The Council and Senate of the Weimar University of Music decided last night to close the Institute for Early Music. It’s not just Oxford and Cambridge that have devalued music studies.
Weimar is reallocating its priorities to pedagogy, teacher training and cultural management.
Goethe, Schiller, any thoughts?
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It has been confirmed that the Reverend Canon Nicholas Jepson-Biddle has been appointed Priest in Charge of Bournemouth Town Centre. His licensing service will be performed in November by the Bishop of Winchester. Jepson-Biddle was […]
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John Betjeman anniversary Also worth mentioning today is that it’s 40 years since the death of British poet, writer and broadcaster, John Betjeman, who was Poet Laureate from 1972-1984. Although born in 1906, he was […]
