ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL NEWS
Brian Kay
   
We are delighted to announce that BRIAN KAY has joined the ranks of the EMF's Vice-Presidents. Brian will be well-known to you all as a radio presenter for BBC2 and Radio 3, for which he won the Sony Radio Award as Music Presenter of the Year. Brian is currently conductor of the Leith Hill Music Festival, following in the footsteps of Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also fondly remembered as the bass in the King's Singers and the lowest frog on Paul McCartney's single as well as being a member of the backing group for Pink Floyd!

Before the EMF 2009, Director Em Marshall and pianist David Owen Norris were interviewed by Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's In Tune programme.

Marshall & Norris
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‘Hail Bounteous May’ to herald Fourth English Music Festival

In order to provide audiences in the Capital with a preview of what the 2010 English Music Festival has to offer, the Bridge Quartet will be joined by tenor Charles Daniels and pianist Michael Dussek in a variety of English music – including works by Purcell, Vaughan Williams (On Wenlock Edge), Frank Bridge and Britten – at a special EMF gala concert on the evening of Saturday 1st May, 7.30 pm at St John's, Smith Square.

The full programme includes: Purcell: Two Fantazias, Britten: String Quartet No.1, Vaughan Williams: 'On Wenlock Edge', and Bridge: Piano Quintet.

Tickets are available from the SJSS Box Office from 1st April: St. John's, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA, by telephone: 020 7222 1061 and online: www.sjss.org.uk
£15 / £10 (concessions 10% discount), in aid of the English Music Festival.

 

The Singer article
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Bristol pays tribute to Vaughan Williams
As Chairman of the Ralph Vaughan WIliams Society, Em unveiled a plaque in Bristol commemorating the first performance of The Lark Ascending by violinist Marie Hall, in Shirehampton Village Hall.
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Oxford Liedertafel
at the Oxford and Cambridge Club

On Monday, 30th November The Oxford and Liedertafel gave a concert of songs by Vaughan Williams and some of the composers who influenced him at the Oxford and Cambridge Club in Pall Mall.
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The English Music Festival is unique. It is the only event dedicated exclusively to the music of British composers, and to the goal of bringing that vast corpus of amazing works back into the mainstream of the nation's culture.

In spite of the importance of music to England's cultural identity and nationhood, no public bodies have as yet come forward to support the EMF. Nevertheless, we have already shown that the English Music Festival can make a powerful impact, and we believe that times are changing. We are on course for a highly successful Festival in 2010.
 
     
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