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Beckus Newsletter No 142 – Autumn 2026

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Beckus 142

The contents:

  • 21st Malcolm Arnold Festival
  • Solitaire on UK tour with Ballet Central
  • Grand Fantasia at Hartwell House
  • English Dances in Wantage
  • Flute sonatina at South Downs Festival
  • Arnold family photos
  • David Copperfield on CD
  • David Ross given peerage
  • Dave Hurwitz’s Three As
  • The greatest war film of all time?
  • ‘River Kwai’ station emerges from the past after dam is drained
  • John Andrews and The Dancing Master
  • Julian Bream, British cinema and Malcolm Arnold’s Guitar Concerto
  • Bennett v Britten
  • Britten and Arnold
  • Committee news

Britten and Arnold respected and appreciated one
another’s music. This is made clear in Arnold’s generous birthday
greeting to Britten of November 1973, in which he thanks him for
“the intense pleasure all your work has given me and will always
Programme for Henry Wood Promenade Concert, 16 August 1969
Malcolm Arnold to Benjamin Britten, 20 November 1973
give me”

Dr Nicholas Clark