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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 months

No argument there. Melvyn Bragg in @thetimes today.

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4 years

@RichardAOB Extraordinary story ..me and Delilah, an orphaned young wombat in Tasmania, now released into the wild. Feb 2019.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

You actually don't give a toss. Every morning 1000s of musicians get up at the crack of dawn and off to whichever airport to earn an honest crust to feed their families. And all you do is snatch their biggest market from them....

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

5 years

When people get up at the crack of dawn to prepare their family business, when people take out a mortgage to fund a new venture or risk everything on a new product or try to find a new market - we don’t sneer at them. We cheer for them and ask how we can help.

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

Bravo everyone - great work. 👏👏👏👏👏👏. Am I the only musician pissed off to the eyeballs? Being told after 40 years of running a music business and paying large amounts of tax, that I'm now *unviable*? From a gov that can't even use a ****ing spreadsheet?

David Hill

@davidhconductor

4 years

Moving to have been part of @letmusicliveuk peaceful protest in Parliament Square for the forgotten freelance musicians. Great to have so much support from so many wonderful musicians.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 months

I spend most of my life working abroad, and there is utter disbelief in the crass dismantling of the classical music industry within the UK and the decimation of cultural education.

Lucy Frazer

@lucyfrazermp

3 months

When I meet music executives from across the world they ask how we can be more like Britain? The @BRITs show why. Congratulations to all the @BRITs award winners & nominees. A great way to celebrate our thriving music industry.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

If I read one more well-intentioned (or smug?) tweet about theatres/orchestras needing simply to monetise the 'great opportunities' of going 'on line'.😡😡😡. So much of the joy of music, theatre, opera is the proximity, the physical, the social interaction of live experience....

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

I'm frankly struggling after a year of this. The relationship between conductor and musicians is always skewed, of course, but the truth is I love musicians. Even the grumpy, stroppy ones, and the ones who drive me crazy. I've chosen to live my life with them. I miss them 😭

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

Delayed Christmas lunch, til 1800 to accommodate paramedic son and his partner on early shift. Still small price to pay. Raise a glass to all those brilliant NHS workers keeping the show on the road! 🍷👍 #isitOKtobeprouddad ?

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

As I've been saying like a stuck record. Diversity is not putting people of colour on the professional stage, for 'visibility', if they've been to the same old posh schools as everyone else. It starts by teaching every kid in the land. But it takes 20 years.

Ian Pace

@ianpacemain

1 year

If you want classical music to be a more diverse professional environment, it needs to be taught from a young age in diverse communities. Without rigorous training and immersion, there is little chance of attaining a professional level.

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

And now for the big one 😁 over 200 young singers singing Haydn Creation tomorrow in glorious Ely Cathedral with @GabrieliCandP ROAR @LaTynan @AJRStaples @AshleyRiches @Paul_McCreesh . You'd be absolutely mad to miss it. Even I'm excited.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Noone can conduct that beautifully.....

medici.tv

@medicitv

3 years

❤️😢 The last performance of maestro Claudio Abbado recorded on film happened to be this one, in 2013 at his very dear @LucerneFestival . Take a moment to watch him conduct Beethoven's 3rd Symphony. ❤️😢

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Paul McCreesh

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11 months

It's been a tough few months @GabrieliCandP but the great day has arrived, and we're about to give 250 fantastic kids from all over UK a summer course in the company of this beautiful and challenging music. Can't wait to meet them all! #ROAR

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Paul McCreesh

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5 years

On my way to London. Can't sit back and do nothing. Let's all keep fighting for the country's soul. 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Glorious Schütz resonating through this inspiring and beautiful church, a testament to hope and reconciliation.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Hard week ahead. Major problems looming, with high chances of major cancellations, yet again. I'd find it easier if 1) every bloody paper didn't assume travel restrictions only impact holidays, and 2) after two years of little income, gov stopped talking about "a great Christmas"

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

Yes...thanks to @pritipatel , this petty, hideous, thinly-disguised racist agenda is likely to screw up NHS and businesses galore here and will absolutely kill the arts/music touring business. Hard to know whether you're just too blinded to see it, or just don't care.

David Price

@DrDavidPrice

4 years

As ever, no acknowledgment of the rights you have stripped your own citizens of by removing our right to freely move within the EU in work and retirement.

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Paul McCreesh

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5 years

What a magnificent beast.. Incredible!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

I agree with many of Martyn's comments, but isn't 'diversity' in classical music largely a subsect of 'class/access' issues. And the only real long-term solution, a massive uplift in high quality classroom-based music teaching in every state school?

English National Opera chief: We have a diversity problem

Classical music does have a diversity problem which will be difficult to change, the English National Opera’s music director said.Speaking as the organisation launched a scheme to recruit black and...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

Can I put in a vote for more matinee concerts ? 5pm start , 7.30 supper, 9.00 leave for hotel . 10.30 arr for beer before bar shuts , phone wife and still time to read before bed 😁

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Been jabbed. Have to say NHS really efficient. No queues, well spaced out. Felt safe. Fingers crossed I'll avoid side effects, but so glad to be moving forward ! Bravo scientists and NHS ! 💉💉👍👍

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

Like a child at Christmas I woke early! Off to wonderful @Ely_Cathedral . The choir sounded fab yesterday, and I'm so looking forward to @GabrieliCandP ROAR Haydn Creation!

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Paul McCreesh

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2 years

Except you're wrong, sadly. Wonderful though I'm sure these young musicians are, music is only safe when culture is embedded as an essential part of everyone's education. A few talented young players is abs not enough ...

Keith McDonnell #FBPE 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

@keithmc101

2 years

This fantastic performance of Mahler 3 @southbankcentre by the hugely talented @RoyalAcadMusic young musicians under Bychkov's inspired baton restored some much needed faith in humanity. The future of music, at least, in this country is in safe hands!

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Paul McCreesh

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2 years

So happy to be touring Spain after more than two years. @GabrieliCandP brilliant in Bach last night, even after 5am start and very tough travel. Then something happened with my plans for a light supper ...

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

Bravo EU . Your generosity is all the more impressive, in contrast to so much of our petty Brexit narrative.

John Graham-Hart

@JohnGHart

4 years

@willquince The whole of the EU has started a major ventilator drive and will relocate resources to each member state as their situation peaks. They have generously decided to count the UK as a member state for this project despite our 'do-nothing' policy.

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

Well..Happy Christmas all. Now 13 more followers and I'm at 10,000. Not bad for no longer fashionable but yet to be legend maestro 🤪

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

Lovely conversation with 14 year old lad on our course. 'I just love singing all sorts of music. I also do theatre. I'm also learning how to do backstage work. Not sure exactly what I will end up doing, but I just know this is where I want to spend my life...'

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Paul McCreesh

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11 months

Still emotional after Gerontius. I wonder what Elgar would think of ROAR? Even as a knighted composer, he seems to have been crippled by inferiority, largely from the rigid class structures of his day. Sadly they still exist in the arts. We are abs determined to change this.

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Paul McCreesh

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10 months

Hugely emotional end to a vast project. Gerontius in the can! Thanks to everyone, @nickythespence @StephanyMezzo @Foster_Williams @GabrieliCandP and great young singers from ROAR and Polish National Youth Choir. I'll never forget these last ten days. Wrecked but happy !

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

Rather honoured to be opening the year long Heinrich Schutz anniversary festival with @GabrieliCandP in the magnificent Frauenkirche Dresden. #2006Baroque

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Paul McCreesh

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6 months

Just been to @ChoirOfKingsCam nine lessons - my first time. Absolutely beautiful singing and organ playing under @danielhydeorgan 🥲. Thanks for the invitation - a wonderful start to Christmas.

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Paul McCreesh

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2 years

I want to be part of a country that is warm, generous, magnanimous, kind, and above all compassionate towards the tragedy of Ukraine. All I see is pettiness, deviousness, grandstanding, and tawdriness. I feel shame. How can we change this? This world-beating crappiness?

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

Abs agree, and proven in so many studies worldwide...which is why every child in the land should be a chorister, in having access to music and singing in all schools.

King's College Choir

@ChoirOfKingsCam

4 years

Being a chorister boosts confidence and teaches independence, dedication and organisation. A chorister learns both how to lead and how to work effectively in a team; skills that serve them well whatever path they choose to follow in the future.

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3 years

Never fails, this view !

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Absolutely. Bravo @RichmoMusic

Andrew Griffiths

@colla_voce

3 years

Bravo @RichmoMusic in today's Times for telling it like it is.

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

A lovely festival of amateur choirs in the vast and magnificent Granada cathedral. Hundreds of singers, spaced and with masks. Such a pity UK choirs are still silenced ....

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

Here's Coventry...1000 kids singing Praetorius and Schutz. ( Now tell me kids find classical music irrelevant, too challenging, yawn yawn...😂)

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

@Howard_Goodall It's extraordinary how the BBC seem to take us for utter fools. Since when has lying, from politicians or a major organisation, become acceptable?

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

As is mine...please retweet ...

Suzi Digby OBE

@suzidigby

5 years

My signature is on this very important letter on today’s Times. Please NB and spread the word @thetimes #MusicEducation #vital

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Paul McCreesh

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2 years

Last chance to help our @GabrieliCandP ROAR Big Give appeal - all donations doubled until midday tomorrow. With your support we can invite this little sweetie into the choir soon. Although I think she has maestra ambitions 😃. Thanks everyone !

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Paul McCreesh

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5 months

Yes, and also to open the doors to a life deeply enriched by culture.

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Paul McCreesh

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6 years

@karolk @blaircottrell89 I'm not sure, but it might prove that those in the building world, running businesses, realise there's no such thing as a free lunch ?

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

And I struggle to get 18 singers to walk on stage neatly in two lines @GabrieliCandP

Yoni

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3 years

Japan has been holding precision walking competitions since 1966. Mesmerizing.

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

Happy Christmas to all my followers! Don't forget tomorrow afternoon is a @GabrieliCandP 40 year celebration on @BBCRadio3 with @hannahcfrench , Early Music Show. Naturally including Howells 🤣 and much else, inc latest from ROAR at Coventry Cathedral.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

1 year

Happy to have been a signatory to this. Great to see the whole sector fighting together for @BBCSingers

The Sixteen

@TheSixteen

1 year

Together with fellow representatives of the UK’s freelance professional choral ensembles, we’ve sent this letter to the BBC to express our dismay at the decision to disband the @BBCSingers . #WeAreTheBBCSingers

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Paul McCreesh

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2 years

That was a great one. What I really love about choirs is the passing on of skills. A young man coming back to help support his school choir as 'staff'; another senior singer deputed to help a younger lad who needs to focus. Let's start teaching from within. #findingyourtribe

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

We don't need a roadmap @OliverDowden . We need some fuel in the tank. You can't pay salaries with think tanks. Neither can artists and support teams pay mortgages or feed their children with your 'understanding'.

Oliver Dowden

@OliverDowden

4 years

I understand the deep anxiety of those working in music & the desire to see fixed dates for reopening I am pushing hard for these dates & to give you a clear roadmap back These involve v difficult decisions about the future of social distancing, which we know has saved lives

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

I too hate the phrase 'low-skilled'. I think especially of my father's carers. Low paid, but highly skilled at dealing with old people and so compassionate. I couldn't do their job. These people really contribute to society. (And is @patel4witham really highly-skilled?)

Nicola Sturgeon

@NicolaSturgeon

4 years

Tory immigration policy is offensive in principle - it labels vital workers, making a big contribution as ‘low skilled’ & slams the door in their faces. And it is disastrous in practice - it will badly damage our economy. We must get powers to create policy for our needs & values

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

congratulations..you've effectively closed the doors and prevented millions of people, esp the young, from working hassle free in 27 countries. A quite magnificent achievement. I'm sure they will all share your delight.

Priti Patel

@pritipatel

4 years

After many years of campaigning, I am delighted the Immigration Bill which will end free movement on 31st December has today passed through Parliament. We are delivering on the will of the British people.

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3 years

Shameless plug, but, thinking wistfully, it would be marvellous if a few of my 6000+ followers might want to subscribe to this. Wonderful, uplifting Bach, perfect for Christmas, and, small thing, it helps keep musicians alive! . Perfect with glass of port!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

You're just way out of your depth, yet again, but you don't want to see the truth anyway. Touring mega bands at huge profits is not at risk. It's the daily hops from country to country for orchs choirs and small bands, which employ 1000s, which are threatened....

Julia Hartley-Brewer

@JuliaHB1

5 years

Guardian headline: “No-deal Brexit may make touring Europe 'unviable' for UK artists.” This is why we never get any US bands or singers touring around the EU and performing in huge stadiums. Not a single one. Oh.

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Paul McCreesh

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6 years

Today's a happy day. After weeks of editing, sound files and booklet sent off to factory for @GabrieliCandP An English Coronation! A huge project of nearly three hours music. Over 1000 people on some tracks! All the English greats. Issue late spring @SignumRecords Winged Lion.

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

So wedding anniversary no 37!! Happy memories..even though I've missed a fair few.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

1 year

Disgusting from @ConnectPCC . What about 'judge not, lest ye be judged'....

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

1 year

Without doubt the most odious tweet I've ever seen. Hideous beyond belief.

Priti Patel

@pritipatel

1 year

Boris Johnson has served our country and his constituency with distinction. He led world in supporting Ukraine, got Brexit done, and was our most electorally successful Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher. Boris is a political titan whose legacy will stand the test of time.

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Paul McCreesh

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2 months

Absolutely this, as I've been saying like a stuck record. It is a potentially thriving industry, it helps creative thinking, it makes souls sing and keeps minds healthy BUT in the end we should support culture because it's the most glorious celebration of our humanity.

Jenny Robinson

@jennyjrobinson1

2 months

"We must stand up for classical music on its own terms and vouch for it without limply falling back on the utilitarian argument that it makes a contribution to GDP. If we don’t, it will be game over... and soon. The time to stop apologising is now." @amwilson_opera 🔥again today

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Paul McCreesh

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5 years

Beautiful...this is the sort of Britain I want to live in. Not this racist Brexit ****fest... Thank you @DrAmirKhanGP

Dr Amir Khan GP

@DrAmirKhanGP

5 years

It’s #December1st and we’ve put up our Christmas tree! As a British Muslim, I may not celebrate Christmas but I LOVE the spirit and sparkle of it! Both me and my A+E consultant sister will be working in the #NHS over Christmas so those who do celebrate can have the time off 😊

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1 year

Another great cathedral, another sea of red. Huge thanks to the dozens of partners, teachers, foundations, donors and Gabrieli musicians and management who made ROAR Praetorius happen. We'll be creating many more opportunities for all these youngsters going forward!

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Paul McCreesh

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7 months

Not so often do conductors meet, but a most enjoyable time talking to Leonard Slatkin after concerts last weekend @palaumusicavlc . Great music, food, wine and company in Valencia!

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3 years

Three years to the day, and still one of the most thrilling evenings in my musical life. @GabrieliCandP ROAR @Ely_Cathedral . Delighted we can now move forward for our great kids, after so many postponements, starting Sunday August 1st @3choirs Worcester. #recreation #candomusic

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

This sort of headline drives me crazy. Some of us have to travel to WORK - it's not all beaches and lager. 10 day quarantine for work is ridiculous. If sportsmen are exempt, why not musicians?

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

What a great evening. Wonderful singing from the massed ROAR choirs and lovely playing from @GabrieliCandP . And big thanks to soloists @LaTynan @AJRStaples @AshleyRiches for supporting the project ensuring our youngsters (and audience) hear world class singing!

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

Sad day yesterday for my family. We lost Susan's mother, Maureen. 90 years old. wife of 67 years, great mother and grandmother. Never had cause to say a cross word or crack a single mother in law joke. Truly ! RIP

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

Off to Israel and Poland. Nothing like variety is there ? Some of my all time fav music here ...😁

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1 year

If you're feeling all 👑coronationy 👑 this weekend, I will shamelessly promote this recording !! It's huge fun and seriously largescale. Only 22 trumpets and almost 300 singers !

Ben Phillips

@liturgicalben

1 year

@DrFrancisYoung Have you listened to @Paul_McCreesh and Gabrelli? They had @SimonRussellBe1 read the Archbishop of Canterbury’s text.

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3 years

Exhausted but thrilled to have lead @GabrieliCandP roar @BWSMusic1 @TaplowChoirs and fab soloists @SampsonCarolyn @ben_hulett @stoutbaritone . Our young singers were wonderful - a huge learning curve. O hope they all wake with joyous Haydn ringing in heads. Thanks to @romseyabbey

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Paul McCreesh

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1 year

Great to meet @RobBBCS and @PeteDavTenor to talk about the importance of singing, education... and a solidarity beer or two in the face of threat to the wonderful @BBCSingers . Let's all continue the fight ...

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

Inspiring....

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

But don't worry, because all those folks who told us we were idiot 'remoaners' talking Britain down when we predicted all this, will be apologising profusely. As for the poor, they will indeed pay the price, as usual. Sickening.

Stephen Unwin

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4 years

And so, as predicted, Brexit will make the poor even poorer.

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

I just love that photo..bravo 😘

Classic FM

@ClassicFM

4 years

Yesterday, hundreds of musicians gathered outside Parliament in London to play music and say ‘Let Music Live’, in a plea to support artists during the pandemic and find ways to allow the safe return of live music across the country. (📷 LNP)

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Achieved is the glorious work. I guess I shouldn't moan that most of my life has been spent in 5* hotels with poncey breakfast buffets, but a Gregg's bacon roll/cob/butty is truly one of the marvels of Creation. And now off to another marvel - Durham cathedral!

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Paul McCreesh

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4 years

Thank god for nature ..keeping me going at the moment.

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Paul McCreesh

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5 years

Such a joyful morning in Melsonby school. All kids sing, and half play in the brass band. 4 year olds in the choir singing so well! Why doesn't every school do this ? It's so uplifting. Bravo to all!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

7 months

Please, from the bottom of my heart, support us if you possibly can. We change lives and are doing everything we can to help ensure the future of this great art. Thank you ! ❤️

Gabrieli

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7 months

In 24hrs we will launch our @BigGive Christmas campaign. Our work is driven by the passion & determination of young people, who want to sing challenging works & lead the way in youth choral singing. Please support us so we can work with the next generation of young singers🙏

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

8 months

Abs this. We should teach music and culture because it's a fantastic expression of humanity, feeds hearts and souls and brightens life. Other benefits are fabulous, but that's not the point.

MarkKeith

@MarkKclassical1

8 months

I mean, great and all that, but it's not about well-being, mental health (most musicians I know are slightly nuts) or supporting other modes of thinking. Music is a fundamental human expression, requiring education to enable competency. We are illiterate without it.

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Paul McCreesh

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3 years

What a glorious building.Awe-inspiring!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Thank you to dear friends and colleagues in Wroclaw. It warms my heart to be part of your wonderful musical community @NFM_Wro .

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Just SO happy to get kids back to biggish choirs at last. Stage one of Recreation..our national choral reboot...is underway. 🙂

Gabrieli

@GabrieliCandP

3 years

Hands up who’s ready to #HearThemROAR 🙋🏻‍♀️ Rehearsals with @Paul_McCreesh have begun!

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It's been a massive challenge to make this happen, over years now, but after a thrilling first day I'm so glad we did. Huge thanks to every artist, management and supporters who've made the Dream a reality ❤️

Charles Béquignon-MacDougall

@CBeqMacD

11 months

The full forces for the @GabrieliCandP recording of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius in rehearsal yesterday at Fairfield Halls. I’m up there someone in the tenors… 😂

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Paul McCreesh

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Please, all music lovers we must fight to keep this beautiful unique venue open. It's such a small amount of money. Great piece by @RichmoMusic

Richard Morrison: The closure of St John’s, Smith Square would be a cultural tragedy

One door opens, another closes. At least potentially. In the week when the Queen Elizabeth Hall came back to life after a £38 million refurbishment, I learn that another famous London classical music...

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

5 years

So, an amazing 5000 followers!! Great to talk about the joy of music. Important to fight hard for education and young people, and for other passions, even if there's often too much politics. And if there's sometimes anger, believe me, it comes from love. I want a better world.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Happy New Year to all my followers and @GabrieliCandP supporters. Tonight 'Bach for Christmas' continues on 'Live from London' at 1900. Programme 4 with Cantata 4 featuring those beautiful horns, and a wonderful echo aria with @SampsonCarolyn ! Join us !

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

It was so loud around me I couldn't hear the trumpets!! BRAVO everyone....fab kids, great teachers, wonderful @GabrieliCandP colleagues!

Perse Music

@PerseMusicDept

2 years

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL C MAJOR! Wow, wow, wow. Bravi tutti! ⁦ @GabrieliCandP ⁩ ⁦ @Paul_McCreesh ⁩ #gloriouspraetorius

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 months

Reflecting on Friday's concert @GabrieliCandP in Lucerne: first time B minor mass with real baroque trumpets with no holes. Undoubtedly the harder way, but magnificent work from the virtuoso Jean-François Madeuf and team, recreating the skills of Bach's great trumpeters.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

4 years ago today. Abs unforgettable project.😢Lovely to see some of the young people involved singing for us this week! @GabrieliCandP ROAR

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

Just let that sink in. One of the world's greatest oboists, prob silenced for 3 months. Music lovers need be aware of the extent of this. The odd streamed recital, however lovely, cannot hide that this year has been abs catastrophic for musicians, with little hope on horizon.

Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

@ndanielmusic

4 years

That’s me musically silent until Christmas, or end of January. Took the Rolls for a drive tonight, felt good, sometimes playing the oboe just feels GREAT. So grateful to @BBCRadio3 and my extremely wonderful colleagues tonight. Listen back for a month.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

4 years

Absolutely delighted to have won this, but huge congratulations to all our colleagues and friends who have made so many fabulous recordings this year .

BBC Music Magazine

@MusicMagazine

4 years

Finally, our Recording of the Year! #BBCMMAwards @GabrieliCandP @Paul_McCreesh @talenslyriques

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

Hold fire...but we're planning to try and mount a belated 400 year anniv tour of UK cathedrals early Dec 2022, and to involve a lot of kids!

Tom Webster

@TomWebs63028323

2 years

I am listening to Praetorius' Christmas Mass performed by @GabrieliCandP and @Paul_McCreesh . Unbelievably powerful and uplifting. I used to sell this CD in Blackwells Music Shop, Oxford in 1996 and it never loses its impact. One of the greatest CD's ever recorded. Untoppable.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Aged 10 years in last half hour. Held at passport control for having "avoided quarantine" in Poland. I took the test on arrival but the test co had not entered it into the polish immigration system as required. I had print out, but frantic phonecalls. Last on flight..

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

1 year

Elegant and dignified response to bigotry from @kingssingers . Bravo, and love to you all.

The King's Singers

@kingssingers

1 year

Sharing information here about the short-notice cancellation of our recent concert in Florida:

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

These photos always choke. How could man have ever descended to this ? And, worse, the feeling that the danger is still with us, and we need reminding.

Scott Birrell

@s_birrell

2 years

‘Portrait of Istvan Reiner, taken shortly before he was killed in Auschwitz. He was four years old.’ #HolocaustMemorialDay

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

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@kerilynnwilson @RoyalOperaHouse Toi Toi Toi, Maestro! I'm in the middle of a crazy week preparing Elgar's sublime oratorio Gerontius and working with over 200 amazing kids. My routine will start slightly differently...please don't judge me 😂

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

We've sadly lost and had to change a couple of players @GabrieliCandP - Covid tests/travel restrictions - but I can't remember looking forward to a show so much. Tomorrow @3choirs King Arthur Purcell. Abs our most loved rep and (dare I say) one of the pieces we do best!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

Abs 1000%. Not just the singing of four fab colleagues, but staggering bugle and trumpet playing. I don't think I've ever heard the last post played with such unanimous tuning and phrasing...

Charlotte Mobbs 💙

@Mobbsca

3 years

eight military brass players and a bagpiper performing absolutely at the top of their game, having been forced into near silence for over a year? Too often these activities are sidelined as being either marginal or elitist yet, when the circumstances demand, U.K. artists step up

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Paul McCreesh

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11 months

We were delighted to welcome @NickGibbUK to Ely. The other Nick @ndanielmusic is introducing Edward, our youngest Roar singer, who has just started playing the oboe, to the wonderful Goossens Lorée oboe! This is what c21 musicmaking can look like! Let's change the narrative !

Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️

@ndanielmusic

11 months

@NickGibbUK @GabrieliCandP @Ely_Cathedral It’s so great you were with us for this, thank you for your support. The @GabrieliCandP and @Paul_McCreesh ’s commitment to young people is so worthy of recognition; the highest standards and ultimate integrity. I was very proud to create time in my schedule for this project.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

Conductor love-in 🙂at Jeremy Budd's and Gemma Mostafa's lovely wedding !

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

6 months

We've done it. Thanks a million, on behalf of all our young singers, to all our donors large and small and all who helped spread the message❤️

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

@dodiscimus @Phil_Baty I found this a very disappointing article. The 'unfairness' of those who spend best part of half a million on private education being 'discriminated' against. And the implication that privately educated kids are the only ones bright enough to preserve the excellence of Oxbridge.

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

2 years

A lovely happy pre-Christmas lunch in Vienna with Susan and the wonderful @sgtoyne . Music, life, education, @GabrieliCandP Roar, @DRETmusic @MAAcademyMusic , and a couple of small schnitzels, on the side!

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

3 years

I have to say this makes me pretty incandescent. Now have to pay £300 plus to test, and endure 10 days quarantine at home after working. While football always seems exempt from obeying rules. 😠

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Paul McCreesh

@Paul_McCreesh

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OMG...best post concert view ever?

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