To mark the fiftieth season of the London Branch, a book of essays being revisions of lectures given to the branch has been published.  This new set of seventeen essays has been edited by Kevin Mitchell and David Morris, has a foreward by Sir Mark Elder and contains contributions by, among others, Michael Kennedy, Robert Saxton and E. Wulstan Atkins. Titles range from Our Never-to-forgotten friend: Rosa Newmarch and The King and the Troubadour: Edward VII and Edward Elgar to Elgar’s Earnings in Context.

Copies can be obtained from Philip Petchey at philip.petchey@ftbchambers.co.uk or at 12 Monkhams Drive, Woodford Green, Essex, IG8 0LQ. Cost for non-members – £35.00 plus UK postage & packing at £2.50. Discount for Elgar Society members – £30 plus UK postage & packing at £2.50.  For overseas P & P rates, please contact Philip Petchey using the details shown above.   Payment can be made by bank transfer or by cheque payable to ‘Elgar Society London Branch’

Bank transfers to Lloyds Bank plc Ashford Branch, Sort code 30-90-28, account number 69429168, The Elgar Society (London Branch). Please quote ref ‘Pilgrim Book’.