The Music Teachers’ Association of New South Wales, Australia will be holding their Biennial Conference for Studio Music Teachers on 24 and 25 September. Some of the presentations will be of particular interest to BMS members which will be held on Zoom are: Australian...
BMS Member John Turner has asked if any other BMS member can identify the following excerpt from the first and last pages of a Sarabande for piano dated 1939. As you will see, the style of the music is fairly sophisticated, the writing very precise, and the piece...
British composer John Whittaker shares a film of his ‘Nocturne’ which was composed during lockdown. This is one of a set of four songs composed for soprano and piano and is accompanied by a beautiful film of the English...
Philip Hunt’s suggestion in last month’s Bite-Back that the announcement of my biography of E. J. Moeran in the April Newsletter “overlooks” Geoffrey Self’s The Music of E. J. Moeran rather misses the point of announcing the publication of a new book. If he buys and...
Dear BMS, I have been searching for contact information about copyright for Alfred Ashpole’s music. I found an original composition for concert band and/or brass band in my library from the early 60s. Alfred wrote the march for the band director who lived here at...
The item in the April Newsletter about the welcome new biography of E J Moeran, rather overlooks I feel, the substantial volume published in 1986 (Toccata Press) by my friend, the late Geoffrey Self, The Music of E J Moeran. This book contained extensive biographical...
