GARRY HUMPHREYS

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03 February 2025

Obituary: Michael Pilkington

THE CHURCH TIMES, 17 JANUARY 2025 Garry Humphreys writes: ENGLISH SONG was the specialisation of Michael Pilkington, who has died, aged 96, ...

30 January 2025

Cardiff University Music department closure

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25 January 2025

From the Church Times, 24 January 2025

Brimstone and Trump From Mr Peter Dillistone Madam, — T here may be a lot wrong with the Church of England at present, but having watched ...

10 January 2025

From The Independent

Ian Hislop praised for ‘perfect’ takedown of ‘contradiction-riddled’ Elon Musk Jacob Stolworthy Friday 10 January 2025 Ian Hislop has been p...

07 November 2024

Music review: Until I see Thee as Thou art (Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh)

CHURCH TIMES, 1 November 2024 Garry Humphreys joins a commemoration of Wolsey in Aldeburgh THE 550th-anniversary celebration of the bir...

07 September 2024

'From holy day to holiday'

I commend to you the excellent article – ‘From holy day to holiday’ – by Fergus Butler Gallie in the Church Times , 30 August 2024, in whi...

26 August 2024

New master of the King's Music

This article in The Guardian on the appointment of Errollyn Wallen as Master of the King’s Music is a hopeful sign for the future of musi...

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About Me

Garry Humphreys: I am a retired freelance baritone after 54 years in London now based in Suffolk. I studied singing with Norman Platt, Nigel Rogers and (principally) John Carol Case, and appeared as a soloist and as a member of various professional ensembles, including the choirs of Southwark Cathedral, St George’s Hanover Square and The Temple Church and my song recitals with the pianist Patricia Williams revived much unjustifiably neglected English song. I was chairman of the English Song Award, secretary of the Association of English Singers and Speakers and joint editor, with Michael Pilkington, of A Century of English Song, an ongoing series aiming to make available in practical performing editions distinctive British songs of the last hundred years. I now concentrate on writing concert programme and CD liner notes, and regular arts and music reviews for the Church Times. For 12 years until it became wholly digital, I wrote (mainly but not exclusively musical) obituaries for the Independent newspaper. I studied conducting with Bryan Fairfax and have a long-term ongoing interest in the life and music of the composer Arthur Somervell.

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