Tim Benjamin

Composer, occasional writer, and “tech leader” , apparently. My podcast is called “Tim The Composer”, go find and listen to it!

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@the_culturist_ Any suggestions like this for western literate music? (ie written music, commonly called "classical" music but the wider tradition from ~900AD to the present day)

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

I did this! With the RLPO and Clark Rundell 😁 https://t.co/v6u4qiKQvc

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@amwilson_opera Ok! It's an interesting rabbit hole to go down. How about this (obscure I admit! And apparently un-cancelled later) ? https://t.co/xSLXELA5sY

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@StevenIsserlis Am I the only one who sees Stephen Fry hiding behind Brahms' beard?

[slimzim @jameszimmermann]

Kid sent me a pic of this giant “Circle of Fifths” cookie a classmate baked for the last day of class and said “I had the 4 flats.”

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@ihtesham2005 @moutet Perhaps explains the effectiveness of the tonal system (in music). Start in the tonic, reach the dominant, and there's your unclosed loop demanding closure. Discovered much earlier than 1927 too!

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@StevenIsserlis It's all wonderful. But I think works such as Agon, Threni, and the sublime Requiem Canticles are worth persisting with. I find them moving, memorable, and deeply mysterious whereas atonal music by lesser composers tends to leave me cold.

[Pierre d'Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur_in]

The full report is available at https://t.co/KQMYQQW8Ul

[Kevin Lamb @KevinLamb74]

At the #GaryCon artist's booth I learned that Larry Elmore was willing to do the covers of the new Dragonlance trilogy but was told that they wanted a digital artist because digital art has more "pop." So instead of a cover like the one on the left we got the one on the right.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

'Private schools VAT hike costing taxpayers more' https://t.co/t5kRAlOn60

[Victoria @vickygrayson_]

Lord Lexden in the House of Lords:

“How should the sudden imposition of an unprecedented education tax on 1 January, after a rushed consultation last summer when schools were on holiday, be described?

Just one word does it: cruel.”

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@Nigel_Farage Can't you just apologise to each other, have a nice dinner, reach some kind of agreement to behave, bring @RupertLowe10 back as a Reform MP then focus again on the real challenge, ie defeating your real enemies Labour and the Tories?? Come on. The police stuff is surely bogus.

[emily is in sf @emilyinvc]

people are very, very strange

they are constantly angered by trivial things

but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@ZelenskyyUa You better wear a suit and tie when you visit our King, Mr Zelenskyy. Your support in the UK is already thin.

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@POTUS Pity you couldn't have roasted @Keir_Starmer like this, he deserves it more, he campaigned against you, called you lots of bad things, came with a begging bowl... Missed opportunity!

[Tim Benjamin @timthecomposer]

@bphillipsonMP You're the Education Secretary of the UK Govt saying education isn't a necessity? What the hell is wrong with you?

[Rob Boyd, Esq @AvonandsomerRob]

For no other reason than it's hilarious, here is Keir Starmer being thrown out of a pub in Bath by the Landlord again..🤣

[Ana Boulter @anaboultertv]

https://t.co/WPMf7JIGJC Do you remember the bit where @bphillipson
said there would be enough places and it wouldn't impact state school children? She lied.