A typically generous programme @ianpace.bsky.social and with #Mompou El lago as an encore! Great to hear the complete #Albéniz Ibéria - Lavapiés in particular was sensational
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My latest for Café Américain, on self-censorship and race after the Arday affair. On ‘groupism', the artificial creation of 'communities' by UK local government, language used for minority Tories, and the exploitative responses of Woolley, Abbott, Maugham et al. cafeamericainmag.com/self-censors...
Rapid response with John Armstrong to @bmj.com
'Jason Arday: Britain needs to be honest about race in academia'
The BMJ Opinion piece contains errors and misrepresents sources.
“When academics seek to preclude external commentary, we should ask whether the real concern is the integrity of knowledge, or the protection of professional pride and intellectual vanity from unwelcome challenge.”
And a slightly longer version of this article is on my Substack, introducing such questions as why many academics were convinced that Corbyn’s Labour were going to win in 2019, despite plentiful evidence to the contrary if they moved outside of their own bubbles?
ianpace.substack.com/p/raging-aga...
My new article for the THE investigating the resistance of academics and institutions to external scrutiny of their work and workings respectively. Is such defensiveness about ‘the integrity of knowledge, or the protection of professional pride and intellectual vanity from unwelcome challenge?’
Métier Records proudly presents an outstanding new contemporary release: the complete acknowledged output for solo piano by Romanian composer Horaţiu Rădulescu, performed by @ianpace.bsky.social, a world-renowned interpreter of new music.
🎧 Listen now ▶️ https://listn.fm/radulescu/
Released today! My new recording, a 2 CD set, of the complete piano works of Horatiu Radulescu, with whom I worked closely during his last decade. His last completed work, the Sixth Piano Sonata, was written for me in 2007.
After Jason Arday’s death, Nature called for “deep reflection.” This essay argues the journal avoided the hardest questions about plagiarism allegations, academic vetting, media scrutiny, and scientific neutrality — and asks what that means for public trust in research. https://chroni.cl/46giZ0U
Nathan Cofnas’s suspension has been lifted.
