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Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We had three hot but fabulous days at St Alban's Holborn recording fantastic music by John Joubert with @colla-voce.bsky.social for release by SOMM Recordings next year - the brilliant Adrian Peacock and Dave Hinitt behind the desk and the wonderful Rebecca Lea and Nick Pritchard as soloists.

Londinium recording music by John Joubert in St Alban's Holborn, conducted by Andrew Griffiths

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This was a beautiful way to spend an hour…

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

b otd March 20, 1927 – John Joubert, South African-English composer (d 2019) Here's one of his fine anthems (text by Henry VIII) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwmw... @anna-joubert.bsky.social

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John Joubert - O Lorde, the Maker of Al Thing [Score Video]

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David W. Barber @bachbeethoven.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

b 1927 – John Joubert, South African-English composer (d 2019) d 1997 – V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, critic (b 1900)

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Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

A glorious concert on 27 March with @colla-voce.bsky.social and the wonderful Clare O’Connell – Richard Rodney Bennett’s ‘A Farewell to Arms’, John Tavener’s ‘Svyati’ plus Tallis, Schütz, Joubert, Mauersberger, Gabriel Jackson, Howard Skempton, and Lucy Walker. Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

Flyer: Ricard J. Tovar's 'The Cello Player', 2024

A Farewell to Arms programme:
Lucy Walker: There will come soft rains
Richard Dering: Factum est silentium
John Joubert: Lines from "The Youth of Man"
Barbara Strozzi, arr. O'Connell: Che si può fare (with solo cello)
Fernando de las Infantas: Congregati sunt inimici nostri
Rudolf Mauersberger: Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst
John Tavener: Svyati (with solo cello)
Gabriel Jackson: In memoriam
Howard Skempton: After Rain (with solo cello)
Thomas Tallis: O nata lux
John Joubert: Let There Be Light
Heinrich Schütz: Verleih uns Frieden
Richard Rodney Bennett: A Farewell to Arms (with solo cello)
Lucy Walker: I saw eternity

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Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We're thrilled to be recording an album of wonderful, but hitherto neglected, choral music by John Joubert with @colla-voce.bsky.social, for release by SOMM Recordings in 2027, the centenary of Joubert's birth! Find out more: www.londinium-voices.org.uk/joubert-crow...

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Londinium: John Joubert crowdfunder

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A wonderful evening with @londiniumchoir.bsky.social last night. Thanks to all in the choir and @colla-voce.bsky.social for committing to a recording of Dad’s choral music in celebration of his centenary in 2027. It’ll be great!

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Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Our seductive Bosch-themed concert with @colla-voce.bsky.social is on Friday 10 October! Wonderful music including James MacMillan, Thea Musgrave, John Joubert, Anselm McDonnell, Agneta Sköld, Pizzetti, Cardoso, Vivanco and much else! Tx www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

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Kenneth Woods @kennethwoods.net · 07/08/2025

Opening night of Jane Eyre was pretty special. Can't wait for my two remaining perfs on Fri and Sat (tix available). Great to see this 5* response.Experience an inspired and immersive staging. Congrats Eleanor Burke and the whole cast, crew and orchestra thespyinthestalls.com/2025/08/jane...

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JANE EYRE review by thespyinthestalls at Arcola Theatre

review of JANE EYRE | Arcola Theatre | thespyinthestalls | 5 stars | Green Opera’s production of John Joubert’s Jane Eyre turns the best

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Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Last concert of Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra 30 July 1955 ended with March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz. A trumpeter blew 'The Last Post' in the pub. Brass instruments saw off conductor Norman del Mar at Leeds station. Death of an orchestra: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... 3/3

Piece from The Yorkshire Post about the final performance of the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra on 30 July 1955 – 70 years ago.
It includes a photograph of a sign that had been hung over the entrance to the players’ dressing room on the night they played their final concert. It reads: ‘Wreaths made to order’.
Also a photograph taken by me during the COVID19 pandemic in 2020. It’s of the War Memorial in Leeds with Leeds Town Hall in the background on a day of bright sunshine, crystal clear air and fair weather clouds. Wreaths of poppies lie around the base of the memorial.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v381r

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Roger Norrington must have been 25 when he sang tenor in this 1959 concert. I found the programme amongst Dad’s things. A very enterprising line up of music!

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Looking forward to Jane Eyre - my Dad’s last opera - at Grimeborn in August:

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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Embarrassed to have missed the actual date, but 48 hours late: Wednesday was the centenary of the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, one of Britten's trusted collaborators. Here's Britten asking him, tentatively, to take part in the first performance of the War Requiem, if he's not too busy.

Page 1 of a typed letter, with manuscript salutation:

The Red House, Aldeburgh, Suffolk.
16th February, 1961.
My dear Mr Fischer-Dieskau,
Please forgive me for writing to such a busy man as yourself - you can be sure that if i did not feel very strongly I should not be troubling you!
Coventry Cathedral, like so many wonderful buildings in Europe, was destroyed in the last war. It has now been rebuilt in a very remarkable fashion and for the reconsecration of the new building they are holding a big Festival at the end of May and beginning of June next year. I have been asked to write a new work for what is to us all a most significant occasion.
I am writing what I think will be one of my most important works. It is a full-scale Requiem Mass for chorus and orchestra (in memory of those of all nations who died in the last war) and I am interspersing the Latin text with many poems of a great English poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed in the First World War. These magnificent poems, full of the hate of destruction, are a kind of commentary on the Mass; they are, of course, in English. These poems will be set for tenor and baritone, with an accompaniment of chamber orchestra, placed in the middle of the other forces. They will need singing with the utmost beauty, intensity and sincerity.

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Peter Pears has agreed to sing the tenor part, and with great temerity I am asking you whether you would sing the baritone. You may not, I fear, be free (the dates of the two performances are May 30th and June 1st, with rehearsals the few previous days), and above all you many not feel inclined to do this, but I am earnestly hoping that you may be free and willing; in which case the direction of the Coventry Festival will write to you direct to make all practical arrangements, and I will send you the music when it is written, which will be at various stages during the year.
Peter Pears joins with me in sending warm greetings.
Please forgive me for troubling you,
Yours sincerely,
Benjamin Britten

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland @rcsofficial.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1/3. It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear colleague and friend David Watkin has passed away. David was one of the finest cellists of his generation - a master soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, and conductor.

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George Vass @georgevass.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The UK Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please sign the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govrenment that the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...

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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts

The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

When scores had individually designed covers - in colour!

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

A beautiful symmetry at Pitville Pump Rooms #Cheltenham before our concert today @englishsymphony.bsky.social

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A stroll through the churchyard at St Nicolas, Kings Norton #Birmingham in the sunshine - en route to the dentist…

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

In Composer of the Week each day 4pm @BBCRadio3 Donald Macleod explores the life & work of French composer Mel Bonis. The series was produced by our much-missed friend & colleague Johannah Smith, who died earlier this year. We broadcast it in her memory. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A thing of beauty found at my parents’ house: programme from 1975 production of Death in Venice at Covent Garden, Peter Pears as Von Aschenbach, tickets £3.50 #opera #Britten

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Another insomnia induced Radio 4 Extra find: John Bayley’s beautifully written memoir about his wife Iris Murdoch. Recommended.

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BBC Sounds - Iris by John Bayley - Available Episodes

Listen to the latest episodes of Iris by John Bayley on BBC Sounds.

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Released today! Brilliant playing from Dionysus Ensemble of the 1961 Octet. Available to listen here: li.sten.to/f5xmm2q0

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John Joubert Octet

John Joubert Octet Links. Available on all popular platforms.

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thank you so much for marking my Dad’s birthday: born 98 years ago today! Dad died in 2019. His beloved wife Mary, my mum is still with us at 94 years old.

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Anna Joubert @anna-joubert.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Everything looks better with a blue sky…especially #Birmingham

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