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- [Home](https://arthurbliss.org/) - Welcome to the Arthur Bliss Society President: Ian Venables Vice-Presidents: Mark Bebbington, Gerald Towell Chairman: David Salter The Arthur Bliss Society was founded in early 2003 with the aim of furthering the appreciation, understanding and knowledge of the music of Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975). He was one of the most important figures in British musical
- [Concerts](https://arthurbliss.org/concerts/) - Forthcoming Concerts For Past Concerts in the Fifty for Fifty Project Click HERE Season 2025/26 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Saturday 18 July 2026 Scene from Checkmate Royal Ballet School Summer Performance King's Lynn Festival, The Minster Thursday 23 July 2026 at 7.30 pm Roderick Williams Song Recital 'The Forest of
- [Fifty for Fifty](https://arthurbliss.org/fifty-for-fifty/) - The Fifty for Fifty Project - Past Concerts Season 2025/26 The Great Hall, University of Reading Sunday 28 June 2026 at 4.30 pm Programme includes Bliss Checkmate Suite West Forest Sinfonia, Philip Ellis (conductor) Click HERE for more details. St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough Sunday 14 June 2026 at 10.30 am
- [Recordings](https://arthurbliss.org/recordings/) - Recordings The website of the Bliss Archive includes a complete list of recordings. Here we concentrate on highlighting new discs when they appear, together with significant ones from the past. Not a recent recording but... the August 2021 issue of Gramophone (pp 92/3) carries an excellent discussion under ‘Classics Reconsidered’ of the 1974 recording of
- [Events](https://arthurbliss.org/events/) - Events / / The Society arranges occasional gatherings of members and friends for informal pub/restaurant lunches or pre-concert suppers whenever Committee members are able to attend concerts where Bliss works are being played. We have enjoyed meeting members and friends in London, Luton, Harrogate, Worcester, Hereford, Shrewsbury and elsewhere. Other highlights were in May 2011,
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- [FAQs](https://arthurbliss.org/faqs/) - Frequently asked questions Q1: Where do I find a list of all the music composed by Sir Arthur Bliss? A: You'll find it on the Cambridge University Archive, Click HERE. Q2: You always describe Sir Arthur Bliss as 'Master of the Queen's Music' - shouldn't it be 'Musick', which he used? A: In the editorial
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- [Events 2006](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2006/) - Events 2006 The Society’s Lunch was held as part of the Hereford Three Choirs Festival on Monday 7 August 2006 at Wyastone Leys, Herefordshire: a concert followed. "This is a great day in the short history of The Arthur Bliss Society. To have a Lunch, and one so well attended, at a Three Choirs Festival,
- [Events 2023](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2023/) - Events 2023 2023 brought two important and unique occasions in the Bliss calendar where members and friends were able to meet. The first was at the Barbican Concert Hall in London on 26 March for the sensational screening of the 1936 film Things to Come with Bliss’s score played live by the London Symphony Orchestra.
- [Harrogate Concert 2](https://arthurbliss.org/harrogate-concert-2/) - Concert in Harrogate Buy concert tickets online Click HERE if you are a member. Click HERE if you are a non-member. Ticket enquiries to admin@arthurbliss.org
- [Membership](https://arthurbliss.org/membership/) - Membership Our membership year runs from the 1st January. The current membership rates are: We offer FREE MEMBERSHIP to anyone under the age of 30. Please register as a new member (see below, leave the payment method blank) and the Membership Secretary will contact you. New and existing members can pay their subscriptions by choosing
- [Membership 1 Renew](https://arthurbliss.org/membership-1-renew/) - 1. Renew your membership
- [Events 2014](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2014/) - Events 2014 The 2014 Annual Lunch was held at the Langton Hotel, Cheltenham on Tuesday, 21 January and was attended by twenty three members and friends, including Robert Milnes (a member of the Bliss Trust). The Arthur Bliss Society's AGM at the English Music Festival was held on Monday 26 May at Dorchester-on-Thames on a
- [Events 2013](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2013/) - Events 2013 The January 2013 Edition of the BBC Music Magazine featured an excellent article in the Composer of the Month section by our Vice-President Terry Barfoot. Entitled Arthur Bliss – A Composer of Many Colours, it was a comprehensive account of Bliss's life and works and a strong affirmation of his status among 20th century
- [Events 2015](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2015/) - Events 2015 The 2015 Annual Lunch was held at the Greenway Manor Hotel, Cheltenham on Thursday 15 January and was attended by thirty six members. One of our members, erstwhile Chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society Anthony Boden read poems relating to views of the Cotswolds by the Gloucester poet and a few excerpts of
- [Events 2016](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2016/) - Events 2016 The 2016 Annual Lunch was held at the Ellenborough Park Hotel, Cheltenham on Monday 25 January and was attended by forty two members and friends, including our President, Ian Venables. English Music Festival On Saturday 29 May, members and friends from Cheltenham travelled by coach to Dorchester-on-Thames to hear an evening concert in
- [Events 2021](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2021/) - Events 2021 The AGM at the St,Andrew’s Church, Cheltenham on 2 October 2021 marked the retirement of three original members of the Arthur Bliss Society Committee after seventeen years of service: Susan Crownshaw (Secretary), Jill Smith (Membership Secretary) and John Wright (Newsletter Editor), who were thanked by the Chairman David Salter for their work and
- [Events 2022](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2022/) - Events 2022 The 2022 AGM was held at the The Birmingham and Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham on Saturday 29 October. All members of he Arthur Bliss Society Committee remained in post with the exception of Daphne Ellis, who stood down as Membership Secretary and Gerald Towell, who stood down after 20 years of
- [About Us](https://arthurbliss.org/about/) - About Us President Ian Venables Vice-President Mark Bebbington Vice-President Gerald Towell Chairman David Salter Vice-Chairman David Wilby Founded in the year 2003 with the support and encouragement of Lady Bliss, who became our first President, the Arthur Bliss Society celebrated its 20th anniversary last year. Ian Venables became President in 2010 and Mark Bebbington, who had
- [Mark Bebbington](https://arthurbliss.org/mark-bebbington/) - Mark Bebbington ...International Concert Pianist and Recording Artist I was delighted to accept this invitation to be a Vice-President of the Arthur Bliss Society. I shall do everything I can to ensure that the Society flourishes and to ensure maximum exposure of AB’s music. "One of Britain's most distinctive and innovative pianists" markbebbington.co.uk
- [Ian Venables](https://arthurbliss.org/ian-venables/) - Ian Venables ...Composer I was delighted to be asked to become the President of the Arthur Bliss Society. I became acquainted with his music as a young man and was privileged to have been at the recording sessions of Charles Groves’s landmark recording of Morning Heroes in 1974. His wonderful music has been my constant
- [History](https://arthurbliss.org/history/) - History Founded in the year 2003 with the support and encouragement of Lady Bliss, who became our first President, the Arthur Bliss Society celebrates its 20th anniversary this year (2023). George Dannatt, chartered surveyor, music critic and artist, was a great family friend of the Blisses and served as Vice-President for many years before succeeding
- [Gallery](https://arthurbliss.org/gallery/) - Gallery We would very much like to show more photographs of Sir Arthur. If you have any you are willing to let us use here, which have no copyright problems, please contact us.
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- [Contact](https://arthurbliss.org/contact-us/) - Contact Us Please select the committee member from the drop-down list. Committee Members Chairman: David Salter Vice-Chairman: David Wilby Secretary: Anne Salter Treasurer: Andrew Ellis Membership: Irene Loh Journal: Eric McElroy Webmaster: Helen Wilby
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- [Concert Ticket (Members)](https://arthurbliss.org/concert-ticket-members/) - Harrogate Concert Tickets
- [Events 2020](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2020/) - Events 2020 The 2020 Annual Lunch was held on Friday, February 14th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Cheltenham. We welcomed Andrew Burn (Chairman of the Bliss Trust), who treated us to a really enthralling talk on ‘Recording Recollections’, with particular emphasis on the Chandos CD issued last November of The Enchantress, Mary of Magdala
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- [Gerald Towell](https://arthurbliss.org/gerald-towell/) - Gerald Towell ...Founder-Chairman of the Arthur Bliss Society. Gerald retired as Chairman in 2018 and remained a member of the Committee until 2022. He was invited to become Vice-President on the Society's 20th Anniversary in 2023.
- [Links](https://arthurbliss.org/links/) - Links The Arthur Bliss Archive The Bliss Trust BLISS ON OTHER SITES MusicWeb Wise Music Classical (Chester Novello) Boosey and Hawkes Chandos Naxos War Composers BBC Presto Classical Music GENERAL LINKS The British Music Society The English Music Festival Federation of Recorded Music Societies Making Music The Light Music Society MusicWeb Three Choirs Festival bachtrack
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- [George Dannatt](https://arthurbliss.org/george-dannatt/) - George Dannatt George Dannatt was a Vice-President of the Society from its inauguration in 2003 to when he accepted the Society's invitation to become its President after the death of Lady Bliss in November 2008. He was a chartered surveyor by profession, and had been closely involved in the study of music since his fifteenth
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- [Bliss](https://arthurbliss.org/bliss/) - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss Arthur Bliss wrote music of considerable diversity, ranging from early experimental works for a small body of players to the larger-scale powerful compositions which followed. Throughout his long creative life, the spirit of enquiry and of originality in approach was to be found in his work right up to his death
- [Broadcasts](https://arthurbliss.org/broadcasts/) - Broadcasts BBC SOUNDS ‘Desert Island Discs’: Sir Arthur Bliss Broadcast in 1972 (interviewer: Roy Plomley) Click HERE for more details. BBC SOUNDS Radio 3 CATCH UP ‘Music for Royal Occasions’ Jubilant Fanfare opens the tenth Promenade Concert BBC Concert Orchestra, Conductor: Barry Wordsworth Broadcast on Friday July 22 2022 Prom 10 was also
- [Short Biography](https://arthurbliss.org/short-biography/) - Sir Arthur Bliss (1891-1975) Arthur Bliss was born in London in 1891, the eldest son of Agnes Kennard Davis, an accopmplished amateur pianist, and Francis Edward Bliss, a businessman who had come to England from Springfield, Massachusetts. From his father he inherited skills in administration; his talent in music came from his mother, who died
- [Violin Sonata](https://arthurbliss.org/violin-sonata/) - Violin Sonata (Rupert Luck has kindly allowed us to reproduce here his notes on the restoration of the Sonata). The Sonata is a single-movement work (the given title is Bliss's own) dating, it seems, from about 1914, and has, hitherto, existed only in manuscript form. This manuscript is in the care of Cambridge University Library;
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- [Events 2018](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2018/) - Events 2018 The 2018 Annual Lunch was held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Cheltenham on Monday, February 26th. In the Spring Newsletter, our Vice-Chairman David Wilby reported the occasion: “As last time, this year’s lunch was preceded by playing Bliss’s marvellous 20-second-long Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion and as the sounds of “dignified” but
- [Events 2019](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2019/) - Events 2019 The 2019 Annual Lunch was held on Thursday, March 7th at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Cheltenham, where we welcomed pianists Mark Bebbington and Rebeca Omordia as invited guests. The diners (almost 30 of us this year) included the Chairman of the Bliss Trust Andrew Burn and Carol Secombe, granddaughter of Sir Arthur
- [Events 2017](https://arthurbliss.org/events-2017/) - Events 2017 The 2017 Annual Lunch was held at the Queens Hotel, Cheltenham on Monday, January 16th, and was attended by forty one members and friends, including our President, Ian Venables, and the Chairman of the Bliss Trust, Andrew Burn. We were delighted to welcome two of our patrons, Mark Bebbington and James Gilchrist, who
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- [Lady Bliss](https://arthurbliss.org/lady-bliss/) - Lady Bliss Lady Bliss died on Friday 21 November 2008 at the age of 104. Our Chairman's tribute appeared on our Home Page for some time thereafter, and we now reproduce it here below, together with details of where to find online the obituaries that were published in the national press. Most of the Society's
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- [Terry Barfoot](https://arthurbliss.org/terry-barfoot/) - Terry Barfoot “It is a great honour to become a Vice-President of the Arthur Bliss Society. I well remember hearing Rudolf Schwarz conduct the Meditations on a Theme by John Blow more than twenty years ago, and immediately being struck that here was one of the great works of British music. To this day it
- [Peter Ainsworth](https://arthurbliss.org/peter-ainsworth/) - Peter Ainsworth In 2009, Peter Ainsworth accepted the Society's invitation to become a Vice-President. “I am delighted and honoured to have been asked to be a Vice-President of the Arthur Bliss Society. I have loved his music ever since, as a schoolboy, I was transfixed by a Sadler's Wells production of Checkmate which haunts me
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