ISM MUSIC JOURNAL JULY/AUGUST 2022 | NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS
The book is a great way to establish composer anniversaries and festivals.
version of The Planets (which won an MRA award for Best Chamber Music recording), Stravinsky’s four-hand transcriptions of The Rite of Spring and Petrushka and The Complete TwoPiano Works of Brahms. nettleandmarkham.com
Len Rhodes Music Dictionary of Composers The remarkable composer directory compiled by Len Rhodes (his ongoing lifetime project!) lists over 5,100 composers (!) chronologically and alphabetically – nationalities are also identified. Hundreds of contemporary composers are included, saving you hours looking for similar information online or in other reference books.
from across the globe. His most unexpected ‘thank you’ was from a prison rehabilitation course on the Thank you to my fellow ISM composers Caribbean island of Saint Kitts. for submitting their information. Responding to his award, Stephen The Dictionary of Composers may be said, ‘I am overjoyed to receive such a purchased through Len Rhodes Music at prestigious award from YouTube. It is len-rhodes-music-inc.myshopify. extremely flattering that my videos, com/admin/products/9693504323 initially intended just for my own students, have now helped countless others around the world, to improve YouTube Award for their understanding of music.’
Stephen Wiles
Stephen Wiles, a teacher of music and computing in Sheffield, has been awarded a Silver YouTube Creator award for achieving more than 100k YouTube subscribers. His channel, MusicTheoryGuy, teaches aspiring musicians music theory.
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Stephen’s videos, viewed more than nine million times, can be found embedded into a number of leading websites and have been recommended by newspapers, online musician resource guides, printed GCSE guides and classroom teachers
OBITUARIES, we are sorry to announce the deaths of the following members: Mr David E Cutforth FISM of Huddersfield Mr Anthony Gelsthorpe of Leicestershire
Miss Annemauraide Hamilton FISM of North Ayrshire
Mrs Judy Nicol MISM of Leicestershire Mr David Shillaw JP of Bridgend
Mrs Jenifer Lynch FISM of Hitchin
COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK Thank you so much for all your invaluable assistance with DBS application – it is a pleasure to be a member of the ISM. Mrs Marie Miller, ISM member since 2018
Thank you for the member update – it is really helpful. Especially useful is the advice about living with COVID-19. It gives more credence to what I have suggested to my private pupils. Mrs Penelope Tweed, ISM member since 1984
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