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A GARLAND for JOHN MCCABE Monica Mccabe’S Reflections on a Life Lived for Music Agenda British Music Society’S News and Events British Music Scores Search BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY nAPRIL 2018 ews AMBASSADOR FOR BRITISH MUSIC IN USA Madeleine Mitchell across the pond A GARLAND FOR JOHN MCCABE Monica McCabe’s reflections on a life lived for music Agenda British Music Society’s news and events British music scores search org Schneider from the German for piano and winds (1890) wind ensemble Four Points One • George Alexander Osborne Chairman’s J(www.four-point-one.de) is on Quintet for piano and winds the hunt for scores the following (1889) (Yes - he is actually Irish) compositions by British composers: If anyone from the BMS welcome • Marian Arkwright Quintet for network could help him track down piano and winds these scores please get in touch with MS member Madeleine Mitchell is back • Edith Swepstone Quintet for him at [email protected]. piano and winds Jorg is also on the look out for from America and has submitted the first • Henry David Leslie Quintet for any information about the Sir BBMS Ambassador report from her visit to piano and winds op.6 Michael Costa Prize 1896 Anyone the Kansas State University (see opposite page). • Edward Davey Rendall Quintet know anything about this? The committee is closely monitoring the progress of this new scheme and are always interested to hear members’ views. Reviving Victorian opera For those of you with access to the internet, a visit to the BMS website now offers the preced - ictorian Opera Northwest to revise Nell Gwynne by inviting B have made full opera C Stevenson (a librettist of Sullivan’s ing Printed News that opens by clicking on the recordings of works by Balfe, The Zoo) to write the new book. image of the cover. By the time you receive the V W V Wallace (both Irish), G Dorothy was the result and it next Printed News, the updates for the Recording Macfarren, Sullivan as well as a became a tremendous West End pages on the website will have been completed. collection of overtures by Balfe, success that even out-shone the Other developments on the recording front in - Barnett, Benedict, Loder, Macfarren, popular Mikado, which was playing clude news from the Treasurer that our latest re - Goring Thomas, Wallace, and now concurrently. Cellier. A project is underway by lease on Naxos 8.571377 in November 2017 of Arthur Over the last year we have had Victorian Opera to record this Benjamin and Edgar Bainton songs has produced requests for a lighter vein of forgotten comic opera, Dorothy and some of the best sales figures ever for the Society, operetta, the most interesting of rediscover the secret of its and James Dickenson of the Villiers Quartet has which is by Alfred Cellier. An fascinating and unbridled success. been busy recording the music of William Stern - Englishman of French parentage he With no autograph and the music was a chorister with Sullivan at the presumed lost, extensive research dale Bennett for our next BMS recording. We look Chapel Royal before acquiring eventually uncovered the band parts forward to hearing the results of the editing pro - formal musical education. With six from which a full score has been cess and will be publicising the date of its launch operettas/musicals to his name he prepared by Michael Harris. The this year. became Sullivan’s musical director project will be carried out in Please note that this year’s AGM will depart for the Savoy Operas in London and collaboration with the Royal from our usual London venues and see a move New York writing some 10 curtain- Northern College of Music under raisers to accompany the G&S guest musical director, Richard north to St. Alban’s to support a concert by the operas. Bonynge. Amadeus Orchestra with the choir of St. Alban’s His first three operas were Victorian Opera is hoping to Chamber Choir conducted by John Gibbons. Save written when musical director at the attract the support of sponsors and the date of Saturday 30 June in your diary for this Theatre Royal, Manchester. The subscribers who have an interest in event at 7.30pm in St. Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Sultan of Mocha written in 1874 helping revive our British Musical reached New York, but Nell Gwynne Heritage. For more information visit Lane, St. Albans AL1 4DF. Entitled ‘Light and Love’, was a failure. The librettist blamed www.victorianoperanorthwest.org. the programme consists of Ralph Vaughan the composer while the composer Raymond Walker Williams Epithalamium , William Alwyn Pastoral blamed the librettist! Cellier decided Chairman of Victorian Opera Fantasia , Cecilia McDowell Ad Lucem and Mal - colm Arnold John Clare Cantata . Details of where and when the Society will meet in St. Alban’s be - British Music Society Committee fore the concert will be issued in due course. Wendy Hiscocks (Chairman), John Gibbons (Vice Chairman), Wendy Hiscocks Stephen Trowell (Treasurer), Advisory roles: Karen Fletcher Printed News designed by Revolution Arts -2- Music of Margaret Kitchin A website dedicated to the pianist help of Margaret's daughter Claire. Margaret Kitchin has been launched. However, after two years of research, Margaret Kitchin (1914-2008) the repertoire list is still incomplete. specialised in contemporary Many performances are missing along repertoire giving many premieres with 76 BBC broadcasts without particularly of British music. specific details of the works Margaret Michael Tippett, Iain Hamilton, played. Peter Racine Fricker, Alexander Goehr Chris Crocker would be delighted and Thea Musgrave all dedicated to hear from anyone who may be able works to her. to help fill in the gaps, or contribute Visit the website at: any new material for possible www.margaretkitchin.org.uk inclusion on the website. He can be The new website has been contacted on [email protected]. compiled by Chris Crocker with the BMS ambassador report from USA was delighted to be a BMS Violin Week, with a careers talk. One of the Ambassador, promoting British music students was ill for the class but it was still Iabroad, giving a class and concerts a useful forum in the Kirmser Hall, on 8 exclusively of British music on a tour of the November, open to the public and well USA in November 2017. attended. A Century of British Music The students responded well to my input and attended my concert the BMS CD in following day with faculty pianist, Amanda Arrington in 'A Century of British Music' including music by Edward Elgar, John the news Ireland, Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Judith Weir and Michael Nyman. This was The recently released Naxos CD of previewed on Kansas Public Radio with the songs by Arthur Benjamin (pictured contemporary tracks from my new album above) and Edgar Bainton has proven Violin Muse. to be one of the Society’s best selling Two further recitals of British music recordings and is featured in the were given at Texas Tech University and in December edition of Classical Music My visit to Kansas State University was Boulder, Colorado with local pianists. My Magazine. A fascinating article by a return invitation and I was very pleased experience has been of great enthusiasm Phil Sommerich describes the story that the Head of Strings, Dr Cora Cooper, for this music, which is not often heard in of the discovery of these songs by was happy not only to prepare 4 string the USA and I believe it sowed the seeds for pianist Wendy Hiscocks and singers players with pianists in music by Elgar greater exploration by students and Susan Bickley and Christopher (Salut d’Amour) and Rebecca Clarke for teachers of British music. I'd like to thank Gillett. violin (Midsummer Moon) and viola the BMS for this enterprising new scheme, For more information visit: (Impetuoso from Sonata), but also to which makes possible such visits. www.classicalmusicmagazine.org incorporate the events into a Kansas State Madeleine Mitchell -3- Inbox Send your letters to the Chairman to [email protected] or write to 178 Alexandra Road, Muswell Hill, London, N10 2ES E Howells’ Clavichord music; he hope to familiarise ourselves with all new I have a slight personal connection told the story against himself, that, music and make an assessment, but such with him, in that, as a young boy, I lived Rclutching the newly published a programme would be a start. next-door-but-one to him in the Adelaide score, he met Ravel in the street in Paris. On another tack, perhaps, too, we hills in South Australia in the early 1960s, After showing it, Ravel’s comment was might protest at the increasing use of ir - where I grew up, and knew his family ca - ‘quelle gravure’! relevant background music to many tele - sually, if not closely - hence my interest. - Sylvia Junge vision and radio programmes, which I would like to know of any works he often makes the commentary difficult to composed, and to hear them if I can locate Editor’s reply: quelle gravure = What en - hear. David Attenborough's Blue Planet II them anywhere, or to learn about any graving! (Ed) being a case in point. other musical activity of his, or any other - Geoffrey Hanson details about his life. I don't even know if hris Cope echoes much of that he is still alive, but he would have to be which composer Robert Simpson am interested in finding out any in - well into his 90s now if he is. That he Cwrote in his 1981 essay The Proms formation possible about the South served in World War II would also set his and Natural Justice. His dissatisfaction IAustralian composer Clifton Johns - age at not less than his 90s.
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