Spirited is the Gazette of The English Music Festival and this immaculately presented, clearly set and cleanly designed publication brings to a global audience insightful, thought-provoking and stimulating articles on all subjects pertaining to English music and works by British composers. Further essays on British art, landscape, literature and culture serve to place the composers in their cultural context and provide a deeper level of interest and enlightenment. Each issue also features CD and book reviews, interviews with artists appearing at the Festival, and news of the Festival’s burgeoning UK and European Concerts Series, as well as a wealth of information from the large number of societies, organisations and museums which are a part of the EMF’s ground-breaking British Composer Organisations Scheme. No aficionado of English music can afford to be without this cornucopia of riches.
Please follow the links below to download a PDF version of the first issue; or, if you would like to submit an article to the Editor, please refer to the Guidelines for Contributors.
SPRING 2011 | ISSN 2049‑5587
PDF | 7.73MB
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Our warmest thanks to all those who made our first Festival at Dartington Hall such a success: to the staff at Dartington, whose help and advice in the months and weeks leading up to the Festival were invaluable and whose support during the Festival itself meant so much to us. Our warmest thanks, too, to our artists, for performing with such dedication; to our all our volunteers; and, of course, to our audiences, who supported the Festival’s move to a new venue with such enthusiasm. Finally, we are hugely grateful to all those living locally who were so positive about the Festival's presence in Devon and who circulated news of the EMF, distributed publicity material, and hosted artists and volunteers: your support is immensely appreciated.
We are delighted to announce that The English Music Festival will be making Dartington Hall its new home, and we are greatly looking forward to developing the relationships in Devon that we began to build this year as the EMF begins an exciting new chapter. The 2027 EMF will be our twentieth anniversary and we are planning a very special programme to mark the start of our third decade. Further details will be released during the autumn — when we will also be unveiling our new, re-designed and improved website. We look forward to the pleasure of your company at the EMF next year!