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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

#Cowley orchestra #tomorrow will be a bit special as Elsa Vass-de-Zomba will be conducting, which only happens just before and just after university term. Come numerously. We will be in the library. cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dates.ht… #amateurOrchestra #joinIn #Oxford

photo of a young woman conducting a small amateur orchestra in a school hall. The view is from behind the wind players towards the conductor.

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026

#TIL that the electrical junction box on the outside of our wall, just under the guttering is a #Rediffusion junction box. As it is connected to massive fat cables, I had always assumed it's to do with mains power supply, but it turns out that it was an early […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

photo of a black junction box painted dark green but paint peeling off, mounted to a brick wall with leaves around it. Colourful wires are dangling out of it at the bottom.

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/11/2025

#Milena Jesenská Prager Hinterhöfe im Frühling: Feuilletons und Reportagen 1919-1939 Hardcover – 30 Nov. 2020 - Stehen da jetzt dieselben Texte drin wie in "Alles ist Leben: Feuilletons und Reportagen 1919-1939 ??? Habe fast den Verdacht, dass die neuere […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Cover des Buchs Prager Hinterhöfe im Frühling: Feuilletons und Reportagen 1919-1939 mit dem bekanntesten Portrait von Milena Jesenská

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

I have a lovely #oud which I am planning to play more often from now on. Made in #Syria around 2000, I was told. Could any #Arabic speaker tell me what the writing on the label says?

the label inside an oud presumed to be from Syria and made around 2000. The label carries Arabic writing printed in blue along with a passport size photo of a man, also printed in blue.

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

#Oxford #SaveTheDate next week, Wed. 8.10., #Cowley orchestra is hosting a special feature evening with Elsa Vass-de-Zomba conducting #Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. All instruments welcome, free participation. That's at #TheOxfordAcademy in the Beecroft Theatre on the ground floor, meet at 7pm.

19th century portrait of a young man believed to be the composer Franz Schubert.

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

this is the event we overlapped with - as always, if we had better communication between the #Oxford International Links, I would have known about this beforehand, but I didn't.

colourful poster for the Global Palestine Kite day held at Oxford on 25. 5.2025. The poster shows an image of a blue sky with some clouds and lots of colourful kites.

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2025

#Oxford's #CowleyOrchestra is doing a special feature evening next week, on May 14, starting 7pm. This time the focus is on #LouiseFarrenc's 3rd symphony in G minor. We will be supported by a few people who have played this work at a one-day workshop last […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Portrait of Louise Farrenc (1804-1875), French composer, by Luigi Rubio

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michael @proseandpassion.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

never mind #coalitions. The #election result in #Germany clearly calls for a #TwoStateSolution. Western Germany, let's call it BRD, could ban the #noAFD, whereas East Germany (DDR) would be free to align itself with Moscow.

map of the election results (Erststimmen, ie those directly electing a member of parilament) in Germany. The borders of the GDR are clearly visible as virtually all districts in the former East Germany went to the far-right AFD party.

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