#JohnBull

2024-12-18

#JohnBull (c1562-1628)
“Almighty God, which by the leading of a star” (‘The Starr Anthem')
#MagdalenaConsort: Elisabeth Paul, Elenor Minney, Hugo Hymas, Samuel Boden, Simon Gallear & Peter Harvey (dir)
#Fretwork: Asako Morikawa, Emily Ashton, Jo Levine, Sam Stadlen, Richard Boothby
youtu.be/AdFoo3PE5Ww?si=ljYsls (5:03) From the CD 'In Chains of Gold - the English pre-Restoration verse anthem, volume 2'. Recorded in January 2019 and released in late June 2020 on Signum.

2024-09-17

THE REAL JOHN BULL
Maciej Skrzeczkowski, winner of the MA Competition in Bruges 2023, devotes this album to #JohnBull (1562-1628), an English composer who fled his country to take refuge in the Netherlands...
There could be nothing more logical in this context than to use copies of English #virginals as well as of a typical Dutch adaptation of the instrument known as the moeder en kind (mother and child).

Stream/Download/Buy
lnk.to/TheRealJohnBull

Interview
youtu.be/Tnb4ahVP7nY (7:54)

2024-05-27

Ted Tocks Covers

God Save the Queen

Originally posted on November 14, 2018

The Sex Pistols released their version of God Save the Queen’ on this day in 1977. It was their way of sharing thoughts on Queen Elizabeth II during her Silver Jubilee.

“God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid”

#Queen #JohnBull  #SexPistols

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2024-02-08

> ‘Every Briton appears to pride himself on being outrageously a John Bull,’ wrote #MariaGraham in her 1812 memoir of India.. Another mid-nineteenth-century British observer was struck by ‘the extreme contempt for the natives which characterizes the English in India, which is perhaps nowhere cherished more than in Calcutta, not only at government-house, but among the independent settlers, and which makes itself so felt of an evening on the esplanade’
#AmitavGhosh in #SmokeAndAshes with #JohnBull

2023-10-29

John Bull (1562 or 1563-1628) - Organ Works of the Early Period [Michael...
youtube.com/watch?v=KUMU0WSihy



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2023-10-10

Andy Davey on #Starmer #KeirStarmer #Labour #LabourPartyConference #JohnBull – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

2023-08-26

The ‘heroic archetype’ of John Bull was created by John Arbuthnot in 1712 & can be compared with that of ‘Uncle Sam’ in the #USA (1st used 1812-16). It was used to arouse feelings of patriotism. #JohnBull #UncleSam

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2023-08-15

#scotland #uk #england #peg #johnbull

John Bull, that stout yeoman of distilled Englishness was, it might surprise you to know, created by a Scot called John Arbuthnot. A contemporary and friend of Jonathan Swift, Arbuthnot satirised the inter-union relationship between England and Scotland around the turn of the 18th century, personifying the two countries as siblings John and Peg.

For whatever reasons Peg slowly faded into obscurity, while Bull was embellished and reused by other later authors and cartoonists. The excerpt below, taken from Arbutnot's
THE HISTORY OF JOHN BULL describes the awkward sororal/fraternal relations:

John had a sister, a poor girl that had been starved at nurse. Anybody would have guessed Miss to have been bred up under the influence of a cruel stepdame, and John to be the fondling of a tender mother. John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter; Miss looked pale and wan, as if she had the green sickness; and no wonder, for John was the darling: he had all the good bits, was crammed with good pullet, chicken, pig, goose, and capon; while Miss had only a little oatmeal and water, or a dry crust without butter. John had his golden pippins, peaches, and nectarines; poor Miss, a crab-apple, sloe, or a blackberry. Master lay in the best apartment, with his bedchamber towards the south sun. Miss lodged in a garret exposed to the north wind, which shrivelled her countenance. However, this usage, though it stunted the girl in her growth, gave her a hardy constitution; she had life and spirit in abundance, and knew when she was ill-used. Now and then she would seize upon John's commons, snatch a leg of a pullet, or a bit of good beef, for which they were sure to go to fisticuffs. Master was indeed too strong for her, but Miss would not yield in the least point; but even when Master had got her down, she would scratch and bite like a tiger; when he gave her a cuff on the ear, she would prick him with her knitting-needle. John brought a great chain one day to tie her to the bedpost, for which affront Miss aimed a penknife at his heart

2023-06-30

John Bull (1562/63-1628) - Complete Works for Keyboard [Peter Watchorn &...
youtube.com/watch?v=STZGCsT_1v
@classicalmusic

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