Nov 24, 2021 | Features
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...
Oct 26, 2021 | Features
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...
Aug 21, 2021 | Features
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...
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...
