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Ernest John MOERAN: His Life and Music
I would go as far as to say this is one of the best books of its type I have ever come across, and up there with, say, Lewis Foreman’s Bax…
BMS Essay Competition
The closing date for entries for the second British Music Society Essay Competition 2021 is 30 September 2021
Leading opera director dies
Leading opera director Sir Graham Vick has died suddenly at the age of 67.
Obituary: Richard Lloyd
Richard Lloyd, who died in April, was a noted composer of church music with more than 600 anthems to his credit…
All change at the Holst Museum
Cheltenham’s hidden gem, the Holst Birthplace Museum, is emerging in good health from the Covid pandemic.
One Hundred Years of British Song
Volume 2 (in this projected three-part series) introduces five composers not automatically associated with the genre…
ALBERT KETÈLBEY: A Dream Picture
If you are feeling downcast, Ketèlbey’s very English early twentieth century piano music at its best is sure to bring a ray of sunshine into your life…
THE BEST OF ARNOLD
Arnold’s centenary this year has prompted Naxos to produce this wide-ranging taster disc, compiled from their many recordings of his vast output…
New book author bites back!
Philip Hunt’s suggestion that the announcement of my biography “overlooks” Geoffrey Self’s The Music of E. J. Moeran rather misses the point…
Memories of composer Martin Shaw
My mother always used to say with a sigh, “I wish you could have known your grandfather”. She loved him dearly, and kept a rare full-face picture of him on her desk.