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Julian Lloyd Webber OBE FRMS - WHO ARE WE? The Federation of Recorded Music Societies (FRMS) can claim to have played its part in developing greater enthusiasm and understanding of recorded classical music over a substantial portion of the past century. The Federation was formed in 1936 as the National Federation of Gramophone Societies. Although the title has changed to reflect more recent developments, the aims of the movement have remained basically unaltered and the attraction is still present in the 21st century as well over 100 societies continue to meet on a regular basis. ADVANTAGES OF AFFILIATION TO THE FRMS The Federation was formed in 1936 as a voluntary association of societies in the British Isles for the purpose of protecting their interests and furthering their aims. Twenty-three Societies originally affiliated - now the number is well over 100. Our main function is to manage licensing arrangements with Performing Right Society Ltd (PRS) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) for the licences necessary for performing recorded music in public, on terms favourable to our members. The fees are greatly reduced from those normally applied by these organisations for individual licences. A particular benefit of this arrangement is that it is the society itself that is licensed and not the premises. This means that the society is covered for PRS and PPL wherever it chooses to meet. |
FEATURED LINK Each month we highlight below one of the links on our Links Page for your special attention: Nostalgia is what we mainly offer, ranging through reviews of CDs, books, DVDs, photos, singer profiles, discographies and much more, dealing with legendary and not so legendary singers of yesteryear. 18/03/2024 LATEST NEWS Farley Music Festival This year's festival will run from 18th to 23rd June. Tickets are now available from the festival website.
Pianist Nicholas Walker, the festival's music director, is playing two concerts at the Wigmore Hall on Saturday 27th April.
Both will feature music by Balakirev, including his Piano Sonata in B flat minor and the famously difficult 'Islamey'.
29/03/2024 AGM
2023 The
AGM was held over Zoom on 04/11/2023. Allan Child stepped down as Chairman
after over a decade in the post. Our new Chairman is Tony Sanderson.
See our events page for a picture
of the partcipants and other details. 30/08/2023 Latest
Newsletter The
September 2023 edition is available here.
The
Committee is immensely grateful to Simon Rawlings for editing nine excellent
issues of the newsletter over the past four years. They are looking
for a new editor: please contact the FRMS
Secretary if you would be interested in taking it on. 05/09/2023 Naxos
Music Library Julian
at Naxos kindly responded to my query and supplied a link which does
grant free access using an Edinburgh
City Library borrower number. The
problem seems to be with the links on Naxos's
public libraries page. Here is a workaround. Go to that page, scroll
down and select your country (United Kingdom) and then select your library
name from the following dropdown. This will display a web address link
below it. E.g.
"buckscc.naxosmusiclibrary.com"
for Buckinghamshire Libraries. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Instead, highlight
and copy the TEXT of the link, then paste it into the address bar of
your browser. 03/08/2023 Tony
Walker We
are sad to hear of the death of Tony Walker, founder member and longtime
chairman of Lewisham RMS. Tony was a regular presenter at societies
across the Southeast region and a stalwart supporter of Federation events.
Ian Bailey has sent us this tribute
to Tony. Details of the funeral on 4th July in Bromley can be found
here. 17/06/2023 Torbay
2023 The
2023 Torbay Musical Weekend will take
place in November at the Grand Hotel, Torquay. 17/06/2023 |
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