The Record 2009 - Keble College - University of Oxford

Keble College: The Record 2009
Party in Trinity Term. We were very privileged to host concerts
by noted professionals: Mariangela Vacatello (piano), Julia
Rogers (violin) and Julie Coucheron (piano), and Neil Wright
(organ). We also welcomed back Old Members: Colin Touchin
(1971) who gave a conducting masterclass at the beginning of
the year and Oliver Walker (2005) who returned from Wells
to give an organ recital in Trinity Term. Completing the
programme of events were: composer Dr Andrew Fisher from
University of Southampton who gave a talk on all aspects of
composition, the Bryon Consort from Harrow School, the OU
Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and Alex Pullinger (New College)
who gave a solo song recital. The Chapel Choir continued its
excellent form under organ scholars Alex Hodgkinson, Dan
Cottee and Ed Symington, and Director of Music, Simon
Whalley.
I would like to thank the Warden and committee members:
James Hawkes, Kieran Hudson, Richard Yates, Laura Newman
and Benedict Vanderspar for their hard work and smooth
running of the Society, and Marios Papadopoulos for his
continued support, particularly of the Orchestra. I wish Richard
Yates, incoming President, and the rest of the committee for
next year all the best and look forward to music at Keble
continuing to flourish.
Hursley Society
The Chaplain
The Hursley Society, the College’s theological society, has
remained active and strong this year. In Michaelmas Term the
Society hosted an exhilarating debate on the topic ‘Was Jesus
pacifist?’ between Professor Richard Hays, George Washington
Ivy Professor of New Testament at Duke University and
Professor Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral
Theology at the University of Oxford. Dr Bernard Green OSB,
Tutor in Theology at St Benet’s Hall in Oxford, presented a
paper on ‘Why was it necessary at all to develop a doctrine
of Trinity?’ In Hilary Term the Warden gave a stimulating
talk on ‘Byzantium 330–1453’, the Byzantine exhibition at the
Royal Academy of Art. The talk was later followed by a tour
of the exhibition itself. Later in the term the Society hosted
J D G Dunn who gave a talk on ‘Who really knew what about
Jesus?’ to a full audience. In Trinity Term the Society hosted
two young resident research scholars: Dr Matthew Niblett,
Research Fellow in Theology, gave a paper on ‘Waiting for
Shiloh: prophets, revolutionaries and the millennium in late
Georgian Britain’; and Dr Carly Crouch, Liddon Research
Fellow in Theology, led a tour of the British Museum’s Ancient
Near Eastern artefacts pertaining to ancient Israel and Judah,
something she has been working on for her D.Phil. research.
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