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Details from Dennis Clark: 0113 250 8136 FRMS BULLETIN Spring 2006 No. 144 CONTENTS Editor Thelma Shaw 15 Cann’s Lane EDITORIAL Page Hethersett A not-so-new broom back in harness 2 Norwich NR9 3JE Tel: 01603 812996 OUT & ABOUT Federation Editorial copy If your copy is in manuscript form AGM 2005 3 or on CD or floppy disc, send it Societies direct to the Editor at the above A success story from Torquay RMS 5 address. Malvern RMS celebrates its 40th anniversary 6 If your copy is available as an Golden Jubilee celebrations for Derby RMS 6 email attachment send it to: Groups [email protected] Scottish Group winter joint meeting 7 Editorial deadlines Central Region’s day of English music 7 Spring issue: 31st December Torbay Music Weekend at The Palace 8 Autumn issue: 30th June Diary Dates of Annual Music Events 9 Advertising Advertisements are available from FEATURE £35. For information on rates and Respighi’s Ladies by Anthony Barker 10 discounts contact the Advertising Manager: REVIEWS [email protected] East and West, Bach at its best 13 (full address inside back cover) World first from Naxos 13 Circulation British composer series, volume 2 13 If you would like your own copy of Books from Elgar Editions Bulletin sent direct, contact the A Special Flame edited by John Norris & Andrew Neill 14 Distribution Manager Elgar in America by Richard Smith 14 [email protected] (full address inside back cover) Copies are distributed to all NEWS & VIEWS affiliated societies and to the From the Chairman’s desk 15 Federation’s Associates, with a FRMS Regeneration Policy 15 total estimated membership in the What’s in the Secretary’s postbag? 18 region of 10,000. Reflections & Recollections by Roderick Shaw 19 NB Copyright. The material content of Bulletin may not be REGULAR FEATURES Because of Tony Pook’s unfortunate and sudden indisposition, the material reproduced elsewhere without the FRMS Presenters Panel for these items could not be prepared formal permission of the Anniversaries in time for printing and will be publishers, The Federation of included in issue no 145. All good Recorded Music Societies Ltd. wishes to Tony for a speedy recovery. Printed by: The Max Kettlestring Lane Clifton Moor by Chris Harten is of a prize- of the FRMS website is York YO30 4XF winning flower arrangement by www.thefrms.co.uk Diana Kitely. ISSN 0928150 1 EDITORIAL A NOT-SO-NEW BROOM BACK IN HARNESS After a break of seven The smart new logo is designed to mark the years, I am very pleased to Federation’s 70th anniversary and another return as the go-between change that is immediately obvious is the size betwixt RMS groups and of typeface; this is of necessity. the Federation; in a word, For various reasons, and not least because as the Bulletin Editor. advertisers are turning to more modern methods However, in the interim of promoting their products, such as television the Vice-President and I or via the Internet, the Bulletin production costs were married and I now write under the now far outweigh income. There are two ways surname of ‘Shaw’ instead of ‘Mills’. of reversing this trend. During that time, I have kept very much in The obvious is to obtain more advertisements – touch with Societies and Federation affairs and, easier said than done. The other is to reduce in common with most of us, am concerned that the number of pages in the magazine. We can we must make every effort to keep things going do this by either publishing less information or and attract new members. A variety of factors by reducing type size and increasing the makes this a far-from-easy task. We are an amount of copy per page. I believe most ageing movement and, compared to us when it readers would opt for the latter. However, if all began 70 years ago, today’s young are more there is an overwhelming reaction against this affluent, more mobile and, quite naturally, have move, then I must think again. their own tastes and ideas when it comes to social activity. Keep in touch Whatever your views about the format of the Bridge the generation gap Bulletin, remember that its aim is to keep you Therefore, the onus is on us to find out what acquainted of everything that is going on at would appeal to younger members. We should Federation, Regional and Society levels. try to bridge the generation gap and modify our Therefore, the more material I receive, the programmes and activities accordingly, but better informed readers will be. without throwing out the baby with the proverbial bath water! John Maidment’s work How to send copy on a regeneration policy, reported on page 15, You can send it to me direct as manuscript, or contains many useful suggestions. on CD or floppy disc (Microsoft doc or rtf extensions preferred). If it is an email New logo but no sweeping changes attachment, please send it to Future issues of the Bulletin might undergo a [email protected]; Tony will redirect it few changes to reflect the idiosyncrasies of a me on disc. I look forward to hearing all your different Editor but they will not be drastic. news and views. Thelma Shaw Wondering about a Spring break? There is still time to book for the FRMS MUSIC WEEKEND Friday 28th – Sunday 30th April, at the Daventry Hotel Pre-dinner reception at 6.0 pm on Friday followed by 70th anniversary celebration dinner A weekend of presentations and a live recital by the Nero String Quartet. Special guests: Lady Barbirolli OBE, conductor David Lloyd-Jones and singer Dame Anne Evans Details from Tony Baines, 2 Fulmar Place, Meir Park, Stoke-on-Trent ST3 7QF tel: 01782 399291 Go on! Give yourself a break – and bring a friend! 2 OUT & ABOUT FEDERATION 2005 AGM Editor’s note: As all Societies *Arrange PRS and PPL Secretary’s Report. FRMS are sent a verbatim report of the licences, Public Liability and Secretary Tony Baines AGM Minutes later in the year, Equipment insurance; reported that: this account is an overview of the day as a whole, taking into *Organise the annual Music *Copies of the revised account the social aspect of the Weekend; Constitution had been occasion. *Facilitate links between circulated to all Societies; ************* societies th *Six societies closed this year Saturday 29 October 2005 *Operate a website on which but another has reformed; was perilously close to societies can publicise their *He received 17 enquiries for Halloween and within spitting activities; distance of Guy Fawke’s Day. information of nearest RMS *Publish a Bulletin; Cassandra would have forecast groups from Devon to that the omens were not good *Offer the advisory services of Dundee; for the 35 societies a Technical Officer on audio- *Handbooks of guidance in represented at the last AGM, video equipment. forming a new society were held on this day at The Crown The Chairman likened the sent on request to E. Hotel, Nantwich. FRMS to a trade association: Grinstead, the Suffolk coast But she would have been membership is voluntary but and the Outer Hebrides; sorely disappointed. Not a confers many benefits. *A number of societies single broomstick in sight and He reported two resignations. celebrate various milestone not even the dampest of squibs Ron Bleach would not seek anniversaries: Horsham (75) to cast a shadow on what re-election as FRMS Vice- and 60th jubilee for Croydon, turned out to be a really Chairman, because of his Derby, Dudley, Newark, splendid amalgam of business involvement in many other Norwich, Stockport and York; and pleasure. musical fields. His *Members of the defunct Formal Proceedings. After a contribution to the Committee Bracknell Met. Office Society welcome by Mike Moss, will be missed. wish to maintain contact with Chairman of South Cheshire Arthur Baker had stood the FRMS and the Mahler RMS, the formal agenda down after seven years as the Society has enquired about followed. Mick Birchall Bulletin editor. The Chairman affiliation. (FRMS Committee member) expressed his appreciation for *Entries in various directories read the minutes of the 2004 Arthur’s unbiased and fair have been renewed.