British music in Germany

British music in Germany

In connection with the Heidelberger Frühling (Heidelberg Spring), an internationally renowned festival of chamber music currently headed by Igor Levit, Jonathan Powell performed Kaikhosru Sorabji’s Sequentia Cyclica, this powerful work based on the Dies Irae...
AGM 2022 report

AGM 2022 report

For the first time in the Society’s history, members at this year’s AGM attended both face to face (pictured below) and on a zoom platform (pictured above). We all enjoyed the opportunity to mix with members of The Arthur Bliss Society and I would like to...
BMS AGM chairman’s report

BMS AGM chairman’s report

12pm, 29 October 2022The George Dawson Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute This report covers the key areas of the BMS’s activities during 2021-22.  E-News, Printed News and website The BMS continues to work with Nicholas Keyworth of Revolution Arts...
On the trail of William Baines

On the trail of William Baines

A young composer’s life cut short Walking up the hill from the Calder & Hebble Navigation in West Yorkshire I arrived at the pretty town of Horbury. Once a thriving woollen town and railway waggon building centre on the fringes of the Yorkshire coalfields. Several...
Gloucestershire composers celebrated in cathedral

Gloucestershire composers celebrated in cathedral

The Holst Society and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society are joining forces to host a day of concerts to celebrate their composers in Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 12 November 2022. Gloucestershire’s famous composersComposers Vaughan Williams and Holst shared...