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BMS LIVE EVENTS
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
LECTURE-RECITAL PROGRAMME
Annual General Meeting & Recital The 31st AGM of the British Music Society will be held on Saturday 27th June 2009 at 2.15pm, at The Warehouse, 13 Theed Street, London SE1 8ST. Please click here for an Agenda.
If you propose attending the AGM it would be helpful if you were able to email the Hon Secretary at david@burkett1.eclipse.co.uk together with details of any guests you may wish to bring; please also advise the Hon Secretary if you wish to receive a copy of the Annual Accounts in advance of the AGM.
It will be followed at 3.00pm by a recital of music composed by BMS members, comprising songs and piano solos by David Arditti, Frank Bayford, Alan Bullard, Brian Blyth Daubney, Derek Foster, Elaine Hugh-Jones, John R Mitchell and John R Williamson. Please click here for further details.
The Warehouse is a rehearsal centre for orchestras with a performing studio in which the AGM will be held. Theed Street is within walking distance of Waterloo station, where there are connections to mainline rail and London Underground networks. Tea/coffee and biscuits will be provided between the AGM and the recital.
PAST
LIVE MUSIC AND EVENTS Competitions have been a major feature of BMS’ live music activities, starting with an Opera Competition (British Opera in Retrospect) from 1984-86. Entries included operas by Arthur Bliss, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ethel Smyth, Rutland Boughton and Hamish McCunn. The Awards were presented at The London Coliseum. From 1988-97 there was a series of Awards for Young Musicians studying at Music Colleges, with a huge variety of composers featured. Prizewinners concerts were held at the Purcell Room (piano, strings), King’s Lynn Festival (voice), Warwick & Leamington Festival (woodwind) and Salisbury Festival (organ). The Voice Awards were incorporated into a sister-project, Song Composer Year, with concerts throughout the country. In 2004, a new cycle began with the BMS Piano Awards. In 2000-01, we held the BMS Choral Competition for the Millenenium which included rare works by Frederic d’Erlanger, Arthur Sullivan, John Joubert, George Dyson, Hubert Parry and Edgar Bainton. The prizes were awarded at The Three Choirs Festival. There was also a Song-Writing Competition and supporting concert in 2002 for the Golden Jubilee (with the English Poetry and Song Society). Another strong field has been lectures and seminars with subjects including Arnold Bax (Lewis Foreman 1983), British Opera from Queen Victoria to the Festival of Britain (2 seminars 1984), Recording British Music (workshop 1985), Edmund Rubbra (Michael Dawney), Sterndale Bennett (Barry Sterndale-Bennett 1987), Scores Lost & Sometimes Found (seminar 1990)), John Foulds (Malcolm MacDonald 1998), and Sullivan Centenary (Stan Meares 2000). A new series of Lecture-recitals was launched in 2004 with Unjustly Neglected - a Review of BMS Recordings (John Talbot) and The Life and Music of Hamish MacCunn (David Burkett). Concerts have sometimes been entirely BMS projects, sometimes in association with others, and sometimes sponsored by the BMS. BMS projects have included three "official" inaugural concerts (1979-81), Benjamin Burrows Centenary Concert (1992), Eugene Goossens Centenary(1993), Piano Recital by the President, John McCabe, CBE (1997), Sixty Glorious Years (1997, with a Foreword by HRH Prince Michael of Kent, an expert on Queen Victoria), and the BMS’s 25th, Roger Quilter’s 50th and Lennox Berkeley’s 100th anniversaries (2003). Concerts with associates have included 20 concerts, including a Tribute to Sidonie Goossens, (Chelsea College and Goldsmith’s College 1979-82) and Arnold Cooke’s 89th Birthday (Tudeley Festival 1995). Sponsored concerts have included two at Wavendon (1981/2), The Broadheath Singers (1991-2003), William Baines Centenary (1999), and Malcolm Williamson’s 70th Birthday (2001), A visit to La Mortella with a concert there was held in 2003. There have also been occasional lunches.
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