Links
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.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.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
Other Music and Books
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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
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Music Manuscripts from the Great English Collections http://www.thomson.com/rpub/mmgec.html |
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John Stainer 1840-1901 http://tch.simplenet.com/bio/s/jstainer.htm |
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HAROLD WATKINS SHAW (1929-1996) Obituary from Wadham College Oxford http://www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/people/gazette/1997/gaz.35.obituaries.html |
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Watkins Shaw book on Ouseley, 1988, review click here |
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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 |
Yes there were Nuns at SMC....well close by any way, and old pictures of the Choir
http://members.madasafish.com/~worche/cadmore/cadmore.htmCathedral Music
http://www.cathedralmusiclinks.org.uk/1153.html