BMS members may be interested to know of a forthcoming project to record Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s most famous and popular opera, Shamus O’Brien. It is planned for January and February 2023, in Glasgow, Scotland, with the orchestra of Scottish Opera,...
Damian Thompson wrote an interesting article in The Spectator on 22 November tracing the influence and involvement of the British monarchy on British music over the centuries. British composers Julius Benedict, Sir Hubert Parry, Sir Edward Elgar, George Frederick...
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...
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...
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...
