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• Ep 17: Jerusalem, England’s Most Iconic but Controversial Hymn

  Jerusalem. It has been one of the most recognisable and iconic English tunes of the past 100 years. But is it as universally loved as we remember and can it even be called a hymn? How has a story about Jesus taking a road trip to Glastonbury led to a First World War patriotic anthem, through the lens of a Georgian revolutionary poet.In this week’s assembly, I do a deep dive into Jerusalem, talking about its history, the association with the WI and even how it can signify the English musically. I really hope you enjoy this episode and I would love to know any memories of singing it plus any comments or thoughts about what I have to say!If you have enjoyed the episode please feel free to leave a comment or review. Timestamps below if you want to skip to any bit in particular. All questions and/or requests can be sent to notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com.Timestamps:0:00: Jerusalem poem reading0:50: Catch up4:10: Education and positive music news7:20: Intro to Jerusalem 10:03: A vicar’s PM about Jerusalem11:58: How did the hymn Jerusalem come about? William Blake, Robert Bridges and Hubert Parry17:23: What makes the Jerusalem introduction so stirring?22:02: Why Jerusalem is musically English25:14: How the hymn became the anthem of the Women’s Institute 27:16: Becoming used by political movements29:24: Is Jerusalem even a hymn?33:16: Memories from social media37:21: Jerusalem singalong38:50: Final thoughts and wrap upSend us a text~~~ I am on tour all year, across the UK and you can book your tickets at: https://jamesbpartridge.com/ ~~~ Follow me on socials at: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jamesbpartridge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesBPartridgeOfficial/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jamesbpartridge YouTube: http://youtube.com/jamesbpartridge Send me a message: notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com ~~~ Find the podcast on all streaming services and leave a review if you've enjoyed it! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=5270e69bbb9a431e Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-school/id1790674992 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/054bf11f-a134-42c7-9114-f1398cc3fbe8/notes-from-school

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• Ep 16: Playing through the entire Apusskidu songbook!

  After a few weeks of some great interviews, I thought I would take it back to the assembly hall with a mega episode of singalongs. This week I go through the entire Apusskidu songbook from 1975 which is packed full of tunes for children to sing at school. Some of these are very famous, some are obscure folk melodies, we have some nursery classics, plenty of animal tunes and even a song about aliens. Hope you enjoy the play through, I am sight-reading some of them so apologies for any mistakes 😅 hope they bring back some happy memories, either way.If you have enjoyed the episode please feel free to leave a comment or review. Timestamps below if you want to skip to any bit in particular. All questions and/or requests can be sent to notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com.Timestamps:0:00: Introduction, emails and catch up!05:19: If you’re happy (and you know it)06:14: I’d like to teach the world to sing07:17: I whistle a happy tune08:24: Yellow submarine09:04: Sing a rainbow09:53: The super-supper march11:08: My ship sailed from China12:28: Daisy Bell13:31: The bonny blue-eyed sailor14:23: Li’l Liza Jane14:49: Clementine16:01: Sparrow Twitters16:33: Little brown jug17:02: I’m Henery the eighth 18:23: There’s a hole in my bucket18:42: There was an old witch19:05: Ten in a bed19:13: Lily the pink20:14: Bananas in pyjamas20:49: The great meat pie21:57: Michael Finnegan22:13: The train is a-coming22:44: Wheels keep turning23:33: Morningtown ride24:30: She’ll be coming round the mountain25:17: The Wombling song25:45: Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!26:52: Battle song of the Zartians27:20: The wind blow east27:54: One potato, two potato28:47: The guard song29:23: The fireman29:42:  When Father papered the parlour30:11: The animals went in two by two30:38: Going to the zoo31:06: The hippopotamus song31:40: Tiger, Tiger, orange and black32:12: Where, oh where has my little dog gone?32:39: Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow-wow33:04: Five little frogs33:24: Frog went a-courtin’33:50: Down in Demerara34:19: Ferdinando, the donkey34:49: Apusski dusky35:50: Gobbolino, the witch‘s cat36:35: A windmill in old Amsterdam37:45: Maggon, the bad-tempered dragon38:22: Risha, rasha, rusha38:50: Final thoughts and wrap upSend us a text~~~ I am on tour all year, across the UK and you can book your tickets at: https://jamesbpartridge.com/ ~~~ Follow me on socials at: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jamesbpartridge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesBPartridgeOfficial/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jamesbpartridge YouTube: http://youtube.com/jamesbpartridge Send me a message: notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com ~~~ Find the podcast on all streaming services and leave a review if you've enjoyed it! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=5270e69bbb9a431e Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-school/id1790674992 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/054bf11f-a134-42c7-9114-f1398cc3fbe8/notes-from-school

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• Ep 15: UK meets USA. Make Weird Music with Anthony Garone

  Over the past couple of weeks in April I’ve been in the States on holiday. Clearly, I’m not very good at fully relaxing so I teamed up with Anthony Garone from the YouTube channel Make Weird Music for a great conversation. We discuss topics such as being a content creator on YouTube, music education in the States vs the UK, creative mindsets, confidence and even some of the best British exports to the US.You can find Anthony’s channel here and all it’s weird goodness: https://www.youtube.com/@MakeWeirdMusicIf you have enjoyed the episode please feel free to leave a comment or review. Timestamps below if you want to skip to any bit in particular. All questions and/or requests can be sent to notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com.Timestamps:0:00: Introducing Anthony and the start of Make Weird Music3:00: Eccentricity in British music and the school assembly in UK and US9:55: Music in US schools and the universal language of the piano23:20: The importance of improvisation vs exams32:20: Can we get weirdness into the classroom?37:10: Advice on starting out as a content creator45:15: British vs American mindsets54:00: Anthony’s best of British culture and the start of Primary School Bangers01:05:50: Final thoughts and wrap upSend us a text~~~ I am on tour all year, across the UK and you can book your tickets at: https://jamesbpartridge.com/ ~~~ Follow me on socials at: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jamesbpartridge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesBPartridgeOfficial/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jamesbpartridge YouTube: http://youtube.com/jamesbpartridge Send me a message: notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com ~~~ Find the podcast on all streaming services and leave a review if you've enjoyed it! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=5270e69bbb9a431e Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-school/id1790674992 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/054bf11f-a134-42c7-9114-f1398cc3fbe8/notes-from-school

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• Ep 14: The Great British songbook with Tom Carradine

  To celebrate St. George’s Day today, I have Tom Carradine in the assembly hall. He is the mastermind behind the Cockney singalong and has a deep and immersive knowledge of British song from the Victorian music hall to war-time tunes and even obscure classics from the school assembly songbooks. He also is the best dressed and moustachioed musician in the UK. Feel free to check it out on YouTube too.During this epic chat, I hand over the piano keys to Tom so he can dip in and out of musical examples throughout our hour-long conversation. We discover his epic renditions of Shine Jesus Shine from his school days, how the Cockney singalong began and enjoying the heritage of British songs. Also, he reveals the one song that everyone around the world knows!If you have enjoyed the episode please feel free to leave a comment or review. Timestamps below if you want to skip to any bit in particular. All questions and/or requests can be sent to notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com.Timestamps:0:00: Introducing Tom Carradine02:00: Tom’s route from biochemistry to Cockney singalong via Musical Theatre10:00: Does Tom include Musical Theatre tunes in his singalong? Mary Poppins link to Cockney songs12:35: Playing piano in assembly and Any Dream Will Do16:15: Mr Fogg’s and international audience members18:15: The one song that everyone knows around the world!19:55: The Great American songbook vs Cockney tunes23:40: Pearly Kings and Queens and domestic piano playing27:00: Cockney humour and My Old Man Said Follow the Van30:17: Tom’s singalongs and newer singalong classics36:20: Why did Tom decide on the Cockney tradition as he’s NOT a Cockney!38:07: Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay school songbook39:50: I lift up my finger. Forgotten school assembly tune41:38: Why Cockneys “have a banana”, rhyming slang and Wilton’s Music Hall50:47: Celebrating St George’s Day and bringing a positive spin to the English song tradition55:18: Is singing national songs appropriate? Jerusalem and sea shanties01:00:00: Changing the show for children and the benefits of a singalong01:07:30: Tom’s favourite school assembly tuneStreets of London singalong01:10:20: Streets of London singalong01:12:20: Final thoughts and wrap upFind Tom Carradine online: https://www.tomcarradine.com/Send us a text~~~ I am on tour all year, across the UK and you can book your tickets at: https://jamesbpartridge.com/ ~~~ Follow me on socials at: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jamesbpartridge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesBPartridgeOfficial/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jamesbpartridge YouTube: http://youtube.com/jamesbpartridge Send me a message: notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com ~~~ Find the podcast on all streaming services and leave a review if you've enjoyed it! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=5270e69bbb9a431e Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-school/id1790674992 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/054bf11f-a134-42c7-9114-f1398cc3fbe8/notes-from-school

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• Ep 13: Football, choirs and Bantam of the Opera with James Sills

  This week we invite James Sills into the assembly hall for a great conversation. We chat about the links between football and singing which have combined in his awesome new project called Bantam of the Opera for BBC Sounds. This is a project bringing together Bradford City fans for the year of the city of culture in Bradford. James, Lesley Garett and Chris Kamara are linking up to get the football fans singing! James talks also about the work he did online with Sofa singers plus his journey into leading choirs.Before we get to the chat, I have a forgotten school assembly classic as this week’s singalong. It is called I watch the sunrise. Let me know if you know this one or if you have any requests for future singalongs.  If you have enjoyed the episode please feel free to leave a comment or review. Timestamps below if you want to skip to any bit in particular. All questions and/or requests can be sent to notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com.Timestamps:0:00: Intro and catch up02:51: ‘I watch the sunrise’ singalong05:40: James Sills interview10:10: Bradford as city of culture and intro to Bantam of the Opera13:55: James’s journey into leading choirs18:35: Links with football23:30: Singing as a safe space and corporates28:40: James’s book ‘Do Sing’29:55: Sofa singers and virtual choirs34:13: Recognition for work in music37:55: Bantam of the Opera45:23: Singing as therapy and music in schools50:10: Power of communal singing52:10: James’s favourite school assembly song55:15: Conclusion to interview58:24: Round-up and goodbyesSend us a text~~~ I am on tour all year, across the UK and you can book your tickets at: https://jamesbpartridge.com/ ~~~ Follow me on socials at: Instagram: http://instagram.com/jamesbpartridge Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JamesBPartridgeOfficial/ TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@jamesbpartridge YouTube: http://youtube.com/jamesbpartridge Send me a message: notesfromschoolpodcast@gmail.com ~~~ Find the podcast on all streaming services and leave a review if you've enjoyed it! Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Ta8ch0BjnuV6GDgGv7BN2?si=5270e69bbb9a431e Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-from-school/id1790674992 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/054bf11f-a134-42c7-9114-f1398cc3fbe8/notes-from-school

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