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Live music returns at English Music Festival
Live music returns this Spring as the English Music Festival brings a star-studded programme of British music to the stage over the May Bank Holiday weekend.
Three Choirs Festival 2021 announced
The Three Choirs Festival returns to Worcester this summer featuring over 1,000 performers across 77 events.
Date for your diary: BMS AGM 2021
The date for the BMS AGM 2021 has been announced – the meeting will be held online on 15 Sept.
Entries open for BMS Essay Competition 2021
Student researchers are encouraged to enter the second BMS Essay Competition.
Elaine Hugh-Jones dies aged 93
BMS member Elaine Hugh-Jones, a Welsh pianist, composer and an educationalist, has died aged 93.
RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2
It is interesting to note that this pupil of RVW composed with a recognisable style and technique from the very start. There is a mastery of all the elements of composition…
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music
Elisabeth Lutyens’s music is now emerging from the doldrums. Recently, a disc of her piano music has been issued and here, surprisingly, is a disc of works for organ, and soprano and organ. On looking through her 1972 autobiography A Goldfish Bowl she mentions nothing of them…
Searching for Quilter
I am a student at the Krakow Academy of Music in Poland, and I want to study the art songs of the composer Roger Quilter…
Leonard Salzedo celebration concert
‘He’s due for a serious revival!’ So says Leslie Howard at the end of Leonard Salzedo, a Life Composed in Music, the film Leonard’s daughter Caroline made about her father for his centenary last year.
An appreciation: Marcus Blunt
Marcus has left us with a significant body of well-crafted, considered music that shows him to have a distinctive voice. Deeply inspired by Scriabin, he cultivated and refined his own harmonic language…