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A Note from the Chairman – March 2023 The past few months have been a disappointing period for Government support of music in England. The Arts Council (England) has announced that it wants to see the English National Opera (ENO) move to Manchester. It has offered financial supp

A Note from the Chairman Stanford’s most successful opera, Shamus O’Brien,(Shamus) opened at London’s Opera Comique Theater on March 2nd, 1896 and had a run of eighty-two London performances. Gustav Holst played in the orchestra as first trombone.  It then went on an extensive provinc

Stanford – The Composition Teacher I recently purchased a new CD on the German Raum Klang label (RK ap 10122) of music by Carl Reinecke and some of his more distinguished students. Reinecke taught composition for more than 40 years at the Leipzig Academy in Germany, and his stud

A Note from the Chairman – December 2022 We don’t normally associate Stanford with Christmas music. His students Ralph Vaughn Williams and Gustav Holst both wrote a large number of Christmas carols, but who has heard of any Christmas Carols written by Stanford ? I was reminded o