THE BRITISH MUSIC SOCIETY OF YORK (Formerly the York Centre of the British Music Society) THIRTY-SECOND SEASON, 1952-53 MR. R. ROSE, A.R.C.O. BAS YORK President: LADY DAWSON Vice-Presidents: MRS. ALLEN MISS IRENE ANTHONY, L.R.A.M. MRS. H. E. BLOOR MR. ALFRED GRAY Committee: Chairman: MR. WALTER G. BIRCH Vice-Chairman: MR. H. H. DRYLAND, M.B.E. SIR BENJAMIN DAWSON, BART. MRS. G. BOWMER MISS O. CASS, A.R.C.M., L.R.A.M. MISS GLADYS COBB, L.R.A.M. MRS. DRYLAND, J.P. MR. HAROLD D. CRAWFORD MAJOR R. F. QUIRKE, F.R.I.C.S. DR. H. ROYLE MR. P. A. LOVELL, M.A., B.Mus., L.R.A.M. MR. F. WAINE, M.A., B.Mus. Hon. Treasurer: MR. R. WILSON SHARP, M.C., 7 Grosvenor Terrace, York (Oxon.) Assistant Hon. Treasurer: MR. J. P. M. HOLLYWOOD, Barclays Bank Limited, Mansion House Branch, York Hon. Secretary: MR. R. A. GRAY, B.Sc., 27 St. Mary's, York, Tel. 3084 Assistant Hon. Secretary: MISS K. GRAY. Hon. Auditor: MR. WM. GREEN. KINDLY BRING THIS SYLLABUS TO THE NOTICE OF YOUR FRIENDS Further copies may be obtained from the Assistant Hon. Treasurer.

SYLLABUS, 1952-1953 THURSDAY EVENING, 2nd OCTOBER, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). PIANOFORTE RECITAL by NINA MILKINA NINA MILKINA, the Russian-born Pianist, began her musical career in London at the age of seven, where she studied under the guidance of Harold Craxton and Tobias Matthay, and later in Paris with Monsieur Conus, former Professor of the Moscow Conservatoire. During the years of study in Paris, Serge Rachmaninoff took an interest in her playing and predicted a great future for her. At the same time Alexander Glazunov encouraged her gifts for composition, which she began under his guidance and continued with Leonide Sabaniev, her first works, written when she was eleven years old, have been published in this country by Boosey and Hawkes. 1. NINA MILKINA has a wide concert experience, having played in many Recitals and Orchestral Concerts throughout England and on the Continent. Her inter- pretations of Mozart have won her special praise and as proof of this she was specially commissioned by the B.B.C. to broadcast all the Mozart piano Sonatas. 2. THURSDAY EVENING, 23rd OCTOBER, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). CHAMBER CONCERT by THE PETER GIBBS STRING QUARTET PETER GIBBS, Violin KELLY ISAACS, Violin PATRICK IRELAND, Viola BRUNO SCHRECKER, 'Cello PETER GIBBS won a Scholarship to the Trinity College of Music at the age of twelve and, just prior to the war, he won a Scholarship to Oxford where he was reading for a Modern Languages degree. At the outbreak of war he joined the R.A.F. and served as a fighter pilot in the South of England and North Africa. He took part in the defence of London against the flying bombs and went through the Second Front with No. 41 Fighter Squadron. In 1945 PETER GIBBS was invalided out of the Air Force after baling out over Germany, and returned to Oxford to read for his B.Mus. degree. It was there that he met Patrick Ireland and together they decided to come to London and form the Quartet. PATRICK IRELAND was educated at Wellington College, and Worcester College, Oxford, and was studying at the Royal College of Music at the outbreak of the war. He joined the R.A.F. Coastal Command and served as a pilot flying Liberator bombers chasing submarines in the Atlantic. After the war PATRICK IRELAND returned to Oxford to study for his B.Mus. degree. KELLY ISAACS studied the violin from the age of nine and in 1939 won a Scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, London. Unfortunately the war intervened and he was unable to take it up. Prior to the war he was studying for his B.Sc. at Rangoon University and when the Japanese approached Rangoon he evacuated to India where he led the Orchestra of the Maharajah of Patiala. KELLY ISAACS came to Britain in 1946 to take up his Scholarship after an interval of seven years. BRUNO SCHRECKER was born at Frankfurt in Germany and came to England in 1933. He won a Scholarship to the Royal College of Music where he studied under Ivor James. He has since studied with Piet Lentz in Amsterdam.

n d of e T. 1, er IS Is " S ge ne ed a. h t as on er ak ng K a ar ng on an and ed 7. THURSDAY EVENING, 19th FEBRUARY, 1953, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). PIANOFORTE RECITAL by ERIC HARRISON ERIC HARRISON is a Yorkshireman, born in 1918. At one time there seemed such a profusion of talent in this young man that it was very difficult to decide in which particular sphere of music to settle, for he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at the extraordinarily early age of seventeen, while at the piano his gifts were truly astonishing, as he took the prize for improvisation at the Royal College of Music three years in succession. For composition he also had talent. Rightly, he decided to concentrate on one aspect of the art and chance took a hand in 1939. The Ballet Russe were performing the Fokine Ballet to Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini," but at the last minute their intended pianist was not available, and a frantic search for a pianist ended in Eric Harrison, still at the Royal College of Music, performing the work some forty times at Covent Garden. The Rhapsody has been a good friend and, after being invalided out of the Royal Air Force in 1943, ERIC HARRISON made his re-appearance with it for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has played it with great success at the first night of a Promenade Season. 8. THURSDAY EVENING, 12th MARCH, 1953, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by KATHLEEN FERRIER - Contralto Accompanied by PHYLLIS SPURR KATHLEEN FERRIER commenced her musical career as a pianist. At the age of sixteen she became an A.R.C.M. and at eighteen an L.R.A.M. She entered for the "Daily Express" National Competition for pianoforte playing at sixteen, and was awarded as a prize a Cramer piano. She also became a member of Dr. Brierley's Contest Choir, and later, of the Lytham Choral Society. By way of a wager, she entered as a competitor at the Carlisle Festival, gaining the first prize in the open pianoforte class, the contralto solo class, and in addition was awarded the Rose Bowl for the best singer of the year. KATHLEEN FERRIER first studied singing with Dr. Hutchinson, of Newcastle- on-Tyne, and was heard by Sir Malcolm Sargent, who brought her to the notice of the London Agents. Later she was able to move to London, where she continued her studies with the well-known singer, Roy Henderson, and in a very short time had risen to the topmost rank of her profession. Within the space of two years, she had sung for all the leading choral and orchestral societies in the United Kingdom, and in 1946 sang for the first time in opera in the title role of the "Rape of Lucretia" by Benjamin Britten, at Glyndebourne. She earned high praise for her moving interpretation in this unusual and striking modern work. During the 1947 season at Glyndebourne, KATHLEEN FERRIER sang a number of performances of the title role of Gluck's opera "Orpheus "in which her majestic singing was matched by the impressiveness of her appearance on the stage. Professor Bruno Walter invited her to sing in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde at the first Edinburgh Festival, and was so impressed by her performance that she sang the work again under his direction in the Carnegie Hall, New York, in February, 1948, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. This engagement led to a three months' tour which took her from Canada through the U.S.A. to Cuba. KATHLEEN FERRIER has sung at all the principal Festivals in Europe and in Salzburg where she again sang with Bruno Walter. She was the first English singer to appear there.

3. THURSDAY EVENING, 13th NOVEMBER, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by OWEN BRANNIGAN Bass-Baritone Accompanied by WILFRID PARRY OWEN BRANNIGAN was born at Annitsford, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland. He gained a singing Scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music in London and studied singing with Walter Hyde, becoming the School's Gold Medalist in 1942, and was honoured with the award of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1943. OWEN BRANNIGAN has sung as principal Bass with the Sadler's Wells and Covent Garden Opera Companies, also Glyndebourne Opera, and his brilliant performances have earned for him a distinguished position in British Opera. He create roles in Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" and the "Rape of Lucretia," which later resulted in his appearances in the Opera Houses of Paris, Brussels, The Hague and Amsterdam. His versatility can be measured by his appearances with great success, in Macbeth and Figaro at the first Edinburgh International Festival in 1947, and in the following year at the same Festival, he sang as soloist in the Bach B minor Mass, with the Huddersfield Choir under Sir Malcolm Sargent. He has sung in Oratorio at the Three Choirs Festival, the Elgar Festival, the Canterbury Festival, as well as with the Royal Philharmonic Society, Bach Choir. and leading Music and Choral Societies throughout Great Britain. 4. THURSDAY EVENING, 4th DECEMBER, 1952, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). PIANOFORTE RECITAL by CYRIL PREEDY CYRIL PREEDY was born in London in 1920, and at the age of six he began studying in Paris under Marie Schwartz. In 1928 he made his first public appearance at the Salle Pleyel, Paris, and the following year he entered the Royal College of Music as Junior Student. In 1936 he was given a L.C.C. Exhibition at the Royal College, studying piano under Herbert Fryer and Chamber Music under Ivor James. In 1940 he won the Chappell Gold Medal (First piano prize) and from 1940 to 1946 he served in the Royal Air Force. In 1948 he made London debuts at the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Albert Hall (at a B.B.C. Promenade Concert). He has since appeared with the principal Symphony Orchestras, including a tour of twenty Concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. CYRIL PREEDY has also broadcast on a number of occasions for the Radio- diffusion Francaise. 5. THURSDAY EVENING, 8th JANUARY, 1953, at 7-30 p.m. VIOLIN RECITAL by JEAN POUGNET In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). WILFRID PARRY at the Piano. JEAN POUGNET was born in Mauritius in 1907. His father, a British civil servant. Jean Pougnet came to London to study at the Royal Academy of M ch W B. ag SC in 6. cor Fin and the TO He JO. pla and she age and in NC the at Inti

Music, and in 1918 won the Ada Lewis Scholarship. He gained two more scholarships, and gave his first recital at the Wigmore Hall, London, in 1923, followed by his first appearance at a Promenade Concert during the same year. He was one of the first violinists to broadcast from the old studios in Marconi House as winner of a Festival held in Central Hall, Westminster. His work abroad has included tours of Italy, Switzerland and the U.S.A. He has broadcast from Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, including a performance of the Elgar Violin Concerto with the Stockholm Symphony Orchestra. For a time he was leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and has taken part in a great deal of solo work throughout the British Isles. He is equally active in the field of Chamber Music, performing in the Pougnet- Morrison-Pini Trio with the same distinctive tone and immaculate technique which characterise everything he does. WILFRID PARRY studied at the Trinity College of Music where he held the Bambridge Scholarship for Pianoforte. Whilst there he won the Chappell Gold Medal and was awarded a Fellowship of the College for his solo playing, at the age of seventeen. He was later appointed to the teaching staff, but he resigned some time later to devote all his time to playing. His activities include Concertos with the Halle Orchestra and the various B.B.C. Orchestras, solo work, chamber music, ensembles, and accompanying. He has played regularly with chamber music Ensembles, including one for Flute, Oboe and Piano with Gareth Morris and Evelyn Rothwell (Mrs. John Barbirolli). He has given a number of first performances, the most recent being a 'Cello and Piano Sonata by Hindemith, broadcast on the Third Programme with Zara Nelsova. He has broadcast regularly since 1929 with the exception of five and a half years when he was serving with the Army. WILFRID PARRY joined up in July, 1940, and was Commissioned in December, 1941. He was released in October, 1945, after attaining the rank of Captain. 6. THURSDAY EVENING, 29th JANUARY, 1953, at 7-30 p.m. In the TEMPEST ANDERSON HALL (Museum Gardens). RECITAL by JOAN GRAY Contralto Accompanied by NORMAN FRANKLIN JOAN GRAY was born in Hastings, Sussex. She won many First Prizes at Hastings Musical Festival for Pianoforte and Elocution, including the Gold Medal ror Elocution. At the Oxford Festival of Spoken Poetry in 1937 she was awarded First Place in the Elegy Class. She entered the Royal College of Music in 1939 and gained two Scholarships and two Exhibitions there, and in 1941 was awarded the Henry Leslie Prize for singing. JOAN GRAY was chosen to sing with the Royal College of Music First Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult at the Special Anniversary Concert at the Royal College of Music in 1943, in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen Mother and Her Majesty the Queen (then Her Majesty the Queen and Princess Elizabeth). JOAN GRAY became a member of the English Opera Group in May, 1947, playing a leading part in Britten's Opera Albert Herring at Glyndebourne and during the Continental and English tour with the Company. In July, 1947, she won the Queen's Prize of £100 for women vocalists under thirty years of age, in open competition. She sang again before Her Majesty the Queen Mother and Queen Elizabeth (then Her Majesty the Queen and Princess Elizabeth) in 1947. NORMAN FRANKLIN studied at the Royal Academy of Music, where he won the Gold Medal for Pianoforte playing. He later studied with Tobias Matthay, at whose School he is now a Professor. He has been closely associated with the Intimate Opera Company, with whom he toured in Spain.

BORTHWICK INSTITUTE SMS 3/1/11 HISTORICAL OF RESEARCH KINDLY NOTE that under the new arrangements made at the Annual General Meeting of the Society, held at Nun Appleton on Thursday, 17th July, 1952, it was decided to abolish completely all bookings of seats for its concerts during the coming Season 1952-53, with the following reservations:- or to the Assistant Hon. Treasurer, ✰ 1. A special number of seats to be reserved for the Officials of the Society. 2. The Committee was authorised to provide a limited number of seats for members who, by reason of age or infirmity would not be expected to take their place in a queue, or climb to the higher parts of the Hall. The Annual General Meeting also decided to increase the subscription for Full Members from 21/- to 25/- and that for Junior Members (under 18) from 10/6 to 12/6. Subscriptions are now due and should be paid to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr. R. WILSON SHARP, M.C., 7, Grosvenor Terrace, York, Mr. J. P. M. HOLLYWOOD, c/o Barclays Bank Limited, Mansion House Branch, York, who, on receipt, will forward the Membership Cards which admit to the Concerts. The charges for admission for non-members to each of the eight Concerts in the Syllabus are 6/- for front seats and 5/- for back seats. Sellingtons (York) Ltd., Printers and Stationers, 23, Fossgate, York.