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John Andrews

@jkaconductor.bsky.social
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Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.

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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 5h
It does surprise me that people seem to have forgotten this.
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Andy Burnham would back Leave in second referendum if Labour secured a new deal
The Mayor of Greater Manchester said he thought leaving with a deal would be in the 'public interest'
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Arts Professional @artsprofessional.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has spoken out against critics of her support for the arts during her tenure, saying they’re “doing a disservice to the whole country”.
artsprofessional.co.uk
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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On the cover of MADAME COMPOSER theres is a very excellent quote from @nezetseguin.bsky.social 🙏🏻🥰 In case you needed another reason to preorder… www.simonandschuster.com/books/Madame...
“I thought I knew Clara 
Schumann. Sarah Fritz brings us closer to the woman behind the legend, and she is even more remarkable than the myth.”
 
— Yannick Nézet-Séguin,
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2nd-Born’s Birthday Cake - Fully edible Antonelli….
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theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL 2026, Part 3 - Other worlds perfectly inhabited: demanding programmes from world-class artists, and a walled-garden #tuba extravaganza - review @davidnice.bsky.social www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...
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Alexandra Coghlan @alexandracoghlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascinating season-opener from Kahchun Wong and the Hallé - a James MacMillan premiere with its own enigma: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Hallé/Wong review – MacMillan’s new symphony centres a great concert hall’s birthday celebrations
James MacMillan’s sixth symphony proved an intricate, intriguing and forward-looking work. It was well paired with Stephen Hough’s exuberant ‘Emperor’ piano concerto and a Liszt rarity
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Second-born is now 24 hours into a running battle with MS work which won’t allow the word “housewives” in a GCSE essay on the 3rd Reich. It thinks that the short Austrian advocated “stay-at-home spouses.”
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Philip Lancaster @philiplancaster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greetings to the bluesky world!
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Strong Shere Khan energy.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Out on November 20th; and any preconceptions you may have about George Dyson, it’s time to rethink.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Royal College of Music is delighted to announce esteemed composers Michael Finnissy, Colin Matthews, Errollyn Wallen and Judith Weir as International Visiting Artists! Learn more: bit.ly/rcm-comp-iva
A collage of two male headshots and two female headshots
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Have just unblocked the vacuum cleaner (with spectacular results) by playing it like a didgeridoo and now kicking myself that I missed capturing this great social-media content....
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If they mean period-pronunciation, then I’m well up for this. Earthy, rhotic, demotic (of its day) English suits these plays a lot better than the clipped post-Victorian version…
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is really, really quite disturbing.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of the most valuable sources for my PhD was the libretto lodged with the Lord Chamberlain (I.e the censor) showing where cuts had been instructed…
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
‘This is the greatest show…’ Composer of the Week celebrates some of C19th music’s Greatest Showstoppers. Today at 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the 'Valkyrie of the Piano', Venezuelan pianist & composer Teresa Carreño. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On this, am now who wondering who *are* the modern masters of the Schubertian lied…. Abba? Billy Joel? Alan Menken? Elton John?
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New @therestpolitics.bsky.social LEADING with Gordon Brown. As UNGA gathers we discuss how to rid a fractured world, look back on the crash and I try to retrieve my stolen tie!! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Gordon Brown: How to Fix a Fracturing World
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 20 September · 54min
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sunday.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As one’s children get older, the specific type of educational wall chart in the house tends to evolve…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Really changes the whole meaning of "are you hard enough to fight for your country".
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Unsolicited writing advice, no. 67216: Don't be afraid of silence. Only in silence can you hear the music.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
On the whole family tracking thing, my OH has now been away without a phone for a whole 4 hours and I've already started and aborted a dozen texts with bits of inconsequential gossip, pictures of cats, news of the offspring. The next few days could be quite instructive.....
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lovely to be in the audience last night for an amazing evening with the Manchester Camerata. And a sponsorship deal I can very much get behind!
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Meanwhile I’ll never forget Pete Waterman (producer for Kylie, Jason, Rick Astley..) saying that the British always screwed up Eurovision because we’d “lost touch with the European lieder tradition of Mozart and Schubert.”
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The British Government deciding to get involved in Eurovision entries all feels a bit….
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Joseph Stalin Smoking Pipe and Writing
ALT: Joseph Stalin Smoking Pipe and Writing
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Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk · 18/09/2026
Soprano Rebecca Hardwick and violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen present György Kurtág's Kafka Fragments tonight at Wigmore Hall ✨ 🕰️ 10.00pm 🎶 György Kurtág: Kafka Fragments 🎟️ www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/20…
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well done us. Good work everybody.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Her Ladyship reclines
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So I’ve written an AGM report; I’m allowed to spend the rest of the day in the sauna, right?
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Williams, A. Coleridge-Taylor, Smyth and Maconchy won’t surprise anyone; but there’s some Eccles, Arne, Lampe and even Rossini in there as well…
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The lovely folk at Presto Music asked me to create a playlist for them… streaming.prestomusic.com/playlist/113
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The lovely folk at Presto Music asked me to create a playlist for them… streaming.prestomusic.com/playlist/113
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
And on the menu tonight; Gilbert and Sullivan prescient as ever: “Great Britain is the Monarchy Sublime/ To which some add - but others do not - Ireland.”
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All I can hear right now.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Great Malvern Looking rather pretty this morning. Almost a shame to spend the day in a darkened theatre…
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Graham Rickson 🇮🇪 @grahamrickson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's my research for the main item in this week's column. "On Broadway" belonged to my grandad, who used to read a story from it every day. www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu... @bernardhughes.bsky.social @seb-scotney.bsky.social #guysanddolls #johnwilson #mahler #brahms @jkaconductor.bsky.social
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Well done Trade Unions. I presume this was what you had in mind when you made the PM back down on funding reform?
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Why stop at the French? Copenhagen owes us for Lindesfarne, now’s a good moment to stiff Saxony and as for the Romans..
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Cynthia Cyrus @scholarfarmer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Reminder: Call for Papers on historical music pedagogy (aka musical learning in the past!) for the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 13–15, 2027 Proposals due Sept 15, 2026 -- Session ID #8258: icms.confex.com/icms/2027/pr... #medieval #CFP #MedievalSky
Image of folks gathered around a lectern with music on it -- the session title and details are provided: CALL FOR PAPERS "Pedagogies of Sound: Medieval Music Education in Slavic and European Contexts";  ICMS Kalamazoo, May 13–15, 2027  Deadline: September 15, 2026; Session #8258 (Hybrid!)
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And with all due reservations about streaming; also We Are Top....
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"Feast of a Piece" on Essential Classics today!
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gary Lineker will soon be bigger than the corporation that sacked him....
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
““I love the arts in my life. I’m a musician as well. As a human being, you know, I recognise the importance of arts and humanities. But I am the science minister and I will be making the case.” So as a Minister but not as a human being…
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I sometimes think the there is in fact no mystery to charisma: it's just unvarnished and unmediated self-belief.
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A little taster from our recent release: Alexandra Dariescu and the Manchester Camerata in Carwithen’s 1948 ‘Concerto for Piano and Strings.’
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Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now playing and 'digging':
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Meanwhile in East London, the anti-Fox alliance are assembling after a recent sighting.
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