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Nigel Short on 25 years of Tenebrae (opens the original)
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Tenebrae began with no plan, no name and a dinner Nigel Short tried to get out of. Twenty-five years on, the choir marks its anniversary with concerts and a new album, The Journey.In this conversation Nigel talks about the chance encounters that founded it, the pocket-money calculation that swapped a paper round for a parish church choir, and the Handel opera, learned overnight, that got him thrown out of the Royal College of Music.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://subst
At the Sibelius Festival, don’t think of Finland (opens the original)
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Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Five Images (That Won’t Leave Me) (opens the original)
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Classical music’s supposed barrier to entry isn’t its tradition, but our fractured attention spans. While the industry hides behind self-referential marketing and smartphone screens, true connection requires the one thing modern culture avoids: the willingness to surrender our attention to long-form live experience.Multiple images have been on repeat in my head the past week or so. Compulsive thinking does that. One after another. Over and over again. Like flicking through a photo album in searc
Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Thetford, Grimes & Reconciliation (opens the original)
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ASYLUM SEEKERS have been removed by police from their homes in Thetford for their own safety in light of protest, unrest, and threatening behaviour this past week.That the unrest in the Norfolk town has received the coverage it has is, sadly, unsurprising and highlights the still-unresolved problem that new Prime Minister Andy Burnham will need to tackle on his return from holiday.Subscribe nowHearing about the town nearest to where I grew up — the one I spent a high percentage of my waking
Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Aldeburgh (opens the original)
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News. The Seven into Five newsletter has gone through a transformation. Or a regeneration. Or a modulation. Henceforth, Seven into Five will be known as the Thoroughly Good Parish Circular.Top line for this first of many circulars: East SuffolkThoroughly Good Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input cla
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