A year on since @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir released its first album! If you haven't listened yet, it's available to stream here: open.spotify.com/artist/17SD2...

The Choir of Peterhouse, Cambridge

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Simon Jackson@sjjackson32.bsky.social · last yr.

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

A new post over on Substack: Edmund Spenser, Epithalamion, and some change-ringing refrains voiceandverse.substack.com/p/the-woods-...

“The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring”

Echoes, Refrains and Reverberation in Spenser

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i gain access to the emergency notification system. everyone’s phones scream with a George Herbert poem

I've just signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a new Cambridge Companion to George Herbert - amazingly, there isn't one yet! (Image: Ingrid Fogelvik)

A fun (and hot) Wednesday at the Cambridge Honorary Degree ceremony, working with the combined choirs of @peterhousecam.bsky.social and Selwyn, alongside their Director Sarah MacDonald. You can watch the ceremony here: youtu.be/fv893HhGvpU?...

Cambridge confers honorary degrees to eight luminaries 2026

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My copy of Scintilla (👇) has arrived. I’m delighted to say that new editor @sjjackson32.bsky.social has done a great job. Scintilla remains one of the most stimulating & original literary journals, packed with astute critical commentary, philosophical reflections & fine new poetry #poetrycommunity

Paul Connolly@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The new issue of the Vaughan Association’s Scintilla Journal is out. Grateful to new editor @sjjackson32.bsky.social for including one of my poems. This brilliant magazine, praised by Heaney, contains fine articles & poems & can be purchased here: www.amazon.co.uk/Scintilla-28... #poetrycommunity

Over on Substack, a new piece on a new piece: all about Cecilia McDowall’s fabulous new setting of Hildegard of Bingen: please read abd share! substack.com/@kapellmeist...

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My latest piece, on a new setting of Hildegard of Bingen, bursting into verdure.

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"Never was leaf so green": this evening, delighted to be premiering a new anthem by Cecilia McDowall, setting words by Hildegard of Bingen, commissioned to celebrate 40 years since the admission of women to Peterhouse.

Excited to be premiering a new work written for @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir by Cecilia McDowall at Evensong this coming Sunday at 6pm. It has been commissioned as part of our celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the admission of women to Peterhouse, & sets words by Hildegard of Bingen

It’s taken me a while to write this one up - but please do have a look at my latest piece over on Substack - all about Henry Vaughan and the therapeutic properties of music: open.substack.com/pub/voiceand...

'A sound mind in a sound body'

Henry Vaughan and Music Therapy

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The new issue of the Vaughan Association’s Scintilla Journal is out. Grateful to new editor @sjjackson32.bsky.social for including one of my poems. This brilliant magazine, praised by Heaney, contains fine articles & poems & can be purchased here: www.amazon.co.uk/Scintilla-28... #poetrycommunity

I’ve recently started as editor of Scintilla, the journal of the Vaughan Association (dedicated to the study of Henry & Thomas Vaughan). Delighted that my first issue is out now, which also includes an article by me (accepted before I became editor!) about Henry, music & medicine amzn.eu/d/08RlZsfK

I’ve been thinking about sound, space, bats, echolocation, poetry… all sorts of things in fact, over the past few weeks. Some initial musings in my latest post over on Substack. Here’s a little punctuation bat to get you intrigued: /\^•_•^/\ open.substack.com/pub/voiceand...

Taking Soundings

Some thoughts about sound, space, and poetry (with extra bats)

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Blest pair of Sirens

Milton on words and music

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I’m playing with Substack! Come and join me!

One for Italian speakers out there: wrapping up 2025 with a programme featuring @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's CD on Italian Radio: www.raiplaysound.it/audio/2025/1...

Primo movimento | S2025 | i Peterhouse Partbooks | Rai Radio 3 | RaiPlay Sound

i Peterhouse Partbooks - Primo movimento - i Peterhouse Partbooks // Disco NAXOS - 8.574700 / AA.VV. / MUSIC FROM THE PETERHOUS PARTBOOKS / Hugo Williams, Emma Troman, Shawn Li, Organ - The Choir of P...

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Something a bit unusual for the season, from our new @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir disc: Byrd's Ne irascaris, Domine re-arranged for Christmas, as heard in Peterhouse Chapel at Christmas in the 1630s open.spotify.com/track/51kurW...

Behold, I Bring You Glad Tidings

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Last year I commissioned Ben Ponniah to write a new setting of Herbert's Christmas poem 'The Shepherds Sing' - the result is simply divine. @peterhousecam.bsky.social Choir's new recording of it is about to be released this afternoon at 1pm over on youtube: youtu.be/fENaIO5DpIY?...

The Shepherds Sing, by Ben Ponniah

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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...

Our Gold

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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...)

BBC Radio 3 Now Playing Bot (Unofficial)@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social · last yr.

BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong Live from Westminster Abbey, with an introit written especially for the service by John Rutter on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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...

I’ve listened to every episode of In Our Time. These are the 15 best

As Melvyn Bragg bows out after 27 years as host of the erudite BBC Radio 4 show, a superfan recommends some catch-up listening

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Victoria Moul@victoriamoul.bsky.social · last yr.

I was delighted to have a chance to be on what turned out to be Melvyn Bragg’s last series of In Our Time and also thrilled that an article in The Times today lists our episode (on George Herbert) as one of the best 15 ever! You can listen to it here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last yr.

Melvyn Bragg has decided to stand down as host of In Our Time, the BBC says.

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...

Jenny Richards@jennyrichards.bsky.social · last yr.

🐝🐝🐝 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.

🐝🐝🐝 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.