Category: BIOS Reporter
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.2 – April 2018
The BIOS year started well in February with the annual Bernard Edmonds Research Conference, held in the splendid surroundings of the Barber Institute at Birmingham University. There was, as always, a wide range of interesting papers with some good questions and useful discussion following on from them. For whatever reason, there was a particularly good…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 42, No.1 – January 2018
The copy date for this edition of the BIOS Reporter is in early December, so as I write this column my mind is naturally focussing on the events of the past year as well as the Christmas celebrations of the coming weeks. However, by the time the issue drops onto your doormat we will all…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.4 – October 2017
Members who frequent County Archives may have noted with alarm a news item in the Sunday Telegraph of 27 August reporting that councils are reducing the hours and days where the public can see records for free. The announcement in July by Northamptonshire County Council that it would cut free access to its archives to…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.3 – July 2017
Our thanks go to Richard Hobson for his work in arranging the excellent programme for our recent AGM day at St George the Martyr, Southwark, and to the members who attended. We are delighted to record the unanimous approval given by the meeting to the appointment of Nicholas Thistlethwaite as our new Honorary President and…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.2 – April 2017
The year is now well under way. Amid all the upheaval and uncertainty of today’s world, the routine of life at grass roots level goes on as usual. The BIOS year opened in the customary way with the Bernard Edmonds Research Conference at Birmingham. It is always an interesting and informative occasion, comprising six half-hour…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 41, No.1 – January 2017
We have finally reached the end of our 40th anniversary year, the climax of the celebrations being the three-day Conference at Cambridge and the launch of the new book In Search of Organs, both of which were fully reported in the last edition of the Reporter. BIOS is delighted that the new book has aroused…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 40, No.4 – October 2016
A week ago I was proposing a toast to BIOS in the splendid candlelight setting of the Hall at Magdalene College, at the culmination of the Friday evening dinner celebrating our 40th anniversary…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 40, No.3 – July 2016
It was only as the last issue of the Reporter was going to press that we learned of the death of our Honorary President, Professor Peter Williams. Fortunately, just in time, our Editor Gordon Curtis was able to include a formal announcement alerting our members to this sad news. Since then there have been many…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 40, No.2 – April 2016
With the 40th anniversary of the founding of BIOS in Cambridge in mind, it seemed timely to assemble from existing sources a list of Cambridge-based organ builders from the seventeenth century to the present day. Those included may not have spent the whole of their working lives in Cambridge but were resident at some point,…
BIOS Reporter – Volume 40, No.1 – January 2016
Although Leviticus charges us with celebrating 50-year Jubilees, and there was once a German tradition for celebrating 35 years (Handel, Bach, Goethe), the 40th anniversary of BIOS is not to be missed, as we look back to the original need for it, its inspiration, personnel, achievements and future…