One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers – Sir Malcolm Arnold – is to be celebrated across three days in October during the 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival. This annual programme of events is centred around the multi-faceted...
Jessy Lilian Reason (nee Wolton) was born in Balham, South London, in June 1878 (baptised, 21 June) and lived in Streatham for the next two decades. In the spring of 1902 she married Richard George Reason, a man 20 years her senior, in Penzance, Cornwall and they took...
Dear BMS,I am a student at the Krakow Academy of Music in Poland, and I want to study the art songs of the composer Roger Quilter. But I can’t find the sheet music for the following piece: ‘Spring Voices’Text Romney Marsh (pseudonym for...
‘He’s due for a serious revival!’ So says Leslie Howard at the end of Leonard Salzedo, a Life Composed in Music, the film Leonard’s daughter Caroline made about her father for his centenary last year. To kick start this, the Leonard Salzedo Society is organising a...
I was deeply saddened to learn that the wonderful composer Marcus Blunt passed away on 21 July after a long illness bravely borne. Marcus has left us with a significant body of well-crafted, considered music that shows him to have a distinctive voice. Deeply inspired...
