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List of links to other sites connected with, or mentioning, St Michael's College
(please note these sites are not directly connected with the Society or College, and any views expressed are entirely their own!)

Tenbury Wells: Including accommodation
http://uk.geocities.com/TenburyTIC

Local community site:

Ouseley

http://www.morrisonfoundation.org/frederick_ouseley.htm 
including a green SMC logo and a letter from FAGO

Waltz, for the Band of the Blues, was composed when Ouseley was just thirteen but he had by then written many other works. See Ouseley's handwritten score at http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/data1/dg/exhibition/ut_re_mi/music28.htm

'Only think, papa blows his nose on G' Ouseley's perfect pitch: http://shrike.depaul.edu/~abreeden/feats.htm

"A particularly interesting man for a composer........" http://www.4anything.com/cgi/rfrsearch.cgi?http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/2820/music.html

A short Biog
http://www.getmusic.com/artists/amg/Artist/331/174331.html

Ouseley's Compositions

Cyber Hymnal, including several Ouseley tunes: Christchurch, Contemplation, and St Gabriel
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/o/u/ouseley_fag.htm

It Is Not Death to Die Melody - "Tenbury", Frederick A.G. Ouseley, 1861 http://www.4anything.com/cgi/rfrsearch.cgi?http://www.acronet.net/~robokopp/hymn/itisnot.htm

Discussion group 

Ex-pupils

Jonathan Harvey was a chorister at St Michael's College, Tenbury (1948-52), and is indisputably one of the most imaginative and innovative composers working in Europe today. http://www.fabermusic.co.uk/harvey.htm

Charles A.E. Harriss, former chorister under Ouseley http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0001558

Other Music and Books

BODLEIAN LIBRARY REPORT FOR THE YEARS 1985-1993

"The Friends have also contributed to the purchase of printed books from the library of St Michael's College, Tenbury" http://rsl-01.rsl.ox.ac.uk/mh/rpt/rpt93frb.html

Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections http://www.thomson.com/rpub/mmgec.html
John Stainer 1840-1901 http://tch.simplenet.com/bio/s/jstainer.htm
Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley Collection http://diogenes.baylor.edu/WWWproviders/Library/LibDepts/MMLandJones/MusicFineArts/collections.html
HAROLD WATKINS SHAW (1929-1996) Obituary from Wadham College Oxford http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/gazette/1997/gaz.35.obituaries.html
Watkins Shaw Book on Ouseley, 1988, review click here or here
Heathcote Statham (1889-1973) studied at St Michael s College, Tenbury, and was Organist at St Michael's Tenbury (1920) http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~snc/BMStuff/c-c.htm

Nuns
Yes there were Nuns at SMC....well close by any way, and old pictures of the Choir
http://members.madasafish.com/~worche/cadmore/cadmore.htm

Cathedral Music
http://www.cathedralmusiclinks.org.uk/1153.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  The 2006 Reunion was the Centenary of the Society and 150 years since Ouseley opened his college

 

For more details see here

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