Music societies

[Mary Chambers]

I've never been clear what composer societies actually do. Is it mainly promotion of the works? There isn't one for Britten, and I don't think there needs to be, but I suppose the Britten-Pears Foundation serves a similar function.

Local music societies: in our Cheshire village when I was a kid in the 1950s there was a music society that had guests like Richard Lewis and Gerald Moore. I think it was all live music. I'm quite sure it no longer exists, and hasn't for a very long time.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It wasn't just that they abandoned the Elgar Edition - they pulped most of the unsold volumes produced so far.

They did, but "The Kingdom" was rescued before too much danage was done. So such luck for "The Spanish Lady" though.

[salymap]

Augener pulped lots of piano music when taken over by Stainer &Bell. I stood knee deep in the Victorian delight of 2 piano arrangements of Beethoven symphonies etc but felt rather sadthat anything was pulped.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I hate destroying music for any reason. Sometimes I've thrown some away, regretted it and have spent years trying to find second hand copies on the internet.
Similarly, I have been scouring the 2nd-hand market for copies of the piano accompaniments for Stanley Holloway monologues.

But I digress.

Do any other composer societies get into publishing. Perhaps the Rutland Boughton Society might consider it?

[ahinton]

Some great links on there , ER.
there are a couple of others who seem to have just an official site rather than a society. Arnold , Alwyn and Erik "MacBartok" Chisholm for three. (apologies if I have missed them).

Not to mention (although I am now mentioning it!) Sorabji (www.sorabji-archive.co.uk), where there's a website and internet forum and, although there's no formally constituted "society" per se, it does publish the composer's complete known and extant music scores and the complete known published literary writings.

[salymap]

Now well into my 80s, I'm very forgetful but think it was the Rutland Boughton Society that I was sent to by my boss. It was chaired by a conductor, forget who sadly. This would be the 1960s.
Some ofhis music lives on anyway, if only snippets.

[EdgeleyRob]

The George Lloyd society link in the alphabetical list doesn't work.
I think the website was re-launched late last year but judging by the messageboard there's still not a lot of interest.
Could someone in admin kindly replace with this link http://www.georgelloyd.com/index.php...loyd-society-2

Many thanks.

[french frank]

The George Lloyd society link in the alphabetical list doesn't work.
I think the website was re-launched late last year but judging by the messageboard there's still not a lot of interest.
Could someone in admin kindly replace with this link http://www.georgelloyd.com/index.php...loyd-society-2

Many thanks.

I think all the links are now working.

[Jonathan]

Of course there are these two:

http://www.alkansociety.org/

and of course

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

(who I write the CD reviews for)

[EdgeleyRob]

Of course there are these two:

http://www.alkansociety.org/

and of course

http://www.lisztsoc.org.uk/

(who I write the CD reviews for)

[EdgeleyRob]

Would someone in admin please add this website to the reference library.

Having recently discovered the wonderful music of this composer I have found this very interesting,hopefully it might convert one or two others.

http://www.myaskovsky.ru/

[teamsaint]

Cracking link ER...Thanks. Working my way through the symphonies...the final movement of #20 set me up nicely for an afternoons footy....What a belter !!

[EdgeleyRob]

Cracking link ER...Thanks. Working my way through the symphonies...the final movement of #20 set me up nicely for an afternoons footy....What a belter !!

There are a few belters in that box ts.
I love the photographs on that website.