Dear Bite-Back, Let me make it clear that I am writing in my personal capacity, and not as a spokesperson for SOMM Recordings. Your review of SOMM’s Walton Centenary CD is technically wrong on so many counts. Of course your opinions are as valid as anyone...
Dear Editor, I have printed copies of BMS News issues 64-66, 71-72, 74 (June 1997) – 140 (Jan 2014). Also, copies of the BMS Journal – 18 (1996), 20-24, 26(2004) – 42(2020) I would like to offer these free to a BMS member for collection in person...
The latest news on Naori Takahashi, winner of the BMS prize in the 2019 New Talent Competition. Naori (Violin/UK) has been keeping busy since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music. In addition to a busy freelance career, Naori is a String Fellow at the English...
Hello fellow BMS fellows from the States. I am preparing bio-bibliographical books on the lives and careers of Ruth Gipps and Phyllis Tate for the partnered Clemson University/University of Liverpool Press. I would be grateful to hear from any of...
Dear BMS The ‘Spot that tune’ music in the August E-News is by Robert Farnon – How beautiful is night. I have a piano arrangement that was published by Chappell in an album entitled Robert Farnon – Journey into Melody ISBN 0-86359-529-4. Kind...
Dr Adèle Commins, Head of Creative Arts, Media and Music at the Dundalk Institute of Technology is trying to track down a copy of the Bantock Society Journal Vol 4 no.1 from 1999. She is specifically looking for the article Bantock, Helen Schweitzer, and the 1896...