Peter Stark

Conductor, teacher, consultant.

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

Thank you to the whole EUYO family - what a wonderful concert in Abu Dhabi!

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@TheBritLad What the hell is going on in this world? Halal is a cleaner and more humane way of producing meat for our consumption. As a Christian carnivore I would choose halal whenever I can - have never had a bad experience…..

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@Baerenreiter Ohhh - I know this theatre! Lucky you being in the wonderful Prague. Make sure you go to a concert in the Rudolfinum…. The best acoustic of any hall I know….

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@Baerenreiter Thanks Patrick!!

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@dave43law Thank you @dave43law for putting so clearly into words everything that I am feeling. Politics rarely make me weep - today however it is on an hourly basis. I fear for the world that standards have sunk so low

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Thoughts from the US

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and and say, "And we shall overcome." I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
"These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried nonetheless.
"And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House.
"The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president* as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president* so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt.
"Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too.
Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."
- Charles Pierce

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

"Migrants, illegal or legal, weren't responsible for austerity. That was the Conservative government. Migrants were not responsible for Brexit. Migrants were not responsible for Liz Truss' failure of leadership."

Brilliant audience contribution 👏

#bbcqt

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@Baerenreiter Haitink was one OF the greats. Not competent - he could make musicians play the way he wanted without asking. His overview was breathtaking. He was above all else the most inspiring human being. I have a question Alexander; what exactly are you looking for in a conductor?

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@ElonMNews Twitter

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@CalltoActivism Don’t come to the UK

[EUYO - European Union Youth Orchestra @EUYOtweets]

And...action 📸 from the first tutti rehearsal! @PeterStark16 and the #EUYO start as we mean to go on with 𝘈𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢.

Come and hear it live! 👉 https://t.co/mAkLJQbXUJ

#euyomusicians #alsosprachzarathustra

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@MrRobertBob1 I am really happy you are peaceful, and your garden looks lovely - I wish for you much happiness.
But, & please forgive…. How on earth can I judge your situation without knowing either you or your ex-neighbour? I am not in a position to take sides when the sides are unknown

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

How ON EARTH can Suella Braverman have the hall to say that the delays in Dover are nothing to do with Brexit….? Do they think we’re idiots?

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

@urbinaconductor @pablomielgo_ @batonflipper @TobyPurser1 Pablo you are a star!! Hearty congratulations, and thanks for your warm words. On to big things my friend!!!

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

Just posted a photo @ New Forest, Hampshire https://t.co/Xthw4SNWGK

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

Just posted a photo https://t.co/EIkvNFZxqd

[English National Opera @E_N_O]

Please help us to get them to reconsider their current decision by signing this petition, kindly set up by Sir Bryn Terfel: https://t.co/4fEnV1y0Xz (3/3)

#LoveENO #ChooseOpera

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

Just posted a photo @ Arte Music Academy https://t.co/g0fqLNg4CJ

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

Dates for courses in 2023 are all confirmed! Please check my new website!!
https://t.co/HyuTL5eRpV

[Paddington @paddingtonbear]

Thank you Ma’am, for everything.

[Peter Stark @PeterStark16]

God rest your soul. What hope is there for us and her country? She is as the only thing left that reminded us what standards really meant.