Paul Parker
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Commercial and regulatory barrister at 4 New Square. Also Arsenal, occasional sous-shepherd and part-time tenor.
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7. It's Big Bobby C time! Bob Chilcott, crown prince of carols, wrote this terrific sleighride of a setting for that old classic 'Adam Lay Ybounden'. I do love a bit of Chilcott. His command of rhythm always makes his stuff so much fun to sing, let alone listen to. youtu.be/bgKWZwuNEk0?...
On Christmas Night: Adam lay ybounden
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December 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
7. It's Big Bobby C time! Bob Chilcott, crown prince of carols, wrote this terrific sleighride of a setting for that old classic 'Adam Lay Ybounden'. I do love a bit of Chilcott. His command of rhythm always makes his stuff so much fun to sing, let alone listen to. youtu.be/bgKWZwuNEk0?...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:54 PM
🙂 Daily Quordle 1408
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What a night, what a performance from this far from 100% team, one of the great European nights at the Emirates.
Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too.
Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too.
Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
April 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
What a night, what a performance from this far from 100% team, one of the great European nights at the Emirates.
Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too.
Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
Declan Rice has produced two of the greatest free kicks you'll ever see at this level, and we 100% deserved that third goal too.
Incredible. This team deserves so much love. #arsenal
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Shetland ewes are such great mothers. It's a joy to see their strong instincts kick in.
April 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Shetland ewes are such great mothers. It's a joy to see their strong instincts kick in.
I'm not sure if I've ever set foot in a working convent before, but tomorrow, in anticipation of Candlemas, I and seven other singers will do just that to present a programme of delights through the centuries, from Tallis to Holst. A good way to brighten up this time of year.
January 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'm not sure if I've ever set foot in a working convent before, but tomorrow, in anticipation of Candlemas, I and seven other singers will do just that to present a programme of delights through the centuries, from Tallis to Holst. A good way to brighten up this time of year.
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Remember: when a university scrubs a job, cuts a course, closes a department, or merges a faculty, it leads the institution not towards safety, but closer to failure. It's so simple, but it's sometimes hard to grasp or see - a bit like regression or calculus. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University
The Cost Allocation Death Spiral and the University Accountants, as people whose business it chiefly is to bring hard news to powerful people, generally avoid emotional terms. They prefer softer, nuan...
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January 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Remember: when a university scrubs a job, cuts a course, closes a department, or merges a faculty, it leads the institution not towards safety, but closer to failure. It's so simple, but it's sometimes hard to grasp or see - a bit like regression or calculus. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cost-a...
Rehearsal tonight, tickets for the concert available! We are back in business for 2025 with this beautiful collection of choral music exploring love in all its forms including Monteverdi, Brahms
@ericwhitacre.bsky.social and more! Join us on 8th February at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford 🎶😁
@ericwhitacre.bsky.social and more! Join us on 8th February at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford 🎶😁
January 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Rehearsal tonight, tickets for the concert available! We are back in business for 2025 with this beautiful collection of choral music exploring love in all its forms including Monteverdi, Brahms
@ericwhitacre.bsky.social and more! Join us on 8th February at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford 🎶😁
@ericwhitacre.bsky.social and more! Join us on 8th February at the Holywell Music Room in Oxford 🎶😁
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This is an astonishing thing for a British MP to say. Astonishing. Even from someone of Jenrick's base disposition. It is obviously, patently racist. More importantly, it encourages violent racist extremism.
There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
January 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is an astonishing thing for a British MP to say. Astonishing. Even from someone of Jenrick's base disposition. It is obviously, patently racist. More importantly, it encourages violent racist extremism.
I'm beginning to tire of referees finding new, unique, ways of penalising the Arsenal.
January 5, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm beginning to tire of referees finding new, unique, ways of penalising the Arsenal.
Well that was fun. Nice to be able to join the current chapel choir for a few of the anthems. Racked up my first Hark the Herald Angels of the season 😱
December 2, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Well that was fun. Nice to be able to join the current chapel choir for a few of the anthems. Racked up my first Hark the Herald Angels of the season 😱
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Took a deep dive into the shallow world of puddles for this week's Country Life mag, stirring in Walter Raleigh, Peppa Pig, and ee cummings. Also some serious stuff on how puddles are important habitats. #naturewriting
📸 Alamy; Mary Evans
📸 Alamy; Mary Evans
November 20, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Took a deep dive into the shallow world of puddles for this week's Country Life mag, stirring in Walter Raleigh, Peppa Pig, and ee cummings. Also some serious stuff on how puddles are important habitats. #naturewriting
📸 Alamy; Mary Evans
📸 Alamy; Mary Evans
Now, this IS something to look forward to. Commotio (www.commotio.org) at SJE Oxford this Sat, 30 Nov, at 7.30pm. Works by Chilcott, Moore, Whitbourn & plenty more besides. Rutter like you've never heard! And freshly-baked mince pies to get you in the mood. Tix from commotio.org/.../19.30%2C....
November 25, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Now, this IS something to look forward to. Commotio (www.commotio.org) at SJE Oxford this Sat, 30 Nov, at 7.30pm. Works by Chilcott, Moore, Whitbourn & plenty more besides. Rutter like you've never heard! And freshly-baked mince pies to get you in the mood. Tix from commotio.org/.../19.30%2C....
Much musical jollity to be had this coming weekend. 1st, Mozart's Great C Minor Mass & Bruckner Motets with OSJVoices @ SJE Arts on Saturday (7pm), then Rutter's Magnificat & Vivaldi's Gloria with the Burford Singers @ St John the Baptist, Burford on Sunday (7.30pm). No time to pause for breath!
November 21, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Much musical jollity to be had this coming weekend. 1st, Mozart's Great C Minor Mass & Bruckner Motets with OSJVoices @ SJE Arts on Saturday (7pm), then Rutter's Magnificat & Vivaldi's Gloria with the Burford Singers @ St John the Baptist, Burford on Sunday (7.30pm). No time to pause for breath!
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Hi #naturewriting. Here's the kind of thing I write: fascinating facts and some fun along the way!
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Dummy eyes, faking death and and the whiff of rotting flesh: The great deceptions of Nature's most cunning creatures - Country Life
A whiff of rotting flesh, the flash of a painted eye, a dead-faint to the floor: Nature is full of cunning survival tricks, says Laura Parker, as she explores the greatest mimics and frauds you'll fin...
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November 16, 2024 at 8:21 AM
Hi #naturewriting. Here's the kind of thing I write: fascinating facts and some fun along the way!
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And so my mad month of music-making - 5 different concerts in 5 weekends - concludes tomorrow in Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's Voices under the inimitable John Lubbock. And what else could it be but the St Matthew Passion? What a way to spend (some of) my Easter weekend 😊
March 29, 2024 at 9:04 AM
And so my mad month of music-making - 5 different concerts in 5 weekends - concludes tomorrow in Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's Voices under the inimitable John Lubbock. And what else could it be but the St Matthew Passion? What a way to spend (some of) my Easter weekend 😊
Mad March, pt.4. This time it's on Sunday 24 March at 7.30pm, St John the Baptist Church, Burford with the delightful Burford Singers under our fab new conductor, Will Dawes. Exciting times ahead, starting with Haydn's Creation. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-burford-... but going fast.
March 19, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Mad March, pt.4. This time it's on Sunday 24 March at 7.30pm, St John the Baptist Church, Burford with the delightful Burford Singers under our fab new conductor, Will Dawes. Exciting times ahead, starting with Haydn's Creation. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-burford-... but going fast.
Mad March continues this Sat, 16 March, 7.30pm with the delightful NC3 choir: a great mix of British (inc Smyth, Britten, Holst, Moeran) & European (Boulanger, Stenhammar, Brahms) music at the Chipping Norton Music Festival with George Parris and Susie Allan
Tix from www.cnmf.org.uk/concerts/202...
Tix from www.cnmf.org.uk/concerts/202...
March 14, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Mad March continues this Sat, 16 March, 7.30pm with the delightful NC3 choir: a great mix of British (inc Smyth, Britten, Holst, Moeran) & European (Boulanger, Stenhammar, Brahms) music at the Chipping Norton Music Festival with George Parris and Susie Allan
Tix from www.cnmf.org.uk/concerts/202...
Tix from www.cnmf.org.uk/concerts/202...
Mad March, pt 2. If you don't know the music of Uroš Krek, Knut Nystedt, Svein Møller, Frank Ferko & Bern Herbolsheimer, it's about time you did. And if you're unsure about those names, we have others too. Sat, 9 March, 7.30pm, Commotio at SJE, Oxford. Tickets from www.commotio.org/store/p41/19...
March 6, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Mad March, pt 2. If you don't know the music of Uroš Krek, Knut Nystedt, Svein Møller, Frank Ferko & Bern Herbolsheimer, it's about time you did. And if you're unsure about those names, we have others too. Sat, 9 March, 7.30pm, Commotio at SJE, Oxford. Tickets from www.commotio.org/store/p41/19...
Concert season is here! First off, Tallis's monumental Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater followed by gregoriana by Duruflé & the Oxford première of Kerensa Brigg's Requiem with the marvellous Oxford Pro Musica Singers. Sat 2 March, 7.30 pm, Exeter College. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxfordpromus....
February 29, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Concert season is here! First off, Tallis's monumental Gaude gloriosa Dei Mater followed by gregoriana by Duruflé & the Oxford première of Kerensa Brigg's Requiem with the marvellous Oxford Pro Musica Singers. Sat 2 March, 7.30 pm, Exeter College. Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/oxfordpromus....
My 3rd consecutive weekend of double concerts approaches. First, Sat 16th, Messiah: 7pm at Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's. Then, at 5pm on Sun 17th the first-rate
Oxford Pro Musica Singers will perform our much-loved (and fast selling-out) A Christmas Cracker at Keble College.
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers will perform our much-loved (and fast selling-out) A Christmas Cracker at Keble College.
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December 11, 2023 at 2:55 PM
My 3rd consecutive weekend of double concerts approaches. First, Sat 16th, Messiah: 7pm at Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's. Then, at 5pm on Sun 17th the first-rate
Oxford Pro Musica Singers will perform our much-loved (and fast selling-out) A Christmas Cracker at Keble College.
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Oxford Pro Musica Singers will perform our much-loved (and fast selling-out) A Christmas Cracker at Keble College.
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And so, seamlessly on to the next weekend of concerts. First, on Saturday at Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's a reprise of the St Nicolas Cantata. Then on Sunday all the excitement of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Pts. I-III) with the terrific Amici e Voci and Belsize Baroque.
December 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM
And so, seamlessly on to the next weekend of concerts. First, on Saturday at Dorchester Abbey with the Orchestra of St John's a reprise of the St Nicolas Cantata. Then on Sunday all the excitement of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio (Pts. I-III) with the terrific Amici e Voci and Belsize Baroque.
Now the concerts are coming thick and fast. First, On Hov'ring Wing with Commotio on Saturday. Then Britten's (slightly bonkers, imo) St Nicolas Cantata on Sunday with the
OSJ Voices. Both at St John the Evangelist, Oxford. So much to look forward to!
OSJ Voices. Both at St John the Evangelist, Oxford. So much to look forward to!
November 27, 2023 at 11:39 AM
Now the concerts are coming thick and fast. First, On Hov'ring Wing with Commotio on Saturday. Then Britten's (slightly bonkers, imo) St Nicolas Cantata on Sunday with the
OSJ Voices. Both at St John the Evangelist, Oxford. So much to look forward to!
OSJ Voices. Both at St John the Evangelist, Oxford. So much to look forward to!
Today at 11.45 on BBC Radio 3: Following the recent news that the Music Department at Oxford Brookes University is set to close, Professor of Music at Oxford University, Jonathan Cross, shares his thoughts about the place of music education in our society. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Anthony McGill, Imogen Cooper and Weelkes
Tom Service speaks to the clarinettist Anthony McGill.
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November 25, 2023 at 11:28 AM
Today at 11.45 on BBC Radio 3: Following the recent news that the Music Department at Oxford Brookes University is set to close, Professor of Music at Oxford University, Jonathan Cross, shares his thoughts about the place of music education in our society. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This is an important and well-reasoned letter decrying the impending closure of the Music department at Oxford Brookes University. musiche.ac.uk/academic-mus...
Academic music associations’ joint letter to Oxford Brookes leadership – MusicHE
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November 24, 2023 at 10:32 AM
This is an important and well-reasoned letter decrying the impending closure of the Music department at Oxford Brookes University. musiche.ac.uk/academic-mus...
My next gig. So much to look forward to. Everyone knows the Fauré Requiem (and the Cantique de Jean Racine too). Not everyone will know the Lobo, but believe me both pieces are divine, especially Versa est in luctum. If you're in/near Kingston-u-Thames next Saturday you're in for a rare treat.
November 4, 2023 at 1:23 PM
My next gig. So much to look forward to. Everyone knows the Fauré Requiem (and the Cantique de Jean Racine too). Not everyone will know the Lobo, but believe me both pieces are divine, especially Versa est in luctum. If you're in/near Kingston-u-Thames next Saturday you're in for a rare treat.