This complements my personal account, and is for those who prefer tweets on music and my work. Currently researching Gustav Holst. Opinions my own.
Joined September 2018
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Sometimes I put on Vaughan Williams and it speaks so profoundly. The textures and colours, not to mention the character(s) you encounter in Job are truly individual. No wonder Holst so believed in his friend and encouraged him in this work.
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15 Nov 2025
This is beautiful, and shows Holst being v close to Elgar in his more intimate and reflective mood. open.spotify.com/track/5DBdN…
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7 Nov 2025
I had a productive meeting with OUP today. They are working hard to get more copies printed and flown over from the US. Nevertheless, the logistics of these things take time. So again, if you want a copy for someone for Christmas, I strongly suggest you order it right now!
6 Oct 2025
SOMEONE ELSE’S MUSIC: Opera and the British by @amwilson_opera is out now!
Essential reading for anybody who wants to understand the debates we are having today in the UK about arts funding, accessibility, and who the opera is ‘for’.
Order now: shorturl.at/sfWvs
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7 Nov 2025
Just heard that Raymond Head has died. He was one of the foremost scholars in Holst research - certainly for all his groundbreaking research into Holst’s involvement in Sanskrit and astrology. He was both a generous and honest colleague - we shall all miss him.
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16 Sep 2025
AI makes up nonsense. The Duchess of Kent could not have studied Music and French at the Queen's College Oxford because a) that is not a combination offered and b) Queen's was all male then. Yet this has been picked up in press obits.
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
10 Sep 2025
Dass Lahav Shani als israelischer Künstler unter Generalverdacht gestellt und mitsamt seinem Orchester einer kollektiven Bestrafung unterworfen wird, ist ein unerträglicher Schritt der Belgier und ein erschütternder Skandal. Und ehrlich gesagt: purer Antisemitismus.
Europa 2025.
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
27 Aug 2025
»Gustav Holst: Sāvitri« in the international @operamagazine: "This new studio recording—on a album filled up by Holst songs—with a mostly German cast and ensemble, conducted by Klaus Simon, is surely one of the very best now available." Complete review: opera.co.uk/issues/february-…
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
11 Jun 2025
Always a pleasure to spot a friend: @HewittJSB is the face of @AppleClassical's playlist, The Works 🌹 classical.music.apple.com/gb…
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
16 Apr 2025
Productions such as #PeterGrimes will basically be a thing of the past. They will become occasional events, necessitating bringing in a great many freelancers only temporarily to swell the performing ranks.
But a far cry from @WelshNatOpera as we know and love it. #SaveWNO
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
7 Apr 2025
Another round of applause to the @AppleClassical product team. This listening guide feature is so slick. This might be the most thoughtfully produced music app on the market.
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
4 Apr 2025
👋 Have you explored our Listening Guide yet?
Which guide is your favorite so far?
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
29 Mar 2025
It's the 88th day of the year today, which means it's World Piano Day: one day for each key on the instrument. 🎹
This calls for some serious piano listening: apple.co/PianoPL #ListeningGuide #WorldPianoDay
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28 Mar 2025
Nice to see appreciation of Listening Guide on Holst’s The Planets. ☺️
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After months toiling over Listening Guide, Apple Music Classical’s new feature launched earlier this week, lovely to get this review: “In the hour or so I’ve been using [LG], I’ve learned more about classical music than in my entire life.” Full review next.
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28 Mar 2025
“In the hour or so I’ve been using Classical version 2.2, I’ve learned more about classical music than in my entire life. Seeing a description and hearing the exact thing in real time is huge!” audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-…
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“In the hour or so I’ve been using Classical version 2.2, I’ve learned more about classical music than in my entire life. Seeing a description and hearing the exact thing in real time is huge!” Proud to have been part of the team that pulled this together.
audiophilestyle.com/ca/bits-…
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25 Mar 2025
Let us guide you as you listen.
Launching today, Listening Guide takes you behind the scenes of 100 great classical works with real-time notes from the editors. apple.co/ListeningGuide
Get the latest version of Apple Music Classical to experience all the new features.
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
23 Feb 2025
Daniel Jaffé explores the life and works of Ukraine's greatest composers
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
8 Feb 2025
Next concert! Howells Requiem, plus penitential music by Lobo, Purcell, Jonathan Dove, Leighton, Biber, Briggs and more!
Sat March 8th in gorgeous @StAlfegeChurch #Greenwich
Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…
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Daniel Gideon Jaffé retweeted
19 Jan 2025
It may be @SirSimonRattle's birthday, but we're the ones receiving the gift: an exclusive early recording of Haydn's "The Creation" from the Bayerische Rundfunk: apple.co/DieSchoepfung 🎁
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