Unearthed

Tickets on sale now: https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/city-of-oxford-choir-event

Doors open early at 6:15pm for exhibition browsing and refreshments (cash bar) before the performance commences at 7pm.

In 1824, the geologist and palaeontologist William Buckland published a description of a fossil recently excavated from the village of Stonesfield in Oxfordshire. The Megalosaurus, as he officially named it, would be the first named dinosaur, even predating the term dinosaur itself. To celebrate 200 years of this discovery, the City of Oxford choir in collaboration with the Oxford University Museum of Natural History invite you to explore the Breaking Ground exhibition, with choral interludes on the same theme. We’re delighted to perform Monster, a new commission by our competition winner Chris Hutchings, alongside works by runners up Mel McIntyre and George Parris, with additional contributions from Whitacre, Schumann, Weelkes, Pearsall and Nystedt to accompany you through the exhibition.

William Buckland, when presented with these fossils, commissioned a series…