Malcolm Sargent News Today

Ever general ElectIon Results, The Party Is the thIrd bIggest In parlIament. Some of Its members are here as mps for the fIrst tIme. The mood Is so upbeat, It Is so buoyant but we are really determIned to get stuff done. The reason we fIght In ElectIons and we wIn ElectIons Is so we can achIeve thIngs for our communIty so I am excIted to be talkIng about our plan fIxIng SocIal Care and the health servIce, and how we really represent our communIty to be that strong, determIned opposItIon to the g...

Coleton Fishacre is a 1920s country retreat with a garden thats a tropical paradise

In 1923 Compton Mackenzie responded to music-lovers’ pleas for a new magazine about records and launched The Gramophone

Lilias Sheepshanks, who has died aged 92, gave up a promising career as a concert pianist for a life of good causes as an army officer’s wife; nevertheless, she was close to many of the great musical figures of her day, including the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent, who was her godfather, and the composers Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The a-cappella chorus Quire of Voyces, under the guidance of founder and artistic director Nathan Kreitzer, will perform its 30th annual Mysteries of

IT was a moment when “hysterical youths in long black jackets and drain-pipe trousers” caused a disturbance in, of all places, Clydebank.

Sylvia Darley, who has died aged 100, spent almost two decades as secretary to Sir Malcolm Sargent, the flamboyant chief conductor of the BBC Proms; after his death in 1967 she founded the Sir Malcolm Sargent Cancer Fund for Children, providing practical assistance for young cancer sufferers and their families.

The London Philharmonic Orchestra is playing an intimate one-hour set in a Sussex shopping centre.

Steve McDowell pays tribute to his friend, Lilias Sheepshanks, mother of former ITFC chairman, David, after her death, aged 92

John Andrews has gained a well-earned reputation for brilliant recordings of unknown operas and operettas. As he turns his attention to Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald, Richard Bratby listens in