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BIOS Reporter – Volume 10, No.2 – April 1986
Our plans to launch an Endowment Fund for BIOS have met with a ready and generous response from our members, and for this, the Council is most grateful. The initial results will be announced at the official launching of the appeal at St James, Clerkenwell, on May 24th, and we trust that many members will…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 10, No.1 – January 1986
We must begin with an apology to BIOS members for the failure of the October 1985 issue of the Reporter to appear. This was due to a combination of family circumstances and professional commitments on the part of the editor, who is also responsible for the typing of the journal. Whatever the reasons, the non-appearance…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 9, No.3 – July 1985
The arrival recently of the third annual issue of The Organbuilder prompted various reflections, and as (we think) this journal has never been noticed in these pages before, it will perhaps be appropriate to mention some of them. The Organbuilder is described as ‘a journal for the Organ building trade’. It has as its ‘patrons’…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 9, No.2 – April 1985
When in September 1982 the society honoured me by electing me to the office of Chairman I set myself a programme of activity designed to build on the firm foundations laid by my worthy predecessor. I remember describing this programme as encompassing a policy of coordination and consolidation, together with an effort to provide a…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 9, No.1 – January 1985
Our last Editorial ended with a paragraph alluding to the unprecedented number of civic concert organs threatened with redundancy and possible destruction. Such instruments are a great anxiety to us: with one or two noble exceptions t hese organs are grossly under-used, and they suffer from being housed in old civic halls which have no…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 8, No.4 – October 1984
This must be an editorial in two parts. First, to conclude our remarks on the Report of the Faculty Jurisdiction Commission. What we had to say in our last issue was chiefly of a complementary nature – though we avoided the question of whether the precise proposals went far enough. This time, we will appear…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 8, No.3 – July 1984
The publication earlier this year of the Report of the Faculty Jurisdiction Commission (‘The Continuing Care of Churches and Cathedrals’) had been long looked forward to. The establishment of the Commission was, in part at least, an attempt to meet growing unease among the amenity societies, conservation groups, and individual architects and art historians, about…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 8, No.2 – April 1984
In the last issue of the Reporter I suggested that it was necessary to make full use of BIOS’ recently acquired charitable status to assist us in achieving financial stability, and so enabling us to extend our scope as a society. At the moment, the Council frequently feels frustrated by hand-to-mouth budgeting, which is the…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 8, No.1 – January 1984
It is no mistake that the word ‘Britain’ occurs in each of the four ‘Aims of BIOS’ which appear quarterly on the back page of this publication – “the Organ and its music in Britain”, “the history of the Organ in Britain”, “historic organs in Britain”, and so on. The appearance of the word ‘British’…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 7, No.4 – October 1983
It is now two years since Michael Gillingham first indicated to members of BIOS that he felt the time to be approaching when he should retire from the Chairmanship of the society. The Council could only accept his decision with reluctance, but at the A.G.M. on Saturday, September 24th, a successor was duly elected. On…