Reflections by David Matthews Hugh Wood, who died on 14 August this year at the age of 89, was one of our finest composers. He was born in Lancashire in June 1932 into a musical family (his mother was a pianist), but he was a late starter as a composer. After public...
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,...
John Turner’s obituary to Gordon Crosse who died on 21 November 2021 makes reference to his third Elergy, Ad Patrem, which was composed in 2009 in memory of his adored father. Ad Patrem is as yet unperformed and we hope that by publishing the composers own notes on...
A transcript of Matthew Taylor’s talk from the BMS AGM 2021. As a young composer in the early 80’s there was the sense that the erstwhile leaders of the old European avant garde were still establishment, just, though their supremacy was becoming increasingly...
1928 – 2021 Thomas Rajna was an adventurous performer, an imaginative composer, and a truly endearing person. I wonder how he would have taken the order in which I have listed his musical occupations: on one of my visits to his home in Claremont, Cape Town, he...
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...
