In a Chapel address to the School in 2009, the Head
Man said this:
‘To listen seriously to music, and to perform it, are among
our most potent ways of learning what it is to live with
God. In listening and following, we are stretched and
deepened, physically challenged as players, imaginatively
challenged as listeners. The time we give up for listening
to music is given back to us as a time in which we have
become more human, more real, even when we can’t
say what we have learned, only that we have changed.’
In August 2015, John Singer and his wife Susan made
a generous donation to fund the School’s purchase
of a Steinway piano, which now holds pride of place
in the recently refurbished New Hall. At the same
time they joined the Wykeham Patrons group.
John describes himself a