Centenary celebrations at summer festival

Centenary celebrations at summer festival

London Song Festival’s summer season of concerts is currently under way with a series of four concerts taking place at Hinde Street Church W1. Due to the continuation of Covid restrictions, social distancing measures will be in operation, temperature checks will be...
Welcome to our new Journal editor

Welcome to our new Journal editor

We are delighted that Dr Ian Maxwell will be joining the team once again as BMS Journal Editor following Dominic Daula’s sterling work on the publication over the past few years. Dr Ian Maxwell graduated with a BMus (Hons) degree from the University of Aberdeen in...
ACOUSTICS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

ACOUSTICS IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Raf Orlowski www.crowood.com (£20) This is ‘simply’ a book about sound.  Except it is not simple at all.  For such a commonplace entity, its control and dissemination is a hugely complex matter, encompassing our experiences ranging from concert halls to...
Diversity and the British string quartet

Diversity and the British string quartet

Over three days in June composers, performers, students, and academics explored issues of diversity in British classical music through the case study of the string quartet. The Villiers Quartet In this project, the Villiers Quartet and Torch: The Oxford Research...
Memories of composer Martin Shaw

Memories of composer Martin Shaw

My mother always used to say with a sigh, “I wish you could have known your grandfather” (pictured above in 1929). She loved him dearly, and kept a rare full-face picture of him on her desk. In recent years feel I have got to know him, through sorting out his archive...