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SOS call for Goldsmiths, University of London Leadership. The savings gained at end of July will be spent, and then some, by October. By then, it will have been cheaper to do nothing. It is illogical. Making big decisions in a panic never leads to good outcomes. A final call: please think again.

A beautiful concert last night: Ex Corde Vocal Ensemble singing pre-Reformation English music. There are compositional skills in that music that we just don’t have any longer.

Scottish Cultural Sector/Funding: It is revealing that lots of the immediate support offered to cultural workers as their income stream crumbles is mentoring, listening circles or support to scrabble together applications for what will be an even more competitive funding round.

"I don't like 'Duck Soup' (1933) so much...I never chose to shoot this film. The most surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy, for I really did not want to work with the Marx Brothers: they were completely mad." --- Leo McCarey

1984 v 2024 From the new Private Eye, out now.

A glorious late summer day as Yorkshire return to the top tier of English cricket!

To describe progress on my current project as being at a snail’s pace would be an insult to the mollusc community.

#jokeoftheday #horn #music

A visit to my 99 year old mother today. We talked about music. She said, ‘I suppose the best thing about music is that there is finite number of pieces to hear’. I decided not to explain that in reality things are not quite so rosy.

Ingredients for today’s recording with the amazing Elisabeth Flunger. Sonic results on a Hat Hut CD in the new year.

More from today’s ’Weather Events’ recording - here Elisabeth Flunger is covering the outline of Lake Garda with millet. Why? Why not?

Just got my copy of this year’s Viz annual - The Guard’s Parcel - featuring a load of bits by me, including this Fall-centric legal ad. Out now!

Xenakis’ Terretektorh! Wien Modern tonight! It’s music I have always wanted to hear live and now, thanks to the ORF Orchester conducted by Ingo Metzmacher, I have been in the midst of a fabulous performance!

Oi, BBC News (UK)! Enough of the relentless right-wingery! It doesn’t suit you - you’re supposed to be objective.

Would you like to be part of our future? We’re looking to recruit new trustees who are passionate about music and the arts. Find out more here ncem.co.uk/careers

Left: Kemi Badenoch, "I grew up in Nigeria, I saw what happened when politicians are in it for themselves, when they use public money as their private piggybanks, when they promise the earth, and pollute not just the air but the whole political atmosphere" Right: Nigerian news

Here’s Christopher Fox’s ‘A cornerstone’ from his ‘O Antiphons’ performed by the Choir of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge Christopher Fox open.spotify.com/track/71JxQ8mC…

RIP Frank Auerbach, 93, wonderful artist.

Interesting development. Arts Council England cuts companies that tour and then offers £5m of loans to companies that want to tour. What happens when the loans are (or perhaps aren’t) repaid?

OK, I am taking my social media activities off to the BlauHimmel platform.