Adam Pounds recalls three years of study with Lennox Berkeley A young composer can often feel ‘lost’, and in 1976, while I was studying at the London College of Music and won the composition prize with my Oboe Quartet, I was sufficiently encouraged by this...
Pianist Joan Taylor remembers Karel Janovicky The Czech composer Karel Janovicky died in London recently at the age of 93. Karel lived in London most of his life, having fled his home country – then Czechoslovakia – in difficult political circumstances, in 1950. Karel...
Most British musicians are lucky if they are celebrated by just one plaque. But we have found at least three for this famous musician, one of the most important conductors of the 20th century. The first plaque to mark the eminent British conductor and cellist Sir John...
Over 50 year ago, the British folk rock band, Steeleye Span turned a half-forgotten 16th century Christmas Carol, Gaudete, into a pioneering recording. In the Winter 2022 edition of Light and Lyrical, the magazine of the Light Music Society, Jim Cooke delved into the...
‘See you later.’ Dixon began edging past to the doorway. ‘Aren’t you going to stay for the P. Racine Fricker?’ ‘Shan’t be long, Professor. I just think I’ll…’ Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim (1954)...
