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I'm now switching to bluesky:

Patrick Allies (@patrickallies.bsky.social)

Musician. Artistic Director of vocal ensemble Siglo de Oro. Conductor of Imperial College Chamber Choir. PhD student. He/him patrickallies.co.uk

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4 months

Went to buy 4 highlighters but 15 was cheaper so now I’m sitting here like I’m highlighter Monet or something

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9 months

This is probably a bit controversial, but I’ve decided that Christmas would be better if we basically ignored it until Dec 24th, then put up trees and lights etc, and had 12 days of merriment. I don’t think the long buildup to just 24 hours of fun (or not) is healthy.

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2 years

When I'm Prime Minister everyone will have to do music theory exams up to Grade 8.

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4 months

Please don’t follow me for more pen stuff. This will be my only pen tweet.

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4 years

As I feared

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8 months

At ENO, musicians got their redundancy emails during the interval of a show. During the interval. And then carried on with the performance because they are professionals, which cannot be said for the people running the place.

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4 years

Who was the musicologist who went to a dinner with Ben Shapiro? How upset were you when he introduced himself as "Ben Shapiro"?

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2 years

Just had a rejection from Radio 3

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4 years

Presumably to check if they're actually cake

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2 years

Just having a little cry in Pret. Well done everyone.

BBC suspends proposed closure of the BBC Singers

The group, which is the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, will now perform at the Proms.

www.bbc.co.uk

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7 months

fwiw, I think this is how classical music dies. Not its ageing audience, not the price of tickets. Telling people that its not for them, that they will find it too difficult and should stick to something simple.

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2 years

Some parental news… late on Friday, Caspar Cecil Keynes-Allies arrived. He and his quite extraordinary mum are now safely at home. Looking forward to starting my embarrassing dad era.

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1 year

Not a lot of people know this, but all the music for English coronations is written in the key that corresponds to the first name of the monarch. So Charles III's service will be entirely in C major, Elizabeth II's was in E major, George V's was in G major etc etc

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1 year

A rare - possibly unique - opportunity there to watch Ant and Dec listen to Bruckner’s Ecce sacerdos magnus

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2 years

Tell me again that no one wants to hear Renaissance polyphony

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2 years

One remarkable thing is that the level of music-making we heard today is the norm at Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal, and many other places across the UK. Less grand, most of the time, but always performed with great care and sensitivity, and admirable skill.

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3 years

Looks like someone’s getting Spem in alium for Christmas

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3 years

POV: choir warm-up

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2 years

Late entry for worst gig of the year

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4 months

@JoMoore_ Shoutout to Islington Rymans. But I may have got the last set…

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4 months

Compulsory national service options should include singing tenor in your neighbourhood choir or playing viola in your local orchestra.

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3 years

It’s like if Choir of the Year was a tie, and settled by each soprano taking a go at the Allegri Miserere top C.

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3 years

When the organ scholar conducts evensong for the first time

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1 year

It's a tradition thought to date back to the Anglo-Saxon king Aflat

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2 years

Can’t believe the shops are already playing Candlemas music. Can’t go anywhere without hearing Eccard’s When to the Temple Mary went. Why can’t people just wait? 😡

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4 years

When I grow up I want to be an organist at a vaccination centre

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9 months

I’m sure some people do it like this - it was the norm when my parents were young I think. Obviously lots of people have to work on some of those 12 days (I would) but more people can take holiday then than in mid December.

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3 years

Just saw an entire brass section come into a pub for a mid performance pint. Nature is truly healing.

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2 years

“Ok, Tenors and Basses, your turn. My bonnie lies over the ocean. Here’s your note. No talking please, Gerald, save it for the tea break.”

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1 year

If I keep tweeting this stuff out all week, eventually one of them will get read out on Sky News.

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3 years

Classical music twitter is 80% self promo and 20% problems with booking cellos on flights

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2 years

“Would one of the sopranos mind singing-in the solo, just for now?”

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3 years

I am in no way anti-football, but if it’s now safe to have 60,000 fans at Wembley, it must be surely be safe to have choir practice.

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1 year

I knew the singing was going to be really, really good yesterday, but it was even better than I’d imagined. Obviously that takes vocal and musical skill, but also focus, stamina, concentration, and the ability to deal with the highest pressure. 🧵

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2 years

Babe are you ok? You’ve barely worn your William Byrd Miserere trousers

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4 years

Thoughts with the parish secretary at this difficult time

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2 years

The energy here is "organ scholar's first headshot"

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2 years

I was fired by Twitter this morning. I was responsible for making sure every classical music ensemble tweeted once a week that they were “looking forward” to something.

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2 years

Penny Mordaunt sounds like a basic form of 18th-century ornamentation that was scorned by music theorists

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2 years

Church musicians when you ask them to dep for you in August

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2 years

In a taxi and the driver is listening to some kind of musicianship training podcast. He’s currently identifying major 7th, minor 7th and diminished chords. Taking all my resolve not to join in.

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2 years

Please look out for your musician friends, this time of year can be very quiet for them, and they are at high risk of starting a podcast.

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4 years

Me: I really like your polyphonic motets Pérotin: Thanks, they have hockets

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3 years

An Advent Calendar but behind each door is a lateral flow test

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3 years

Pros of Oxford: unbelievably beautiful, like a film set Cons of Oxford: actually a film set

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3 years

@jordanbpeterson Sir Christopher Wren's great library Trinity College Cambridge. Beauty and grandeur everywhere here.

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2 years

We're going to need a bigger Joe Lycett

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2 years

Altos in the Fauré Requiem

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9 months

Has your Director of Music asked you to sing descants that aren’t the “normal” ones this Christmas? If so you may be eligible for some compensation.

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2 years

Afternoon rehearsal for Handel Messiah concert tonight. The soprano and alto soloists have gone to a church in a completely different town, and one of the basses has accidentally brought his copy of Mikado. Mentally I’m making notes for my musical:

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3 years

Idea for west end musical: Messiah Goes Wrong. It’s just a choral society Handel’s Messiah but loads of stuff goes wrong. Not enough chairs for altos. Soloist forgets black shoes. Trumpeter stays in pub and misses Glory to God. Should be hilarious.

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Babe are you ok?? You've barely touched your espresso martini Wensleydale

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10 months

Musicians in mid December

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4 years

When I was a chorister we were lucky if we got biscuits and orange squash (h/t @succentor )

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Idea for west end musical: Messiah Goes Wrong. It’s just a choral society Handel’s Messiah but loads of stuff goes wrong. Not enough chairs for altos. Soloist forgets black shoes. Trumpeter stays in pub and misses Glory to God. Should be hilarious.

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2 years

Sure, maths is great, but have you tried completing a trio sonata using a given outline.

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3 years

Amateur choirs right now

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English composers in the Tudor period when asked to clarify their religious beliefs

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2 years

In 2020-21 I spent months writing about Bruges churches and their 15th-century choral music for my MA thesis. A year on, I finally had the opportunity to visit. And having seen it for myself, I wanted to share the story of this amazing little space. 🧵

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2 years

Does your conductor say “let’s just do the first 12 bars again” and then run through the whole piece? If so you may be entitled to some compensation

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2 years

Statement from a Junior Culture Minister on opera funding

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3 years

I’m not sure English church choirs have made this many last minute repertoire changes since the Reformation

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2 years

Just a warning that I’m currently travelling to a French monastery to spend the weekend learning to sing improvised Renaissance polyphony, and I will be tweeting about it.

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4 years

Renaissance composers as professional footballers, a thread. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is Lionel Messi

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3 months

Taking a moment to enjoy the fact that the new PM was an exhibitioner at Junior Guildhall, who played loads of instruments growing up, who says his favourite music is Beethoven sonatas.

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2 years

How about a Eurovision plainsong contest?

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4 years

Liz Truss v Foucault

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9 months

@KarenLi95056451 I’m very very anti this

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4 years

If my copy of 100 Carols for Choirs could talk

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3 years

To be honest, staying 3 metres away from tenors at all times is just good advice

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8 months

Going to start a classical music station featuring only music that will make you feel unrelaxed. Music that will make you want to fight a bear, to launch your own bitcoin, to open a 24-hour restaurant, to swim to the Netherlands, to build a scale model of the House of Commons, to

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2 years

Cathedrals should temporarily suspend entry fees for the duration of the heat wave.

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3 years

Dixit dixit

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3 years

Good morning to all choir directors who will be singing and conducting today, simultaneously. Especially those singing a part which is not one that they traditionally sing.

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4 years

When the choir director asks for a volunteer to do Verse 1 of Once in royal

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1 year

@HelenCBelcher Victoria was easy. Historical linguistics made the case for B major due to the close relationship between B and V. William IV caused upheaval. In the end they opted for entirely atonal music which was shocking at the time.

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3 years

Give a film title an early music twist. I’ll start: Call Me By Your Neume

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3 years

Quick update from the Culture Secretary on choirs

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3 years

There are two children singing excerpts from the Britten Missa Brevis on the 59 bus #London #tusolus

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9 months

Replies have been a combination of trads telling me I need to learn about the liturgical calendar (lol) and genuinely sweet comments from people sharing what they do.

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2 years

I’m afraid we must now be on high alert for videos of English cathedral choirs singing Sweet Caroline in the style of Anglican chant. Remain vigilant, it could happen at any time.

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2 years

Choral singers, beware this week: statistics show that you are more likely to be required to play the tambourine in a light-hearted encore than at any other time of year.

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2 years

One thing people underestimate about choral conductors is how skilled we are with photocopiers. I’ve just made some stapled booklets and people are looking at me like I’m a wizard.

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3 years

Hell hath no fury like 1000s of angry choir directors, organisers, and singers. Time for a rethink @DCMS ?

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2 years

When you’ve nailed the solo in A Spotless Rose and you take a moment before you go back to the choir stalls

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3 years

In classical music it's great to create opportunities designed for young performers/composers etc. But as well as schemes for under 25s, why not also have schemes aimed at 35-45 age range, or 45-55?

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2 years

When the concert dress code is all black but doesn't give specifics

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1 year

Just passed a group of young people in central London gathered round a bonfire. When I got closer I saw they were burning sheet music - Dvořák’s cello concerto. As they threw on each individual part, I heard them shout “we’re dismantling the canon!”. How has it come to this?

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3 years

The 9.55 train from Kings Cross to York seems to be about 25% early music ensembles

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3 years

Wembley Boxpark, yesterday. If this is safe, choir is also safe. If neither is safe, neither should happen. It just needs to be the same rules for everyone.

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2 years

ABRSM in my DMs offering to fund my campaign

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3 years

We've all sung for this conductor

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4 years

Every time you pronounce Maundy as Maunday, a Bach passion gets performed in English

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2 years

Tired of politicians cosplaying the same old jobs. I want to see them at work in the arts. Let’s have Truss rehearsing the CBSO, or Sunak on the sound desk of Hamilton. Curating a new exhibition at the Whitworth. Making wigs at Opera North. Flyering at the Edinburgh Fringe.