Fri, 28 Mar
|Museum of Natural History
Breaking Ground
An exciting collaboration with Oxford University Museum of Natural History exploring themes from their current exhibition "Breaking Ground"
Time & Location
28 Mar 2025, 19:00
Museum of Natural History, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK
About the event
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 of illustrations from the naturalist Mary Morland, to bring the scientific discovery to life. Join us on Friday 28th March at 7.30pm as we…