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No. 61 – April 2017 Address for Communications News In this issue ... Page Page Address for Communications 2 Edward Elgar: Keep in touch 3 Collected Correspondence 12 Letter from the Chairman 4 The Elgar Birthplace 13 Editorial 6 Obituary – Katrina Norbury 16 The 2017 Birthday Weekend 6 Brief Items 17 Treasurer’s notes 8 Delius Society 20 From the Membership Secretary 9 Branch Reports 21 Welcome to New Members 9 Branch Events 21 Geoff Scargill awarded a Air de Collett 26 Certificate of Merit 10 Dates for your Diary 28 Elgar Works 11 Crossword 42 Trustees’ Annual Report T1 No. 61 – April 2017 Address for Communications Contributions for the August 2017 edition of the Elgar Society News should be e–mailed to both the editors: Richard Smith: [email protected] Peter James: [email protected] Full contact details can be found on the back cover. The latest date for submissions for the August 2017 issue is 25 June 2017. Style Guide Abbreviations & contractions Contractions & familiar abbreviations: no full stop (Mr, Dr, BBC, OUP, am, pm, ie, eg) Abbreviations: add a full stop if needed for clarity or elegance (Op., No., J.S. Bach) Days: Mon, Tues, Weds, Thurs, Fri, Sat, Sun Months: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec Capitals Chairman, Secretary and Branch of the Elgar Society in capitals, whether specific or general, and whether singular or plural. Dates & times Use the form 2 June 1857. Decades: 1930s, no apostrophe. 4.30pm (12hr clock, full stop, not colon); 12pm (not noon). E–mail Write as e–mail, not email. Foreign words In roman if well established in English (sic, crescendo), otherwise in italics. Numbers Spell out up to and including twenty, then 21 etc in figures. No superscript for ordinal numbers (ie 1st, not 1st). Plurals No apostrophe (CDs, not CD’s) unless needed for clarity (eg mind your p’s and q’s). 2 Elgar Society News Style Guide Possessives Apostrophe s after singular nouns ending in –s. With personal names that end in –s but are not naturally pronounced with an extra s: just add an apostrophe after the –s. Prices £3 (not £3.00). Quotations In single quotes; double quotes for quotes within quotes. Telephone numbers 01243 774557 (not 01243–774557). Three–digit area codes followed by eight–digit numbers (eg London numbers) as 020 7777 7777, not 0207 777 7777. Mobile phone numbers in the form 07123 456789. Titles Generic titles in roman (eg Violin Concerto); others in italics (eg Sea Pictures, the Musical Times); units within a longer work in single quotes (eg ‘Sanctus fortis’ from The Dream of Gerontius); nicknames in single quotes (eg ‘Moonlight’ Sonata, ‘Enigma’ Variations). Keep in Touch Remember: you can keep up to date with the latest Elgarian news online at Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: www.twitter.com London Branch Account: https://twitter.com/ElgarLondon YouTube: www.youtube.com or, search for ‘Elgar’ or ‘Elgar Society’ or ‘Elgar Birthplace’. No. 61 – April 2017 3 Letter from the Chairman Dear Friends Welcome to the annual special edition that includes the yearly accounts and the Trustees’ Annual Report, with its reports on the whole range of our work. Two areas of activity deserve describing in this introduction. The first is the manifold changes that have been brought about in our Society’s world in 2016. The strength of a society must lie in how it deals with change, and I admire the way we have all dealt with it on seemingly every front. To start, this very edition of the News has been produced by two colleagues, Peter James and Richard Smith They aided Ernie Kay when he agreed to ensure the continued printing of the News when the editorship fell vacant and have segued seamlessly into a new co–editorship that pays tribute to them and to Ernie’s guiding hand and wise counsel. Next, we shall all by now have received our copy of the Journal, the first produced by our new Editor, Meinhard Seremba, whom I welcome to the role. Meinhard has been aided by the two previous incumbents, Julian Rushton and Martin Bird, so that his accession to the Editor’s throne has been as painless as it could be. I thank Julian and Martin, and I salute both Meinhard’s willingness to be our first non–British Editor and the ease with which he has, without fuss, delivered the new edition to us. George Smart has, in his own modest and unshowy way, settled into his role of Honorary Secretary, and it is a comfort to me that he has brought a different style, but the same efficiency, to his role as that of his predecessor, Helen Petchey. Helen’s husband, Philip, is already Chairman of London Branch, and has now taken over from Geoff Scargill as Chairman of the Chairmen’s Committee. He has also been co–opted onto Council and I look forward to his contributions to these august meetings. We welcomed Geoff Scargill who entered his second term on the Council and the more recently arrived Peter Newble and Roy Whittaker and missed the presence of Paul Bassett, who stood down during the year under Constitutional rules. 4 Elgar Society News Letter from the Chairman Our second area of activity is the Recording programme. Following a large increase in the budget for 2016, Siva Oke recorded the first of a series of three CDs. This was of choral music comprising Te Deum & Benedictus, Psalm 48 (Great is the Lord), Psalm 29 (Give unto the Lord), O Hearken Thou, Ecce Sacerdos Magnus, Spanish Serenade and From the Bavarian Highlands. The same sessions made a start on the second CD, which will feature for the most part–songs with orchestra but which also feature songs for soprano & piano, including world premiere recordings of In the Dawn and Speak, Music together with As I laye a–thinkynge, Like to the Damask Rose, The Shepherd’s Song, Dry those fair, those crystal eyes, Muleteer’s Serenade and the Mill Wheel Song. You may recall I wrote last year about the reports of the superb performance of Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf in Herford, North Rhine–Westphalia. The soprano soloist was the wondrous Swiss singer Nathalie de Montmollin, and she was engaged by SOMM to record the songs accompanied by Barry Collett. I was lucky enough to hear them perform in Rickmansworth just before the recording, so I cannot wait for those to be released. Finally, as I write this in February, Mike Dutton of Dutton Epoch is preparing to record with the BBC Concert Orchestra under David Lloyd Jones some of the short orchestral works featured in Volume 23 of the Elgar Complete Edition, edited by the conductor. So there is a lot to enjoy on the horizon. I hope you find the Trustees’ Annual Report interesting, and may I thank you all for your continuing support. I look forward to seeing you at the AGM in June, and to the release of those CDs! No. 61 – April 2017 5 Editorial As usual our April edition of the Elgar Society News contains the Trustees’ Annual Report. It was brought to our attention that previously the Branch reports were more or less duplicated in the April News and in the TAR. Thus we have decided to omit the Branch reports from this issue and refer our readers to the TAR. I was most impressed by Peter James’ editorial in the December issue which has drawn some sympathetic comment. I have just returned from a brief visit to the USA and had some chance to listen to the classical music radio stations in and around New England. I was delighted to hear that, unlike Classic FM, the whole of a work was played – not just a movement or a ‘famous bit’. The announcers gave excellent background material on each work with brief details of the composer. My one disappointment was that the range of music played was rather limited, seemingly confined mainly to composers of mid–European origin, Germany, Austria and the Balkans. I confess that my experience was limited but there was little or no Russian, French, British or, perhaps more surprisingly, American music played. It would be interesting to hear if you, our readers, have similar opinions. Richard Smith The 2017 AGM and Birthday Weekend FRIDAY 2 June 2017 – 7.45pm Elgar Birthday Concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Seal at the Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road, Malvern, Worcs. Elgar Violin Concerto (soloist: Tasmin Little) Beethoven Symphony No 7 Tickets: £24.08 to £37.50 (including 12% booking fee) From Malvern Theatres Box Office Tel: 01684 892277 website: www.malvern–theatres.co.uk 6 Elgar Society News The 2017 AGM and Birthday Weekend SATURDAY 3 June 2017 – 10.30am A Coffee Morning for Elgar Society Members and Friends hosted by the Chairman of the West Midlands Branch, Dr John Harcup, at Great Malvern Station. For those of you who haven’t been before this is a delightful event held in one of the most beautiful Victorian stations in the British Isles. SATURDAY 3 June 2017 – 4pm Afternoon tea hosted by the West Midlands Branch at the home of Linda Tolchard, a Society member and a well–known soprano. Linda’s beautiful garden at Honeypot Farm, Priest Field, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, WR8 0AH has splendid views of the Malvern Hills which would, of course, have been familiar to Elgar. More details of this event will be circulated later. SUNDAY 4 June 2017 – 10.30am Mass at St Wulstan’s Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, followed by the laying of a wreath on the Elgar Grave.
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