Hannah Strange

Music and whisk(e)y lover. Wannabe organist. Enthusiastic, but only occasionally successful grower of tasty vegetables. Proud to sing alto in @TheBachChoir

[The Bach Choir @TheBachChoir]

2 weeks left for you to write a cracker of a carol for our Carol Competition! The winners will have their carols performed at @cadoganhall. Judges @davidhconductor, @CherylHoad, @Willcocks_J & Cecilia McDowall can’t wait to read your scores! Enter here - https://t.co/9qpP9MgpsX

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We asked @Davidhconductor what the War Requiem means to him before our performance on Wednesday 30 October at @WestminsterCath with @philharmonia. What does this masterpiece mean to you? Book your tickets to experience Britten’s masterpiece live now - https://t.co/NuNhCDxQxX

[Dick King-Smith HQ @DickKingSmith]

Pinking shears were designed and patented by Louise Austin in Washington in 1893. Before this invention, the pretty zig-zag design they created could only be replicated by trained pinking tortoises. 🔊

[Hannah Strange @hes28]

@davidhconductor The combination possibilities are somewhat mind boggling! 🤣🤣

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@drtlstrange Rubbish!

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We love this hand-drawn sketch by @Bre_stevens from our St Matthew Passion with @Florilegium @LonYouthChoirs @DavidhConductor last week. It was drawn during the performance!

[Felicity Hayward @Flissish]

I accidentally co-ordinated my carol book with my takeaway cup this morning. So here goes:

Carol books as takeaway coffee cups, a thread.

100 Carols for Choirs: Pret. Ubiquitous, solid, you know what you're getting.

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Noël Coward, who was born on 16th December 1899, discloses his middle name and something he has in abundance.

Just like the party, this is marvellous.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the Pentatonic Scale using the audience.

[📹 World Science Festival]

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Opening our season with @Philharmonia, @Davidhconductor, @_Claire_Rutter, @RossRamgobin, @KMGSoprano, Philip Scriven & Harry Jacques was a joy. Thanks to all who came! The rest of the season brings carols, commissions and choral connections - we can't wait to share them with you.

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Tomorrow evening, we'll be joined by @Philharmonia, @Davidhconductor, @_Claire_Rutter, @RossRamgobin, @KMGSoprano and Harry Jacques for a rich and moving programme which ends with a message of hope. There are still some tickets remaining, starting at £15 - https://t.co/sWyAT1jVlo

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The powerful @RossRamgobin sings Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem here with @DavidhConductor. Hear us sing this with Ross, @_Claire_Rutter, @Philharmonia and David Hill at the @SouthbankCentre's Royal Festival Hall on Thurs 2 Nov. Buy your tickets now - https://t.co/sWyAT1jVlo

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How many singers can you count? We loved rehearsing with @GoldsmithsChoir, @HighgateChoral, and @WimbledonChoral tonight. We're singing Carmina Burana together on Sunday at the @RoyalAlbertHall - just imagine the power these voices will generate...

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With 43 years at The Bach Choir between them, our Musical Director @davidhconductor & President @johnmrutter go back a long way!

In this interview, they discuss their interpretations of works, their influences & more. Watch here -https://t.co/dxHTifvCIX

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It’s quiz time! Guess the piece and comment your answer...

To learn more about this fascinating work, listen to Episode 4 of our podcast Change Your Tune now, featuring @LintonStephens, @Annemarieminhall and our Musical Director @Davidhconductor - https://t.co/IAXR2d4qvw

[Richard Williams @rwilliams1947]

Excellent letter in this morning’s Times

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

People asking us about big #bumblebees they’re noticing on the wing at this time of year.
Here’s a quick 🙄 thread explaining.
Please #retweet as the more people who know that these are queens the more likely that someone will help some out meaning more colonies next year.
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The Ode to Joy is arguably the most famous piece of protest music ever. Find out why it still inspires unity and action in our podcast, Change Your Tune, with musician & change-maker @LoveSsega & host @davidhconductor. Listen here - https://t.co/qpk0s7vfHS

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Jesse Owens of USA winning gold for the long jump in the summer Olympics in Germany, 1936.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The man saluting behind Owens is Lutz Long, a German who shared training tips with Owens and was the first to openly congratulate him after his final jump in full view of Hitler.

After the Olympics, the two kept in touch via mail. Below is Long's last letter to Owens while he was stationed with the German Army in North Africa during World War 2. Long was later killed in action during the allied invasion of Sicily in 1943.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

"I am here, Jesse, where it seems there is only the dry sand and the wet blood. I do not fear so much for myself, my friend Jesse, I fear for my woman who is home, and my young son Karl, who has never really known his father.⁣⁣

My heart tells me, if I be honest with you, that this is the last letter I shall ever write. If it is so, I ask you something. It is a something so very important to me.

It is you go to Germany when this war done, someday find my Karl, and tell him about his father. Tell him, Jesse, what times were like when we not separated by war. I am saying—tell him how things can be between men on this earth.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

If you do this something for me, this thing that I need the most to know will be done, I do something for you, now. I tell you something I know you want to hear. And it is true.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

That hour in Berlin when I first spoke to you, when you had your knee upon the ground, I knew that you were in prayer.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Then I not know how I know. Now I do. I know it is never by chance that we come together. I come to you that hour in 1936 for purpose more than der Berliner Olympiade.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

And you, I believe, will read this letter, while it should not be possible to reach you ever, for purpose more even than our friendship.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ I believe this shall come about because I think now that God will make it come about. This is what I have to tell you, Jesse.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

I think I might believe in God.⁣⁣ And I pray to him that, even while it should not be possible for this to reach you ever, these words I write will still be read by you.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

Your brother,⁣⁣ Luz"⁣⁣