A Note from the Chairman – December 2022 We don’t normally associate Stanford with Christmas music. His students Ralph Vaughn Williams and Gustav Holst both wrote a large number of Christmas carols, but who has heard of any Christmas Carols written by Stanford ? I was reminded o

Stanford the Conductor The area of Stanford’s career that has probably received the least attention is his work as a conductor. This started during his time with the Cambridge University Musical Society and continued with the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Bach Choir in Lond

The Stanford Festival 2024 As 2024 is the centenary of Stanford’s death, we will be hosting the Stanford Festival in Dublin. The preliminary dates are 11 – 13 October 2024, so make sure you put it in your diary! We will begin to upload more information as we progress with

A Note from the Chairman – October 2022 There are several mysteries associated with Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.  I have spoken in this letter before about a number of works that he composed which were not published and where the original scores have disappeared. These include

Melissa (nee Stanford) Webb The Stanford Society is sad to report the death of Dr. Melissa (nee Stanford) Webb, a Vice President of the Society, on Sunday August, 28th, 2022 after a long illness. Dr. Webb was descended from William Henry Stanford, the brother of Sir Charles Villiers S

A Note from the Chairman – June 2022 One of the works included in the orchestral concert given by the Durham University Orchestral Society during their Stanford Weekend concert in Durham Cathedral on Saturday March 5th 2022, was the Overture to The Wreckers, an opera by Dame Eth

A Note from the Chairman – February 2022 This year is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of one of Stanford’s most famous students, Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Vaughan Williams Society is arranging a number of events to mark this anniversary and VW’s music is being

A Note from the Chairman – February 2022 Hats off to Finghin Collins and his team at the Galway Festival for putting on an outstanding programme of music, talks and a film relating to Stanford and a number of his contemporaries and leading students in Galway, Ireland during the