Oxford Musician Issue 10 2020 Faculty News
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ISSUE 10 2020 Contents Faculty News 3 Faculty Fun Days 4-5 Isabelle Carré tells us about the Faculty’s newly launched outreach project Schwarzman Centre 6 Matt Pickles introduces the new home of Oxford University’s Humanities Division Music and Manuscripts in 7 Late Thirteenth-Century Metz Elizabeth Eva Leach, Matthew Thomson Suzanne Aspden and Joseph Mason tell us about their Chair, Music Faculty Board, 2018–21 edited volume on the Bern chansonnier Sonorous Cities: 8-9 Towards a Sonic Urbanism Gascia Ouzounian tells of her new project on creative practice in architecture and urban design From the Chair of the Board The London Stage Project 10 Jonathan Hicks and Michael Burden guide For universities, this is the kinds of ways. We celebrate Gascia Ouzounian has us through London theatre performances Janus-faced time of the year, the Faculty’s attainment been successful in attaining since the eighteenth century when we look both back on of a Bronze Award in the European Research what we’ve achieved and Athena SWAN process, John Malchair and Eighteenth-Century Council funding for her English Tunebooks 11 forwards to the challenges under Gascia Ouzounian’s five-year project ‘Sonorous Alice Little tells us about John Malchair and opportunities of the new leadership, which will provide Cities: Towards a Sonic and his manuscript tunebooks year. As planned, and despite a framework for our ongoing Urbanism’. Elizabeth Eva COVID-19 disruptions, work on gender equality at all Celebrating the Bate Collection 15 Leach, Matthew Thomson Bate Collection Manager Andy Lamb we have appointed our levels in the Faculty. Following and Joseph Mason have reflects upon the history of the Collection inaugural Associate Professor our Sound Thinking appeal completed editing the in Popular Music, Sarah last summer, we were important thirteenth-century Gaz Coombes and 14 Hill, who will join us from delighted to be able to offer a The Hot Fruit Orchestra French source, the Bern Cardiff University next April, series of Faculty Fun Days for Hear about the Sheldonian Theatre concert chansonnier. Michael Burden heralding an exciting new school children. Isabelle Carré with Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes and former Junior Research stage in the broadening of details some of that work in The World’s Music at Oxford 12-13 our curriculum. A 5-year this issue. Unfortunately, the Fellow, Jonathan Hicks, DPhil students Sophia and Pablo explore outline some of their research musical styles from across the world Departmental Lecturer programme was disrupted appointment, replacing by the COVID-19 crisis and on the history of theatre in Alumna Profile: Rachel Parris 16 Gascia Ouzounian while she consequent lockdown; thanks London. Under the guidance Alumna Rachel Parris tells of her time at of Christian Leitmeir, we Oxford and life as a comedian at the BBC is on a European Research to the Finzi Trust and the Council-funded project, generosity of alumni, we continue to prepare for Remembering Ralph Leavis 17 brings Thomas Hodgson, an hope to be able to transfer the imminent Research Alumni and Faculty members share their ethnomusicologist, to join us the remainder of the project’s Excellence Framework (REF) memories about alumnus Ralph Leavis too, alongside our other planned activities to the submission. The recent Alumni Profiles 18 departmental coming year. The creative publications, commissions June Boyce-Tillman and John Byrt speak lecturers, determination, generosity and and recordings on page 23 about their lives after graduating from Oxford Joanna ingenuity of our students in give a sense of our continued Music in Prisons: 19 Bullivant and the face of the virus lockdown role as a centre of research The Sing Inside Project Sebastian is also evident in their musical excellence. We know that Music student Holly Jackson introduces us Wedler activities, such as Livi van to the work of the Sing Inside charity our eventual move to the (pictured). Warmelo’s ‘online quarantine Schwarzman Centre, for A Musical Life in Lockdown: 22 Meanwhile, show’, The Last Five Years, which intensive planning Experiences from Jordan we bid and Graighagh Cordwell’s is under way, will advance DPhil student Graihagh tells of her time farewell to research on and in the Zaatari researching music in the world’s largest both teaching and research Syrian refugee camp Elizabeth Refugee Camp in Jordan, still further, and enable Kenny, as both featured in this issue. more people from diverse Alumni & Student News 20-21 she moves And we celebrate the Bate backgrounds to access to a new role at the Royal Collection’s 50th anniversary, Books and Project News 23 music and the Faculty. As Academy of Music, and both as a remarkable The Last Five Years: 24 ever, there’s more going on welcome , as institution in itself, and An Online Quarantine Show Peter Collyer her interim replacement. We as a force for widening at Oxford than we can do Hear how Music students have adapted justice to here, but we hope their musical plans during COVID-19 also remember Ralph Leavis, participation in musical who sadly died earlier this activity across the community. the magazine gives you a Edited by Rim Jasmin Irscheid taste of life in the Faculty and Photography by Bern Burgerbibliothek, Corpus year. Ralph was known to Christi College Library, English Folk Dance many alumni as a denizen of Colleagues’ research has encourages you to stay and Song Society, Victoria and Albert Museum the Faculty’s and University’s also continued, despite the in touch. London, Lia Breingan, Karla Gowlett, Graihagh music libraries. disruptions of lockdown, Cordwell, Ian Wallman, Helen Messenger, Jasper Suzanne Aspden Minton-Taylor and the work featured here Magazine designed by The Graphic Bomb This issue, like the continues to demonstrate just Associate Professor of Music Cover image: Visiting primary school pupil plays last, demonstrates our how diverse and active the and Chair of Faculty Board, the cello as part of our Faculty Fun Day commitment to broadening Faculty’s research community Fellow in Music, The editors would like to thank all the students, staff access to Oxford in all is. We are delighted that Jesus College and alumni who have contributed to this magazine. 2 Oxford Musician Issue 10 2020 Faculty News Professor Robert continuously, outlining a We are excited to be able music including her own Saxton announced the Thames journey from its to share news of the new song cycle and Schubert’s premiere of his Thames Cotswold source to the Humanities building. The Dichterliebe. Journey concerto. The North Sea. Schwarzman Centre is piece for solo oboe and currently being built in the Professor Martyn Harry heart of Jericho and will be chamber orchestra was premiered Vehicles, completed in 2024/2025. commissioned by oboist A Children’s Opera to James Turnbull (Christ The project is made possible audiences in Newport and thanks to a £150 million gift Church, 2002) and the Didcot this year. The project St Paul’s Sinfonia and from philanthropist and provided children aged 6-12 businessman Stephen A. their Music Director, with an operatic approach Andrew Morley. The Schwarzman. For the first time, to the history of human the Humanities faculties will four movements play transport. be housed together with a new Humanities library and a wide range of academic, exhibition and performance spaces. A project on English 2019 was a year of celebrations composer Frederick Delius led The Faculty’s Emeritus and went straight to another by Professor Daniel Grimley Professor Susan Wollenberg year of important birthdays: and his Research Assistant celebrated her 70th birthday Beethoven’s 250th. The start of Dr Joanna Bullivant won a last year. We organised a Beethoven’s anniversary was Project Award in the 2019 concert in her honour last marked by Oxford’s Beethoven Vice-Chancellor’s Public November which featured a Festival Symposium in which Engagement with Research selection of Lieder and piano Professor Laura Tunbridge Awards. We had the pleasure of and Claire Holden spoke about the composer and welcoming two internationally Dr Alice his work. renowned musicians to Oxford Little last year: Pakistani singer received Professor Tunbridge is also the Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan a TORCH recipient of a three-year Major and Grammy-winning cellist Knowledge Research Fellowship from the YoYo Ma. Both received an Exchange Leverhulme Trust for a new honorary degree at Encaenia Fellowship project on the social and sonic in 2019, the University’s in partnership history of the string quartet. annual ceremony that with the English Folk Dance awards honorary degrees to and Song Society (EFDSS) to distinguished men and women. research eighteenth-century tunebooks. Dr James Whitbourn In July 2019, performance for charity at received a nomination in the The Faculty Oxford Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre 62nd Grammy Awards for of Music University in May 2019. The recording is thrilled his work as producer on the Press has now been released on CD to have announced and vinyl. Royal Opera House recording become of George Benjamin’s opera a new an Athena SWAN Bronze publishing The BBC Proms Plus Talk Lessons in Love and Violence. Award holder for the first time. relationship in 2019 featured Faculty Professor Gascia Ouzounian, academics Professor Professor Gascia Ouzounian, with who led the Athena SWAN composer Jonathan Cross, discussing Associate Professor of Music application for the Music Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky and Fellow in Music at Lady and Faculty, said: “This represents research and Dr Leah Broad, who Margaret Hall, was awarded a major step forward in fellow Dr James gave an insight in the music a €2 million grant from the identifying and addressing Whitbourn. of Sibelius and Nordic myths European Research Council inequalities due to gender & legends.