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Musicologist | Director, Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities @uniofoxford
Delighted to receive a copy of Juan Liu's translation of my
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Stravinsky 'Critical Life' inc a v generous endorsement from composer Tan Dun. Available in all good bookshops across China!
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This is a wonderful opportunity. I should know: I've done this job for over two decades!
www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/vaca...
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Vacancy: Associate Professorship of Music
https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/vacancy-associate-professorship-of-music
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For fans in the West Country of Radigue and others, this fabulous film is being shown on 29 April
www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk/event/film-c...
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Film Club: Sisters With Transistors - Wiltshire Music Centre
The story of electronic music's female pioneers; composers who transformed how we produce and listen to music today.
https://www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk/event/film-club-sisters-with-transistors/
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Farewell to a great figure
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...
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Éliane Radigue, French composer and musique concrète legend, dies aged 94
The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/feb/24/eliane-radigue-french-composer-dies-aged-94?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
about 1 month ago
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Happy birthday!
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about 2 months ago
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The great Zandra Rhodes
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tonight. Also opening: powerful curation of old and new Don McCullin photographs
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Very sad news. A great and intelligent advocate for new music at the Guardian and elsewhere
3 months ago
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Ertegun Graduate Scholarship
3 months ago
Ertegun Futures returns this term on Jan 22 with Professor Rana Mitter on modern Chinese history and how it helps us understand China's present and future This event is free and open to all but please note that we reserve the right to limit entry once maximum capacity has been reached
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Wigmore Hall
3 months ago
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, launches its 500th anniversary celebrations this evening in a programme that showcases its rich musical legacy 🌟 🕰️ 7:30pm 🎶 Errollyn Wallen, Giles Swayne, Preston and more 🎟️
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202601051930
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A spot of mid-winter good cheer tomorrow afternoon, if you fancy tuning in
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.1 'Winter Daydreams' in Building a Library with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor
Navigating the best new classical albums of music for Christmas and the festive period.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ng4v
4 months ago
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Paris-Roubaix has nothing on the annual Frome Cobble Wobble
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RMA
5 months ago
RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham:
www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
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Here we go again. More vandalism. This is one of the top UK departments for teaching and research. Let's join together to fight for our colleagues at Nottingham
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To Cardiff for Tosca. (Me? I know! & I wasn't even reviewing.) Fabulous, especially Romaniw. But what made the tears flow? Just seeing the words "Welsh National Opera" at the final credits. They mean so much to so many. Why is this glorious musical beacon being destroyed?
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www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Hits from the bong: music obsessives rescue the sound of Spain’s ancient bells
For centuries bells were the fastest means of communication, calling people to meetings, warning about wildfires, and were even believed to offer protection from storms – now they are being given a ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/22/hits-from-the-bong-music-obsessives-rescue-the-sound-of-spains-ancient-bells?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
7 months ago
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Dark, desolate, terrifying, humorous. Outstanding production and performance of Beckett's Endgame this evening at Ustinov Studio
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7 months ago
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Faculty of Music, Oxford University
7 months ago
Check out this profile of Professor
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! Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching.
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Professor Jonathan Cross - Analysing the spectrum of sound
Jonathan Cross, Professor of Musicology, talks about his career and his research into spectral music.
https://www.ox.ac.uk/pulse/society-culture/jonathan-cross
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Joyful Nikki de Saint-Phalle sculptures dancing in the sunshine at Hauser & Wirth
7 months ago
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Peak Bristol
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What are the chances of that? 🤣
8 months ago
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Stefan Zweig, 1937, Austrian-Jewish refugee who found sanctuary in London
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Stefan Zweig occupied a relatively modest house in Lyncombe during his brief exile in Bath. But I love the idea that the city was for him a Salzburg substitute
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RIP the great Alfred Brendel. Your late Schubert is still unsurpassed. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with you in 2013. I read out one of your poems about a sheep; you contributed the final words: "Baaaah, I said"
10 months ago
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You really do start to feel your age when the Bodleian Library describes CDs and DVDs as 'heritage formats'
10 months ago
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Fantastic news. What a relief. I'm sure there will still be difficult times for the department, but Music continues at Cardiff. Quite right
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cardiff University backtracks on plans to cut music and languages
Music and modern languages will still be offered at Cardiff University, the vice chancellor says.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6rn8n7231o
10 months ago
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She's back!
11 months ago
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Sketches by Natalia Goncharova for Bronislava Nijinska choreography of Stravinsky Les Noces (1923). All up for discussion this Sat at 15.00 on BBC Radio 3 Building a Library
11 months ago
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A great pleasure to be invited to share my work today with students in Geneva: séminaire "actualité de la recherche sur la musique". Also blue sky over mountains and lake!
11 months ago
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Thank you Richard Morrison
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for bringing this wonderful audio resource to our attention, and to Stuart Fowkes for curating it. Evocative immersive soundscapes
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
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Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
https://citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
12 months ago
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Hockney in Paris. The Normandy room is breathtaking - the joy tinged with melancholy of lockdown spring
12 months ago
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I've just realised that "Chat GPT" translates directly into French as "Cat, I farted". You can't imagine the pleasure this gives me
12 months ago
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It will soon be Sunday's Boulezathon! All day at the Barbican and on Radio 3. Including talks. Do join us!
www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6zv9r
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Total Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Man and the Music
An introduction to Pierre Boulez with Jonathan Cross.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6zv9r
about 1 year ago
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Hugely looking forwarding to talking all things Boulez with Tamara Stefanovich & Kate Molleson on Wednesday's Front Row
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's Fringe
French auteur Francois Ozon: the legacy of Pierre Boulez.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0028zyq
about 1 year ago
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A great loss of a great figure
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A privilege to have known Bojan Bujić. A gentle man and a scholar of penetrating intelligence
about 1 year ago
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Sad news of the death of Elgar Howarth, a great champion of new music. I was privileged to meet him decades ago at Glyndebourne when Sussex Uni gave Birtwistle an HonDMus (he was conducting The Second Mrs Kong)
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For the latest Opera with Opera News I spoke to composer Mark-Anthony Turnage about his new work 'Festen' to be premiered at Covent Garden on 11 February
over 1 year ago
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Live earlier today and on BBC Sounds. This was a fun one to do. Crazy piece. Can't believe how any pianist can get their fingers round it!
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over 1 year ago
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Schoenberg Chamber Symphony op. 9 in rehearsal with London Sinfonietta. Those rising 4ths on the horns seem to have triggered an eruption of blue smoke
over 1 year ago
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Arnie, serial offender:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Serial Offender: Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve Tone Adventure
Arnold Schoenberg's 12-tone system redefined music, so why are his works rarely performed?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022kng
over 1 year ago
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RIP Sandy Goehr. The last of the Manchester generation, and a hugely influential voice in British music. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with him in 2019. Full of tales of encounters with Messiaen, Boulez and many others!
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That's it. TwiX is no more for me. Strangely liberating. Let's all be kind to each other over here. To celebrate, here's a pic of Blue Sky over Oxford
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A lost past. Eric Ravilious, The Oyster Bar, from 'High Street'
over 2 years ago
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In the light of the terrible news of the closure of the Music Dept at Oxford Brookes Uni, tomorrow I reflect on the place of music education in UK society
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Anthony McGill, Imogen Cooper and Weelkes
Tom Service speaks to the clarinettist Anthony McGill.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001slyd
over 2 years ago
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