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Stanford’s Missing Masses I recently watched an archived streamed talk by Patrick Russill on Sir Richard Terry and the music that he commissioned for Westminster Cathedral during 1912 to 1919, when he was Music Director there. This was in a series of talks presented by the Royal Schoo

A Note from the Chairman – October 2021   I’m pleased to be able to report that Stanford Society members and friends were able to gather for our fourteenth annual Stanford Festival Weekend in Gloucester Cathedral on October 2nd and 3rd. This event had been postponed from Oc

A Note from the Chairman – September 2021 The past few months have seen the release of a bumper crop of books on British composers. These have included volumes on Stanford students Ralph Vaughn Williams, Ivor Gurney and Ernest Moeran as well as books on Frederick Delius, and Sir

A Note from the Chairman – August 2021 During the last week of July I attended this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Worcester. The 2020 Festival planned for Worcester had to be cancelled because of Covid and the decision was taken to remain in Worcester for the 2021 Festival. Th