Maestro Journal

MAESTRO
The Journal of the Malcolm Arnold Society

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Issue 9 October 2024
68 pages, with b&w illustrations. Please purchase here.

• Malcolm Arnold’s contribution to music for brass
• The genesis of Arnold’s Brass Quintet Op.73
• Malcolm Arnold and Walton’s Five Bagatelles
• Sir Malcolm Arnold, honorary rock star (Deep Purple)
• The Dean Hussey Choral Commissions
• My time in Northampton (Philip Pfaff)
• Shopping and Fricker: the Cheltenham Festival
• Arnold at the Cheltenham Festival: concert reviews
• Letters to Arnold
• Heritage Quay, Huddersfield University
• Arnold at the Wigmore Hall
• The search for the missing scores

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Issue 8 October 2022
68 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

• To what extent is Malcolm Arnold a misunderstood composer? by Becky-Ellice Creighton 
• Malcolm Arnold and the CRMS by Ian Graham-Jones
• Reassessing Arnold by Piers Burton-Page
• Malcolm Arnold’s scrapbook by David Dunstan
• Capel Garmon: the Arnolds’ retreat by Paul Harris
• Lost and found by Alan Poulton
• Arnold’s legacy by Piers Burton-Page
• The cadenza of Malcolm Arnold’s Second Clarinet Concerto by
  Peter Cigleris, Brian Inglis and Paul Harris
• The New Elizabethan Soundtrack by Stephen Banfield
• From the archives: articles from Beckus 2009-2014

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Issue 7 October 2020
60 pages, with colour illustrations, plus a 12-page supplement. Please purchase here.

• Malcolm Arnold and Julian Bream by Piers Burton-Page
• Working with Malcolm Arnold by Michala Petri
• Thoughts on the Fourth Symphony by David Dunstan
• Feature Films in Performance by Alan Poulton
• A Cornish Diary, 1965-1972 by Alan Poulton
• From the archives: articles from Beckus 2009-2010

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Issue 6 October 2019
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

• Arnold on the Small Screen by Alan Poulton
• A Catalogue of Achievement: Alan Poulton’s early years by Anthony Meredith
• Arnold’s feature films and their literary sources by Alan Poulton
• Malcolm Arnold’s 1954 Incidental Music to The Tempest by Thomas Nettle
• The Arnold Documentaries by Alan Poulton
• From the archives: Beckus 2005–2008

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Issue 5 October 2018
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

• Malcolm Arnold’s concertos: masterpieces of mélange by Isaac Adni
• “Just great”: Malcolm Arnold’s Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op.115 by Eleanor Fox
• The Arnold Quartets revisited by Piers Burton-Page
• Lamond Clelland: piccolo player by Alan Poulton
• Arnold’s shortest symphony: the Toy Symphony by Alan Poulton
• Fantasy for Harp by Osian Ellis
• Pilot Officer Philip Arnold (1919-1940) by Anthony Meredith
• Elgar’s influence on Malcolm Arnold by Dr Raphael Thoene
• Malcolm Arnold and the BBC by Alan Poulton
• From the archives: Beckus 2004

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Issue 4 October 2017
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

• More Fantasies for Solo Instruments
• Thomas Merritt: “Music is meat and drink to me”
• Arnold’s ‘other’ Ballets
• Arnold film and concert music on 7″ vinyl
• Invitation to the Dance
• The Symphonies of Malcolm Arnold
• Letters between Malcolm Arnold and William Walton
• Donald Mitchell on Malcolm Arnold
• From the archives: Beckus 2002-2003

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Issue 3 October 2016
64 pages, with colour illustrations. Please purchase here.

• The brass instrument Fantasies
• Through the soloists’ eyes: Harmonica concerto
• Arnold’s published film music
• The Haweses: a musical family
• A bibliographical update
• From the archives: Beckus 2000-2002

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Issue 2 October 2015

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• Henry Christophe and other operas
• Dennis Brain and the Horn Concerto
• Birmingham International Wind Competition 1966
• National Youth Orchestra
• Kwai: a cinematic review
• Arnold on LP

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Issue 1 October 2014
Articles from Beckus 1991-2000. Please purchase here.

• Malcolm Arnold and Jon Lord
• The ballet music
• Malcolm Arnold and me (by Joe Mendoza)
• Film music: the Arnold-Lean trilogy

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