We're hiring!
We've vacancies for Vergers in the Cathedral. Vergers are an essential part of the Cathedral’s welcome and provide practical and logistical support to ensure the smooth running of the Cathedral.

More info on our website:
chch.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/casu…

Defund. Mock. Privatise. Profit.

The same playbook they used for water, rail and mail.

Don’t fall for it.

#YourNHSNeedsYou H/T Patrick Graham

It was a real honour to direct this, especially with our fantastic team of choristers, Clerks, players and Operations team. We are so lucky to share such a rich musical life. Happy Easter (almost)!

Banging choons ⁦Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford⁩ ⁦Helen Smee⁩ ⁦Frideswide Voices of Christ Church, Oxford⁩

April's BBC BBC Music Magazine has landed on the doorstep and we're over the moon to see ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ for Harriet Burns & Ian Tindale's gorgeous Schubert album, 'Love's Lasting Power' 💐

'magical' 🪄 - Listen on Apple Music Classical today: orcd.co/schubertlieder

Fabulous work from everyone, and a delight to spot so many young singers from courses past in the credits. All power to you, NYC!

100% this ⬇️

Happy #IWD2024 ! Tonight's evensong at 6 features music by Esther Bersweden, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and Imogen Holst. The celebrations continue tomorrow, when we welcome girls taking their first steps into church music for a 'Be A Chorister For A Day' evensong with our @frideswides Voices.

Fab to see ExeterCathedral & TruroCathedralChoir reestablishing musical & social links between the choirs.

Tiny thread:

(1) In interviews, choristers with pre-pandemic memories of CSA Sport Days, joint cathedral festivals, &c. often cite them among their favourite 'choir things.'

Lucy Frazer BRIT Awards Thriving??? What planet are you living on? How can you be the Culture Secretary and write this? The classical music industry in Britain is literally collapsing. We are moving from the envy of the world to a sector completely destroyed. Please wake up and help sort it out.

Every year we receive loads of emails from families who have missed these by accident - please help us spread the word to the good people of #Oxfordshire #Buckinghamshire #Chilterns #Cotswolds #Berkshire etc!

'I want to have a rich mix of styles in my working life. Each art form informs the other genre, and I would hate to have just one niche to focus on.'

#MeetTheArtist interview with Harriet Burns, soprano Harriet Burns meettheartist.online/2024/02/23/har…

this might be one of the greatest paragraphs ever written

It’s fine, literally none of us bother, and our friends are always busy anyway 🙃

We've waited 38 years for this view! With the scaffolding fully removed from the Cathedral's East End, we can now admire the original beauty of the entire exterior as it would have looked in the 14th century after the Spire was added.

📸: Martin Cook

Personal choice: Love's Lasting Power, debut disc of Schubert lieder from duo Harriet Burns and Ian Tindale on @delphianrecord. My record review:
planethugill.com/2024/02/person…

Live now: Choral Evensong with
Frideswide Voices of Christ Church, Oxford

Prelude: Howells - Psalm Prelude 2
Responses: Paul Spicer
Psalm: 37
Canticles: Brewer in D
Anthem: Howells - Like as the Hart
Voluntary: Boulay - Andante

youtu.be/6ylIs7vu8Ek

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

I deeply love my job, and also writing about music, actually, so why, WHY does writing programme notes send me straight back to EssayCrisis101 mode?

Back by popular demand🎺

Our Principal Trombone, Donal Bannister and his amazing singing dog…Molly!🐶

Here’s their rendition of the Welsh national anthem in support of the Welsh rugby team in the 2024 #SixNations which kicks off this week!

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