In the Framlingham
Weekly News (3 March 1928) a syndicated article appeared enumerating the works
selected by the British Music Society for the 1928 International Society for
Contemporary Music [I.S.C.M.] to be held in Sienna. The list of works makes an interesting
list.
‘FESTIVAL
MODERN MUSIC The annual festival of the International Society for Contemporary
Music will this year be held at Siena, Italy. These festivals. which are held
year by year at various European centres, consist of performances of by works
living composers.
The
programmes are selected jury whom are submitted compositions that have been
chosen by committees established in the countries represented worthy of
performance at the festivals.
The
British committee, which has its headquarters with the British Music Society,
has just made its selection of British compositions from the many which had
been sent in for this adjudication.
The
works that have been recommended to the Festival Jury are follows; “Facade”
(W.T.Walton) for reciter and various instruments (poems by Edith Sitwell);
'Ephemera' (Patrick J Hadley), for soprano or tenor voice and woodwind, string
quartet, and pianoforte; Oboe quintet (Arthur Bliss); String quartet [No.3] (Frank
Bridge); Pianoforte Trio (Rebecca Clarke): Petite suite for oboe and ’cello
(Lennox Berkeley); Fantasy sonata for viola and harp (Arnold Bax); Variations,
for pianoforte (B Van Dieren); Sonatine for pianoforte (John Ireland); and
Suite for pianoforte (Arthur Benjamin).’
Notes:
The
two works that finally made it thorough to Sienna were William Walton’s Façade and Frank Bridge’s String Quartet
No.3. There are many recordings of the former piece and a handful of the latter.
Works that did not survive into our own time include 'Ephemera' by Patrick J. Hadley,
for soprano or tenor voice, woodwind, string quartet, and pianoforte, and the Variations,
for pianoforte by Bernard Van Dieren. The other works have had at least a single
recording.
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