{"id":19451,"date":"2022-09-21T18:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/?p=172449"},"modified":"2022-09-21T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T16:41:08","slug":"royal-philharmonic-society-honorary-membership-for-thea-musgrave","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/royal-philharmonic-society-honorary-membership-for-thea-musgrave\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Philharmonic Society Honorary Membership for Thea Musgrave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steve Wright\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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The composer Thea Musgrave CBE has been made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society<\/a> in recognition of her outstanding services to music.<\/p>\n

The composer was presented with her RPS Honorary Membership<\/a> at her home in New York. The occasion was filmed, and you can find the footage on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n<p>The RPS first introduced its Honorary Membership in 1826, seeking to recognise \u2018those who devote their lives to music and uplifting others with it\u2019. The first recipient was the composer Carl Maria von Weber.<\/p>\n<p>The roster of subsequent Honorary Members includes composers such as Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Verdi,\u00a0 Dvor\u00e1k and Clara Schumann, as well as performers (Yehudi Menuhin, Janet Baker, Evelyn Glennie) and conductors (Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop).<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/memories-menuhin\/"\">Memories of Menuhin<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/articles\/5-best-works-clara-schumann\/"\">5 of the best works by Clara Schumann<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/pierre-boulez-remembered\/"\">Pierre Boulez remembered<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/playlist-best-piano-pieces-franz-liszt\/"\">A playlist of the best piano pieces by Franz Liszt<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p>At the presentation, the following citation was read by Vanessa Reed, on behalf of the RPS Board and Council:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Born in 1928, and still hard at work writing music 94 years later, Thea is a musical icon. Over a remarkable international career, Thea has created a body of work bursting with energy, ready to leap off the page and seize our imagination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Her music abounds with such style and sophistication, constantly asking fresh and daring questions of musical forms and traditions. She lures us in by suffusing her music with so much of the world we know, drawing in particular on paintings, poems, myths and her Scottish heritage as the starting point for so many of her musical voyages.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Born in Scotland, Thea Musgrave studied at the University of Edinburgh and the Paris Conservatoire under Nadia Boulanger. She later studied under Aaron Copland at the Boston Symphony Orchestra\u2019s Tanglewood Music Center.<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/works\/five-best-works-thea-musgrave\/"\">Five of the best works by Thea Musgrave<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/conductor-dalia-stasevska-on-winning-the-royal-philharmonic-societys-2020-conductor-award\/"\">Conductor Dalia Stasevska on winning the Royal Philharmonic Society\u2019s 2020 Conductor Award<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><p>Over seven decades of composing, Musgrave has produced works for various BBC choirs and orchestras, as well as for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and others.<\/p>\n<p>Notable works include her Concerto for Orchestra (1967), <em>Space Play<\/em> (1974), the opera <em>Mary, Queen of Scots<\/em> (1977),\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Songs for a Winter\u2019s Evening<\/em> (1995).<\/p>\n<p>Oboists, in particular, have Musgrave to thank for a wide range of new work. Her long friendship with the oboist Nicholas Daniel has resulted in a large body of modern works for that instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Thea Musgrave has also received several fellowships, awards and honours, including IVORs Award, a CBE (2002) and the Queen\u2019s Medal for Music.<\/p>\n<section class=\""highlight\"><div class=\""highlight__content\" editor-content=\"\"> \n<ul><li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/london-phil-seeks-conductors-from-under-represented-backgrounds\/"\">London Phil seeks conductors from under-represented backgrounds<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/borodin-quartet-welcomes-new-member\/"\">Borodin Quartet welcomes new member<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/budding-composers-given-opportunity-to-have-works-performed-alongside-a-premiere-by-mark-anthony-turnage\/"\">Budding composers invited to submit works for Mark-Anthony Turnage premiere<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/krystian-zimerman-among-recipients-of-praemium-imperiale-2022\/"\">Krystian Zimerman among recipients of Praemium Imperiale 2022<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/ray-chen-acquires-historic-stradivari-violin\/"\"><strong>Ray Chen acquires historic Stradivari violin<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p> <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Wright Published: Wednesday, 21 September 2022 at 12:00 am The composer Thea Musgrave CBE has been made an Honorary Member of the Royal Philharmonic Society in recognition of her outstanding services to music. 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