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...
Commissioned by the British Medical Association 2021 to commemorate all health workers who lost their lives during the Covid-19 pandemic, British composer Paul Kevin Joyce has created We Will Remember (We Can’t Forget) as a digital only release. The recording...
