Reflections by David Matthews Hugh Wood, who died on 14 August this year at the age of 89, was one of our finest composers. He was born in Lancashire in June 1932 into a musical family (his mother was a pianist), but he was a late starter as a composer. After public...
BMS member David Mackie has written a sequel to his 2018 publication Nothing Like Work or Right in the D’Oyly Carte. That book chronicled his time there as repetiteur from 1975 to 1976, and chorus master and associate conductor from 1976 to 1982. Those years coincided...
We are delighted to feature an extract from Jonathan Delbridge’s FNCM diploma thesis A Study of the Piano Music of George Frederick Pinto. George Frederick Pinto (1785-1806) George Frederick Pinto was born on 25 September, 1785. Nothing is known of his father,...
Musical curator and researcher Cameron Robertson has contacted BMS regarding a demo recording he bought recently on a 12” 78rpm record which belonged to Edith Sitwell. The record was produced in 1950 by a private studio in New Bond Street named Gui de Buire Ltd. The...
Dr Leah Broad, a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, University of Oxford, is currently writing a group biography of Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell and Doreen Carwithen for Faber. She is keen to make contact with any BMS members who may have known...
