Academic
procession: processional music
George Frederick Handel (1685-1756)
See! The conquering hero comes (from Judas Maccabeus)
arr. Philip Wilby (b.1949) for brass band
Welcome (Vice-Chancellor)
Music:
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924; Hon Ll.D. 1904)
The Bluebird for unaccompanied chorus
Words by Mary Coleridge (1861-1907)
Speech
(Chancellor)
Presentation of honorary degrees:
Reading:
Ian
McKellen
A piece from Sir Thomas More
Music:
Michael Tippett
(1905-1988; Hon D.Mus. 1965)
Dance Clarion Air for unaccompanied chorus
Words by Christopher Fry (b.1907)
Presentation
of honorary degrees:
Vote
of thanks (Ngugi wa Thiong’o)
Music:
Philip Wilby
(b.1949; D..Mus. 1996)
‘Nobbut God’, a choral sentence
for speaking voice, chorus, flute and harp (Centenary
Commission)
words by Norman Nicholson (1914-1987) from the Yorkshire
Dialect translation of the Bible, Chapter 1, Verse 1
(1981).
Reading:
Tony
Harrison
Sonnets from The School of Eloquence
Music:
Charles
Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918; Hon Ll.D. 1904)
Jerusalem, unison song
Concluding
thanks (Vice-Chancellor)
Recession
Camille Saint-Saëns
Finale from Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op.
86
arr. Philip Wilby for brass band
Music directed by Professor Graham Barber and Professor
Philip Wilby
with
Rachel Thorpe
(flute)
Eleanor Johnston (harp)
School of Music Chorus
School of Music Brass Band
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