Joseph McHardy
@josephmchardy
Choral director, educator and editor, PhDing at Nottingham Uni - Lusitano, C16th Blackness, mixedness; how European Classical music talks about it (📷Nick Rutter) 🏴🇨🇩he/him
My heritage (🏴/🇮🇪+ 🇨🇩), my birthplace and upbringing (proudly 🏴), and my football-crazy daughter (🏴) mean that this fixture will be an emotional crisis throughout.
From seeing a name on a placard to transcribing and co-editing the complete works! Proud and grateful to have played a part in bringing the works of the first composer racialised as Black to publish music in Europe to a modern scholarly edition.
Great day to chat Mozart Coronation Mass recordings for BBC Radio 3 Record Review www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wonderful chapter on Lusitano as a neo-Latin author by Maxim Rigaux! And my 1st citation! 🤓
Some of youse haven’t been reading ‘Eating the Other’ and it shows.
Hello from Bibioteca Nacional de 🇵🇹, where Manuel de Faria e Sousa is reminiscing about the old days when folks could leave their doors unlocked. In 1639. Looking forward to the bit about the young people and mobile phones.
However this season finds you, I hope you get to show the vale of tears who’s boss 🕊️ ‘Trio’, Edwin Morgan, 1968/70
After recording on location in DC and NYC, putting a few finishing touches to our upcoming show about Bayard Rustin and early music. Thanks to the team at BBC Surrey for a warm welcome on a chilly day.❄️