Director of Music, St Peter's Petersfield. Recitalist & Teacher. YouTube: markdanceranacrusismusic
Waterlooville, Hants
Joined December 2014
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Mark Dancer retweeted
Hard to comprehend how much damage Labour has done to education in so short a time:
- Ending Latin Excellence Programme
- Ending Academy freedoms
- Ending the PE and Sport premium
- Taxing independent education
- Cutting HE teaching grants
- Fiddling with Ofsted ratings
Any more?
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This is the BEST, most hilarious breakdown I have seen of the absurd rationales I have heard trying to justify trump's idiotic war.
BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏
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This is a remarkable (and extremely rare) instance of late medieval church art made for an English endowed religious institution surviving to the present day bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5q…
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Nominations are now open for the 2026 Honorary Awards
The RSCM annually confers diplomas & awards. Some are honorary; others are awarded as a result of academic study or other training.
Find out more here:
rscm.org.uk/world-of-the-rsc…
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Celebration Day 2025
Christ Church Cathedral Oxford
Sat 4 Oct
Join us for our annual celebration to give thanks for the work of the RSCM & to present our Honorary Awards. Come & Sing Choral Evensong led by the Cathedral’s Director of Music Peter Holder ow.ly/AcIj50WNoIq
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We are delighted to announce our Honorary Awards for 2025
Each year the RSCM Council confers Honorary Awards on those who have made outstanding contributions to church music
Find the full list of 2025 honorands here rscm.org.uk/rscm-honorary-aw…
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The 2025 Petersfield Musical Festival hit the jackpot! - mailchi.mp/42463b3745f3/pete…
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Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP my open letter to her is below and here:
spectator.co.uk/article/what…
My first open letter to her on 17 Jan is here: spectator.co.uk/article/what…
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My open letter to the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP
Many teachers and school leaders share my concerns with regard to her decisions but are scared to say.
If you can find it in you, please RT.
My letter is also here: spectator.co.uk/article/what…
Mark Dancer retweeted
While @BBCr4today is rightly featuring the ridiculous stopping of teaching Latin in schools they should also focus on the general reduction in music teaching and provision in schools as well. We are seriously impoverishing the cultural future of future generations.
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“it is now normal for most pupils in a class to be unable to sing the right notes, and for teachers to do nothing when children are belting out the wrong ones” — James Olsen says we need to learn to sing again thecritic.co.uk/dont-let-it-…
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Under #NotreDame’s roof, what we call « the forest »
A thousand oaks, skilled carpenters and voilà!
(Pics David Bordes)
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Over 100 of us rehearsed Vaughan Williams' moving plea for peace, Dona Nobis Pacem today. Thank you @PaulSpicer for guiding us - we were thrilled to welcome you to Petersfield again, and thanks to @markbdancer. Our 22 Mar concert will be outstanding! @RVWSociety @pambuckleysing
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Next Saturday! Join us at our workshop, led by renowned Festival conductor, @PaulSpicer6. It will be a great opportunity to get to know this moving piece ahead of our March 2025 concert with @Bstoke_SO @pambuckleysing @PeefPulse @markbdancer
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Join our “Dona nobis Pacem” open choral workshop on 28 September with @PaulSpicer6 in #Petersfield. You can turn up on the day, and music will be available. petersfieldmusicalfestival.o…
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Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy: more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic self-harm. theguardian.com/education/20…
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NEWS: Manchester City footballer Nathan Aké to donate pianos to deprived schools, having taught himself the piano during lockdown.
classical-music.com/news/man…
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Tickets for all the Petersfield Musical Festival events are now on general sale! There'll be 8 concerts in the Festival Hall and 3 FREE concerts in St Peter's Church. Click here to read the full line-up petersfieldmusicalfestival.o… and to purchase your tickets.
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HELP NEEDED!
Unfortunately a HUGE amount of our instruments were stolen last week.
Our instruments are marked with SMS-XXX (like the attached photos)
Please keep a lookout on facebook, ebay etc for any of our missing instruments.
Please also share this post! Thank you in advance!
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Just one parent of a child in one choir spelling out what the experience of singing can do to change a young person’s life for the better. This is why the arts matter, in schools and in society.
A letter from a parent that was so moving to read. We wouldn’t usually share a letter of thanks, but this captures the essence of our mission and our work. Thank you so much. @TheSixteen @INTERKULTUR @UK_Music @MatWright5 @lukemather1993 @EleanorWright2 @KarenDavis107
