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A Note from the Chairman – June 2022 One of the works included in the orchestral concert given by the Durham University Orchestral Society during their Stanford Weekend concert in Durham Cathedral on Saturday March 5th 2022, was the Overture to The Wreckers, an opera by Dame Eth

A Note from the Chairman – February 2022 This year is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of one of Stanford’s most famous students, Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Vaughan Williams Society is arranging a number of events to mark this anniversary and VW’s music is being

A Note from the Chairman – February 2022 Hats off to Finghin Collins and his team at the Galway Festival for putting on an outstanding programme of music, talks and a film relating to Stanford and a number of his contemporaries and leading students in Galway, Ireland during the

More on Stanford’s Missing Works In November I wrote about the three missing Masses that Stanford apparently wrote for Richard Terry and the Choir of Westminster Cathedral. We are fortunate that we can account for almost all of the music that Stanford composed. Much of it was pu