KING’S Spring 2004 P ARADE King’s &

Editor’s letter 2 College news 2–3 Parade Profile: Judith Weir 4–5 Professor Dent and the Vexed Question of the Square Pianoforte 6–7 King’s & Opera – the listings 8–10 Members’ news 11 Books by and about members 12 Talking about books 13 Following in invisible footsteps 14 What happened to all the antimatter? 15 Foundation lunch 16–17 Bursaries and fees 18 Development news and letters 19 Crossword 20 College Editor’s Letter Keith Hopkins and Christopher Ryan The Tempest, the new opera by Thomas Adès (1989), was news premièred at Covent Garden in February and was the focus Two Fellows died within a few weeks of each of considerable media and public attention. Members of other earlier this year, both while in post. The King’s have a long tradition of involvement with opera. Reverend Dr Christopher Ryan died in February Edward Dent (Fellow 1902–1908, and 1926–1957) and Professor Keith Hopkins in early March. pioneered the idea of opera sung in English, which Christopher, who became Dean in 2002, made underpinned the . The Rt. Hon. the Chapel a central part of College life during his The Earl of Harewood (1947, Honorary Fellow 1988), very short tenure of office and had already President of the Board of Trustees of English National become a well-respected and much-loved figure. Opera and editor of Kobbe’s Complete Opera Book, has Keith, an undergraduate at King's in 1955, a championed the art form for over fifty years, and The Fellow first in 1963, and then again from 1985, Provost, Judith Mayhew Jonas (2003), is Chairman of was Vice Provost and Professor of Ancient the Board of Trustees of the . History. His originality, wit and warmth are much missed. Both were closely involved in my But just how far is the contemporary opera landscape own introduction to King's and I will miss greatly populated with King’s people, and where and when can you their guidance and support. see and hear them? With help from Fellows , Iain Fenlon and Nick Marston, former Fellow Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas John Deathridge (1982), composer (1961), Provost Daily Telegraph opera critic Rupert Christiansen (1973), The date of the memorial service for Keith Hopkins Peter Tregear (1995) and Nigel Brown, King’s Parade tried will be announced shortly and posted on the website. to find out. Full obituaries will appear in the Annual Report. The result is King’s and Opera – the Listings. It turned out to be a huge (and hugely enjoyable – if unwieldy) survey, but will inevitably have omissions. Please accept our apologies for these. Addresses were out of date, and phone numbers and email addresses had changed. VID GOOD

Everyone suggested someone else to add to the list, and DA time was not infinitely elastic. The College would be delighted to hear from members with updates on their operatic or musical careers. King’s Parade seeks to keep members informed about issues affecting the College and following on from the final Provost’s Seminar on University Funding in February there is a piece which looks into the implications for King’s of increased fees and bursary support. In a departure from tradition, the KCA lunch on 10 July 2004 has metamorphosed into an E.M. Forster Day with a full programme of events. Guest speakers will include novelist Zadie Smith (1994). Tickets are available from the Professor Mervyn King (1966) and Dame Judith Mayhew Development Office. Jonas. Mervyn King was admitted as Honorary Fellow on 27 April 2004. In this issue too, a look at another King’s landscape. The Provost’s Garden is being remodelled, involving Head Gardener Jeffery Lingwood and his team in one of their New Honorary biggest projects. Please continue to let me know what you think of Fellow King’s Parade, and what else you would like to see in the Professor Mervyn King is Governor of the Bank of magazine. I look forward to your letters and emails. , and the first academic economist in more than 300 years to hold the position. He came to Alison Carter, Editor King’s in 1966 to read economics, after which he Development Office continued to work in Cambridge, taking one year out King’s College as a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. He became Cambridge CB2 1ST Professor of Investment at , and Tel: +00 44 1223 331313 Professor of Economics at the School of Email: [email protected] Economics, and joined the Bank of England in 1990; www.kings.cam.ac.uk he was its Chief Economist for seven years, and Deputy Governor for five years. He has been Visiting Cover Image: Ariel in a scene from The Tempest, the new opera by Thomas Adès (1989), which opened at Covent Garden in February 2004, with Simon Professor at Harvard, MIT, LSE and Oxford. He was Keenlyside as Prospero, Ian Bostridge as Caliban, and Cyndia Sieden as elected Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1982, editor’s letter editor’s

| Ariel. Thomas Adès conducted. Cover photograph by Clive Barda. and of the British Academy in 1992. 2 College Redesigning the Provost’s Garden is one of the biggest gardening projects King’s has news undertaken. Head Gardener Jeffery Lingwood and his team are enthusiastic about the project. They are in the process of transforming the garden into a more versatile formal space suitable for College functions. We hope to follow the development of the new garden in subsequent issues. ALISON CARTER : PHOTOS

Above: The Provost’s Garden, March 2004.

Agents Left: From left: Robert Mark, (known to all as Bob, he has been at King’s for 35 years) Roger Parker, Martin Larkman, of change Duncan Baxter, Head Gardener Jeffery Lingwood.

King’s College Association AGM & E.M. Forster Day 10 July 2004

Come and join KCA for a special day 12.00 – 1.00 devoted to E.M. Forster. In a departure Drinks in the Provost’s Garden from previous KCA lunches, the AGM • Hosted by the Provost, Dame Judith will be held early on in the day, and a Mayhew Jonas. great deal more will be on offer for members to enjoy. Highlights include a 1.00 chance to hear novelist Zadie Smith talk Lunch in Hall on Forster and a recital by members of • Italian food and wine inspired by the King’s College Choir Association of Room with a View. excerpts from ’s opera Billy Budd,for which Forster wrote the • Brief talk by Peter Jones, Librarian libretto. and Italian choral interludes sung by King’s Choir Association. Tickets are available from the Development Office price £47.50. 2.30 – 4.00 Programme of events E M Forster Exhibition in Archives 4.00 – 4.30 10.00 – 10.30 and Library • Indian Tea • KCA Annual General Meeting • Visit to E M Forster’s rooms in College 4.30 – 5.00 10.45 – 12.00 • Recital from Benjamin Britten’s • Talks on E M Forster • Tour of Fellows’ Garden to see tree opera ‘Billy Budd’ by members of Zadie Smith and others. (Davidia involucrata) planted in honour of Indian guru, Sri Aurobindo, King’s College Choir Association. who studied at King’s 1890–1893. college news | 3 4 | parade profile n ooayFlo 20) JudithWeir talkstoAlisonCarter. and Honorary Fellow (2003). CBE(1995) Circle award (1994), Critics’ Composer, King’s 1973, P arade Profile: got toknow,and thentherewereoutreachprojects.” workshops, forourselvesmainly. Asaresultpeople and heratablaplayer.We started with Birmingham, withitslargeAsian population.It’sme, an Indianstoryteller–itcame out ofworkingin communities’. “I’vebeenworking withVayuNaidu, with that!Ilikethatideaverymuch!” she laughsdisarmingly.“That’sfantastic!…I website. Hithertounawareofthismediapresence, communities,” she’squotedassayingontheBBC’s role ofthecomposeristocreatewidermusical one ofincreasingirreverenceandinformality.“The pragmatism ofanaccomplishedadministrator,and accent. 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Dressed casuallyingrey,she’sdown-to-earthandher and withacursorymentionofjet-lag,providescoffee. welcomes meintoherorderlySouthLondonkitchen is onlyhomefortheoccasionalweekend.She Weir iscurrentlyavisitingprofessoratHarvardand Fixing theinterviewhadbeencomplicated.Judith She explainsaboutthe‘widermusical She speakswithmorethantheghostofaScottish One ofBritain’smostwide-rangingcomposers,she Judith Weir so agree Judith Weir Music Grouptheyeventuallycreated together.” WiththeBirminghamContemporary openness ofhercreativity.“Iliketobringpeople As shetalks,whatcomesacrossistheenergyand were abletocross-subsidise andputonconcerts, When shewasArtistic DirectoratSpitalfields, they the accessibilityofcontemporary cultureandmusic. and goesontoexploresomeof thefactorsaffecting diversity, outreachandaccessibility,” shecomments, a classicaltraining)getsenough creditforits musicians andveryforward-looking peoplewhohave wide-ranging andcouldinvolvefolkmusicians,jazz England andIndia. blend ofstorytellingandmusic,whichhastoured “I don’tthinkthefieldIworkin(whichisvery Future Perfect , a particularly of new music, free of charge. There is a Platt (1939) who died earlier this year) commissioned whole group of people, she feels, hungry for the and premièred her children’s opera The Black Spider, cultural experiences London offers but excluded by in 1985, and then her first full-length opera, price. “It was fascinating to see who came to the free A Night at the Chinese Opera in 1987. She pays tribute concerts we put on.” to Platt’s pioneering approach. “At the time, Kent Ticket price is only part of the problem. The only Opera was a major touring company, but living sure way to develop new audiences, she says, is to from hand to mouth. It was typical of Norman that encourage their sense of adventure – with great effort he listened to a lot of new music and he took a and over time. The BBC Symphony Orchestra tremendous risk. It was really extraordinary to recently put on a whole weekend of the music of John have the chance to do that.” She has written two Cage – it was a sell-out. “People trusted them and other staged, full-length , The Vanishing they knew there would be fun to be had. But it’s Bridegroom (1990) and Blond Eckbert (1993), and taken years to get to this point.” It’s partly about will be working on a filmed (but unstaged) opera effective marketing, though she thinks most later this year. audiences are way ahead of the marketers. “There’s “One will scarcely find searching introductions, nothing wrong with the Berlin Philharmonic in their discursive transitions, dramatic development sections, tailcoats playing Brückner’s 9th perfectly on a stage … clinching climaxes or imposing perorations in her there’s a need and an importance for that too.” music. Or if her music shows any tendency towards more surging continuities and grandiose rhetoric, these are liable to be instantly subverted,” writes Bayan Northcott in his introductory notes to a recent “The role of the composer is to create wider musical Weir CD. He’s a fan; and makes those ‘surging communities,” she’s quoted as saying on the BBC’s website. continuities’ sound disingenuous. Weir’s Distance

SUZANNE JANSEN and Enchantment, a short piece for a piano quartet Hitherto unaware of this media presence, she laughs about ‘the phenomenon of sudden disappearance’ disarmingly. “That’s fantastic! … I so agree with that! I like has a haunting theme woven through it for the that idea very much!” viola, and creates a sense of space, drama, and inconclusiveness. Written in 1988, the two movements are based on traditional songs, one Scottish and one Irish, about people who, one day, But she believes many orchestras are at fault for walk out of the house and never return. not engaging with the new, for continuing with At Cambridge she spent a lot of time playing in retrospective programming presented in a very concerts and latterly in shows at the ADC. “I wasn’t ‘heritage-y’ way. “They say: ‘We put on new music brilliant and I had to work very hard to keep up. I and nobody comes!’ But to plonk a piece of new didn’t initiate, like I do now. I tended to respond … it music (which, by the way I might not enjoy either) in was a very all male environment. I think there were the middle of a programme just doesn’t work.” four women out of forty reading Music in my year.” Among her own current favourites are the Esbjorn She was one of the early women in King’s. “It was a Svensson Trio (E.S.T.) She highly recommends their fantastic moment for women’s advancement of Seven Days of Falling. course, but all the old sexist rubbish was in its Both her parents are Scottish, and amateur heyday. It has coloured my view of Cambridge. You musicians, and would naturally gather people do meet people who say: ‘Oh! Wasn’t it marvellous!’ together to play. “So I got the feeling that music was No, it was sort of OK.” She thinks students work something I could do. It wasn’t this untouchable harder now, and are more focused. “There’s less thing.” Judith is an oboeist, and Margaret Semple her hanging around, which I’m greatly in favour of music teacher at school was a great and positive because that’s how most of my activities got off the influence. While still at school she also had lessons ground. I think a lot of creativity comes out of actually with John Tavener. “Both John and Margaret had being bored.” rather grand organist jobs in prestigious London At the moment she is writing for the Florestan churches. John lived in Wembley and we lived Trio. She likes to write for friends, and Susan Tomes nearby. It was more a case of going round to his (1973) is the Florestan pianist. How does she house a few times with my music. Bless them both! It compose? “It should be a bit of a mystery – if we was a piece of great good fortune.” In her teens she could explain, that would be wrong!” En passant, she also became interested in the work of John Cage, who refers to her interest in Zen and her thinking about said his work was influenced by the philosophy of musical equivalents. “A piano trio is quite an abstract Taoism, particularly the I Ching. “It’s the lottery way medium ... so when I think ‘Florestan Trio’, my mind of looking at philosophy.” fills with piano, violin and cello and all the different “Her music is the antithesis of Tavener’s … It’s ways you could write for that combination. I hate terse, intricately worked and beautiful in a thousand the analogies between different art forms, but I ways; her operas display a lovely feel for the interplay imagine a painter might go up to a particular colour of voice and instrument,” writes Michael Church in and think, ‘Wow!’ Well, that’s what I feel with

the Independent. Kent Opera (founded by Norman instrumental colour.” profile parade | 5 Professor Dent, Señor Gerhard and the Vexed Question of the Square Pianoforte

The recent cataloguing in the King’s College J.B. Trend, “in order to make a home for the Karen Arrandale Archives of E.J. Dent’s papers – his diaries Gerhards”. In spite of his ill health and and voluminous correspondence – has opened increasing deafness he hugely enjoyed the looks into the up the remarkable life and career of a figure at experience (“Mrs Gerhard is a marvellous the heart of twentieth century music and cook, and has taken complete command of newly catalogued music-making. Dent (1876–1956) was an early my diet, which consists entirely of rice, so you champion of Mozart, Scarlatti and can expect to see me looking like a Chinese papers of E.J. Dent Henry Purcell, of performance technique and sage at the end of the month.”), and was very texts which did not get in the way of the grateful to the Gerhards for their easy in the King’s music. His translations of opera libretti set the hospitality. As usual his gratitude took a standard for years, and he was a prime mover practical and thoughtful form. A postcard to Archive Centre to in establishing English National Opera. When Roberto dated 1 September 1942, states not conducting CUMS or Music Club simply: “Miller’s will bring the grand investigate a performances, he spent most of his time pianoforte, square pianoforte, and bookcase playing or listening to music. He compiled to you some time on Friday...” The “grand musical mystery. incidental music for famous early productions pianoforte” was a “good old Broadwood of of the Marlowe Society – Comus and Epicoene about 1910” Dent had kept in his college – using two holograph MSS. – the rooms. Dent says that the Gerhards “like it Bridgewater MS. of Henry Lawes’s music for very much”. But the “square pianoforte”? Comus and the Trinity MS. of the text. For On the face of it the square pianoforte given years, in the twenties and thirties, he chaired by Dent to Roberto Gerhard (and now in the the International Society for Contemporary Cobbe Collection at Hatchlands) is an 1807 Music, which was how he met Catalan Stodart, with stunning flame mahogany composer Roberto Gerhard casework trimmed with cast brass moulding (1896–1970), a pupil of Schoenberg’s and two dainty drawers underneath, what was who became a lifelong friend. once an expensive and elegant instrument to When Franco’s defeat of the sit in someone’s small Georgian drawing- Republican government in 1938–9 room. But at some point in its life it has been forced Gerhard, then adviser to the altered: its innards have been converted from Ministry of Fine Arts in the Catalan a piano action striking the string and government, into exile, Dent organised releasing, into a kind of clavichord action, a special Fellowship for him at King’s, basically by ripping out the original hammers with a tiny stipend and a place to live and meticulously replacing them with solid for both him and his wife Poldi brass ones that hit the strings and stayed there (Leopoldine), all done with his typical until you took your finger off the key. Why understated kindness and would anyone knowingly commit what consideration. During and after the war appears today as unthinkable vandalism, and years Gerhard supplemented his what was Professor Dent doing with such an stipend by composing incidental music instrument? A grubby postcard found inside, for the BBC, besides a number of addressed to “Mr Dent, King’s College”, refers Edward Dent, 1876–1956 ballets – Don Quixote, Alegrías, Pandora to Mr Dent’s “clavichord”. But Mr Dent must – and an opera, The Duenna. After the war he have known what his instrument was. continued to compose a vast range of One of Dent’s scholarly as well as personal incidental music for radio and television as interests was in period instruments. Always well as for the Royal Shakespeare Company sensitive to what was musically right, he and for film, (This Sporting Life), as well as agonised over what kind of keyboard chamber music, concerti and five symphonies. accompaniment was most appropriate for the In the summer of 1942 Dent was extremely piece. In letters to Lawrence Haward in 1909 ill, and in August left his own house in he complained about “not good” performances Panton Street (which, Poldi had tartly of Byrd in the Chapel with the organ playing informed him, was far more likely to be “all through” and drowning out the voices. He bombed than their side of Cambridge). He gave careful thought to the instrumentation of went to be nursed and generally looked after the incidental music he arranged for Marlowe by the Gerhards at “this curious household”, Society productions, and his square their rooms in Thorneycreek, off Herschel piano/clavichord was put to use on at least one

edward dent edward Road, rented by Dent’s lifelong companion, occasion. Writing from Berlin to Denis Browne | 6 in April, 1909, he is enthusing about a successfully. The tone is coarse and more projected production of The Knight of the evenly voiced.” In August, 1914: “Mr Ingram Burning Pestle (which was never performed), called and asked me to come around to his especially about the staging of the songs he house in Lyndewode Road to see the hoped to use: “I think there should be a lute, Bulloughs’ harpsichord which he thinks is which might be hung up anywhere on the 16th century … he has restored it with great stage and played by the singers – the real noise care … the tone was delightful.” of course being made by you at my little square It is of course impossible nearly a hundred piano behind the scenes.” years on to construe with any accuracy In the early years of the twentieth century “delightful” tone, or a “successful” repair job. Cambridge harboured a number of piano The craft of restoration was then in its infancy. dealers and tuners who also fostered a rapidly- Much of the “restoration” work carried out in growing fashionable interest in early those early days was like that seen in Dent’s instruments, especially eighteenth-century square piano: beautiful, careful workmanship, and earlier: harpsichords, clavichords and and to 21st century understanding completely virginals. Some of these enthusiasts, most mistaken or inappropriate or both. Perhaps in notably William Moore of Bridge Street, had a Cambridge where there was this positive glut literally stacks of older of square pianos – as there certainly was at instruments in their Moore’s – these early enthusiasts saw warehouses, not only nothing wrong with converting the desirable 18th redundant and despised instruments century keyboard into something more antiqued and less instruments but also common. It wasn’t until the 1960s that the far more common restoration work became more scientific square pianos and historically aware. everyone’s grandma So why then did Professor Dent give Opera. Penguin, 1940. had stowed up in the Roberto Gerhard such an odd instrument, and why was it accepted? It was probably calculated on both parts. “On the face of it the square pianoforte given by Gerhard was almost certainly familiar Dent to Roberto Gerhard (and now in the Cobbe with both pianos; they had been kept Collection at Hatchlands) is an 1807 Stodart, in Dent’s King’s College rooms where Gerhard lived for two months while with stunning flame mahogany casework trimmed Dent was abroad. They were given Edward Dent. Opera. to Gerhard just when he was with cast brass moulding … But at some point in Penguin, 1940. its life it has been altered … Why would anyone working on pieces using two pianos attic gathering in unusual and inventive ways. And Gerhard knowingly commit what appears today as dust for decades. was always experimenting with sounds; the unthinkable vandalism, and what was Professor When in the late instrumentation of his pieces is always highly Dent doing with such an instrument?” 1920s she was inventive and rich, while the remarkable range researching her of expression he could evoke from the piano is pioneering book on fully demonstrated in the two-piano version of The Piano-Forte, his ballet, Pandora. It would be pleasant as well as convenient to be able to state categorically

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DA Harding had on that Dent’s present helped to stimulate hand in Cambridge Gerhard’s creative genius, but it’s not essential. not only Professor Such unresolved puzzles can be stimulating Dent, but a number enough in themselves, and more fun. of local dealers who Karen Arrandale is a writer living in Cambridge. had at the back She is co-author of Lie in the Dark and Listen,recently of the shop plenty published by Grub Street, and is the former owner of examples to of the square pianoforte in question. illustrate her Thanks and acknowledgements to: Alison Hoskyns, The Square Pianoforte points. Dent’s journals and letters show him the Cobbe Collection. Dr Iain Fenlon, King’s College; to have been on the most cordial terms with Dr Ros Moad, King’s College Archives; David Hunt; at least one of them, Mr Bernard Ingram, Richard Andrewes; Dr Rosemary Summers; who kept a piano warehouse on St John’s Meirion Bowen. Street, but was also energetically restoring and maintaining harpsichords, about which The Cobbe Collection is based at Hatchlands, he consulted Dent. Dent’s Journal 12 April, a National Trust house. All the keyboard 1909: “I went to the Jenkinson’s to see the instruments in the collection have composer

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9 | king’s & opera – the listings The Robin Holloway (1961) His opera Edward Rushton Behind the scenes CLARISSA (1975), to his own libretto (1991) has written Composers Norman Platt (1939) who died this year based on Richardson’s novel, had its three chamber-operas founded Kent Opera and remained Artistic première at English National Opera in BIRDS. BARKS. Director for 20 years. 1990, conducted by Oliver Knussen. BONES. (TROJAN Professor of Musical Composition at TRILOGY) with The Earl of Harewood (1947) is Cambridge, all the composers below have librettos by Dagny Gioulami, to be President of the Board of Trustees of passed through his hands at one time or premièred by The Opera Group this July English National Opera, and was another. www.cam.ac.uk in Cheltenham, Oxford and at the Managing Director from 1972–1985. He is Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House. also Vice-Chairman of Opera North. He Judith Weir (1972) His full-length opera HARLEY was has been active in opera since 1950, when Her three full-length commissioned by the Opernhaus Zürich he became editor of Opera magazine. operas A NIGHT AT and is premièred there in November He is editor of The New Kobbe’s Opera THE CHINESE OPERA, 2005. www.roh.org.uk Book (1997). THE VANISHING [email protected] Robin Boyle (1955) formerly Chairman BRIDEGROOM and and Chief Executive of Faber Music BLOND ECKBERT written in the 1980s Errollyn Wallen signed Thomas Adès in 1992. have all been televised and performed in (1999) had her opera UK and US. She is working on a new ANOTHER AMERICA: Lord Davies (1958) was Chairman Welsh opera to be filmed rather than staged. Earth commissioned by National Opera from 1975 for many years Former Artistic Director of Spitalfields the Royal Opera House and remains on the Board. Festival. www.chesternovello.com and Nitro in November Lord Stevenson (1963) is Chairman of 2003. It is being performed again in the Council of Aldeburgh Productions. Thomas Adès (1989). January 2005. Forthcoming works include His new opera THE a new opera ANOTHER AMERICA: Fire, Jonathan Balkind (1964) founded the TEMPEST, commissioned by Push, to be performed Spitalfields Festival. commissioned by the at Sadler’s Wells in September 2004. John Wallace (1967) is Principal of the Royal Opera House, www.errollynwallen.com Covent Garden, opened Royal Scottish Academy of Music and on 10 February 2004 to a rapturous James Olsen (2000) Drama (RSAMD) in Glasgow – which has reception and acclaim from the press. Co- was one of six a new Opera School. productions are in place for Strasbourg composers who wrote Rupert Christiansen (1973) is Opera (Autumn 2004) and Copenhagen (2005). FAMILY MATTERS, a Critic for the Daily Telegraph, and author of Artistic Director of Aldeburgh Festival modern sequel to THE the recent Pocket Guide to Opera. since 1999. www.fabermusic.com MARRIAGE OF FIGARO with words by Amanda Holden, Oona Ivory (Bell-MacDonald 1974) was Juliana Hodkinson commissioned and produced by Tête à involved between 1989 and 2001 as (1990) is based in Tête, and performed at the Bridewell Governor of the Royal Scottish Academy of Denmark. Her work Theatre, London and on tour around the Music and Drama in initiatives to set up includes GILLES UK in February/March 2004 the new Opera School in Glasgow. REQUIEM (produced by www.nataliesteedproductions.co.uk John Deathridge (1982) Fellow and Operanord, Director of Studies in Music 1983-97 and Copenhagen, 1999), ALL THE TIME Rowland Moseley (2002) had his first now King Edward VII Professor of Music (produced by Den Anden Opera, opera MUSIC FOR A FRIEND premiered in at King’s College London, is an authority Copenhagen, 2001), and MAPS (Part 1 Cambridge last year. on Wagner and co-author of the New Grove produced by Aphids, Melbourne, 2000; Wagner. Part 2 produced by Kokon, Copenhagen 2002). www.staff.hum.ku.dk/juliana With apologies to the many it has been Meurig Bowen (1985) is Director impossible to contact in the time available. of the Lichfield Festival, which this year David Knotts (1990) Thanks to Stephen Cleobury, Robin Holloway, includes a double-bill of operas by has written two operas Nick Marston, John Deathridge, Iain Fenlon, Bernstein and Weill (14 July). recently, both in Rupert Christiansen, Peter Tregear, Nigel Brown. www.lichfieldfestival.org collaboration with Susanna Eastburn librettist Katie Craik (1987) has been (1990). The first, Artistic Director of the STORMLIGHT, was written for W11 Opera Huddersfield and the second, BAKE FOR ONE HOUR, Contemporary Music was commissioned by English National Festival since April Opera to celebrate the opening of the 2001. www.hcmf.co.uk new studio space at the London Coliseum and received its première in April 2004 Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas (2003), with the composer as conductor. Provost, is Chairman of the Board of king’s & opera – the listings & opera king’s

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11 | members’ news Books D.H. Lawrence’s Paintings, through the artist’s own of which were eventually essays: ‘Introduction to released from jail on the by and Introduction by Keith Sagar (1952) these Paintings’, ‘Making condition that they would about Pictures’ and ‘Pictures on never again be exhibited in Chaucer Press, London 2003. £25.00 the Walls’. Sagar provides England, a ban that was only members an introduction to these lifted fifty years later. For So controversial that they were confiscated articles that thoughtfully years a large selection and eventually impounded in 1920’s places Lawrence’s passion adorned the walls of a hotel London, D.H. Lawrence’s paintings More books for art within the context of in Taos, New , certainly provoke strong reactions. Whether by members his life and literary output, belonging to the late Saki as a result of their abundant portrayal of drawing on a wealth of contemporary Karavas, who approached the British The Buried Soul: naked male flesh in provocative poses, sources including accounts of Lawrence’s government a number of times to discuss How Humans their ‘outrageous’ subject matter, such as visits to galleries, his teaching of the fine their trade for the return of the Elgin Invented Death. urination, or simply their dismal lack of arts and his friendships with artists. marbles to Greece. Timothy Taylor technical prowess, these works have been (1988), Fourth much maligned and censured. Sophie Pickford (1997) History of Art. D.H Lawrence’s Paintings is impressively Estate, 2003, Currently a PhD student researching the Keith Sagar’s book offers a welcome illustrated with full page, colour £8.99. French Renaissance Chateau Interior. chance for Lawrence’s case to be heard reproductions of his works, the originals The Greeks and the Sea: an John Maynard Keynes unemployment. He documents the Beyond the Notes anthology with conflicts for Keynes between ‘private pictures. D E R 1883–1946 Susan Tomes (1972) inclination’ and ‘public duty’ – the worlds Isitt (1946) The Robert Skidelsky of Cambridge and Bloomsbury on the one Boydell Press, 2004. £25.00. Erskine Press, Macmillan, 2003. £30.00. hand and Whitehall on the other – and Susan Tomes describes her experience 2003, £19.95. how these affected his relationships and of twenty years of rehearsal, concerts This single volume biography is an behaviour, as well as his policy and recording. Her performing life has abridged and revised version of recommendations, while his influence on been centred on chamber music and the Skidelsky’s magnificent three-volume government and public policy grew. need to communicate it fully to an biography of Keynes, first published audience hungry for meaningful musical between 1983 and 2000. The book The book is particularly good on the experience. She was a founder member charts Keynes’s personal and contextual background to Keynes’s thought, and the pianist of both Domus and the intellectual development, illustrating showing why his ideas were so relevant and Florestan Trio. the interplay, tensions and at times often so radical in a world in transition from contradictions between his public and Victorian certainty to one characterised by Part One is a series of diaries private lives, and how these served to significant uncertainty. Skidelsky sees describing their travels and influence one another and shape his Keynes’s intellectual development both performances: Domus in the 1980s with thinking on economics. reflecting and providing practical solutions its own portable concert hall, struggling to aspects of this transition, conveying his to create the conditions for informal but Skidelsky shows the important genius, originality and the extraordinary intense concert performances, and the connections between Keynes’s early breadth of his influence on economics, Florestan Trio, currently one of the beliefs and thinking on ethics (as shaped politics, public policy and opinion, as well world’s finest piano trios. Part Two is a by G.E. Moore and fellow Cambridge as on a wide range of institutions collection of thought-provoking essays Apostles), his work on probability theory (including King’s College). about teachers, making records, and his evolving views on economic practising and rehearsing, audiences, theory and policy, most significantly with Paul Aylieff (1983), read Economics and earning a living, and the particular regard to the problem of inter-war is an Investment Banker. challenges of being a concert pianist. Jonathan Benthall (1959) won? Who is entitled to interpret Islamic Beyond the Notes gives an unusually doctrine? Is there one universal tradition candid view of the complexities of a life and Jerome Bellion-Jourdan. in music. The Charitable Crescent: of humanitarianism, or are there many traditions defined by separate cultural Susan Tomes Politics of Aid in the Muslim histories? In trying to answer these is a frequent World questions the book offers practical contributor, on music and I.B.Tauris, 2003. £39.50. insights extraordinarily relevant to today’s international climate, and other This book examines the relationship encourages the reader to challenge the subjects, to between politics and philanthropy in the common Western assumption that ‘we’ . workings of Islamic charities. It covers are the exclusive providers of aid to “Describes questions such as: Who is entitled to rescue a passive Third World. the life of the benefit from Muslim alms? Can material dedicated relief aid be uncoupled from political, or Jonathan Benthall is a former Director of professional sometimes even revolutionary, action? the Royal Anthropological Institute and musician more vividly and honestly than How can public trust (both Western and Chair of the International NGO Training any other work I’ve read.” Alan books by and about members and Research Centre, Oxford. | Islamic) in welfare delivery systems be Rusbridger. 12 Talking Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems, in a verse that he cleverly contrived to alter, and the time of reaping…’ To Peter, his and so make less offensive to more lyrics shine with an enamel-like brightness about An Introduction to the Sufi Master. Translated by fanatical Muslims. His resentment at the of imagery; flowers, wine-bubbles at the books severe application of Islamic prohibition of edge of the wine bowl, moon and stars, an Peter Avery (1958) and the use of wine is apparent in practically imagery which is peculiar to Persian poetry, John Heath-Stubbs. every poem he uttered.” The delightful brought to perfection by Hafiz. jacket cover is taken from a Persian Other Press, 2003. $14.00 Peter’s contact with Persian literature, and miniature called “Heavenly and Earthly with Hafiz, came early on in his life. “I’d Peter Avery talks to Alison Carter. Drunkenness.” been brought up on Fitzgerald’s translation Peter Avery told me about his new book The book grew originally out of a of Omar Khayyam, because my mother over tea in his warm and inviting rooms in conversation he’d had as a student during knew it by heart; she had a little velvet Gibbs as the winter light faded on a 1947/48 while he was studying at the copy. When I was seven, she sent me to the December afternoon, the last rays School of Oriental and African Studies in grocer’s in Uttoxeter, where I was told to augmenting the soft gleam London. “John Heath-Stubbs had said in a recite this verse to a (very startled) Harry, of his fine furniture. Peter pub in Soho one night, ‘Tell me about this son of the family ‘… A loaf of bread, a came to King’s in 1958 as Persian poet Hafiz – I’m very interested to flask of wine and thou beside me, singing University Lecturer in know about him! Because Emerson says in the wilderness. And the wilderness is Persian, after an early he’s a mine into which all poets can paradise enow.’” Peter’s resonant laughter career in the Indian Navy quarry for imagery.’ So I began doing erupts after an emotional rendition. “He (which introduced him to literal translations for him, out of which was a well-educated boy, and gave me the Urdu and Arabic), a degree came this book.” bread! But that was really my introduction at SOAS, and several years to Persian literature and to Sufism, and the Hafiz was primarily a composer of with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Sufi attitude towards life and towards ‘ghazals’, lyrics of from 8 or 9 to 15 verses Company as Chief people.” His mother also made him learn in length, and sometimes seeming to be Education Officer. Corinthians 1:13, ‘… Though I give my collections of unrelated, disjointed ideas. body to be burned, and have not charity, it In a timely move, he’s just This, as Peter explains, is a complete profiteth me nothing.’ reissued the translations he misconception. “Each lyric has a theme and poet John Heath-Stubbs going right through it, reflected in an “As I realised recently when I was talking first made in 1952 of thirty poems of Hafiz imagery that generally includes references about St Paul to a clergyman, the whole of (Shams ud-Din Muhammad Hafiz to the rose and the nightingale, the beloved my life has been based on this, and c.1326–1389) the celebrated Sufi poet of and the lamenting, unrequited lover, but Hafiz.” Peter’s interpretation? “Well … Shiraz. In the new foreword he writes of which ranges far so that, for example, the love! And a sense of the other world, of Hafiz, “… to be a Sufi is to be above the ‘sickle of the new moon’ can introduce the the spiritual realities – as opposed to the differences and squabbles of religious theme of one’s ‘harvest’, and thoughts on unreality in which we normally have our divisions. It is also clear that he was far death. The harvest/grain theme continues existence, and the pettiness of it all. I from being orthodox: near-contemporary through what is one of the most moving of think the more often people were historians record at least one incident in Hafiz’ poems. It begins: ‘I saw the field of reminded of that very short chapter of which he was chastised by his sovereign the firmament and the sickle of the new Corinthians, the better it would be for the prince for a seemingly heterodox statement moon/To my mind came my own harvest world.” And here he took time to read me the chapter. “Because it’s the philosophy of love. It’s absolutely axiomatic to me – , a reassessment subjects for eugenics – , mental illness as it was to my mother, who knew it by Richard Lynn (1949) and genetic diseases, for example. With respect to heart, and made sure her son did too.” each of these, he considers both the scientific Peter went on to recount the story of the Praeger Publishers, 2001. £61.50 feasibility and desirability of a eugenic policy. His conclusion is that in many areas such a policy book’s re-emergence. “I’ve always felt that This is a fascinating, multi-faceted book. Professor would indeed be both possible and beneficial. Hafiz is somehow around … in a spiritual Lynn sets outs to rescue eugenics from the lowly sense. Out of the blue, I had a letter from place to which it fell in the latter half of the Lynn argues that recent advances in biotechnology an American poet and publisher, in which twentieth century. It is an ambitious project, and not only allow a more acceptable form of eugenics, he said he’d been in the library in Harvard Lynn engages with scientific and ethical orthodoxy but also make some eugenic policy inevitable. and found this book of mine – and was on many fronts. He does this with enthusiasm, Biotechnologies will become increasingly enchanted and thought he’d like to moving effortlessly between history, genetics, accessible in the 21st century. Even if democratic republish it. He’d asked a passing demographics and ethics before delivering a societies hold back, authoritarian states will use librarian if he knew who this guy Peter startling prediction about the central role eugenics eugenics to enhance their national strength. Avery was. And the librarian said, ‘He was will play in 21st century world politics. If this is right, we ignore eugenics at our peril. A my teacher, supervised my PhD, and lives Lynn argues that the demise of eugenics in the new debate is needed, and Professor Lynn’s book at King’s College, Cambridge!’” lays a provocative challenge to those who wish to 1960s was due to a mistaken elevation of individual Peter Avery was awarded the OBE for avoid the dystopian future he foresees. rights above the needs of society. This meant services to Oriental Studies in 2001. discarding a useful tool of human progress. Defying Ben Colburn (2000) read Philosophy, and is His translation of the complete Gazals of taboo, he embarks on an analysis of possible currently working for an MPhil in Philosophy. Hafiz will be published next year. talking about books | 13 As an illustrator and children’s book creator, beautifully-drawn botanical studies on the Following I’ve always admired Jan Pienkowski’s´ bold, wall. Jan said he very much liked them but modernist and unpatronising approach to did not think they were ‘Art’. Raven designing books for children. Few people confessed the drawings were his. Jan was in invisible outside our business can know how much surprised to get in. thought goes into making paper, pictures Theatre posters are another good outlet and words work together across the short for the visually inclined. I’m happy to forget footsteps: time-scale of a picture book. The visual those I designed. Jan’s posters have stood intelligence and experimentation which Jan the test of time. He also designed children’s book brings to his books, is unusual. To discover undergraduate shows, including sets and quite recently that Jan Pienkowski´ had been costumes, but as he says “It was perhaps the illustrator Bridget an undergraduate at King’s over twenty posters that I was best at doing and I years before I had was oddly comforting. suppose I developed a name so that people Strevens (1975) With an over-developed critical faculty and came to me. I also had a very supportive and no direct leads into the world of design, it encouraging supervisor (F.L. Lucas) who met Jan Pien´kowski took me a long time to find my way after I forgave me for the occasional non-existent left King’s. So I was also intrigued. Like me, essay but had invariably seen the show.” (1954). he had spent several formative years in a Jan’s poster for Marlowe’s Jew of Malta was place where drawing and painting seemed, so coveted that collectors lifted it off walls, arguably, to be rather indulgent, private well before the first performance. When Jan activities, particularly when compared to the applied for his first job at J. Walter grand public platforms of music and drama. Thompson he struggled hard to convince How had Jan found his way? them that, despite being a Cambridge

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Jan studied Classics, then English in the mid 1950s. He was also part of a informal group of students interested in art, who made weekly trips to the Fitzwilliam under the wing of a young King’s Fellow, Michael Jaffé. Jan recalls Jaffé holding court in front of the paintings, much as I remember him when I was a student in the Art History faculty which Jaffé later founded. Jaffé would have appreciated Jan for speaking his mind. Jan learnt how to do that at his interview at King’s. When he was asked “what are your other interests?” graduate, he actually wanted a design job. Jan found himself saying, “Not music”. Surely he was far too intelligent for that? “Good” came the reply from his interviewer, When he was finally let into the art Classics tutor John Raven, “there’s quite department for an interview, there hanging enough music in this college already!” When on the wall in front of him was the Jew of Jan ventured an interest in art, Raven asked Malta poster. He got the job. Pictures can ollowing in invisible footsteps ollowing in invisible

f Bridget Strevens his opinion of some meticulous and indeed sometimes speak louder than words. | 14 At the birth of the universe in the Big Bang, properties. Physicists find it useful to What equal quantities of matter and antimatter express this relationship in terms of a were produced. When matter particles meet mathematical operator, or ‘mirror’, happened their antimatter counterparts they annihilate designated ‘C’, and another mathematical each other in a burst of high-energy ‘mirror’, called ‘P’ for parity. The C and P to all the radiation. The equal quantities of matter mirrors can be applied to a particle and antimatter should therefore have wiped interaction to give a ‘reflection’ of the antimatter? each other out long ago, leaving us with just interaction. If this reflected interaction does the radiation. However, we know that the not occur, then C, or P can be said to be My PhD, by visible universe is made of matter, so what ‘violated’. A CP-violating decay is then a happened to all the antimatter? Why didn’t decay in which matter and antimatter Mitesh Patel (1996) the matter and the antimatter all annihilate? behave differently. Given the size of the visible universe, the More than 30 years ago, physicists did idea that a similar amount of antimatter indeed discover that C and P mirrors do not might be out there somewhere seems always work perfectly in the decays of a reasonable. However, antimatter is found particle known as a kaon. The effect is tiny only in showers of cosmic-ray particles or in and searching for CP violation really is like experiments at large particle accelerators. looking for a needle in a haystack. Although A suggestion, by the Russian theoretical researchers still do not know the precise physicist Andrei Sakharov, has helped mechanism of this CP violation, it is reduce the scale of the problem. What if fortuitous for us that it occurs: without this matter and antimatter don’t always behave needle there might not be a haystack! in the same way? An effect called ‘CP For the three years of my PhD I worked on violation’ gives just this behaviour, resulting the NA48 experiment at the European Particle Physics laboratory CERN, near Geneva. NA48 is used to detect kaon decays and look for the small number of those decays that are CP violating. The experiment was designed by

BETH COLLAR physics groups from across Europe including Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities. Situated 40 metres underground, straddling the French-Swiss border, the apparatus is a quarter of a kilometre long, has a vacuum 1/6th of that on the moon and uses about half of the world’s available krypton in one of its detectors! In 2002, we were able to record 40 thousand million kaon decays in the NA48 apparatus. Detailed analysis of these decays allowed me to isolate seven events of a “… We were able to record 40 thousand million kaon particular type that give information about CP violation. These seven events are the first decays …detailed analysis of these decays allowed observation of this particular decay, and the me to isolate seven events … these seven events are measurement of the fraction of kaons that the first observation of this particular decay … decay in this way was the subject of my PhD thesis. To use another analogy, this is like this is like finding seven grains of rice in a finding seven grains of rice in a warehouse 10 warehouse 10 metres by 4 metres by 3 metres, metres by 4 metres by 3 metres, full, to the full to the brim with rice.” brim, with rice. The measurement of the rate of this decay will play a part in elucidating the in a one in a thousand million imbalance subtle difference between matter and (1:1,000,000,000) in favour of ‘ordinary’ antimatter caused by CP violation. It may matter. The antimatter and most of the help us start to understand what is behind matter could then have annihilated, but a the different behaviour of matter and small amount of matter would have been antimatter, and may eventually give some left to form us, and the universe around us. hint about where all the antimatter went. Studying matter at extremely small scales has therefore become inextricably linked Mitesh Patel (1996) worked in the High Energy with research at the largest of scales. Physics group under the supervision of Dr David happened to all the antimatter? Antiparticles mirror their related particles Munday. He has now left King’s to take up a research at

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Outside, the Cambridge weather alternated capriciously Voices (the new-ish mixed choir) sang three folksong between hail and bright sunshine; the usual Fen blast arrangements including the quirky Oliver Cromwell by had already flattened the daffodils. Inside, in the growing Benjamin Britten, which ends with the line, “If you want crush of the Combination Room, Members warmed up any more you can sing it yourself!” They were fresh and quickly, collecting badges and glasses of champagne, witty after dessert. From his commanding position up in sharing anxieties, recounting journeys, greeting old the gallery Simon Brown, their leader, reminded friends, meeting Fellows, bending their editor’s ear and Members that King’s actually has two excellent choirs. gossiping. “I’m not sure I’ll recognise him after all these Michael Gale (1951) proposed the College: years!” “What’s the new Provost like?” “We’ve come all the way from Devon to meet up with our old friends...” “On behalf of all of us, I thank our new Provost and the “I’m not very good in crowds …” “… Hello, we College for providing us with an excellent lunch and for corresponded about that missing crossword clue!” affording us an opportunity to meet old friends and to renew our links with the College. To ask us all back was an inspired idea. Whoever thought of it is to be congratulated. I suspect it was Provost Bateson, whose contribution EADEN LILLEY to the College has been outstanding. It was he, more than any of his predecessors, who realised the value of old Kingsmen and their willingness to help in these difficult times. The huge attendance today shows how right he was. Even in our old age, it is nice to feel wanted. Over the last fifty years, there has been a tendency in some to re-write the history of the College and to suggest that, in our day, the College was a bastion of privilege open only to the few. My recollection is very different. The truth is that many of us came here by the Open Scholarship route or by the Entrance examinations both of them rigorous tests which had nothing to do with privilege. Be that as it may, the Members and their guests, 1947–52 Provost and the Fellows now face huge After drinks, and a photo, the Provost welcomed problems, which didn’t exist in our day. Problems of Members and their guests, expressing her pride in the numbers, problems of accommodation, and problems College, its world-famous Choir and all-round musical of finance. excellence, as well as her belief in Members’ continuing The ethos of the College as we all remember it was support. The main dishes were light and seasonally liberal, enlightened and highly civilised. I still have, in inspired; and on our table the bread and butter pudding my papers, the personal letter which Provost Sheppard with caramel anglaise was also much appreciated. In wrote to me before my arrival, which encouraged me to King’s, as ever, it is the good company and conversation know I would be welcome. We came here from very oundation lunch oundation f which make such gatherings a real pleasure. King’s different backgrounds and from many different | 16 the Chapel, Fellows’ Building,thebridgeon the longer withus.Thevisualenvironment isthesame– to acceptthatthemenwhoshaped ourlivesareno we sithereinHall,theyearsfall awayanditisdifficult remember themasiftheywere yesterday.Indeed,as experiences ofthosethreeyears weresovividthatwe this College. learned andhighlycivilisedbodyofmen,theFellows books asfromdailyconversationanddebatewitha condition wasderivednotsomuchfromlecturesand of ourknowledgeandunderstandingthehuman we stillfeeltoday.Italsomeantthataconsiderablepart and wenthomelaterintheevening. stone screen.EventhemarrieddonsusuallyateinHall and taketheirseatsatHighTableinfrontofWilkins’ in Hallwherewecouldseethemprocesseachnight Fellows suchasPigouandMorganForster.Theyallate had roomsinCollege.SodidsomeoftheHonorary King’s. TheFellows,marriedandunmarried,nearlyall Don simplydidnotexistinourday;certainly English conceptofHigherEducation.Thenine-to-five indulgence. Itwasanexpressionofthetraditional breakfast; ararecombinationnevertoberepeated. Ian Stephens’srooms,haggisandBristolCreambefore by NoelandGabrieleAnnan;ononeoccasion,in Helen Morrisat5MertonStreet;elegantpartiesgiven rooms inGibbs;SundaylunchwithChristopherand dinner withPatrickWilkinsonandSydneyinPatrick’s wives. EndlessglassesofsherrybeforeandafterHall; the hospitalityextendedtousbyFellowsandtheir the lifeofCollegelayinfriendship,careand home. Theexplanationforourrapidabsorptioninto members oftheSociety,andallfeltcompletelyat countries butwithindayswehadallbecomefull It isnowoverfiftyyearssincewe wentdown,yetthe The resultwastocreateasenseofcommunitywhich The busysociallifeoftheCollegewasnotidleself- or fTheRoyal Opera House. board of table withstoriesfrom histimeonthe his right)entertained Nears (1951, Colin had beeninvolved intheBallet.” immediate my neighbour in thesixties, I hadbeensingingat theRoyal Opera occasion –andIdiscovered that while “Itwas avery enjoyable Cambridge. outside community choirinHiston, left)conductsa Donald Burgess (1950, the oldestKingsmanpresent. hefelt, High Table shouldhave included, r r with –thenemerged from theinner to betheperson hewas tobesharing Someoneelse–heassumedit in Gibbs. inaroom atamazement findinghimself inKing’sday andhisinitialdelight talked abouthisfirst lives inNormandy, Gerald Marchant (1948)who now Left: ealised that hehadbeenmisdirected! o.Bt eonsn ..Frtr he Forster, recognising E.M. But, oom. support forthis wonderfulplace.” strength. Thatisinevitable,because ofthedepthour happen, thatKing’scontinues to gofromstrength new, arecommittedtomaking surethatdoesnot that couldchange.Allmembers ofthisCollege,oldand history, anditscontinuingsuccess isinevitable;but but thatcouldchange’.Well,King’s hasafabulous meaning. “Bushsaid‘economicgrowthisinevitable, which heturnedroundtocarryagreatdealof to succeedandjustifyselection. they thenmakeittheirbusinesstoseethatgoon having investedpersonallyinthestudentstheyselect, admissions tutorsreallyagoniseoverwhotoadmit,and university teachers.InKing’s,heremindedus, an admissionsteamwhichdoesnotevencontain now normalpracticeforapplicantstobeinterviewedby admissions systembydescribinghow,intheUS,itis we knowandbecauseofthewaycare. different tothoseofusontheinside,becausewhat we’ve seenit!’Ofcourse,Petersaid,King’sseemsvery ‘Come on,guys,stopfighting! to agreewhichofthethreepossiblebuildingsitwas. looking roundKing’sfor‘theChapel’andbeingunable an American)toldanecdoteaboutfourAmericans Professor PeterLipton(1994)replying(andspeakingas great debt.” those whocameafterus,owethemandtheCollegea they devotedtheirlives,livesonafterthem.We,and not seetheirlikeagain.Butthecommunitytowhich returns”. “undiscovered countryfromwhosebournnotraveller of scholarshipandeccentricity,havegonetothat river, butthoseextraordinarymen,thatuniquemixture He alsoamuseduswitha‘GeorgeW.Bush’quote, He wentontoexpresshissupportfortheCambridge They wereallofthemremarkablemenandweshall cosagpo 50years.” across of agap r wasthe day “thepleasure instriving to thethingsheenjoyed mostabout One of wife Josephine hadcomefrom Paris. 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17 | foundation lunch 18 | bursaries and fees c DameJudithMayhew Jonas Provost, The University College London. Provost of Malcolm Grant CBE, and(right) Health andEducation, State forPublicServices, Secretary of Shadow toTimYeoAdvisor MP, Policy Chief Lyons (1962)left, Stuart F heldinKing’son Provost’s Seminar, Speakers at the11thandfinal should pay? University Funding –who and Fees Bursaries ia,1t eray20,were 13thFebruary 2004, riday, haired thedebate. Seminar Provost’s King’s Parade University haspromised£4,000bursaries toallinneed. the likely torisefromthecurrent £1,125to£3,000in2006, With tuitionfees for UKandEUundergraduates pressure. for able but poorersupport studentsare already under College fundsproviding financial academicpotential. basis of King’s iscommittedtofair accessandselectiononthe incomes between£15,000and£30,000. “tapering” formulaforthosewithassessed addition, lesserawardsaremadeusinga year. the UKandcurrentlyprovides£1.5millionper they cantothisscheme,whichisthelargestin scheme. Collegesareaskedtocontributeasbest University-wide ‘NewtonTrust’bursary maximum of£1,000peryearunderthe fee remissioncanapplyforabursaryof At Cambridge,alleligibleUKstudentsonfull av iscurrently support Bursary employment. pressure onacademicwork,asdoespaid work intermtime.Financialworryputs found that21%havealsodonesomepaid the vacation,butarecentsurveyinKing’s supplement incomewithpaidworkduring £6,000 peryear.Undergraduatessometimes living costscurrentlystandat£5,000to The Universityestimatesthatbasicstudent on academicwork. putspressure … andfinancialworry during vacations. live offinterm–allowingfor£20aweek charges, suchstudentshave£50aweekto an averageroomrent,heatingandelectricity require verycarefulbudgeting.’Afterpaying Cambridge butprovidelittleextra,andwill ‘this issufficienttomeetessentialcostsat website informsprospectivestudentsthat expenses totheseUKstudents.King’s maximum StudentLoanavailableforliving full feeremission.£4000ayearisthe of lessthan£15,000.Suchstudentsreceive homes withassessedannualfamilyincomes This year,13%ofKing’sstudentscomefrom King’s up… studentsarehard £1,000 bursary. (Thisincreaseintake-upis whom willbeeligible forthemaximum 2003–04, 26%willreceivehelp, halfof the SEFviaaNewtonTrustbursary. In were eligibleforandreceivedsupport from In 2002–03,15%ofKing’sundergraduates bu demandsontheSEFfor …but given toaKing’sstudentunderthisscheme. Exhibition Fund,provideshalfofeverybursary ailable … ailable r sary fundshave almostdoubled. sary King’s, throughtheSupplementary looks atsomefacts andfigures. In two aspectscontinue.” various groupsofpotentialapplicants ofthese heart ofKing’s,andeffortstoconvince on thebasisofacademicpotentialareat any background.Butfairaccessandselection applicants thatwewillrecognisetalentfrom remains hardtoconvincesomeprivateschool offer thefinancialsupporttheyneed.Italso than atotheruniversitiesandthatwecan cheaper andeasiertobeastudentatKing’s to convincepoorstudentsthatitmaybe make theirstudiespossible.Itremainshard on meritandprovidethesupporttheyneedto “King’s expectstocontinueacceptstudents Keith Carne,BursarialFellow,comments: newly availableinformation.) all thoseeligibletoapply,underpinnedwith due inparttoeffortsKing’sencourage from endowmentsandnewfundsraised is abletoprovideonlylimitedsupport. eligible for‘NewtonTrust’bursaries.TheSEF addition, EUandoverseasstudentsare categories usedforgovernmentsupport.In need oremergencyfitintobigschemesthe 2002–03. Notallstudents,andnotkindsof students (bothundergraduateandgraduate)in SEF madegrantsorloanstoatotalof200 confidentially andonanindividualbasis.The King’s tobeablesupportstudents The purposeoftheSEFhasalwaysbeenfor needs … tomeetother The SEFalsocontinues to overseas students. financial issuesthat arisefor inrelation theCollege J SeniorTutor King’s Parade, In thenextissueof revenue. will befinancedinitiallyinpartthroughfee scheme willcost£7.9millionayear,and the equivalentofbasiclivingcosts.The for abursarywithaboutoneintengetting Cambridge studentsarelikelytobeeligible University estimatesthatoneinthree Cambridge Bursaryof£4,000.The maintenance grantfromgovernmentanda fee remissionwillreceivea£1,500 If feesgoupin2006,studentseligiblefor scheme. proposed £4,000bursary …which willinclude theUniversity’s msLilwlosa oeo theacademicand ames Laidlawlooksat someof But somefundswillneedtocome not . Development Archives Award Success Bring friends to dine in news King’s: a message from Ros Moad, Archivist, is delighted that the Archive John Barber Centre has received funding for a project to As Non-Resident Members know, they improve access to the have a standing invitation to dine at High College’s estates records. Table as guests of the College up to six This fascinating collection times in any academic year, as well as documents a vital to bring a guest of their own for whom part of the they pay. Under present arrangements, College’s history, dinners may be taken in Full Term on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and on including records of Fridays by prior agreement with the estates given to the Vice-Provost’s Office. College by Henry VI following its foundation in At a recent meeting of Year 1441 and spanning the Representatives, it was suggested that small groups of NRMs might agree centuries to the present day. among themselves to come and dine at High Table on a particular Friday in Full The catalogue is currently held (http://www.a2a.org.uk/) Term. The College welcomes this idea, on a card index available only in and the Archives Hub and asks those who would like to do this the Archive Centre reading (http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/). to notify Loveluck in the room. The award of £31,200 will Part of the grant will fund Development Office [email protected] cover salary costs for a qualified outreach events in the areas or 01223 331322 archivist to convert the card where the College’s estates were index into an archival database. held, to include a travelling Choir in USA A searchable on-line version of exhibition and talks to local Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music, the catalogue will be launched groups and schools about the will be in Cincinnati to direct music at on Janus, the webserver for College Archive. A Project services in the Sacred Music Center on catalogues of Cambridge Archivist has been appointed 22 and 23 June, and will also give a archives and the project will run from lecture about contemporary British (http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/). June 2004 until August 2005. choral music. From 24 to 27 June he will The information will also be be in Chicago conducting master-classes sent to national initiatives such for ‘Chorus America’, an organization for as Access to Archives training young conductors. In December the Choir will make its first tour of the USA since 2000. Letters First woman King’s Parade The provisional schedule is Dallas I wondered if it might be of interest redevelopment (11 December), St Louis (12 December), Minneapolis (13 December), New York to you to know that I was, in fact, the It was a great relief to read in the (15 December), Virginia first woman to be offered a place at Winter 2003 edition of King’s Parade (16 December), and Washington DC King’s. I received my letter of that the King’s Parade redevelopment (18 December). acceptance on 15 October 1971. I plan would retain the facade of nos. already had my A-levels, which I had 13–22. When I arrived in 1972, a Generous Gift for King’s taken at Walbrook College, married “affiliated student” at the Blackfriars, having left school at 16. I mature age of 24, my wife and I took Parade made a direct approach to King’s and up residence in 14A. The redevelopment of 13-22 King’s was working at Dillon’s bookshop Parade is nearing completion, and these when I heard the news about getting Jonathan Kotch (1972) Grade 1 listed buildings will be ready for in – to the great amusement of the occupation by the autumn. As we go to customers. I also spent part of that Devoto crossword press news comes of the splendid gift of year travelling on the trans-Siberian another room, thanks to a donation of Brilliant crossword in KP – is the railway to Japan, and then to £75,000 from Robin Boyle (1955) in compiler a professional? (S)he should Thailand. I had applied to read memory of his wife Ruth. A former be if not. English, but changed to Anthropology, choral scholar, Robin was Chairman and about which King’s was very John Graham (1939) (Araucaria) Chief Executive of Faber Music until his sympathetic – though I am now an retirement and now lives in France. The English teacher, which I love! I also Provost and Fellows are most grateful for make stained glass. this generous donation, and look forward to celebrating with him and other donors Angela Browne (Jackson 1972) the inauguration of a new chapter in the development news and letters development

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