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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 9h

A Dowland evening for me tonight. A lot of the same works as I saw Jupiter & Dunford perform last year with Lea Desandre, but if this concert is half as good, I shall be a happy bunny indeed. Great soloists. My second Cutting brother at this venue within a week. Don’t think I know Mélissa Petit. 🕺

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 10h

After a full day’s facilitation work (and a concert tonight), this is a great way to start the weekend. #NowListening #TheDeepsHaveMusic

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Muziekgebouw concert hall dwarfed by a (not even very big) cruise ship. Plus a view of it from another angle (behind another stretch of water and buildings with a rail track running behind them), plus a cute cafe I didn’t know about in this neck of the woods). #Amsterdam

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The programme of Netherlands Bach Society’s first concert of the season this afternoon reads like a real statement of intent from new artistic leader Johanna Soller. Can’t think of musicians and soloists who I’d rather hear in this baroque-contemporary double bill. #HIP 🦄

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Such a joyous album, with such terrific musicianship on display. #BaroqueRules

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A gorgeous Autumn day. I love it. Have a good one, folks! #herfst

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Tim Hofman @debroervanroos.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

'meer homo’s die niet genderconform zijn. (...)werkt volgens de hoogleraar averechts voor de acceptatie van homoseksualiteit.' nee chef. patriarchaat werkt acceptatie tegen. conservatisme. clowneske interpretaties van heilig verklaarde boeken. niet mannen die gendernormen negeren. archive.ph/VUZSD

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Concept alert. But what fun! A kind of cabaret meets classical approach to… well, you name it, from Purcell, the American Songbook, The Queen of the Night and Danny Boy, to E lucevan le stelle and (oh yes) Tannhäuser. All accompanied by ukelele and/or accordion. Best enjoyed with a naughty drink. 🕺

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Another delicious new release: a fascinating programme by the divine Sandrine Piau (Cleopatra next to Beth Taylor’s Cornelia last season) and wonderful accompanist David Kadouch. #FairytaleStuff

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hurrah! Beth Taylor’s magnificent Cornelia on disc. She made such an impression in last season’s Giulio Cesare with il Pomo d’Oro that toured Europe. As for that performance, the other singers look pretty magnificent here too. #listening #Händel

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two fruitful and enjoyable days’ work in Cambridge (plus lovely weather!) #Cambridge

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Attended a semi professional musical in Amsterdam’s so called fringe festival. The performance was not really my thing, but I was surprised by the interior of the venue (which I didn’t know): the wonderful (Le Corbusier inspired) Thomas Church by Karel Sijmons from 1966. #architecture

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Two concerts by French ensembles today at #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival, with a lot of Italian music. First Pulcinella and Sandrine Piau in a (1930s) church in a suburb of Utrecht. It’ll be an adventure getting there, but very much worth it, I’m sure! #baroque

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Well, hello! I look forward to exploring this one-to-a-part interpretation of the great work. (It sounds fantastic from the get go…) 😍 #Monteverdi @ifagiolini.bsky.social

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Two more concerts at #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival today. First Simon-Pierre Bestion again with his La Têmpete with a mix of old and new, from Gregorian chant to Pärt…

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Tonight’s big concert is staged (note that a lighting designer and a technical manager are listed) by the inimitable Simon-Pierre Bestion and his La Tempête: a “Nocturne of Loss and Hope”. Can’t wait… #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The first of two concerts at #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival this afternoon: baroque and contemporary music by Patrick Ayrton and friends, including the brilliant Carine Tinney. #BaroqueNow

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Christina Pluhar and L’Arpeggiata in concert at #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival tonight. The programme is rather ominously called “The Three Counter Tenors”. I have never heard of any of the three, but I’ve also never been to a boring L’Arpeggiata concert, so I’m sure all will be good. #LiveMusic

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Another concert at Utrecht’s Early Music Festival tonight: Sébastien Daucé and his Ensemble Correspondances with the fabulous Lucille Richardot in a programme around Campra’s Requiem. #OudeMuziekUtrecht

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Familiar faces amongst the portrait busts in the labyrinthine foyer(s) of Utrecht’s TivoliVredenburg concert hall. #MusicGreats

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The opening concert of Utrecht’s Early Music Festival tonight, with Hervé Niquet and his Le Concert Spirituel (the XL edition) in Renaissance polyphony. #UtrechtEarlyMusicFestival

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social extravaganza at #glyndebourne. Ariadne turned out to be a triumph. And the picnic was beyond wonderful, of course. Life is good #joy

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Jane Fonda’s tribute to Dolly is perfect.

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I am devastated. I just learned that Dolly has moved on. I know that millions are mourning and I want to say this - more than anyone I have ever known, Dolly will always be with us because she was so present, so powerful, so generous and playful that she is woven into all our lives and hearts forever. We have our memories of her, her songs, Dollywood, "9to5," the millions of books she got into the hands of children, all the iconic images that bring her to us. And they are all blessings. Let's be grateful for all that she has left us to ease our sadness now. I never knew anyone like her. She was simultaneously a naughty, playful southern gal from the hollows of
Tennessee and a deep, soulful thinker who could see through people right down to their true selves. She was many things...lyricist, songstress, player of many instruments, writer, prankster, visionary, loyal friend, who'd never go to bed before she and her friends had laughed so hard
they'd have to cross their legs.
She had a survivor's instinct and seemed to always know just what to do, just what to say, to make things right....and then she's stick her butt out the car window and moon Kenny Roger's home. She was the voluptuous embodiment of empathy. That's something of hers she'd want us all to take with us.
To her gay and trans fans, I want you to know that she loved you. You know that without me telling you. She loved all her fans and they are legion. And you know she doesn't want y'all to mourn now. Dress up and celebrate her spirit. But first, watch the final episode of Grace and Frankie where she's an Angel, the head honcho working class angel in Heaven.
RIP, beautiful woman. We love you.

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Good old Lewes. (And tomorrow: Glyndebourne!) 🕺😎 #UK #LewesCastle

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Dinner on the (proverbial) island of Pampus, off the coast of Amsterdam, with a dear old friend. Such a privilege. #joy

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Tonight I’m off to Amsterdam’s STRAAT museum of street art, for the annual Grachtenfestival’s closing concert: Richter’s Four Seasons Recomposed. I dont know the venue, but it looks impressive (it’s in one of the old NDSM shipyard’s 8000 m2 warehouses).

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Such wonderful music, performed with an unerring sense of style and real panache. #brilliant #Vivaldi

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"doesn't understand the appeal of patina" feels like neat summation of American aesthetics

A BBC story headline reads: "Worth $5M? Visitors react to renovated Washington horse statues." There are two photos. One from 2013 that shows the horse statues in their older, patina state. And one from 2026 that shows them covered in 23.75-karat gold leaf.

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A quick Japanese meal before going to see Dangerous Liaiasons in my Local cinema’s 1980s season. #BigScreen #scheming

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New glasses. I thought I’d go for an intellectual look… 😇🤣 Have a great weekend, everyone.

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What to do when your apartment gets too warm? Go for a walk in the park and finish up with a glass in your hand outside a local bar, I guess. #Monday #privilege

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Well, it looks like Pride Amsterdam went all professional this year… 💅🏼🌈

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Dennis 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈 @dennzz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Amsterdam Pride’s Canal Parade is happening tomorrow. If the weather is like today (it will be, apparently) it should be a glorious event. Since it’s World Pride as well, the mind boggles at the crowds on and around Prinsengracht. Here’s to a joyous, peaceful day. 🌈🕺

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