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Bill
Kenny has retired as Editor and developer of Seen
and Heard, the live review section of MusicWeb International.
We owe him and his team a deep debt of gratitude for making
S&H truly International and deeply respected. Please read
Stan
Metzger's tribute to Bill.
Len Mullenger
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Geoffrey W Davies was acquainted with a choral conductor Colin Ratcliffe
from the 1950s. Their ways parted after a time when CR had moved to
Birmingham as Concert Master of the CBSO chorus and GWD sang in a choir
he formed there. CR then moved to Glasgow and they lost touch. Mr Davies
would expect CR to have died in the mean time but he would like to make
contact with any of CR's relatives and friends who could give him details
of CR's career from that time on and he wonders whether any BMS members
could provide a link.
Please contact Mr Davies at 17 Bonington Crescent, Castlefields, Stafford
ST16 1AY Telephone 01785 214085
Rob
A chance to hear some rare music:
Saturday 26th May 2012, 7:30 pm St John's Church, Waterloo Road LondonSE1
8TY
Philharmonia Britannica Peter Fender Conductor Jonathan Ayling Cello
Ethel Smyth Overture and 'On the Cliffs of Cornwall ' from 'The Wreckers',
Elgar Cello Concerto, George Lloyd Symphony No.6
THE
ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL June 2012
Some of the EMF concerts are currently selling very swiftly, so if
you are planning to join us for this year’s Festival please do
book soon! And two reminders – firstly for anyone attending the
first night concert with the Vaughan Williams & Moeran World Premières,
to please aim to be in your seats at least 10 minutes before the concert
begins. It is being broadcast live on Radio 3 so announcements will
start at 7.20pm. Secondly, we are running a bus service to and from
Didcot, and inbetween venues, so those without their own transport would
still be able to attend all events at the EMF. Visit www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/emf-bus-service.html
for the timetable and tickets.
Also, to bring to your attention an EMF event which is being trialled
this year, with the hope of making it a fixture for future years. Laurence
Hughes, an EMF supporter and Oxford-based composer, will be leading
a Festival Walk, taking visitors through the landscape and history of
the area and showing why Dorchester, bound up with the peoples and history
of England for thousands of years, is such a very suitable place for
an English Music Festival. The walk will start from outside the Abbey
Museum at 2pm on Friday 1st June and will last for two approx. hours,
taking in the site of the Roman settlement, Watling Street, Dyke Walls,
Day's Lock, Little Wittenham church and manor house, Wittenham Clumps,
the Iron Age hill fort, the medieval and later causeways across the
Thame and the site of the original ford and probable Roman bridge. It
involves climbing one steep hill, and stout footwear or wellingtons
are advised. A voluntary donation to the EMF of £5 is suggested,
and it would be helpful (though not necessary) if you could let me know
if you are planning to attend.
Booking has also opened for our post-EMF concert at the Hay-on-Wye Festival
on Friday 8th June – tickets may be purchased online at www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/events.html.
Finally, to remind you about and / or alert you to our forthcoming products
and releases, all of which will be available for sale at the Festival,
including EMF ties and scarves, a musical map of the British Isles,
Cuillin Bantock’s book of recollections of his grandfather Sir
Granville Bantock, scholarly-critical edition scores, and our latest
two EM Records releases of chamber works by Norman O’Neill and
of works for violin and piano by Holst, Vaughan Williams and Walford
Davies. If you’re not able to join us at the Festival, you will
be able to purchase any or all of these from our website from Wednesday
6th June onwards. Visit www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/emrecords.html
for the discs, www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/empublishing.html for
the scores, map and Cuillin’s book (please note that this link
will be only be active from 6th June onwards), and www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/marketplace-merchandise.html
for ties, scarves and other products!
With thanks for your continued interest and support – and very
much hoping to see you at this year’s EMF,
Em
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