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Reports and College Activities In addition, we were able to return to touring: a concert tour of Portugal in July celebrated the 650th anniversary of the Treaty of Tigilde between England and Portugal, marking the historic alliance between the countries. As part of these celebrations, held in collaboration with the British Embassy in Portugal and the Universidade do Minho in Braga, we collaborated with English National Ballet in the performance of a new work, Dance in Perpetuity (with music by Charlotte Harding), performed by the young dancers from the various ballet schools in Braga. Other notable performances on the tour included a joint concert in a packed Oporto Cathedral with the Cathedral’s choir. In August the Choir was delighted to present the opening concert of the renowned Laus Polyphoniae festival of early music in Antwerp, a concert which was broadcast live on radio. The concert (postponed for two years because of the pandemic) featured the repertoire from the Choir’s CD of music by John Taverner, and was performed (as on the CD) jointly with my professional ensemble Contrapunctus, our aim being to evoke the impact in such music of the most important Tudor choirs such as that of Cardinal Wolsey and the Chapel Royal, emphasising the dramatic contrasts between soloists’ and full-choir sections which characterise the music of Taverner and his English contemporaries. Live-streaming of Sunday choral services continued this year. Special services in College included (in June) the memorial service for Dr Peter Neumann, whose passionate interest in the Choir’s work and in College music more generally over many years was so warmly appreciated by all the Queen’s musicians who knew him. We also sang – as usual – for the University Sermon service on Trinity Sunday (and earlier in the year for the University Sermon at All Souls College), and for the All Saints and Fettiplace gaudies, although the Boar’s Head gaudy (and the Carols from Queen’s concerts either side of it) were cancelled because of concerns about a new COVID-19 variant at that time. We were also able once again to make the annual visit to sing Evensong in one of the College’s livings, on this occasion St Mary’s, Upton Grey, where we received a warm welcome and sang to a very full church. Another welcome return this year was our annual August visit to sing services at Westminster Abbey, members of the current Choir being (as usual) joined for this event by singers from previous years. Service repertoire included pieces by our Senior Organ Scholar, Isaac Adni, and by Oxford-based composer Paul Burke, and Portuguese early modern repertory to mark the anniversary of Portugal’s restored independence in 1640. We welcomed a number of singers interested in choral awards to join the Choir for ‘taster’ days, and sang Evensong jointly with the choir of Francis Holland School. At the end of the academic year we bade farewell to our Chaplain, Katherine Price, who supported the Choir staunchly through the period of the pandemic and either side of it. We welcome Alice Watson as the new Chaplain. Warm thanks are due to all those who have held officerships within the Choir this year, and to our successive Choir Managers, Rachel Wheatley, and Colin Danskin. 48 The Queen’s College | College Record 2022
CENTRE FOR MANUSCRIPT AND TEXT CULTURES Prof Dirk Meyer Fellow in Chinese and Director of CMTC The Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures had another productive year. Our termly lectures and colloquia, which now run on Zoom and in person, remain popular; we held an exciting CMTC festival in Trinity Term in celebration of the launch of our open-access journal Manuscript and Text Cultures (MTC); and we are going to hold a major interdisciplinary conference—online and in person—in September this year. The board Tara Hathaway, our John P. Clay Scholar in Sanskrit, retired from the board in Trinity Term to focus on the write-up of the DPhil thesis. Tara was replaced by Vittorio Remo Danovi, who is currently working on a DPhil in Classics on the manuscript tradition of Virgil’s Aeneid. To strengthen Sanskrit, which remains a special concern of the Centre, Diwakar Acharaya (All Souls), Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions and Ethics, will join the board in Michaelmas Term. The members of Queen’s involved in the organisation of the Centre are John Baines (Egyptology), Angus Bowie (Classics), Charles Crowther (Ancient History), Christopher Metcalf (Classics), Dirk Meyer (Chinese Philosophy), and Gabriele Rota (JRF Classics). Members of the Board steering the Centre also include Christelle Alvarez (Brown University: Egyptology), Amin Benaissa (Christ Church: Papyrology), Yegor Grebnev (UIC-BNU United International College, Zhuhai: Chinese), Henrike Lähnemann (St Edmund Hall: Medieval Languages), Anthony Lappin (Stockholm: Medieval Romance literature) Lesley Smith (Harris Manchester College: Medieval History), and Selena Wisnom (Leicester: Heritage of the Middle East). Reports and College Activities Lunchtime colloquia Our twice-termly lunchtime colloquia with two speakers each are designed to give research students and junior academics the opportunity to present their work at an academic event outside their usual department, and to receive critical yet supportive comments by specialists working on related questions but in different fields. The colloquia can relate to any aspect of manuscript and text cultures in literate societies. Workshops Central to our activities are our termly workshops. At these events leading scholars in various disciplines present a research paper, followed by long and intense discussions. Speakers in the academic year were MT 2021: Alessandro Bausi (University of Hamburg, African Studies) ‘Christian Ethiopian and Eritrean Manuscript Culture’; HT 2022: Sean Gurd (UT Austin, Classics) ‘Between Comedy College Record 2022 | The Queen’s College 49
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