The Great Peter Bell at York Minster will toll for an hour before the Duke of Edinburgh s funeral on Saturday afternoon
YORK Minster’s Great Peter Bell will toll for an hour on Saturday before the funeral of the Duke of Edinburgh - and the cathedral will hold a service of commemoration next week. The Minster has today announced details of its plans for further services of commemoration and thanksgiving for the life of Prince Philip. It said that at 5.30pm on Friday,on the eve of Saturday s funeral, there will be a choral evensong in thanksgiving, led by the Songmen and Choral Scholars of York Minster with music by Francis Jackson, Herbert Howells, David Halls and Charles Wood.
Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary
Wetherell s father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn
Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life
Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orchestras and big bands, and writing television music and song cycles.
Pure Bliss – rediscovering a great forgotten composer
Can new recordings of this neglected British composer’s music finally put an end to our ignorance of Bliss?
Unbridled originality: Sir Arthur Bliss
Credit: Bettman
The two volumes of the piano music of Sir Arthur Bliss, played with great perception and sensitivity by Mark Bebbington and available on the Somm label as part of its heroic mission to present lesser-known pieces by British composers, has precipitated me back into an exploration of the work of this curate’s egg of a composer. I have always thought Bliss missed out on the renown he deserved, even though he ended up, for the last 22 years of his long life (he died in 1975, aged 83), as Master of the Queen’s Musick, in succession to Sir Arnold Bax. Unlike many who have held that role, he made quite a success of it. He found composing easy, and never seemed to have any trouble doing it to order.
Bard Music Festival Presents a Program of French Piano Music
Both the recital and scholar talk will be available to stream on-demand through UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Center at Bard’s virtual stage, February 19–25.by BWW News Desk
This February, the Bard Music Festival presents A Program of French Piano Music, Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger, a recital of French music performed by pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in fall 2020. Commissioned by the Bard Music Festival, the concert features works by César Franck, Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré, and Camille Saint-Saëns. The program includes a talk by renowned scholars Byron Adams and Kimberly Francis introducing the work of these four composers and of the person who connects them, Nadia Boulanger.
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Barnes played a role in everything from the invention of football to the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Carla Passino takes a closer look.
Until an army of 19th-century engineers descended on Barnes to build bridges and railways, this was a world apart, a rural idyll preserved intact by the Thames that bounds it on three sides.
Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the village had made history even earlier, when it was granted by King Æthelstan to the canons of St Paul in the 900s. The link between Barnes and St Paul’s persists more than 1,000 years on, as the Dean and Chapter owns one of the local gems: 122-acre Barnes Common.