Jun 15, 2021 | Features
My mother always used to say with a sigh, “I wish you could have known your grandfather” (pictured above in 1929). She loved him dearly, and kept a rare full-face picture of him on her desk. In recent years feel I have got to know him, through sorting out his archive...
Dec 27, 2020 | Features
As Britain severs its political ties with Europe to the dismay of many musicians, this seems an important moment to reflect on how much British musical culture owes to the continent. Freedom of movement for musicians has fostered a process of cultural...
Nov 23, 2020 | Features
Peter Wishart (1921 – 1984), a memoir by Richard Carder Arriving at the Guildhall School of Music early in 1961, the old building by Blackfriars Bridge, I was directed to a room upstairs, where, after knocking, the door was opened by Peter Wishart surrounded by...
Apr 1, 2020 | Features
The news that internationally renowned British composer, Sir Arnold Bax, is to be officially recognised in Scotland will be welcomed by BMS members and all classical music enthusiasts. A bronze plaque unveiling ceremony, due to take place at the Morar Hotel,...
May 24, 2019 | Features
A Personal Memoir by Andrew Youdell In the late 1960s I had the opportunity to meet Grace Williams at her home in Barry, a pleasant town in the Vale of Glamorgan, now mainly a dormitory for Cardiff workers, but a hundred years ago one of the major ports –...
