You don’t always fully appreciate a gift until it is taken away.
Category: John’s Blog
From my window
Extraordinary times, like nothing most of us have ever experienced.
Church and Composers
Thoughts about composing music for Christian communities today.
Where do you get your ideas from?
It’s a sensible enough question, and one that every composer is asked – yet none of us has a good answer.
The benefits of a cathedral chorister education
Does anyone know of anyone researching the benefits of chorister training?
Remembering David Willcocks (1919-2015)
I am immensely the richer for having been David’s student, assistant, and friend.
Christmas Quiz 2019: The Answers
So here you are – the answers to my 12 Christmas Quiz questions – some of them quite tricky!
Christmas Quiz 2019
Welcome to my 2019 Christmas Quiz! There will be a new question every day from 1-12 December.
RIP Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019)
A fond farewell to church music’s only knight, an honour he so richly deserved. Nunc dimittis, Stephen.
Putting music at the centre
The wheel of fashion needs a spin to rediscover music as the newest and brightest idea in education.
