Author: Harvey

Now, to more thinking! In September 1995 Harvey began a two-year part-time degree course on Music & Aesthetics at The University of Sussex. He was required to study works by 19th and 20th century philosophers, including – ‘The Critique of Judgement’ by Immanuel Kant ‘Lectures on Aesthetics’ by G W F Hegel ‘The World as… Read more

I have sensed that Harvey has long been interested in Arnold Schoenberg’s music. Also, during his training, Harvey became fascinated by the work of the New Testament scholar, Rudolf Bultmann, especially in the area of Form Criticism and how the Gospels came to be written. In 1993, as part of his sabbatical, Harvey began to… Read more

After 5 years in South London, Harvey was stationed in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, to take responsibility for the churches in the Mid-Sussex Circuit. (Haywards Heath, Sussex) These 11 years can be perceived, and heard, as a watershed.  Harvey, while exercising a full ministry throughout a large area with 11 churches, was still chasing the… Read more

In 1983 Harvey was stationed as Superintendent minister in the Shooters Hill Circuit. I was packed up with the whole family – Harvey, Carol, Daniel (7), Emily (3) and Thomas(9mo) – and we settled into the Manse in Welling, Kent. (Welling Methodist Church) It was unusual at that time for a minister with only 8… Read more

In September 1978 Harvey, with Carol and baby Daniel, were sent to their second ‘Station’ in the Medway Towns Circuit.  They moved into a brand new house in Lordswood, South Chatham, Kent. (St David’s United Church, Lordswood) I could sense it was all very exciting – a new adventure, in a modern young community, completely… Read more

Harvey’s ordination as a Minister in the Methodist Church took place in Bridlington, Yorkshire, on a hot summer’s evening in July 1977. I had been left alone in my ‘cell’ case at the Manse in Winsford, while Carol with Daniel (their 9-month old son) and all the family and many friends, gathered to share in… Read more

In August 1975 we moved to Winsford in Cheshire, Harvey’s first Circuit appointment as a Probationer minister.  We stayed for 3 years. During these days, too often my bow and I were left inside our violin case, so it was largely from within the darkness I picked up and ‘heard’ the musical overtones and undertones… Read more

It was at the very end of 1972 that Harvey met Carol and fell in love. It began at Bevendean Hospital, Brighton, while singing Christmas carols on the wards with Dorset Gardens Methodist Church young people – and I should know, as Harvey had taken me along! From now on, through courtship, marriage, pro-creating, giving… Read more

I remember only two occasions in 1972 when Harvey took me out of my case to play; both very soon after his mother, Gladys, had died on 14 May. She had been suffering from Bulbar Palsy, a form of Motor Neurone Disease. Following a conversation with the College Principal, Revd Dr John Habgood, about a… Read more

Although I was largely silent and un-played, I was still able to hear the sound wave of emotions entering Harvey’s body, giving him a sense, an echo perhaps, of a vast new world full of new possibilities. In these four years from September 1971 at The Queens College and the University of Birmingham, Harvey’s body… Read more