The brand new issue of Beckus (No. 134) is out!
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The contents:
19th Malcolm Arnold Festival
Our Brass Band CD
June Mendoza, R.I.P.
Guitar Concerto at St John’s Smith Square
‘Companion’ review
Double Violin Concerto
Divertimento in Brighton
Our new Treasurer / Financial Statement 2
CDs and books
Three in one: Malcolm Arnold’s Piano Trio Op.54 by Piers Burton-Page
A seventieth birthday tribute by Christopher Palmer (from 1991)
In praise of Oramo’s Fifth by Jeremy Polmear
Britain’s 25 greatest composers
The ‘other’ Malcolm Arnold
Performance Diary
We know that composers write music out of what they are, but what they are isn’t just a matter of how they’re made but what they’ve experienced. I, for one, hear in Arnold’s later music as much social commentary as autobiography. Symphonies Nos.7 and 8 and the Field Fantasy do their best not to give away any secrets, but I’m sure one of their chief motivating themes is the loss of innocence.
Christopher Palmer
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