Professor Lisa Johnson (known as Lisa Colton)
@lisacolton.bsky.social
Musicologist, parent, fair-weather gardener
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Head of Music Department at University of Liverpool
Field trip with 20 students to Chester Cathedral today.
November 3, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Field trip with 20 students to Chester Cathedral today.
Went to the archives today with two classes and we saw and sang from medieval manuscripts, explored an early modern print of Byrd songs, and an 1840s edition of Purcell’s Bonduca (ie story of Boudica). Recording recommendations for Bonduca welcome, including any “with piano forte accompaniment“!!
October 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Went to the archives today with two classes and we saw and sang from medieval manuscripts, explored an early modern print of Byrd songs, and an 1840s edition of Purcell’s Bonduca (ie story of Boudica). Recording recommendations for Bonduca welcome, including any “with piano forte accompaniment“!!
All I want for today is to match this fox's joyous energy.
October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
All I want for today is to match this fox's joyous energy.
Sundays now that we’re back to one child with football matches and the other desiring karaoke duets (both teens though) 🎤 ⚽️
September 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Sundays now that we’re back to one child with football matches and the other desiring karaoke duets (both teens though) 🎤 ⚽️
First coffee in my #LightbulbMoments mug! The exhibition opened last week at the Victoria Gallery & Museum @livuninews.bsky.social and is worth it as much for the dolphin skeleton as seeing the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on display.
September 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
First coffee in my #LightbulbMoments mug! The exhibition opened last week at the Victoria Gallery & Museum @livuninews.bsky.social and is worth it as much for the dolphin skeleton as seeing the original manuscript of Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D on display.
Celebrating the many, wonderful musical contributions of Duncan Druce, a concert on 20 September at St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, 5pm. No tickets but donations to MSF welcome.
August 22, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Celebrating the many, wonderful musical contributions of Duncan Druce, a concert on 20 September at St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, 5pm. No tickets but donations to MSF welcome.
Post MedRen mood
July 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Post MedRen mood
Book display at MedRen had a couple of familiar titles! @medren2025.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Book display at MedRen had a couple of familiar titles! @medren2025.bsky.social
@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
@medren2025.bsky.social Another excellent musical evening, including Fretwork and voices performing consort music by Orlando Gibbons, and an unexpected Lampton Worm / dragon warded off with audience performance of chants to St Cuthbert 🐉
Huddersfield Pride today with Charra Tea and Mazikeen lip syncing to Wicked.
June 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Huddersfield Pride today with Charra Tea and Mazikeen lip syncing to Wicked.
“At least you tweeted about it”, says wife who did all the work.
April 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“At least you tweeted about it”, says wife who did all the work.
Looks a lot like the one of a young woman seated at the virginals by Vermeer, I think. Also has a gamba waiting for a duet.
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Looks a lot like the one of a young woman seated at the virginals by Vermeer, I think. Also has a gamba waiting for a duet.
Part of the Eyes on the Bog conservation project, taking images in exactly the same places to track the health of the moorland #Marsden #EyesOnTheBog
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/yorksh...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/yorksh...
April 6, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Part of the Eyes on the Bog conservation project, taking images in exactly the same places to track the health of the moorland #Marsden #EyesOnTheBog
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/yorksh...
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/yorksh...
Was very windy
April 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Was very windy
Sunny and blustery short walk above Marsden, where we found the new curlew sculpture.
April 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Sunny and blustery short walk above Marsden, where we found the new curlew sculpture.
The plural and brackets so it makes sense to each and both of us are everything. Chocolate has also appeared, delayed because of “the clocks going forward”. 10/10
March 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The plural and brackets so it makes sense to each and both of us are everything. Chocolate has also appeared, delayed because of “the clocks going forward”. 10/10
Changing trains at dusk can be rather beautiful, though sadly no time to dwell in the Station Buffet
#Stalybridge
#Stalybridge
March 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Changing trains at dusk can be rather beautiful, though sadly no time to dwell in the Station Buffet
#Stalybridge
#Stalybridge
Lovely visit to Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts today. Lots of high tech facilities of course but it was the glimpses of the building’s heritage that were most striking. #Liverpool
January 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Lovely visit to Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts today. Lots of high tech facilities of course but it was the glimpses of the building’s heritage that were most striking. #Liverpool
Love the fact that the poster nuns for the Medieval Women exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social are singing the correct introit for the start of Mass (Suscepimus deus misericordiam tuam) and that I can look it up quickly on Cantus. cantusdatabase.org/chant/667264 #nuntastic Visiting BL on 1 Feb!!!
January 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Love the fact that the poster nuns for the Medieval Women exhibition @britishlibrary.bsky.social are singing the correct introit for the start of Mass (Suscepimus deus misericordiam tuam) and that I can look it up quickly on Cantus. cantusdatabase.org/chant/667264 #nuntastic Visiting BL on 1 Feb!!!
At the end of a week when we moved house, attended the carol service at our village church, my daughter sang her heart out by candlelight, and my wife played cornet in the brass band. Super northern / Yorkshire Christmas Eve (Son socialising..!)
December 24, 2024 at 9:06 PM
At the end of a week when we moved house, attended the carol service at our village church, my daughter sang her heart out by candlelight, and my wife played cornet in the brass band. Super northern / Yorkshire Christmas Eve (Son socialising..!)
Actual footage of us moving house today.
December 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Actual footage of us moving house today.
20 years in this house. Moving Wednesday. Going to miss the colour of our bedroom, which is Cheap Heritage Green.
December 16, 2024 at 9:38 PM
20 years in this house. Moving Wednesday. Going to miss the colour of our bedroom, which is Cheap Heritage Green.
Our snowy back garden. Roads and pavements covered. Grateful to colleagues for running open day without me, given yesterday’s black ice experience and sliding slowly but chaotically to the train.
November 23, 2024 at 7:52 AM
Our snowy back garden. Roads and pavements covered. Grateful to colleagues for running open day without me, given yesterday’s black ice experience and sliding slowly but chaotically to the train.
The family walked a section of York city walls yesterday in the sunshine. Son said he quite liked the size of the buildings but would need to change the windows.
January 14, 2024 at 8:12 AM
The family walked a section of York city walls yesterday in the sunshine. Son said he quite liked the size of the buildings but would need to change the windows.
My weekend included watching two cracking concerts: avant-garde multimedia vocal performance with tap dancing, and a local brass band performing a super set of pieces from Rimmer marches and virtuosic solos to Ruby Tuesday, dir. Paul Lovett Cooper. #hcmf #SlawitBand
November 19, 2023 at 9:53 PM
My weekend included watching two cracking concerts: avant-garde multimedia vocal performance with tap dancing, and a local brass band performing a super set of pieces from Rimmer marches and virtuosic solos to Ruby Tuesday, dir. Paul Lovett Cooper. #hcmf #SlawitBand