{"id":2194,"date":"2019-12-31T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2019-12-31T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T16:30:51","slug":"words-and-music-with-errollyn-wallen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/words-and-music-with-errollyn-wallen\/","title":{"rendered":"Words and Music with Errollyn Wallen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 60 years since my father was appointed as Senior Tutor (later Principal) at Mansfield College (autumn 1959), so it’s fair to say that I have had a lifelong connection with the College. Music has been important there over the years: Eric Routley (hymnolgist and amazing musician) was a Fellow; David Goodall (father of horn player Jonathan Goodall) was organist in the sixties; distinguished pianist Paul Crossley was a student, as was Bryce Morrison; Carolyn Brock was the inspirational organist and Director of Music for many years and now John Oxlade has continued this role.<\/p>\n

Under Helena Kennedy’s Principalship, music was further encouraged and it was Helena who appointed Errollyn Wallen as Honorary Fellow. On 6 December and on Principal Helen Mountfield’s instigation, Errollyn presented a delightful evening of words and music in the Chapel where I used to perform with Carolyn Brock. Errollyn involved Mansfield Fellows and Students in playing (Paul Lodge’s Zarathustra’s Roundelay, Sam Spencer with Grieg’s Nocturne Op 54 No 4, Aondoyima Ioratim-Uba playing his piano solo, Nathan Bentley playing Stephen Blundell’s Three Short Pieces <\/em>for saxophone and piano with the composer), and in reading (Jenny Scoones reading Elizabeth Jennings’ Winter Love, <\/em>Jamie Albrecht reading poems by Jack Spencer and Ted Berrigan). And Helen Mountfield read Sometimes <\/em>by Sheenagh Pugh.<\/p>\n

It was , therefore , a privilege to be asked to join in this concert, so Jane and I played with Errolyn, Marie Grandval’s Romance <\/em>and Jane and I, the beautiful Dolce <\/em>from Telemann’s D major Sonata. This paved the way for Errolyn, who had so finely introduced the evening, to sing songs from the Errollyn Wallen Songbook. What a talent!\u00a0 Thank you Errollyn.<\/p>\n

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Errollyn Wallen, CBE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 60 years since my father was appointed as Senior Tutor (later Principal) at Mansfield College (autumn 1959), so it’s fair to say that I have had a lifelong connection with the College. Music has been important there over the years: Eric Routley (hymnolgist and amazing musician) was a Fellow; David Goodall (father of horn<\/p>\n

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