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Beckus Newsletter No 140 – Spring 2026

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Beckus 140

The contents:

  • Festival 2026
  • Arnold fan at the Hallé
  • Solitaire goes on tour
  • Convert reviews
  • John Wallace, RIP
  • Fifth Symphony returns to Cheltenham
  • New CD releases
  • Wicked As They Come + A Prize of Gold
  • From Penny Arnold’s collection
  • British symphonic criticism: a tale of two symposia by Ryan Ross
  • The Myth of the Nine: The last symphonies of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Malcolm Arnold by Jürgen Schaarwächter
  • Committee news

Here, the “secret of the Ninth” is indeed confirmed, perhaps in a
reverse Schoenbergian sense: Here, the Ninth is a fully composed, transcendent
summation of a composer’s life – nothing more can be achieved in earthly life.

Jürgen Schaarwächter on Malcolm Arnold’s 9th Symphony