John Alker
@MancTourGuide
Qualified city centre tour guide. Music and pop culture, general history, architecture and political walking tours around Manchester city centre
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Who’s with me for Classical Live today on @BBCRadio3 from 1pm? Beethoven’s 1st Piano Concerto, Kodaly writes for violin 🎻 and cello, Weinberg’s 12th symphony In Memorium Shostakovich (in full)…. Join us!
Well in true pantomime style it’s snowing BEHIND me in the @BBCRadio3 studio today. Back for Classical Live from 1 with more Christmas crackers from @BBCSingers. Tchaikovsky played by @BBCSSO + Brahms’ violin concerto from @lisabatiashvili with the mighty @BerlinPhil. Who’s
Producer @josephzubier has provided us with Danish because today on @BBCRadio3 Classical Live, we’re off to 🇩🇰 DENMARK 🇩🇰 The Royal Danish Opera, Concerto Copenhagen, @larsulrichm and music by Bach, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert and @soerensen_r. Who’s with me from 1pm?
For people fleeing X (as you are in your droves) please keep in touch with me on Insta - I’m there with more dog / music / radio related content as @elizabethalker
Who’s with me for Classical Live on @BBCRadio3 from 1pm today. @BBCPhilharmonic play Rossini, choral music by Samuel Barber, live music from a festival celebrating Arvo Part in Estonia and choral evensong live from Kings College Cambridge….
What else you gonna do on a wet Bank Holiday but tune into @bbcradio3 … Classical Live is you from 1pm with Spring themed music by Respighi, Schumann and Piazzolla 💃 plus Schumann’s first symphony IN FULL at 3pm. Who’s with us?
Ready to take the reigns from the excellent @MannGeorgia for Classical Live on @BBCRadio3. 1-4pm with concert recordings of Debussy, Respighi, Schubert and plenty of Proms highlights tips + and a showcase of our excellent New Generation Artists. Who is with us?
MORNING! Poised ready for @bbcradio3 Breakfast to take the reigns from @MediaCityUK! Tune in from 7am for ethereal, lovelorn Brahms, croissants from Boris Vian & Jeanne Moreau 🥐, Keith Jarrett plays Bach and Gershwin and brand new music for brass from @martin_green__ 🎺 Come on!
TONIGHT @BBCRadio3 Unclassified is full of pastoral ambience for Vaughn Williams 150, a nod to his ❤️ of spare modal sonorities in folk @LisaKnappMusic @cianciaran @gazelletwin @StickInTheWheel @Martin_Green__ @jennareidmusic bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… I live in the countryside now
Such a stunning concert. Breathtaking, heart exploding Belshazzar’s Feast 👏👏👏👏 @londonsymphony
Oh @RoyalAlbertHall, you're just so magnificent. And you, @bbcproms audience, you're a marvellous bunch. #bbcproms #luckyus #lovingourwork
"Be kinder to Kinder!" 🎶 🐦 ⛰ @elizabethalker joins Jarvis Cocker for protest songs (and birdsong) on a new art trail in the #PeakDistrict: bbc.in/31NfI67
How can artists help ease our anxiety? 🎨 👨🎨 Listen to Art Surgery with @elizabethalker and @nikeshshukla on BBC Sounds 👉 bbc.in/2IbRxac
bbc.co.uk
Art of Now - Art Surgery: Anxiety - BBC Sounds
Elizabeth Alker and Nikesh Shukla explore art and anxiety.
Don’t miss the “Manchester Impressionist“ guided art walk featuring the work of Adolphe Valette. Starts 1 30 pm from City Art Gallery Manchester 16 th May Catch this Edwardian jewel on the very streets where he drew his inspiration.
To bring you down off your Easter eggs, Unclassified is TONIGHT 11pm 🔥@BBCRadio3 🔥 It’s a Bobby Dazzler with 1st play of new music by @danielelms❣️ Adrian Henri & @nowjazznow @_TheWhitechapel, Basinksi, @DanielPioro, @ValgeirS @rafiqbhatia @JULIA_HOLTER bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
Check out the guided walks in Manchester at walkmanchester.com walkmanchester.com
Unclassified is TONIGHT 11:30 SO excited for first play of music by @caroshawmusic🔥 We head to 🏔of North Carolina w @SarahLouisemusi, @CarolinaEyck = theremin + @acmenewmusic Plus new @nilsfrahm bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b… A strange & serene mix made under these very northern skies
Art, Architecture, Literature, Industrial and Political History, Manchester Music - find them all in the new list of city walks at walkmanchester.com Just turn up or book on Eventbrite! walkmanchester.com
The new list of walks is out on walkmanchester.com You can now pre-book on Eventbrite. Happy hunting!
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