Author: Harvey

Harvey was appointed ‘Chairman of the London SE District’ and moved from Haywards Heath to Bromley, Kent. For me there were two significant events during these Bromley days: Harvey joined with two other ordained ministers in forming a Piano Trio, and one of their friends came up with the name – ‘Parson’s Noyse’. We met… Read more

My third posting from Harvey’s aesthetic studies at Sussex University relates to the final dissertation he had to submit at the end of the course. It was an analysis of Ludwig van Beethoven’s great setting of the Catholic mass, ‘Missa Solemnis’, including a comparison with philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer’s monumental study of hermeneutics in his ‘Truth… Read more

The second part of the Sussex University course introduced Harvey to the music of a number of contemporary composers.  They were all new to both of us! (Rothko Capel, Houston Texas) I could tell that ‘Rothko Chapel’, inspired by the art and architecture of the building dedicated to the artist Mark Rothko, struck a chord… Read more

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