Michael Thrift

Conductor from down under, based up over. Liked being an EUpean. A follow ≠ endorsement. That’s not a Twitter thing, it’s just what other musicians say to me 😉

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Happy Halloween!

Kids got lots of sweets. I got the flu jab.

Being a grownup sucks sometimes.

#Halloween

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Glorious. Bonkers. Unbelievable. Amazing.

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Sunday fun day.

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

When a conductor says he/she prefers to use the Dover edition.

[Janet Horvath @playinglesshurt]

#jokeoftheday Good practice strategy: some added choreography! #cello #performing #music

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Eating a vegan choc brownie of which the bulk is not made of flour but rather…wait for it…black beans.

It’s actual rather good.

#VeganBrownie

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

The hero of the BBC Election coverage is already the BSL guy.

#GeneralElection2024 #GE24

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

My 18 month old son is laughing at his own farts this afternoon.

That’s about as much fun as Rishi Sunak could hope to have on a day like today too.

#GeneralElection2024 #RishiSunak

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of movie scenes inspired by art 🧵

1. Shutter Island - Klimt's Kiss

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Loving @BBCRadio4 ‘More or Less’ for quoting the seminal, sci-fi speech ‘tears in rain.’

#BBCMoreOrLess

[jeremydenk @jeremydenk]

there’s a lot of reverent writing on Beethoven 9 now and so here’s my take

1st mvmt: slightly too austere
2nd: amazing 120-proof old style ludwig
3rd: 20 minutes???
4th: an absolute hot mess but beyond delightful, perhaps the first canonic example of jumping the shark

[Love your Inner Classical Music Geek @LoveInner]

#NowSpinning From the Kleiber Complete DG box, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. May as well inject some energy into my return to work from holiday!

[Philippa Boyle @PhiliBoyle]

A very sad day for UK arts today as our wonderful friends and colleagues at @E_N_O give their final performance before company-wide redundancies take effect tomorrow and cuts to @WelshNatOpera announced too. @ace_national and those responsible should be ashamed of themselves. 1/2

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Maurizio Pollini and Peter Eötvös; two legends lost in as many days.

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Amazing footage from #IFT3 .
#SpaceX

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Been off Twitter for a while after a busy period of paternity care with child no.2. Looking to reacquaint; missed some of you.

Also looking for new follows in music/arts. I got into Twitter as an angry remainer back then. Still angry, but I want to broaden my horizons a little.

[Gavin Dixon @saquabote]

I'm pleased to announce that my #Schnittke book is now out in paperback, retailing at a very modest £34.39. @RoutledgeMusic https://t.co/jHMbmAn788

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

I’m trying to stave off ‘Christmas eating’ for as long as possible, but there’s no denying it; the gingerbread house on the dining table has been slowly losing structural integrity for about 24 hours now.

[Michael Thrift @ConductorThrift]

Delightfully scathing.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

delusion after delusion. this isn't 'bad spads/process', it's a PM full on living in a parallel world - he cannot accept he was wrong when he was told explicitly & repeatedly 'your policy cannot & won't work & it's a political disaster' - he's now pretending he's 'blocking' the courts when he very obviously is not & his policy/Bill very obviously leaves the ECHR/HRA framework in control

he's so monumentally botched it he is BOTH *in breach of ECHR* AND leaving the ECHR *in actual control*! and BOTH roused the dominant Left network to smash him AND isn't seriously trying to solve the problem! so 100% on brand for establishment Tories, 'the grownups' as the IfG calls them

he will not 'stop the boats', it's already game over for the fake rwanda gimmick & the PM has wasted 2022 & left himself no time

there will be a useless attempt in 2024 to claim he's been 'sabotaged' by Lords/courts & 'this is what the election is about', they'll pathetically try to use Take Back Control, but it won't work

tories doomed if they keep him & doomed if they spasm & fire him