User:Pwhodges
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Paul Hodges was born in 1946, and is still around thanks to modern medicine, having survived both TB and Cancer. His journey through life has had a few fleeting highlights:
1955-1959 Singing in the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, under Sydney Watson
1960-1965 Trying to learn the piano under Ronald Smith
1965-1968 Studying Engineering Science at Oxford University
1966 Helping to build a pipe organ (see here)
1969-1970 Working in BBC Radio as a Studio Manager
1975-1982 Writing a software imaging system for gamma cameras (including the computer operating system), and selling it world-wide
1987-1992 Co-founding and running an opera group
1993 Having published an edition of a cantata by Haydn
1998-2002 Recording several commercial CDs to help his son's career as a pianist
He now runs the computers for a department of Oxford University that is mainly concerned with cancer research, and amuses himself by singing in a choir, playing the organ to himself (only!), and recording concerts (using Ambisonics) - thus neatly pulling together all the earlier threads of his life.
Paul Hodges's web page is here.
Paul Hodges 12:19, 9 January 2007 (UTC)