankfurt thinking that Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy is a continuation of the series of children’s operas being performed earlier the same day.
I know Sirius (in Canis Major) is a short distance away from Trappist 1e (in Aquarius), but the revelations from the JWST about the potential for the later to be habitable surely mean we need to take Stockhausen’s claim to be from the former more seriously. Don’t we?
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I know Sirius (in Canis Major) is a short distance away from Trappist 1e (in Aquarius), but the revelations from the JWST about the potential for the later to be habitable surely mean we need to take Stockhausen’s claim to be from the former more seriously. Don’t we?