Category: BIOS Reporter
BIOS Reporter – Volume 43, No.3 – July 2019
It is good to be able to reflect that the long sought-after goal of getting the various organisations devoted to organs and organists to work together, rather than just in our individual ‘ivory towers’, has in the last few years started to become an established reality. The jointly arranged Organlest (RCO, IAO and BIOS) is…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 44, No.4 – November 2020
And so we come towards to close of another year: but what a year! It started so well for BIOS with a particularly successful and well attended Bernard Edmonds Research Conference at Birmingham, but the alarm bells were already beginning to ring. Professor Mattheo Malagoli, who was due to present one of the papers, was…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 44, No.3 – August 2020
The months have ticked by and at last we are beginning to experience the early stages of a return to a more normal way of life. There is a long way to go, however, with the possibility of further new outbreaks to set things back and hold up the recovery. In our individual lives we…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 44, No.2 – May 2020
On behalf of BIOS Council, I send greetings to all BIOS members, their families and loves ones, and express the hope that in your own individual circumstances you are managing to cope with the very different way of life that has been forced on us all, and that you have succeeded in staying clear of…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 44, No.1 – February 2020
As I write this article, I am conscious that we have just passed from the decade that saw the 40th anniversary of BIOS into the decade in which we will celebrate our half-centenary. There is much to look forward to, and Council is already giving some thought to a suitable project to mark that important…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 43, No.4 – October 2019
The rise of the internet and websites, on the back of the gradual demise of ‘snail mail’, has brought with it an enormous increase in the number of enquiries that come to organisations such as ours. It is so much easier, for those who are interested, to research and discover who to approach, and where,…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 43, No.2 – April 2019
I began my column in the January edition of BIOS Reporter by talking about the expansion of the number and variety of products available from the BIOS Webstore. As a further development of that policy, Council, at its meeting at the end of January, agreed to publish our member Jim Berrow’s long-awaited book on John…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 43, No.1 – January 2019
A new initiative, agreed by Council in September and currently being implemented, is seeing fruition in the gradual expansion of items available for sale through the BIOS webstore. The store was originally set up for the purpose of marketing the items that are home produced – The Leffler Book, the Freeman Book, the HOSA CD,…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.4 – October 2018
I am writing this on the last day of August. As usual at this time of year, I have just returned from the annual three-day conference of diocesan organ advisers, which this year was held in Manchester. Just over half of the dioceses of the Church of England were represented, together with two representatives from…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.3 – July 2018
Last autumn I was pleased to have the opportunity of travelling to Chester to talk to their local organists’ association about the work of BIOS and, between writing this and its appearance in print, I will have made a similar visit to the Sheffield association of organists’. The hope, and indeed purpose, of these trips…