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.
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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. |
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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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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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