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Beckus Newsletter Archive 08

Beckus Newsletters No 104 – 115 Spring 2015 to Winter 2019

Beckus 106
Beckus 107
Beckus 108
Beckus 109
Beckus 110
Beckus 111 Malcolm Arnold Society
Beckus 112 Malcolm Arnold Society
Beckus 113 Malcolm Arnold Society
Beckus 114 Malcolm Arnold Society
Beckus115 Malcolm Arnold Society

Issue 115 Winter 2019:

  • Much to enjoy at the 14th Arnold Festival
  • Keith Llewellyn, R.I.P.
  • Barry Wordsworth guest at Society dinner
  • Come play and sing Peterloo choral
  • John Gibbons becomes Patron of the Society
  • First recording of the Toy Symphony
  • New CD of the complete piano works
  • Savile Club CD
  • The Accordion Concerto that never was
  • From the Archives: premières and early performances (Part 1 of 2)

Issue 114 Autumn 2019:

  • Flute Concerto no.1 – Hitchin Chamber Orchestra
  • Cornish Dances, St Kea Church
  • Double Violin Concerto – Orchestra of the Swan
  • 14. Malcolm Arnold Festival
  • Festival and Society arrangements
  • Malcolm Arnold Society Scholarship
  • Judith Bailey and Malcolm Arnold
  • The other Malcolm Arnold
  • Battle of Britain: New evidence in the autograph manuscripts
  • Battle of Britain: letters from Walton
  • 1969: A busy year for Malcolm
  • Reel Streets, Part 2
  • Whistle Down the Wind: on location in Downham
  • Performance diary

Issue 113 Summer 2019:

Issue 112 Spring 2019:

  • Second Eton College Malcolm Arnold competition
  • Five Pieces for violin and piano in Italy
  • Double Violin Concertos in Ealing & Faversham
  • Oboe Concerto in Suffolk & English Dances in Norfolk
  • Symphony for Strings in Greenwich – St Paul’s Sinfonia
  • Our Classical Century: The Bridge on the River Kwai
  • Hobson’s Choice – Music From the Motion Pictures
  • The return of The Three Musketeers
  • Lot 86 – A postscript to the Norwich auction of ‘The Sir Malcolm Arnold Collection’
  • The ‘Inn of the Sixth Happiness’ plaque in North Wales
  • The significance of Malcolm Arnold by David Mellor and Robert Matthew-Walker
  • Book Review: The Classical Music Map of Britain
  • Society accounts and subscription information
  • From the archives
  • Performance diary


Issue 111 Winter 2018:

  • 13th Arnold Festival: a triumph over adversity
  • Society Dinner
  • Annetta Hoffnung, R.I.P.
  • Prize competition
  • BBC to open up classical music archive
  • Stokowski recording of Beckus the Dandipratt
  • The musical grandfather: A William Hawes postscript
  • The Auction in retrospect
  • Armando Iannucci reflects on the death of Malcolm Arnold
  • Concert review: Hitchin Symphony Orchestra
  • Five Year Society Review
  • Badger’s Green: Arnold’s first film score
  • New subscription rates from 1 January 2019
  • Performance Diary


Issue 110 Autumn 2018:

  • Tavistock Festival
  • Sean Shibe wins RPS music award
  • Ruth Gipps Variations – Vanbrugh Ensemble
  • Arnold on Sounds of Brass
  • Grand Grand Overture at Brighton Festival
  • Charles “Charlie” Gregory, horn player
  • Arnold’s whistlers
  • From the archives: Commonwealth Christmas Overture, etc
  • Concert Piece for Percussion / Evelyn Glennie
  • Arnold the conductor: a remarkable decade 1963-72
  • Festival and Society events 12-14 October 2018

Issue 109 Summer 2018:

  • Brighton Philharmonic concert
  • A new Patron
  • Eton Essay Prize winners
  • Tavistock Festival
  • The Eton Collection
  • New CD of fanfares
  • Fantasy for Cello: an analysis by Julian Lloyd Webber
  • A gesture of friendship
  • Malcolm Arnold and Bruce Montgomery
  • Salute to Thomas Merritt op.98
  • Arnold and Britten from Zeeland
  • Kensington Gardens
  • The Fair County of Ayr
  • Three Shanties arranged for octet

Issue 108 Spring 2018:

  • Eton College Malcolm Arnold Competition
  • Heatwave: Music for flute, oboe, and piano
  • A heatwave in December
  • Isabelle Marchewka: Solo harp works
  • The Gramophone’s Top 10 English composers
  • Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Martin Ellerby
  • The Three Musketeers on tour in Autumn 2018
  • Rick Stein
  • Neil Richmond: transcribing Arnold’s works
  • Water Music: a South East discovery
  • More praise for Sean Shibe
  • Phillip Dyson: Malcolm’s piano music
  • Society Accounts and subscription information
  • Sponsorship
  • Book review
  • The Richmond Ballet perform ‘Journey’

Issue 107 Winter 2017:

  • 12th Arnold Festival: a feast of delights
  • Society Dinner
  • New CD of Arnold Songs
  • Our new website!
  • Donald Mitchell (1925 – 2017)
  • Fantasy for Guitar / Acclaim for Sean Shibe
  • Fantasy for Double Bass
  • Arnold at Eton: a student’s view
  • Eton Essay Prize 2017
  • News from Bel Air
  • The search for the missing scores
  • More cuttings from the pas

Issue 106 Autumn 2017

  • Exhibition at Eton College
  • The Tempest at Eton
  • Statue of Malcolm Arnold unveiled at Northampton Guildhall
  • Rinaldo and Armida in Westminster
  • Exhibition of Marialuisa Marino’s art in Nottingham
  • Alan Moore’s Jerusalem
  • Malcolm Arnold Festival 2017 – A welcome by Paul Harris
  • Festival arrangements for society members
  • Reviving ‘Parasol’ by Ian Hÿtch
  • A Pride of Parasols
  • The Organ Concerto in America
  • Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra
  • Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra
  • More newspaper cuttings from the past

Issue 105 Summer 2017

  • St Paul’s Sinfonia – Viola concerto
  • Auction in Norwich
  • Goldsmith Sinfonia – Symphony No 5
  • Sinfonia Tamesa – Symphony No 7
  • New kid on the block, part 3
  • More on ‘Parasol’
  • A-Z of Northampton by Anthony Meredith – review
  • Bronwen Jones: pianist in Stolen Face
  • Clarinet Concerto and sonatina
  • More newspaper cuttings from the past
  • Malcolm Arnold: a birthday tribute by Humphrey Searle

Issue 104 Spring 2017

  • Essex Symphony Orchestra
  • Sale of items from Sir Malcolm’s estate
  • News from Maryland
  • The nine Symphonies in concert
  • New kid on the block, part 2
  • Parasol, Malcolm’s only musical
  • Fantasy for audience and orchestra
  • New publications