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A Note from the Chairman – July 2023 On June 19th, members of the Stanford and Herbert Howells Societies enjoyed a Zoom Talk from Paul Spicer on his new book on Sir Arthur Bliss. This is entitled  “ Sir Arthur Bliss – Standing Out from the Crowd”. Paul, who studied composition at the

A Note from the Chairman – June 2023 I spent most of May in England attending  Stanford recording sessions in Cardiff (discussed last month) and the 2023 English Music Festival in Dorchester and Elgar Festival in Malvern and Worcester. The English Music Festival is now in its 16th yea

A Note from the Chairman – May 2023 On May 4th and 5th, Jeremy and Alison Dibble and I attended recording sessions in Cardiff  for Stanford’s Opus 21, The Elegiac Ode from 1884, and the Opus 66, The  Te Deum, from 1898. These were held at the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff’s Millennial Cen

“The Leeds Boa Constrictor” How A Provincial Musical Festival Destroyed the Public Careers of Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir Charles Stanford Our next Stanford Society online talk which will be given by Dr Anne Stanyon on Wednesday 17 May at 19:30 (UK time). Please do join us