PhD, author, IB workshop leader, International school librarian (retired), consultant, tweeting re. great cultural experiences, reading & library developments
@TrasimenoMusic As with all the concerts at @TrasimenoMusic, the piano recital - the three Bs - by @HewittJSB this evening was wonderful. Thanks also to @HewittJSB for visiting our table at the gala dinner in the gardens of the Oratorio di San Francesco dei Nobili, Perugia. @Martin_Randall
Exquisite art at Holbein exhibition @RCT at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace + v. interesting lecture about Holbein's life and art prior to working at the Tudor court in England.
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Excellent exhibition of 18C Venetian drawings together with 'Reworking Manet' with entries from students aged 16-18 years at the Courtauld Gallery, London. @TheCourtauld
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Tremendous performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (Pt. 2), conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. @theoae@southbankcentre
@NPGLondon struck by statue of Dame Ethel Smyth, self-portrait of Gwen John, Tudor iconography & Lucien Freud's portrait of the Irish writer Lady Caroline Blackwood.
Talented young musicians, the Hera Strijkkwartet, performed Haydn & Shostakovitch at de Thomas, Amsterdam Zuid, as the rarely-seen sun shone into the large space.
Piano recital by Nelson Goerner at Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, set different moods & timbres, and considerably lightened a dark, damp Northern European evening.
Viols & chamber organ in readiness for concert of verse anthems of the English Renaissance, perf. by Amsterdamse Cantorij & The Spirit of Gambo, at the Waalsekerk, Amsterdam.
Two stimulating events at the Orgelpark, Amsterdam, yesterday - a colloquium with Momoyo Kokubu about performing & recording Bach + concert by Kamerkoor Ars Musica singing works by Caroline Shaw, Mendelssohn, Brahms & Faure. @SWomenOrganists