Beckus Newsletter Archive 07

Beckus Newsletters No 092 – 103 Spring 2014 to Winter 2016

Issue 103 Winter 2016

11th Malcolm Arnold Festival: Another Winner!
Nigel Hess’s Launch address
Society Dinner Oct 15th
Complete brass music CD
New Kid on the block, part 1
Watching the flames together RVW and MA
Malcolm Arnold and Thomas Merritt
Black Mark for putting a tune into a Symphony

Issue 102 Autumn 2016

‘The voice of the people: 11th Malcolm Arnold Festival
CD British Serenade: Solos with String Orchestra
Devils, donkeys, and dinosaurs: The influence of Gordon Jacob on the young Malcolm Arnold
Solitaire: sixty years on
Generation Y in Oldenburg
An Arnold mystery island?
Music making and manuscripts

Issue 101 Summer 2016

Malcolm Arnold Fantasies Competition
Hunt the chaconne!
Works for soloist and strings
Malcolm Arnold’s chamber music
Playing Malcolm’s clarinet works
Up at the Villa
The Arnold-Bournemouth connection
The Eton Arnold project

Issue 100 Spring 2016

London concert to launch new Arnold recordings
Arnold events in Cornwall
Malcolm Arnold and Ruth Gipps
Avalanche Patrol
Reconstructing Arnold’s Film Scores – Philip Lane
150 Arnold symphony performances
Complete Brass works to be recorded

Issue 99 Winter 2015

The Tenth Arnold Festival – the best yet!
The Society Dinner
New recording of the Oboe Quartet
The Arnold-Bournemouth Connection
Alf Arnold: The Black Sheep of the family?
Arnold Films on DVD

Issue 98 Autumn 2015

Society helps fund Arnold CD release
Welcome to the 10th Arnold Festival
Quiz
Scottish Dances in Maryland
Three’s a company – the Synfoniettas
Peter Pan
Arnold by arrangement

Issue 97 Summer 2015

Sonata for strings – first recording
The Dancing Master from the Guildhall School of Music
Was the muse really missing? Tony Meredith responds to the suggestion in the last issue that the Concerto for 28 Players is a neglected gem.
Maryland Band Directors Band play Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo
Malcolm Arnold at 60 by Hugo Cole reprinted from MusicAnd Musicians 1981
Music from the Films A discussion between Muir Mathieson and Malcolm Arnold
Northampton Mercury archives
The Sunshine Matinees by Alan Poulton
The BBC Genome project – online access to The Radio Times from 1923 onwards

Issue 96 Spring 2015

New recording of the Seventh Symphony
New Michala Petri CD
John Kuchmy – a man of many parts
An individual voice – This appreciation of Malcolm Arnold at the age of 60, written by Piers Burton-Page in 1981, has not previously been published

Issue 95 Winter 2014

Why we all love him so much
A kaleidoscopic imagination – the 9th Malcolm Arnold Festival
On and Off the record – John Kehoe talks about his work at Conifer
The elusive Serenade for guitar and strings
Flowers of the Forest – a ballet revival in Birmingham
The Three Musketeers in Canada
A new Arnold dance work: Suite Bourgeoise

Issue 94 Autumn 2014

Ninth Malcolm Arnold Festival
Conducting an interview with our new patrons – John Wilson and Keith Lockhart
Padstow unveiling: a wonderful day
Old friends and memories – Padstow pays tribute to composer who took Cornwall to his heart
‘Scratch’ choir premieres The Shipwright’s Song
Philip Pfaff: The forgotten organist of St Matthew’s Church
The Ipswich Festival Overture
Malcolm Arnold at 70

Issue 93 Summer 2014

Padstow unveiling honours Sir Malcolm
Keith Lockhart our new patron
Third Light – Simon Parker writes about his new play, which includes the Four Cornish Dances
Malcolm Arnold: the conductor remembered
The mystery of the Fourth Symphony
The Malcolm Arnold Trust

Issue 92 Spring 2014

From the new Chairman Alan Poulton
Plaque unveiling at Padstow
Songs from the Films
5th symphony in Bel Air
A concerto rediscovered: Cello Concerto
Malcolm Arnold at Home