Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Farewell to my Doktorvater Arnold Whittall (1945-2026). A great mentor to so many of us working in new music and analysis. Though physically very frail, at our last meeting just three weeks ago he was as alert and critical as ever. Thank you for everything, Arnold. 4150
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Top marks to The Times sub for this excellent headline 082
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Delighted to receive a copy of Juan Liu's translation of my @reaktionbooks.bsky.social Stravinsky 'Critical Life' inc a v generous endorsement from composer Tan Dun. Available in all good bookshops across China! 082
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Farewell to a great figure www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...theguardian.comÉliane Radigue, French composer and musique concrète legend, dies aged 94The Paris-born artist reinvented the synthesizer through meditative and feedback-drenched sonic explorations 040
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 19/12/2025A spot of mid-winter good cheer tomorrow afternoon, if you fancy tuning in www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 3 - Record Review, Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.1 'Winter Daydreams' in Building a Library with Jonathan Cross and Andrew McGregorNavigating the best new classical albums of music for Christmas and the festive period. 011
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Paris-Roubaix has nothing on the annual Frome Cobble Wobble 070
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 23/09/2025www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...theguardian.comHits from the bong: music obsessives rescue the sound of Spain’s ancient bellsFor centuries bells were the fastest means of communication, calling people to meetings, warning about wildfires, and were even believed to offer protection from storms – now they are being given a ne... 021
Reposted by Jonathan CrossFaculty of Music, Oxford University @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Check out this profile of Professor @jonathancross.bsky.social! Learn more about spectral music and find out what Professor Cross gets up to as a musicologist, combining research, public engagements, and interdisciplinary teaching. @ertegunhouse.bsky.socialox.ac.ukProfessor Jonathan Cross - Analysing the spectrum of soundJonathan Cross, Professor of Musicology, talks about his career and his research into spectral music. 083
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Joyful Nikki de Saint-Phalle sculptures dancing in the sunshine at Hauser & Wirth 110
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 17/08/2025Stefan Zweig occupied a relatively modest house in Lyncombe during his brief exile in Bath. But I love the idea that the city was for him a Salzburg substitute 030
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 17/06/2025RIP the great Alfred Brendel. Your late Schubert is still unsurpassed. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with you in 2013. I read out one of your poems about a sheep; you contributed the final words: "Baaaah, I said" 060
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 12/06/2025You really do start to feel your age when the Bodleian Library describes CDs and DVDs as 'heritage formats' 0141
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Sketches by Natalia Goncharova for Bronislava Nijinska choreography of Stravinsky Les Noces (1923). All up for discussion this Sat at 15.00 on BBC Radio 3 Building a Library 210
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 30/04/2025A great pleasure to be invited to share my work today with students in Geneva: séminaire "actualité de la recherche sur la musique". Also blue sky over mountains and lake! 040
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Hockney in Paris. The Normandy room is breathtaking - the joy tinged with melancholy of lockdown spring 372
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 07/04/2025I've just realised that "Chat GPT" translates directly into French as "Cat, I farted". You can't imagine the pleasure this gives me 040
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 28/03/2025It will soon be Sunday's Boulezathon! All day at the Barbican and on Radio 3. Including talks. Do join us! www.bbc.co.uk/events/e6zv9rbbc.co.ukTotal Immersion: Pierre Boulez - The Man and the MusicAn introduction to Pierre Boulez with Jonathan Cross. 0205
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Hugely looking forwarding to talking all things Boulez with Tamara Stefanovich & Kate Molleson on Wednesday's Front Row www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Front Row, Francois Ozon's new film When Autumn Falls, Pierre Boulez Centenary, Shona McCarthy on leaving Edinburgh Festival's FringeFrench auteur Francois Ozon: the legacy of Pierre Boulez. 0112
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 22/02/2025A privilege to have known Bojan Bujić. A gentle man and a scholar of penetrating intelligence 071
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Sad news of the death of Elgar Howarth, a great champion of new music. I was privileged to meet him decades ago at Glyndebourne when Sussex Uni gave Birtwistle an HonDMus (he was conducting The Second Mrs Kong) 0185
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 19/12/2024For the latest Opera with Opera News I spoke to composer Mark-Anthony Turnage about his new work 'Festen' to be premiered at Covent Garden on 11 February 010
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 02/11/2024Live earlier today and on BBC Sounds. This was a fun one to do. Crazy piece. Can't believe how any pianist can get their fingers round it! 170
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Schoenberg Chamber Symphony op. 9 in rehearsal with London Sinfonietta. Those rising 4ths on the horns seem to have triggered an eruption of blue smoke 070
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 28/08/2024Arnie, serial offender: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Radio 4 - Serial Offender: Arnold Schoenberg's Twelve Tone AdventureArnold Schoenberg's 12-tone system redefined music, so why are his works rarely performed? 030
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 26/08/2024RIP Sandy Goehr. The last of the Manchester generation, and a hugely influential voice in British music. I had the great pleasure of being in conversation with him in 2019. Full of tales of encounters with Messiaen, Boulez and many others! 1102
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 13/08/2024That's it. TwiX is no more for me. Strangely liberating. Let's all be kind to each other over here. To celebrate, here's a pic of Blue Sky over Oxford 1270
Jonathan Cross @jonathancross.bsky.social · 18/12/2023A lost past. Eric Ravilious, The Oyster Bar, from 'High Street' 000
