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George Lloyd Society News VIII

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News Letter VIII - CENTENARY WEEK

24 -30 June 2013

The Centenary of George Lloyd 's birth is almost upon us, and this Newsletter provides a summary of planned events. Details will be found below but the highlights are as follows:

The British Library: Following their acquisition of the complete collection of George Lloyd’s manuscripts, the British Library will mark his centenary with a display of the full score of Symphony No 4.

BBC Radio 3 will mark the centenary by making George the 'Composer of the Week' for his birthday week 24 June – 28 June, and broadcasting a special Cornish edition of their flagship magazine programme 'Music Matters' on Saturday 22 June at 12.15 pm.

St Ives Centenary Concert will take place at the St Ives Guildhall on the 28 June in Lloyd’s home town.

There will be two performances of A Litany, Lloyd’s choral setting of John Donne’s poem at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street.

National Brass Band Championships will take place in Birmingham on Saturday 29 June where the top 8 brass bands in the country will play Diversions on a Bass Theme as the senior test piece. The winners receive a cheque for £4,000 and go forward to the European Championships in 2014.

Radio Broadcasts in the UK, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.

George Lloyd Music Manuscript on Display at the British Library

George Lloyd’s Symphony No.4 will go on display from 22 June to 31 December 2013 in the Library's Treasure Gallery, marking the composer's centenary. This follows the British Library’s acquisition of the collection of Lloyd’s original music manuscripts which will be preserved and documented and made available to the nation.

During the process of sorting and cataloguing the George Lloyd material for the acquisition, a number of previously unknown works have been discovered including an orchestral arrangement of HMS Trinidad March which will have its UK première at the Last Night of the Proms, on 7th September. (The orchestral version was played by the Orchestra of the Swiss Romande in 1946

The British Library’s music collections contain music from all periods and all genres and include original music manuscripts along with correspondence, diaries and unpublished sound recordings of composers who were born or were active in Britain. Among the large collection are the original scores, correspondence and papers of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Ireland and Britten along with the papers of other significant musical figures such as Sir Henry Wood, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Adrian Boult.

The acquisition of George Lloyd’s manuscripts is part of an on-going process, implemented by the British Library, of acquiring, documenting and preserving for the nation the archives of musical figures important to the history of cultural life in Britain.

Local, national and international radio celebrates the music of
George Lloyd leading up to his centenary weekend

On the week leading up to his 100^th birthday, George Lloyd will feature on BBC Radio 3: ‘Composer of the Week’. Presented by Donald Macleod, the programme will be broadcast daily from 24 – 28 June at 12 noon and will include a selection of the composer's finest and his lesser known works.

The weekend before, BBC Radio 3: Music Matters will also be featuring the music of George Lloyd on Saturday 22 June at 12.15pm. Tom Service will present a programme exploring music-making in Cornwall, from folk and fishermen’s choirs to the works of Cornish classical composers including Lloyd, discovering a county where music is a strong part of cultural life.

Sounds of Brass, a weekly programme featured on local BBC Radio stations in the south-west of England, will be marking George Lloyd's centenary in two episodes on Sunday 23 June and Sunday 30 June at 7.05pm. The first of these broadcasts includes extracts from a 1993 interview the composer had with Phillip Hunt, the programme's presenter, and features HMS Trinidad, Royal Parks, Evening Song and Kings Messenger, while on 30 June English Heritage and Diversions on a Bass Theme will be broadcast.

George Lloyd’s centenary will also be celebrated internationally in Germany and Australia. German national radio station WDR3 will be presenting a section on Lloyd as part of the TonArt programme on 26 June, and 3MBS-FM, a community radio station in Melbourne, Australia will be broadcasting a two-hour documentary presented by John Barnes about George Lloyd’s life and music on the Illuminations programme on Friday 28 June, the composer's 100^th birthday. New Zealand Radio are transmitting 'Composer of the Week' which will be broadcast 28 June 2013 to mark the 100th birthday of George, similar to BBC Radio 3. The programme will be available on the Radio New Zealand Concert website.

BBC Radio 3: Music Matters

Date/Time: Saturday 22 June 2013, 12.15pm

Station: BBC Radio 3, also available online - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnvx

Sounds of Brass

Date/Time: Sunday 23 June 2013, 7pm

Sunday 30 June 2013, 7pm

Station:BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Cornwall,

BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Gloucestershire,

BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Jersey,

BBC Radio Somerset Sound, BBC Radio Swindon,

BBC Radio Wiltshire, also available online - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7s2

BBC Radio 3: Composer of the Week

Date/Time: Monday 24 June 2013, 12 noon

Tuesday 25 June 2013, 12 noon

Wednesday 26 June 2013, 12 noon

Thursday 27 June 2013, 12 noon

Friday 28 June 2013, 12 noon

Station:BBC Radio 3, also available online- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnxf

TonArt

Date/Time: Wednesday 26 June 2013, 3 pm (Central European Summer Time)

Station: WDR3 (Germany), May be available online. Please email me for details

Illuminations

Date/Time: Friday 28 June 2013, 8.30 pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Station: 3MBS-FM (Melbourne, Australia), also available online- http://www.3mbs.org.au/

Radio New Zealand Concert

Date/Time: Friday 28 June - available online-

Station: Radio New Zealand - http://www.radionz.co.nz/concert

Upcoming Centenary Events

EC4 Music: A Litany

Date/Time: Wednesday 26 June 2013, 7 pm

Thursday 27 June 2013, 7 pm

Venue: St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London

Performers: EC4 Music
Tim Crosley       conductor
   Claire Seaton     soprano
   Sam Evans         bass
   Nili Newman       flute
   Rivka Gottlieb    harp

Programme: Schubert Symphony No 8 ‘Unfinished’
Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp
Lloyd A Litany

Tickets: £15

Online: http://www.ec4music.co.uk/

Birthday Concert

Date/Time: Friday 28 June 2013, 7.30 pm

Venue: Guildhall Concert Hall, St Ives, Cornwall

Performers: CamborneTown Band
Cornwall Youth Brass Ensemble
Gareth Churcher conductor
Programme: Lloyd Miniature Triptych
Lloyd Symphony No.10, ‘November Journeys’
Lloyd Royal Parks
Lloyd HMS Trinidad March

Tickets: £8

Online: http://www.crbo.co.uk/

English National Brass Band Championships

Date/Time: Saturday 29 June 2013, 10 am – 7 pm

Venue: Elgar Concert Hall, University of Birmingham

Test Piece: Lloyd Diversions on a Bass Theme

Tickets: £15

Online: http://brassbandsengland.ning.com/

George LLoyd in the Press

BBC Radio 3: Saturday Classics, Simon Heffer’s British Music, Episode 3

BBC Radio 3, Simon Heffer, 15 June 2013

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02x91m5