AGM 2022 report
For the first time in the Society’s history, members at this year’s AGM attended both face to face (pictured below) and on a zoom platform (pictured above). We all enjoyed the opportunity to mix with members of The Arthur Bliss Society and I would like to...
BMS AGM chairman’s report
12pm, 29 October 2022The George Dawson Room, Birmingham & Midland Institute This report covers the key areas of the BMS’s activities during 2021-22. E-News, Printed News and website The BMS continues to work with Nicholas Keyworth of Revolution Arts...
On the trail of William Baines
A young composer’s life cut short Walking up the hill from the Calder & Hebble Navigation in West Yorkshire I arrived at the pretty town of Horbury. Once a thriving woollen town and railway waggon building centre on the fringes of the Yorkshire coalfields. Several...
Gloucestershire composers celebrated in cathedral
The Holst Society and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society are joining forces to host a day of concerts to celebrate their composers in Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 12 November 2022. Gloucestershire’s famous composersComposers Vaughan Williams and Holst shared...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Volume 1
Symphonies 6 and 9, The Wasps Overture BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic OrchestraSir Malcolm Sargent ARIADNE 5016 Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday is celebrated this year and thankfully there are many events celebrating the great man. This CD is the first...
BMS releases new CD
The BMS’s next CD recording sees the release of the long awaited Volume 2 of Herbert Howells piano music. “Congratulations to Matthew Schellhorn and his fine interpretations,” said Wendy Hiscocks, chairman of BMS. With a release date in early December,...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS & HOLST: Quartets
Vaughan Williams: String Quartets 1 and 2Holst: Phantasy Quartet op 36 Tippett Quartet SOMMCD 0656 The virtually unknown item on this excellent disc is the Holst Phantasy Quartet. This has been newly edited by Roderick Swanston. There is a sub-title – ‘on...
ClubDelius launched by society
The Delius Society announces ClubDelius; a free membership for under 30’s, to be launched at this year’s Delius Prize Competition in November at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The scheme will be launched at this year’s Delius Prize, hosted by the Delius Society,...