HAPPY EASTER!.......Call for scores for Raymond Warren 80th birthday concert in October 2008…………See our live, online catalogue of music by Severnside Composers Alliance members - click on Search Scores… and then search our new music database! Over 200 scores now listed... View the scores, listen to excerpts! You can place orders for our two CDs at Dunelm Records. Click on News & Events for information about forthcoming concerts and Composer Talks..........Find a performer in Bristol or Bath by searching our new listings page.

SEVERNSIDE COMPOSERS ALLIANCE 12th member of the British Academy Regional Network. In 2003, a number of composers based in the Bristol and Bath area got together to form the Severnside Composers Alliance with the aim of promoting performances of their own music, and stimulating a wider interest in the composition and performance of new music in the region. Click here to LISTEN to music by our composers! SCA has made a flying start, with nine concerts under its belt, attracting some excellent reviews. Dunelm Records have released two “stimulating” and “very well recommended” CDs (DRD0238 and DRD0243). Local composers have given entertaining evening talks about their life and music, over a wine and nibbles. Our website boasts a growing online database of a) local performers/groups, and b) recordings and sheet music by local composers - a fabulous resource for any musicians looking for something a little different to play! The next Composer Talk is to be confirmed. The next concert is Saturday 2 February 2008, built around Stravinsky's Septet and including Mozart's 'double' clarinet quintet and seven works by SCA composers. We gratefully acknowledge the kind support of the Paragon Concert Society who administer funds left to them by the late Leo Reid Baker. Their financial support has greatly assisted the putting on of several SCA events. My repeated use of the adjective "brilliant" here is quite deliberate! Very well recommended. [Ian Milnes] Congratulations to the Alliance for putting on such a stimulating programme of this relatively little-known music. Strongly recommended to enterprising listeners. [Philip Scowcroft]

Annual membership (starts 6 April) is £25. JOIN NOW March 2008 MUSIC OF THE MONTH David Simmonds String Quartet 1 mvmt 3 Music previously featured on this page: Ivor Gurney - Adagio Jean Hasse - Across the Room Nicholas Moor - Four Blake Songs Steven Kings - Three Pieces Liz Lane - Descent by hot air, Waltz John Pitts - Toccata Geoffrey Self - Sonatina Jolyon Laycock - L'Abri Pataud Frank Harvey - Flashbacks Julian Dale - 4 Miniatures Mvmt 2 James Patten - In memory of an Sulyen Caradon - O lovely England Raymond Warren - Monody (excerpt) Reg Brunt - FEC-B Steven Kings - red land spring (excerpt) John Pitts - are you going? James Patten - For Nothing Sulyen Caradon - Dorian Dirge Frank Harvey - 2 part intervention Sue Coppard - Musette Blues