British composers featured in new releases
Toccata Classics will launch two new releases of music by British composers including Arnold Cooke and Charles Harford Lloyd…
University seeks applications for British music research
Following the reversal of the decision to close the Music Department at Cardiff University, new PhD Studentships in research have been announced. Two doctoral Studentships are being offered for research relating to any aspect of musicology, composition, research-led...
Finzi biographer Diana McVeagh dies aged 98
Diana McVeagh, author and long-term BMS member, died on 2 July aged 98…
BMS trust to promote Hurd’s music in 2026
Many members will remember the generous grant for the British Music Society left in composer Michael Hurd’s estate…
Obituary: Garry Humphreys
Garry Humphreys, baritone, conductor, writer, researcher, and business librarian, has died aged 79…
Bite-Back: it’s not a second hand book!
Dr Strachan suggests that my ‘assessments of Coleridge-Taylor’s music are likely to be at second hand’. They’re really not…