'Hand in Hand' by Benjamin Cooke: a performing edition and commentary

Benjamin Cooke's Shakespearean glee 'Hand in Hand' (1777) although never published in his lifetime became popular in the 19th century through corrupt and highly 'edited' print versions. Andrew Pink was commissioned in 2005 to make a new scholarly edition of the work for a performance by 'Collegium Musicum of London'. Andrew has returned to the composer's autograph in the library of London's Royal College of Music to create this edition based (finally) on the composer's own intentions

English Masonic Lodges, Pipe Organs and National Heritage

From the late eighteenth century onwards the music of English freemasonry evolved from a purely vocal tradition to one that included the pipe organ, reflecting freemasonry's evolutionary shift out of the tavern and into purpose-built premises. The early decades of the twentieth century were surely the high point in the story of the English masonic pipe organ, if measured in terms of sheer numbers, but since then the story has been one of decline and destruction. With only one or two notable exceptions, such instruments were modest in size and arguably lacking in musical merit, but their form perfectly reflected their function and they clearly constituted a distinct tradition of English organ design. While the demise of many remaining instruments is probably inevitable, as they lose the struggle to justify the sums of money required to maintain them, the private nature of English freemasonry has meant that these instruments have gone largely undocumented, not least in the records of the National Pipe Organ Register, and will soon be lost to memory

When They Sing: the performance of songs in 18th-century English lodges

British research libraries are full of eighteenth-century masonic materials that contain song texts, but the exact use to which these songs were put has remained elusive. Drawing upon a close reading of the sources and contemporary comment Andrew Pink proposes a model for organising this material, as well as a model for its performance

Two concertos being the first & eleventh Solos of A. Corelli, as they are made into concerto's by Mr. Obadiah Shuttleworth: a performing edition and commentary

Music historians have long known that the two concertos by Obadiah Shuttleworth (d.1734) are amongst the earliest examples of the Corellian concerto grosso form written in England, but these concertos have never been available in a modern performing edition. Andrew Pink was asked to make this new scholarly edition of the concertos for a performance in London by the orchestra of The Musicall Compass in November 2004

Compactification of Drinfeld modular varieties and Drinfeld Modular Forms of Arbitrary Rank

We give an abstract characterization of the Satake compactification of a general Drinfeld modular variety. We prove that it exists and is unique up to unique isomorphism, though we do not give an explicit stratification by Drinfeld modular varieties of smaller rank which is also expected. We construct a natural ample invertible sheaf on it, such that the global sections of its $k$-th power form the space of (algebraic) Drinfeld modular forms of weight $k$. We show how the Satake compactification and modular forms behave under all natural morphisms between Drinfeld modular varieties; in particular we define Hecke operators. We give explicit results in some special cases

A Christmas concert

UCL Chamber Music Club concert, 9 December 2008. A programme of choral and orchestral music by Roger Beeson (b.1945), Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), Gustav Holst (1874-1934), Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709). Performance by: UCL Singers, UCl Chamber Music Club Orchestr