Jonathan Cross
@jonathancross.bsky.social
Musicologist | Director, Ertegun Graduate Scholarship Programme in the Humanities @uniofoxford
Here we go again. More vandalism. This is one of the top UK departments for teaching and research. Let's join together to fight for our colleagues at Nottingham
Heartbroken to share the news that recruitment to Undergraduate Music courses at the University of Nottingham has been suspended.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
Please do contact us on protectuonmusic@gmail.com if you would like to support us.
November 6, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Here we go again. More vandalism. This is one of the top UK departments for teaching and research. Let's join together to fight for our colleagues at Nottingham
To Cardiff for Tosca. (Me? I know! & I wasn't even reviewing.) Fabulous, especially Romaniw. But what made the tears flow? Just seeing the words "Welsh National Opera" at the final credits. They mean so much to so many. Why is this glorious musical beacon being destroyed? @welshnatopera.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
To Cardiff for Tosca. (Me? I know! & I wasn't even reviewing.) Fabulous, especially Romaniw. But what made the tears flow? Just seeing the words "Welsh National Opera" at the final credits. They mean so much to so many. Why is this glorious musical beacon being destroyed? @welshnatopera.bsky.social
I've been immensely privileged to have spent the past 24 hours in the company of Jane Glover. She is truly a National Treasure. A musician of global stature, a first-rate musicologist, a powerful role model, but also generous and kind like virtually no-one else I know in the music professions
September 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I've been immensely privileged to have spent the past 24 hours in the company of Jane Glover. She is truly a National Treasure. A musician of global stature, a first-rate musicologist, a powerful role model, but also generous and kind like virtually no-one else I know in the music professions
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Only one day left to book one of the very few spots still available at Oxford's Meeting Minds 2025 Ertegun Lecture with Oxford and St Hugh's alumna, Professor Dame Jane Glover! @oxfordalumni.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
20 Sep, 11 AM, Lecture Theatre 3, Math Institute
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/meetin...
@ox.ac.uk
20 Sep, 11 AM, Lecture Theatre 3, Math Institute
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/meetin...
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Only one day left to book one of the very few spots still available at Oxford's Meeting Minds 2025 Ertegun Lecture with Oxford and St Hugh's alumna, Professor Dame Jane Glover! @oxfordalumni.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
20 Sep, 11 AM, Lecture Theatre 3, Math Institute
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/meetin...
@ox.ac.uk
20 Sep, 11 AM, Lecture Theatre 3, Math Institute
www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/meetin...
Dark, desolate, terrifying, humorous. Outstanding production and performance of Beckett's Endgame this evening at Ustinov Studio @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Dark, desolate, terrifying, humorous. Outstanding production and performance of Beckett's Endgame this evening at Ustinov Studio @theatreroyalbath.bsky.social
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Check out this profile of Professor @jonathancross.bsky.social!
Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching. @ertegunhouse.bsky.social
Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching. @ertegunhouse.bsky.social
Professor Jonathan Cross - Analysing the spectrum of sound
Jonathan Cross, Professor of Musicology, talks about his career and his research into spectral music.
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September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Check out this profile of Professor @jonathancross.bsky.social!
Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching. @ertegunhouse.bsky.social
Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching. @ertegunhouse.bsky.social
Just in case you'd like to join in the fun I had yesterday reimmersing myself in Mussorgsky's magical musical world, follow the link, starting at 30:00
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Record Review, BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregor
Jonathan Cross picks 5 key recordings by BBC Proms Composer: Mussorgsky
www.bbc.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Just in case you'd like to join in the fun I had yesterday reimmersing myself in Mussorgsky's magical musical world, follow the link, starting at 30:00
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Joyful Nikki de Saint-Phalle sculptures dancing in the sunshine at Hauser & Wirth
August 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Joyful Nikki de Saint-Phalle sculptures dancing in the sunshine at Hauser & Wirth
What are the chances of that? 🤣
August 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What are the chances of that? 🤣
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Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL
SHAPE Involve and Engage
A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.
buff.ly
August 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL
Stefan Zweig, 1937, Austrian-Jewish refugee who found sanctuary in London
August 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Stefan Zweig, 1937, Austrian-Jewish refugee who found sanctuary in London
Stefan Zweig occupied a relatively modest house in Lyncombe during his brief exile in Bath. But I love the idea that the city was for him a Salzburg substitute
August 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Stefan Zweig occupied a relatively modest house in Lyncombe during his brief exile in Bath. But I love the idea that the city was for him a Salzburg substitute
One of the greats
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stuart Burrows, internationally renowned opera singer, dies at 92
The internationally renowned opera singer Stuart Burrows has died following a short illness.
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June 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
One of the greats
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
RIP the great Alfred Brendel. Your late Schubert is still unsurpassed. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with you in 2013. I read out one of your poems about a sheep; you contributed the final words: "Baaaah, I said"
June 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
RIP the great Alfred Brendel. Your late Schubert is still unsurpassed. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with you in 2013. I read out one of your poems about a sheep; you contributed the final words: "Baaaah, I said"
You really do start to feel your age when the Bodleian Library describes CDs and DVDs as 'heritage formats'
June 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You really do start to feel your age when the Bodleian Library describes CDs and DVDs as 'heritage formats'
Fantastic news. What a relief. I'm sure there will still be difficult times for the department, but Music continues at Cardiff. Quite right
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cardiff University backtracks on plans to cut music and languages
Music and modern languages will still be offered at Cardiff University, the vice chancellor says.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Fantastic news. What a relief. I'm sure there will still be difficult times for the department, but Music continues at Cardiff. Quite right
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
As Britten is to Moonrise Kingdom, so Stravinsky is to The Phoenecian Scheme. A joy for lovers (like me) of Wes and Igor, but rather more baffling!
May 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As Britten is to Moonrise Kingdom, so Stravinsky is to The Phoenecian Scheme. A joy for lovers (like me) of Wes and Igor, but rather more baffling!
Sketches by Natalia Goncharova for Bronislava Nijinska choreography of Stravinsky Les Noces (1923). All up for discussion this Sat at 15.00 on BBC Radio 3 Building a Library
May 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sketches by Natalia Goncharova for Bronislava Nijinska choreography of Stravinsky Les Noces (1923). All up for discussion this Sat at 15.00 on BBC Radio 3 Building a Library
A great pleasure to be invited to share my work today with students in Geneva: séminaire "actualité de la recherche sur la musique". Also blue sky over mountains and lake!
April 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A great pleasure to be invited to share my work today with students in Geneva: séminaire "actualité de la recherche sur la musique". Also blue sky over mountains and lake!
Thank you Richard Morrison @thetimes.com for bringing this wonderful audio resource to our attention, and to Stuart Fowkes for curating it. Evocative immersive soundscapes
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
citiesandmemory.com
April 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Thank you Richard Morrison @thetimes.com for bringing this wonderful audio resource to our attention, and to Stuart Fowkes for curating it. Evocative immersive soundscapes
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Hockney in Paris. The Normandy room is breathtaking - the joy tinged with melancholy of lockdown spring
April 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hockney in Paris. The Normandy room is breathtaking - the joy tinged with melancholy of lockdown spring
I've just realised that "Chat GPT" translates directly into French as "Cat, I farted". You can't imagine the pleasure this gives me
April 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I've just realised that "Chat GPT" translates directly into French as "Cat, I farted". You can't imagine the pleasure this gives me