Really thrilled to see that @stmartinsvoices.bsky.social have included this carol by James Whitbourn on their latest album from @resonus.bsky.social, which I commissioned back in the dark days of Covid for @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir - do listen: open.spotify.com/track/3DR3HE...

Look what we have here then.

Listening now: really rather liked that new Rutter introit that marries together Herbert's 'The Call' with a Gibbons 'Song 13' (but then I would say that about anything that combines Herbert and Gibbons...)

Recommended release from MusicWeb International: “well prepared, with accurate intonation and most expressive singing, and the whole disc is a pleasure to hear…I hope the choir goes on to record more from their Partbooks" Full review: musicwebinternational.com/.../music-fr... naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC

Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...

Just received the first review of our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir CD, and it's a cracker: 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 from BBC Music Magazine Praised for its “warmly blended account”, & the way it “catches winningly the bounding enthusiasm...and bright buoyant rhythms” of this music

Echoing Victoria: it was such a privilege to take part in what turned out to be Melvyn's last series of #InOurTime - and it's really flattering to see our episode on George Herbert listed in @thetimes.com top 15 episodes of the show yesterday www.thetimes.com/article/bdea...

If anyone is interested in a 20% discount for my Herbert and Music book, I've just received this flyer with a discount code: www.cambridge.org/se/universit...

Inevitable, I suppose, but #InOurTime won't be quite the same again: what a landmark moment. I feel so lucky to have snuck in at the eleventh hour for his final series. All the best to Melvyn on his retirement, & @simontillotson.bsky.social as he steers the ship into new waters with a new presenter

And, if you're interested in my thoughts about the experience of performing this weird and wonderful piece of 17thC ecological minimalism (yes - it absolutely has all of those things) you can read my short essay here (& do explore the rest of the site!) bee-inghuman.newcastle.ac.uk/music/perfor...

🐝🐝🐝 New to the @leverhulme.ac.uk 'Bee-ing Human' book: do watch and share our 7 mins film about Charles Butler's queen bee piping song, recorded in @theul.bsky.social and @peterhousecam.bsky.social with @sjjackson32.bsky.social Magnus Williamson, Richard Wistreich and choir.

“Church-bels beyond the starres heard” 3-5 Oct: a relaxed weekend of listening, reflecting and learning on the home soil where Herbert was parish priest @sarumcollege.bsky.social with the wonderful Prof Helen Wilcox and the eorge Herbert in Bemerton Group: www.sarum.ac.uk/short-course... Book now!

Come one, come all to lovely Liverpool to hear some fabulous scholarship!

I want to share some tracks over the next few days from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir Naxos CD: William Smith’s Responses are well-known, but have you ever heard his incredible festal setting of Psalm 85? I think it’s fabulous: open.spotify.com/track/2hXPpZVH…

Out now! Peterhouse Choir's debut album, 'Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks', is released today and available to stream and buy. Find out more: www.pet.cam.ac.uk/news/choirs-...

This is a realy powerful piece. How on earth did we get to where we are now?

Always proud of the things Peterhouse Choir achieve, but never more so than on days like this, when the Choir's first ever album goes on general release with Naxos. Remarkable music from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel from the 1630s Listen here: naxos.lnk.to/8574700AC

Reading Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. That's a pretty nice chord, Thomas:

After several years of neglect, I’ve finally got round to updating my academia profile - check it out here: cambridge.academia.edu/SimonJackson

On general release later this month: youtu.be/TaJdKily0Iw?... @peterhousecam.bsky.social

Possibly the last photo of the @leverhulme.ac.uk Bee-ing Human team, as we work to bring our project to conclusion later this year. We will share the url for our project site soon! @viveknityananda.bsky.social @oliviasmith.bsky.social @racheljwillie.bsky.social @sjjackson32.bsky.social

So excited for the release of my first disc with the Peterhouse Choir and Naxos - glorious music from 1630s @peterhousecam.bsky.social Chapel. For release August 22nd. Watch the trailer here: youtu.be/oduIl9eRA0Y?...

Something for May Week from the Choir of @peterhousecam.bsky.social youtu.be/3UVoioiV_mE

Now available in a much more affordable format! Today's the publication day for the paperback edition of /George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture/ @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

"Bee-ing Human: an adventure in digital editing" Join Cambridge Digital Humanities in The Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge, on June 5 2025, 5-7pm to hear from the distinguished duo, @jennyrichards.bsky.social & Tiago Sousa Garcia. It'll sting if you miss it! www.rensoc.org.uk/event/bee-in...

Rehearsing Charles Butler’s bee song with @sjjackson32.bsky.social and @Peterhouse_Cam choir. We will share the film soon. @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social Bee-ing Human.

Part of a wonderful day yesterday workshopping and recording Charles Butler's Bee Song with a consort of singers from @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir with Richard Wistreich and Magnus Williamson - all masterminded by @jennyrichards.bsky.social as part of her Bee-ing Human @leverhulme.ac.uk project

What emotions is this bee expressing? Drawing on flyleaf of 1623 copy of Butler's bee book. Thanks @theul.bsky.social.

Our brand-new Dye Garden is coming to life! With guidance from colleagues across the UL, and @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social, our Conservation team has planted traditional dye plants once used in manuscript painting. 🎨 #CambridgeUniversityLibraries #CULconservation #DyeGarden

Starting the new term with a little filming project with Peterhouse Choir in the stunning Peterhouse Deer Park

One of the best poems in the English language about this day #GoodFriday #GoodFriday2025 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44103/...

This was a lovely interview on @bbcradio3.bsky.social at the weekend with our former @peterhousecam.bsky.social Master Bridget Kendall & particularly lovely for it to include my choir singing some of my music. Full programme on @bbcsounds.bsky.social for the next month www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Published by Encore publications, for anyone interested in seeking out the score! www.encorepublications.com/publications...

Thank you, @jennyrichards.bsky.social!

Thrilled that @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir is going to get some airtime singing some of my music on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social on Saturday: listen to Bridget Kendall on Music Matters speaking about the music that has accompanied her career: tune in at 1pm! 📻: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Is this true, Wikipedia? Are Tennessee Williams and Quincy Jones distantly related to Aemilia Lanyer/Bassano, Nicholas Lanier &co? #completelyunhelpfulbutinterestingfacts

As it's #GeorgeHerbert day, it's a good day to note that the (much more affordable!) paperback version of my Herbert & Music book is finally on its way - it's appeared on the CUP website for pre-order (though it won't be available for a few months yet): www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

My first recording of the Vaughan Williams Herbert settings was, I think, this disc from Naxos - so it was a pretty special treat to hear Simon Keenleyside in the flesh singing all 5 Mystical Songs tonight as the anthem at Evensong with the Choir of St John’s

🪐✨🌟 After Evensong yesterday, @peterhousecam.bsky.social Research Fellow Dr Sam Cabot set up his telescope outside chapel - we got to see VENUS and JUPITER and its moons! One of the most memorable Candlemas weekends. Just amazing working in this kind of place! #musicofthespheres #harmoniamundi

This was a lovely morning out with ordinands from @westcotthousecam.bsky.social last term, visiting Leighton Bromswold (one of Herbert's churches) - distinguished by its twin pulpit and prayer desk

So pleased & moved to see this published: not one of mine, but a chapter by my late sister-in-law Helen Mahoney, completed by my brother following her death from breast cancer in 2024: 'How Healthy is the Creative Health Sector' in Cultures of Creative Health, @hudunipress.bsky.social

Farewell Oslo! @simonekotva.bsky.social and I are heading off on new adventures in Gothenburg (continuing my work in Cambridge) the city decked out in snow for our departure

A #Tudor #carol for #Epiphany from Richard Hill's #CommonplaceBook, c1500-1536 Balliol ms354 Be merry all yat be present Omnes de Saba venient #tudors #earlymusic #earlymodern #magi #16thcentury #christmascarol #sixteenthcentury #manuscript

‘This TEXT may seeme to come a little too soone’. Since Epiphany wasn’t a sermon day at court, Lancelot Andrewes edged the Magi into Christmas, probably not without later influence on popular conflation of the two.

Excited to see this in proofs! It's for a collection called 'Literature as Sound Studies' edited by the fabulous yasser elhariry and Liesl Yamaguchi. In it I declare my love for Thomas Dekker and his "wild propagation of laughing, hissing, thundering 'scurvynoise.'"

Happy new year from Oslo’s first snowfall of 2025

Henry #Lawes: A Glee at #Christmas - Tis Christmas Now. From Select ayres and dialogues to sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol , 1669 Eleanor Cramer: soprano Christopher Goodwin: lute Alison Kinder: bass viol www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGp... #earlymusic #earlymodern #17thC #12daysofChristmas

A #carol for St Stephen's Day From Richard Hill's #CommonplaceBook, c1500-36 Balliol ms 354 Now syng we both all & sum Lapidauerunt Stephanum #earlymusic #earlymodern #tudor #tudors #otd #onthisday #carols #christmascarols

You can now listen to @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's recording of the Norwegian Carol 'Eit barn er født i Betlehem' (A Child is born in Bethlehem) on Spotify - merry Christmas!! open.spotify.com/album/0pUf1U...