David Gordon Duke

Curmudgeon at large; writes a bit

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@Baerenreiter Worth any amount of waiting; their chorale is sublime

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

When I said it wouldn’t be much work, I meant it wouldn’t be much work for me.

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@HewittJSB @Fideliocaf Can it be the second horn part the dog is going for?

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@PhD_Genie Life without parole

[Piatti Quartet @PiattiQuartet]

Have critics become softer with time?

Undeniably if reviews from @TheStradMag in the 90’s are anything to go by!

The reviews are fierce, big names regularly taken down with no holding back!!!

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

Review: Vancouver Opera sets the stage for comedy Don Pasquale. https://t.co/wvmMHTaTyp

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@MichaelRosenYes Thé cassis isn’t too shabby either; great place

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

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[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

Im a very big fan of advanced degrees for those who have an aptitude for them. But this thread brings up important issues to think about

[Halit Başar @basarhlt]

Witold Lutosławski passed away 30 years ago on this day.

https://t.co/xliivIOXfd

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@DrHannahScott @SML_Newcastle What a wonderful opportunity for someone

[Musica Viva Australia @MusicaVivaAU]

Anna Dowsley singing Bolcom? It might just be the perfect combination. Catch the national tour between February 20 and March 10. Book today: https://t.co/A7WMLuWGgl 

📹 Anna Dowsley and Michael Curtain performing 'Amor' by William Bolcom

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@MusicaVivaAU @WBolcom A perfect song!

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

Oh, to hear this here!

[Benjamin Grosvenor @grosvenorpiano]

What an amazing experience to play the awesome, bonkers, 70-minute Everest of a piece that is the Busoni Concerto for the first time and to be presented with this autograph by the composer by the American Busoni Society (my thanks to James Colias!)

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

Well: imagine the BBC reviving Excursion

[Georgia Mann @MannGeorgia]

On yer bike in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 today. It's by the Canadian composer Jean Coulthard, from her ballet Excursion. Where to from Bicycle Parade - which is about a bunch of disaffected youths careering around on a quayside?

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 The quayside was on one of British Columbia’s Gulf Islands; the bicycle interlude happens in the midst of a wartime romance…

The first ballet music written in this part of the world, it seems

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@aliner A few weeks later I received a post card from TG professing to be charmed that his words had been set to music. Such generosity, indeed such class.

[David Gordon Duke @davidgordonduke]

@aliner When I was a foolish young composer, I set this for tenor and piano — without thinking about copyright. Years later, it turned out a colleague had a nodding acquaintance with the poet and I asked him to bring up the awkward situation…

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

We never eliminate departments. Some departments go extinct because they can’t adapt.

[Brian Groom @GroomB]

Manchester Guardian editorial, September 11 1908: 'We cannot understand to what practical use a flying machine that is heavier than air can be put.'