Tallis Festival Tallis Festival The Tallis Festival, hosted by Exmoor Singers of London, forms the Tallis Festival Choir for just one weekend every 12 to 18 months. The Festival always includes Thomas Tallis' Spem in Alium for 40-part choir, but in addition has commissioned new 40-part works by modern composers, as companion pieces to Spem in Alium. In 2007 the Festival was recognised by the BBC for its contribution to new music and highlights from the Festival were broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 28 October 2007. The Festival originated from "Tallis Performance Weekends", held periodically over a number of years. The
Thomas Tallis School along with nearby Kidbrooke School, the school featured in Jamie Oliver's TV series "Jamie's School Dinners" in which Oliver sought to improve school dinners in Britain. In 2007, the school featured in the Channel 4 documentary "Make Me a Tory", directed by former pupil Daniel Cormack. A textbook designed by German publisher Ernst Klett Verlag uses pictures of the school. In 1997, Nathan Brown, a pupil of Thomas Tallis School, murdered a student of the neighbouring Kidbrooke School with a 17 inch machete in a gang-related incident. In 2011, the school underwent a £50 million pound renovation as part of