David Bruce

Possibly the only Cathedral Cellarer in captivity?

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@buitengebieden I got my first specs at 13, and realised for the first time that trees had leaves and were not just fluffy!

[In Quires and Places Where They Meme @QuireMemes]

PSA: make sure you're using the new O Antiphons for the Advent service this year.

[Gendered Intelligence @Genderintell]

Every year, our residential camping trips help trans young people escape their everyday realities offer a safe and affirmative space.

Please support our crowdfunder at https://t.co/21WIH43RYy, and help ensure that our 2024 camps are a huge success!

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"We declare that Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza," said the UN experts

https://t.co/7FO1uxhJqn

[Campaign for the Arts @_CFTA]

We welcome the acknowledgement by the Education Secretary (@bphillipsonMP) about the lack of access to arts education in state schools & look forward to this critical issue being addressed.

Join us in campaigning until the arts are accessible to all: https://t.co/E5a2gX2Cky

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@jdmccafferty One hell of a wake…

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Who would make the best Prime Minister?

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@SirJJKC Ah, have seen on the shelf, but never investigated.

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@SirJJKC Enlighten me, Suze?

[Patrick Allies @PatrickAllies]

A bit of exciting news... next week @ICChamberChoir will record a service of choral evensong for BBC Radio 3, for the very first time! All are welcome.

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@QuireMemes @HarbridgeSophie Do love an hard fentance.

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@beeinspired Well, not quite ‘any’ - not exactly great for a funeral for example…

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@silverpebble On you they look cracking!

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@BBCNews who is Ed Sheeran?

[In Quires and Places Where They Meme @QuireMemes]

hymn writers deciding which note to give the altos

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

@SharonKindleys @FrDidymus Yup, works every time!

[In Quires and Places Where They Meme @QuireMemes]

[not a meme]

Choristers grow up with a love of music, a love of singing. Since the 90s this privilege has increasingly been enjoyed by all, regardless of gender.

When the boys grow up, they can become basses, tenors - even countertenors for the really brave. When the girls grow up, they have limited options - to become altos, if their voice is so inclined - largely because the selfsame system in which they themselves became passionate about choral music employs the children they once were. It is something with frustratingly limited solutions.

St John's Voices, however, is - soon to be was - one of those solutions. A mixed voice choir enabling all people to continue to love the choral music they fell for.

And it is also a choir for all those who realised too late in life that they could have become choristers and felt they had missed that opportunity completely. With SJV, that opportunity was there. Not just the traditional cathedral/chapel choir setup of trebles and adults, but mixed voice adults enabling sopranos to flourish.

The choral community saved the BBC Singers. Can we save SJV?

[David Bruce @Nothingunspoken]

I scored 6/6 in the Energy Trilemma quiz. How much do you know about it? https://t.co/ins3Bt3MiX

[Tom @TLCarefree]

@Independent Treating the fate of the most desperate people in the world as a "bet" on national TV.

We've hit rock bottom as a country