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Anthro PhD candidate. Thesis: cathedral choristership in C20-21 UK; childhood's queernesses; bodily & collective nostalgia; voices & other ‘breaking’ things.

New York, NY

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Ben Liberatore

4 years

Are you—or do you know—a #chorister who may want to take part in anthropological research? I'm a PhD candidate at Columbia University in NYC, conducting research on the role of choristers in the English choral tradition. Please contact me to participate or for more information!

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Ben Liberatore

5 years

@caromholland @rsl318 And dear grad seminar faculty: perhaps the kindest practice I’ve ever encountered is to require anyone who wants to talk on content not on the syllabus to give everyone else some brief background on the person/concept/context. Funny how it cuts down on name-dropping...

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@PettiNetty @CheersBVS — But, Ina, during the saddest and most troublesome times of the pandemic, there was only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why. — My child, it was then that the Barefoot Contessa put up her feet, mixed a few cocktails, and mainlined two seasons of ‘Never Have I Ever.’

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2 years

Some things simply are not ours to understand. #ChoristerGraffiti

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@caromholland @rsl318 When I think of how much less miserable my undergrad time would have been had this been the expectation and had I thus not been sure that I’d wound up at my uni by mistake, from the wrong family, the wrong high school— I mean, it doesn’t do to dwell, but damn.

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2 years

When you’re really, really, really not supposed to sing this one.

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3 years

A moment from a recent interview: a cathedral chorister’s reflection on being in some way, briefly, ‘in tune with heaven’.

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2 years

@WhatIsAWomanBot Good bot.

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8 months

When your first public service as a chorister is the Coronation, the music tends to make an impression. #ChoristerResearch

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1 year

What sage advice do ‘big’ choristers have for probationers? ‘When you’re singing Sumsion in G, you can sing ‘have a banana’ in the Nunc during rehearsal, but you have to remember not to do it at Evensong.’ #ChoristerResearch

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4 years

New York, I love you.

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6 years

A teenager from #MarjoryStonemanDouglas High School just told NPR, of his community organizing and advocacy for gun control, “Unfortunately, I’m not a Russian computer, so I can’t vote yet.” Bravo.

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4 years

Isaac* and his mum have generously given me permission to share this. Isaac is 7, a probationer in his very first, slightly strange term in his cathedral choir. I feel immensely blessed to have had a conversation with him that included this. Friends, your wonderful work is noted.

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11 months

@PortalBookshop Tale as old as time. And tiresome!

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@itsjacksonbbz This is one of the few things America gets right, though! If I’ve got the flu or a banjaxed leg, I feel like I’m in Bizarro World schlepping to every pharmacy & little Sainsbury’s in town to stockpile enough 2x8 blister packs of 200mg ibuprofen to keep me for three days! 😭

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2 years

Oh, bless the @YorkMinChoir chorister who, upon hearing it gently explained that the bells sound different because they’re currently fully muffled, an audible sign of mourning only ‘very significant deaths’, asked ‘does that mean they did it when Francis Jackson died?’

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2 years

Some rambling, sort of exhausted reflections on choristers and the music-making in and of English cathedrals, one half-term into fieldwork.

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Ben Liberatore

9 months

On 13 Jan. 2020, I began interviews for my PhD. To date, I've interviewed 129 people—choristers past + present, parents, ATB, DoMs—from 30+ cathedrals, chapels, royal peculiars & minsters. As of today, those interviews—107 hours thereof—are 100% transcribed. #ChoristerResearch

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5 years

@caromholland @rsl318 Absolutely. And compounded by the currencies of misery and suffering that thrive in many university settings, it can be debilitating. “I’m only doing it right if I’m miserable” is a lie that needs to be put down from the very start.

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Ben Liberatore

3 years

What does a Requiem have to do with rowing? Twelve-year-old chorister August describes music's link to another shore. #ChoristerResearch

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3 years

The ridiculous and the the sublime.

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3 years

Many choristers are ambivalent about virtual choir: they don't LIKE it, but they understand that it is what it is for now. By contrast, they are FAR from ambivalent about the spaces and places of their cathedrals. Here's Phineas on singing Byrd in situ. #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

Cannot convey emphatically enough how this staircase and that door @riponcathedral would have become the absolute origin point of my imaginative world, had I encountered them aged seven or eight.

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3 years

In interviews, today’s boy choristers, almost to a one, voice no reason to exclude girls, but they don’t much consider the gendering of their work & worlds ‘til you ask. Girl choristers, tho, consider it even if you don’t ask. Here’s Madeline on the silence of archives. #IWD2021

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3 years

A little bit of 🐟 and🍟 levity on a subject that feels unjust to many choristers— and not only the girls. See how vividly even supposedly subtle differences can other while seeming to embrace; these girls and their peers could write their own thesis.

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3 months

Compline, or just before. Mostly dark, mostly quiet, mostly still, and mostly unsurveilled. That’s mostly comforting.

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2 months

I was going to exclude a 'How it Feels to Sing' chapter from my thesis, worried it may be seen as too esoteric / too far removed from 'big questions' of state, power, &c. But that would mean leaving out 'Brains! Brains all over the place!' which seems a shame. #ChoristerResearch

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1 year

Holy God.

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CHORISTER: Will you sign our petition? ME: Probably! But what’s the petition? #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

On Easter Day of 2017, I finally—if somewhat cowardly—left my parents a coming-out letter. The fallout was so much worse than I had feared: we barely spoke for over a year. This Easter, they came up from Philly to hear the service at the Cathedral and walk around Harlem. 🕊

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Chorister Zoe, age 8, gives a slightly Nietzschean take on the purpose of a cathedral choir. #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

Name a better duo. I’ll wait.

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A seldom acknowledged occupational hazard faced by sub-organists across the land, as recounted here by a @WAbbeyChoir / @WAbbeyChoirSch chorister in the 1986 edition of The Choir Schools Review.

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2 years

Spot the chorister.

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And if it’s beautiful—? Better still.

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1 year

Can’t be rid of me quite that easily… The hope, then: write up this thesis here; more cathedral/chapel visits and more interviews coming. This thesis has been a decade in the making. I want to do it—and everyone involved in it—whatever justice I can.

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1 year

Today’s walk from school to Evensong.

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There’s a lot going on here. #ChoristerGraffiti

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2 years

'Do you ever ask the boys how they feel?' I get this a lot. My research *began* with boys' voices. Boy choristers—current & former—are among my most thoughtful interlocutors. Here, George talks about boy and girl choristers and how to listen to their voices. #ChoristerResearch

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Sometimes opinions differ. #ChoristerResearch #ChoristerGraffiti

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Ben Liberatore

4 years

Never let it be said that nothing good came of adaptation in extremis. What a joy, in the absence of music here in New York, to be able to listen in to services around the UK, perhaps especially from places we wouldn't normally hear from at this time of year. Here are just a few:

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Ben Liberatore

2 years

A bit sadder than I'd expected to be that Windsor's girl choristers aren't singing today. They're still probationers, I think, so I didn't really expect them, but having heard so many girl choristers share their own sadness at going unseen & unheard, I've internalised some of it.

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2 years

Choristership values children right now, as they are today. And it tells them so. It puts them front and centre, celebrates something already in and of them—their voices—and gives them the physical, sonic, interpersonal resources to create something in which they can delight.

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1 year

Bravo the musicians who made the #Coronation what it was— both those put front+centre & those without whose hours of unseen rehearsal, care, travel & support none of it would’ve been possible: @JosephMchardy at Chapel, Chris Gray @TruroCathChoir , Ruth McCartney @MethodyBelfast .

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@PaulMMCooper @MinsterCourt And the steps to the chapter house at @WellsCathedral1 . Its like being able to see a history of people.

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2 years

@JoysRantList @YolandaBrown_yb @kobeevance @nhannahjones It’s like the deployment of ‘woke’ anymore, yeah? As it was with ‘up–ity’ of old. Crikey, the words even rebuke the same idea: that someone can and is about to rise. Braying about the ‘woke mob’—? All I hear is ‘someone I deem to be beneath me doesn’t know their rightful place’.

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2 years

‘…and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another

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2 years

Friends. Just look.

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Something on my mind today, having listened to many choristers speak of funerals grand & lonely, at a time when, to quote one, ‘everyone keeps dying’: Professionals tho’ they are, these singers are children; some of the @wabbey & Chapel kids will never have seen a coffin before.

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3 months

Just remembered it was seven Easters ago that I came out to my parents, having tried since adolescence to will myself away and 'spare' them... me. I left Easter lunch, dropped a letter through their car window & literally ran away. It went SO much worse than I'd ever feared.

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Ben Liberatore

4 years

A cathedral’s advertisement of a vacancy with the header ‘ALTO LAY CLERK (Maternity cover, job share basis)’ is one of those little things that anthropologists and musicologists of the next century will discover in an archive with total delight.

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3 years

Thinking of how @ElyCathChoir / @Kings_Ely support 6th Form choral scholars post-choristership, wanted to share this: chorister Zachary describes what it’s like to feel one’s treble voice disappearing & what’s at stake in being—or NOT being—supported through it. #ChoristerResearch

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Ben Liberatore

3 years

How lovely to chat with @MadsDavies on my ongoing research. Among our topics: choristers’ sense that theirs is the work of care & consolation, even for those whose needs they can only imagine, whom they’ll only meet in a shared encounter with sacred music.

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Choristers reveal how music heals

New research shows how pride and awe exist in choirs, says Madeleine Davies

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2 years

A friend in no way involved with cathedrals or their music just sent me this. @WorcCathedral and @WorcCathMusic are evidently doing TikTok correctly. A*!

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7 months

A new-to-me place.

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8 months

A group of choristers speculate about why people come to their cathedral if, as one of them puts it, 'there's not so much of the religious aspects now'. The short answer: 'they want to feel part of something.' (The longer answer involves Rejoice in the Lamb.) #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

The perks of being a (very) early riser— in part by necessity, in part just for the peace of it.

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3 years

My Pop died on Thursday, after a 10-week assault by cancer. He was home, surrounded by loved ones, shepherded gently along by our family of nurses. His dog never left him. He was the gentlest, wisest, most humble man I know. He was the heart of our family. I miss him horribly.

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9 months

A short but sweet insight into choristership for #InternationalChoristerDay . What *is* a chorister, anyway? Nine-year-old 'Ivor' opens his interview with this response. #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

@PatrickAllies Ut, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La La Land

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3 years

On being a prob in the midst of it all: the bigger the ears, the closer to God.

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3 years

@DrDavidPrice What’s more: say your child comes out of choir an atheist, or uncertain, or skeptical… You’ve still likely got a kid who wonders about poetic and powerful texts, who makes meaning—if ever-changing meaning—out of the not-solely-empirical world, and bears others’ beliefs gently.

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2 years

Choristers on the lookout for (1) horses and (2) illicit-in-cathedral spurs. Spotted both. #InternationalChoristerDay

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2 years

I sort of suspect that that’s my last time in a cassock. The grief is debilitating, but I’m not sure how to explain why, and short of an explanation, it seems so small.

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3 years

Cant shake the interview I’ve just transcribed, in which a chorister from a northern cathedral expresses her love of the life people in her community build together ‘even if we don’t live as long as people down south’. If that doesn’t stop you cold...

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3 years

Among the most striking things emerging from these conversations with choristers is the profound responsibility they feel toward the dead, the grieving, and the lonely. I have no pre-pandemic baseline here, but it's clear that now, loss is on their minds. #ChoristerResearch

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Wachet Auf tonight @York_Minster : fabulous sound & lovely to see, in the 1st chorale, a new chorister unable to contain a joyous grin. Bravo @RJSYork , @BenMorris_Music & @YorkMinChoir . Special congratulations to trebles S & H, who excelled in their solos!

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Live: Orchestral Evensong featuring Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata...

Welcome to this service, sung by the Choir of York Minster and broadcast live from York Minster. The order of service is available here: https://bit.ly/3QUI7...

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3 years

Choirs do matter: to wellbeing, education & livelihoods, to community-building, world-making, and all. They do. But I feel uneasy that ' #ChoirsMatter ' plays a bit fast & loose with what it alludes to: a movement sparked by disenfranchised grief & rage for a lynched Black child.

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1 year

Considering my working title, I hope this is a little blessing.

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2 years

@FionasWriting @justsewamy Siri, please show me ‘why leaving the articulation & conferral of rights to the whims of a majority is dangerous, sinister & ultimately undermining of the notion and project of ‘natural’ or ‘human rights’ in a world where the State decides who falls into its protected cordon.’

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2 years

Morning aloneness on the banks of the Ouse, @York_Minster in the distance. (I paid for even this early sunlight for two days. But it was a lovely walk.)

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4 months

The first question I ask choristers in interviews is deliberately broad; the first answer 12-year-old 'Artie' gave me was painfully specific. #ChoristerResearch

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"The boys always made fun... ‘Ha-ha, we do more than you because we're better than you!’ And I realised... ‘No: you do more than us just because we're women!'" Chorister 'Olivia' reflects on what & how kids can learn about gender in cathedral choirs. #ChoristerResearch #IWD2024

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Know a Yr 5/6 girl keyboardist? Having found a boy, @salisburycathsc still seeks a girl organ scholar for 2024. Below, 'Lilian' gestures at the challenges girl choristers face when they aspire to organ scholarships. Salisbury's programme seeks to rectify this. #ChoristerResearch

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2 months

Last day in Oxford. Writing accomplished: little. Mornings wandered: several. Gates passed: many.

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2 years

Left NYC Weds afternoon, arrived in London Weds AM, train to Manchester Thurs. PM. Presented at @En5gSharedFuture this morning. I am so exhausted that I’m lying in a friend’s spare room with celestial tinnitus & only a very flimsy sense of where in the world I am. But I’m here.

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2 years

This is a Renaissance painting.

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Hoping to give up chorister-sick-mopping-up for Lent. Pray for me.

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Hello from @riponcathedral , where a woman has just left her dog with me at the back of the nave so she can look around. So… meet Rusty! (He’s not staying for @dieneswilliams ’s organ recital, but I am.)

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A @TewkesAbbey probationer chorister’s gorgeous, almost impressionistic account of Evensong, published in the 1984 edition of The Choir Schools Review. #ChoristerResearch

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2 years

Choristership nurtures kids' musicality, vocab & teamwork; it also enriches their imaginations & gives them, in one child's words, an 'emotional home' where they 'can be free'. @YorkMinChoir excludes no child for class, ethnicity, or gender. More info available! Do come & sing!

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Does your child love singing? Our Chorister Experience Day is fast-approaching and we’ve got lots of fun singing activities planned! Find out all the details on our website:

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1 year

4:44 a.m.

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3 years

Had a moment of ‘Oh, I know his dogs!’ in the book shop. @anthonympetro is a big deal.

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2 years

The long international nightmare is over.

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Ben Liberatore

5 years

There are a lot of strong feelings about Gibbons, apparently.

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2 years

‘But why are young people abandoning the Church?!’

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They oppose a ban on conversion therapy

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Over two thousand Christian ministers have signed a letter to the UK government, protesting against a ban on LGBT conversion therapy. This account exists to name and shame them. If I tag the wrong person, I apologise; please let me know. More details of the letter follow.

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11 months

Transcribing a fabulous 2021 focus group in which a chorister, having lamented that she never sees girl choristers on TV or in films, concludes with '...although, to be fair: in the Minions movie, they DO have a female organist. So... that's progress!' #ChoristerResearch

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4 months

The night I spoke with these choristers, I went to bed thinking about this exchange. I woke up still thinking about it. I've thought about it nearly every day since. It's THIS testimony that most guides the ethics of my research. The speaker is 10 years old. #ChoristerResearch

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3 years

O, I could cry to see this news. Beautiful, beautiful. Congratulations, @ANethsingha , @SJCChoir . Oh. Thinking of all the choristers 7 to 78 who’ve shared this year what those early days of music, wonder & community have meant to them as children & throughout life. O, I could cry.

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I am very excited to announce that from next year St John's College Choir will include male and female voices, both adults and children. A great and historic day for our choir! Full story here: @SJCChoir @stjohnscam @SJCS_Cambridge

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Miss being in situ for today’s @BBCRadio3 Evensong from @YorkMinChoir , but being in Philly means I can treat my family—largely unfamiliar with 🇬🇧 cathedral music—to a glimpse of what has been for me a beloved soundscape for years. Mum’s verdict: ‘I can’t believe they’re kids!’

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2 months

Things I didn't expect to hear in an interview with a chorister: 'F—k The Sun.' But what a thoughtful conversation it sparked. #ChoristerResearch

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1 year

Hey: looks like The Record of John Graffiti Paper is a go! Guess that means I finally have to write it.

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6 months

Grateful for good thoughts…

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Ben Liberatore

4 months

Much of my research considers personal and collective losses & griefs— especially those we, without our blessing, quietly bear as part of 'growing up'. 'August', whose voice changed 'too early', rendered one such loss in the most beautiful, heartbreaking way. #ChoristerResearch

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Ben Liberatore

1 year

A 1919 letter written by composer Samuel Barber, then nine years old, for his mother to find. Happy June. 🏳️‍🌈

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2 years

Very important autumn content.

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Ben Liberatore

2 years

And those are fine things. But I think the wonder of this phenomenon, why it’s worth studying, supporting, expanding, trying for oneself, is that it—or at its best might—reach children *as* children. It values choristers not in spite of their being children, but because of it.

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Ben Liberatore

3 years

Half three and I wake to find my mom looking in at my brother and me. She’s up early, I say. In fact, she hasn’t gone to bed; a lady was dying at work with no family, no nurse, and no pain management. So she’s been there and back again and will return in the morning. Nurses, man.

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Ben Liberatore

1 year

'Throughout all generations...' #ChoristerResearch @notesoncopies

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