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Protection Data 1998 the with complies College New 01865 279509 01865 279337 01865 or or Office: Development the contact please queries, any have you If is to be announced. be to is dates of those to be invited over the next five years. five next the over invited be to those of dates first served basis. basis. served first The Opera to be performed by New Chamber Opera Opera Chamber New by performed be to Opera The planned a schedule and list below the matriculation matriculation the below list and schedule a planned seminar which will be offered on a first come come first a on offered be will which seminar With the help of Dr Andrew Wathen, we have have we Wathen, Andrew Dr of help the With There are only twelve places for dinner per per dinner for places twelve only are There Friday, 10 & 17 July 2009 July 17 & 10 Friday, Operas in the Warden’s Garden Warden’s the in Operas of 10th week) to hold a Summer Gaude in College. College. in Gaude Summer a hold to week) 10th of Room and dinner in the Senior Common Room. Room. Common Senior the in dinner and Room have reserved the same Friday each year (Friday (Friday year each Friday same the reserved have followed by a reception at 7pm in the Panelled Panelled the in 7pm at reception a by followed As previously reported, the Warden and Fellows Fellows and Warden the reported, previously As kindly offered to talk. to offered kindly Seminars begin at 6pm in the Conduit Room Room Conduit the in 6pm at begin Seminars Friday, 3 July 2009 July 3 Friday, lunch in the College Garden. Robin Lane Fox has has Fox Lane Robin Garden. College the in lunch Professor Ann Jefferson Ann Professor on and ask their family and friends to join them for for them join to friends and family their ask and on (you will receive an invitation) an receive will (you , , France in Literature of Idea the and Biography Those attending the Gaude are encouraged to stay stay to encouraged are Gaude the attending Those years 1995-1999 1995-1999 years , Dr Christianne Timmel Christianne Dr , Navigation Magnetic Gaude for Matriculation Matriculation for Gaude and friends. and Dr Paul Newman Paul Dr Open to all Old Members and their family family their and Members Old all to Open , , Perspective Machine’s A I? Am Where played at Frilford Health Golf Club. Golf Health Frilford at played Saturday, 4 July 2009 July 4 Saturday, Wednesday, 18 February 2009 February 18 Wednesday, Hosted by Oriel College, the tournament will be be will tournament the College, Oriel by Hosted Summer Garden Party Garden Summer Friday, 17 April 2009 April 17 Friday, New College Society Society College New [email protected] or 01865 279317 279317 01865 or [email protected] Tournament in the Development Office for tickets: tickets: for Office Development the in Oxford Inter-College Golf Golf Inter-College Oxford You are invited to apply to Alex Talbot Talbot Alex to apply to invited are You 1976-1984 2014 June 1976-1984 February-May 2009 February-May 1951-1960 2013 June 1951-1960 New College: New annual Law Society dinner. dinner. Society Law annual 2000-2005 2012 June 2000-2005 Featuring research at at research Featuring Middle Temple Hall has been booked for this this for booked been has Hall Temple Middle Thursday, 19 February 2009 February 19 Thursday, 1984-1989 2011 June 1984-1989 A Series of Seminars Seminars of Series A New College Law Society Dinner Society Law College New 1900-1950 2010 June 1900-1950 Forthcoming Events Forthcoming and the choir’s regular service music often often music service regular choir’s the and joins the three CDs CDs three the joins Creation The attended. the choir website www.newcollegechoir.com website choir the include 17th, 18th and 19th-century music, music, 19th-century and 18th 17th, include Hall in May, which a number of Old Members Members Old of number a which May, in Hall All the choir’s recordings are available from from available are recordings choir’s the All sings repertory from A to Z. Recent recordings recordings Recent Z. to A from repertory sings Cover Image: © Courtesy of the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford/ The Bridgeman Art Library Art Bridgeman The Oxford/ College, New of Scholars and Warden the of Courtesy © Image: Cover Cadogan London’s in performance live a for Parry, Stainer and their contemporaries. their and Stainer Parry, which is in no sense ‘specialist’. New College College New ‘specialist’. sense no in is which orchestra. Choir and orchestra joined together together joined orchestra and Choir orchestra. , with a selection of works by Elgar, Elgar, by works of selection a with , Anthem more remarkable for being given to a choir choir a to given being for remarkable more Philomusica, the city’s only professional professional only city’s the Philomusica, The Victorian and Edwardian Edwardian and Victorian The and line; treble the wonderful singing on the CD, but it is the the is it but CD, the on singing wonderful the , made in collaboration with Oxford Oxford with collaboration in made , Creation Couperin, sung by the acclaimed New College College New acclaimed the by sung Couperin, The Gramophone award is a fair testimony to to testimony fair a is award Gramophone The The choir’s most recent recording is Haydn’s Haydn’s is recording recent most choir’s The features music by Pergolesi, Bach, Mozart and and Mozart Bach, Pergolesi, by music features in July 2007, whilst the Choir was on tour. tour. on was Choir the whilst 2007, July in A bumper year of recordings recordings of year bumper A ; The Art of the Chorister, which which Chorister, the of Art The ; benedicta of a church just outside Sarrebourg (Alsace) (Alsace) Sarrebourg outside just church a of contemporary composers. composers. contemporary Missa Missa Ludford, Nicholas award-winning voices. It was made in the glorious acoustic acoustic glorious the in made was It voices. celebrates the work of 20th-century and and 20th-century of work the celebrates released in the spring: the gramophone gramophone the spring: the in released New College recording is the first using boys boys using first the is recording College New entirely beguiling to the modern ear. The The ear. modern the to beguiling entirely wizardry it has an elegance and fluency fluency and elegance an has it wizardry John Taverner’s, and yet, within its technical technical its within yet, and Taverner’s, John sophistication his music is rivalled by only only by rivalled is music his sophistication of large-scaled antiphons. In complexity and and complexity In antiphons. large-scaled of a dozen festal masses and an equal number number equal an and masses festal dozen a December 08 | n | 08 December Westminster in the 1530s, and has left us half half us left has and 1530s, the in Westminster Wykehamists. Ludford worked at the Palace of of Palace the at worked Ludford Wykehamists. Ludford. Not a household name, even among among even name, household a Not Ludford. category features the music of Nicholas Nicholas of music the features category Gramophone Award in the ‘Early Music’ Music’ ‘Early the in Award Gramophone The Choir CD which has won this year’s year’s this won has which CD Choir The Gramophone Award Award Gramophone o . 25 NEW COLLEGE NEWS COLLEGE NEW | DECEMBER 2008 DECEMBER | NEW COLLEGE NEWS | DECEMBER 2008 NEW COLLEGE NEWS | DECEMBER 2008 Welcome... The Warden’s Report Having hoped that my final year as Warden would be marked by no great excitements and anxieties, I write with some regret to say that these hopes have been dashed… The departure of Barbara Vardag, College are, what we have done with the resources We are still a very long way from the world Secretary for almost three decades, has you have given us, and how we expect to imagined in the 1877 Statutes on which the revealed how far we all depended on her fare in the next several years. Fortuitously, College ran until 2006; large parts of those formidable memory. The old joke that ‘behind the last year has been a particularly good Statutes were concerned with the procedures every successful College there stands a year for the Development Fund. for eliminating Fellowships out of financial powerful woman’ has been revealed as no ’s legacy was matched by a gift from necessity, and the margins of Warden joke at all. We are busily restructuring and Bill Eason, the income from half of which Sewell’s copy of the Statutes were filled with rethinking, and I have every expectation that is to be used to provide generous bursaries anxious questions to the Visitor about their we shall hand Curtis Price a happy and well- to two pupils from Lord Williams’s School at interpretation. So, I turn to the happier topic run College next September. Thame, an institution with which we have of what we have actually done with what you Degree Celebration, New College Chapel been associated since its foundation four have given us. I highlight two things.