John Hobbs

20+ years in IT, followed my heart into music and taught piano, still loving playing, learning and listening. Tweets betray my interests - music, faith, sport.

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@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 I've missed the boat here but was going to suggest Vierne Carrillon de Longpont. bells and ostinato in abundance and a workout for the feet

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@charles_tebbs Low-born clods of brute earth (Gerontius)

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Name that choral work

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@hannahcfrench @BBCRadio3 Jerome Moross: Theme from the Big Country - now that's crying out for an organ arrangement

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Szymanowski concert overture op 12 - one for you if you like R Strauss and Elgar

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@OrganistBarbie Well I like reading your tweets.

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@OrganistBarbie My confessions

I know that's not loud enough - 30 secs later - the swell's not open.
Why's it so muddy. There's no 16' - 30 secs later - the sub-octave's still on.

I just wish I could spot these things quicker

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@RevRichardColes Still the best version

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O magnum mysterium, who has sent us an unstamped Christmas card which we will not be paying £5 to have delivered.

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Christmas cards - insufficiently religious or too religious, but twee. I'm probably overthinking this

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@OrganistBarbie sorry to hear this. Hang on in there

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#0nlyconnect 'al fresco' for eating outdoors - a lost battle

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Gorgeous piano piece on radio 3. I'm thinking Mompou. No, heart's ease by Frank Bridge
https://t.co/3wOWhi2CLN

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@RevJFH @BBCRadio3 Elsewhere in the classical music/faith world

https://t.co/8ifnqVFGkq

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@RevJFH I'm on bluesky looking for my favourite people

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@AdamFretwellPT Maybe we should change our habits as retired people. I can't do anything without having had breakfast though

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I wish the ABC wouldn't use the words shame and shameful

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@CathSchofield @mikeirons12 Sharing 2 1/2

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@mikeirons12 For the angst
Brahms pc 1
Elgar symphony 1
Too many tieing for third

For a joyful escape
Mendelssohn octet
Most Mozart piano concertos, let's take 22 in E flat
Bach such as Goldberg's or a Brandenburg

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@ArmandDAngour I feel the need to re-read Plato