Patrick Allies

To Lincoln’s Inn Fields; and it being too soon to go to dinner, I walked up and down, and looked upon the outside of the new theatre, now a-building in Covent Garden, which will be very fine.

Job vacancy for a Director of Music at a church in Devon.

I've been passed this job vacancy for a DoM at a church in Colton, Devon. I'm told the circumstances are promising: a musical Rector, reasonable resources, ambitions to do even more with both choir and organ.

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

At the end of evensong tonight, a parishioner said “ah yes you didn’t conduct the last one did you, we had the *young* chap” so now I’m busy googling retirement homes

We start touring a beautiful programme of rarely-heard (and unheard since 1650s) music from Venice in just over two weeks. If you're near Oxford, Durham, Sheffield or London, take a look at our website! #sheffield #durham #oxford #opera #earlymusic

A photograph from 2020 tweeted by Alice H. Jones of a protest placard she made bearing the names of Black composers, the first of which is Vicente Lusitano (1520 - c.1561).

The cover of Vicente Lusitano, Complete Works, edited by Joseph McHardy and Arne Spohr, published by A-R Editions

From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.

A photo that appears to have a "gettyimages" watermark but the watermark is actually painted directly on the bridge.

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

In today's "the real world is nothing like Twitter/X" news

Huge thanks to everyone for getting us to our total! The recording now goes straight into production and will be arriving on your doormat (or digital equivalent) in November.

(I do get the need to copy & paste, I'm just after a little proof-reading)

£42k for a lead (I.e. extensive experience) curatorial post - with management responsibilities - at a national library in one of the most expensive cities in the world? no wonder they’ve been on strike!

People in London who like singing evensong:

I’m leading a scratch choir for an evensong on Sunday at St James’ Islington. 4.30pm for 6pm, Tallis O nata lux, Howells Coll Reg, Eccard When to the Temple. The church are putting on refreshments afterwards by way of thanks.

DM if you’d like to join!

Amazingly our @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social fundraiser has made it past £10k. We're now at 82% of our target and would be very grateful for any support. All pledges are doubled by Creative Scotland until tomorrow morning.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

My problem with the Night Manager is that I don't think Bertie Wooster would ever become an arms dealer

Amazingly our @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social fundraiser has made it past £10k. We're now at 82% of our target and would be very grateful for any support. All pledges are doubled by Creative Scotland until tomorrow morning.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

That’s so kind, thank you very much indeed!

Screenshot of our Crowdfunder page

Thanks to 40 supporters, we're now 54% of the way towards our fundraising total for the next @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social disc. Grateful for any support of the project - or just sharing our page really helps!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

Background photo of Culture Minister Lisa Nandy and Musicians' Union General Secretary Naomi Pohl smiling to camera, with grey and yellow text “We are the M.U.” and “Behind every musician” behind them. In the lower half, black text with yellow highlight says “Government announces £1.5bn for arts & culture venues in England.” Below that, smaller white text says “It includes £80 million capital funding over four years for Arts Council England’s regularly funded organisations.” Underneath is a yellow line. Below that is the logo “M U Musicians’ Union” on the left and an arrow indicating more on the right.

Government has announced a 5% funding uplift for arts organisations in England – part of a £1.5bn package to protect arts and culture venues 🧵👇

Screenshot of our Crowdfunder page

Thanks to 40 supporters, we're now 54% of the way towards our fundraising total for the next @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social disc. Grateful for any support of the project - or just sharing our page really helps!

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hey-for-ch...

Looks like a driverless taxi (with driver) on the Euston Road

In which case I had better get off Bluesky...

Edward Casaubon, as depicted by Patrick Malahide, in TV adaptation of Middlemarch

Me right now

A terrible thing about doing a PhD in your thirties is how much larger you have to zoom in on your writing at the end vs the beginning.

21 Jan 1583: John Bull future #music teacher of Princess Elizabeth Stewart & lecturer at Gresham College #London is appointed Master of Choristers at #Hereford cathedral #otd He died at #Antwerp in 1628

Happy birthday!

This week I am mostly very pleased that I got to read an advanced copy of @soumayakeynes.ft.com & @chadpbown.com’s excellent book last week.

Mortifying

British education in a nutshell

Why does it look like they've all put on each other's clothes for the photo 😭😭