News

4 April 2008: Understanding Bach Volume 3 can be read under the Journal UB3 tab or by clicking here.

20 January 2008: A report of the Third J.S.Bach Dialogue Meeting can be read under the Dialogue 2008 tab or by clicking here.  The report will also appear in Understanding Bach, 3, which is due to be published in April.  

14 November 2007: We are pleased to announce the draft programme of the Third J.S.Bach Dialogue Meeting to be held on 5-6 January 2008 in Oxford. The registration form is also available for download.

15 October 2007: From 1-5 November the Trustees of BNUK will be in Belfast actively participating in the International Symposium Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass organised in association with The Society of Musicology in Ireland and BNUK.  It is still not too late to register and we encourage members of BNUK to join us there.  Friends of BNUK will receive a £30 discount on the registration fee before Wednesday 17 October.  

6 October 2007: It is with great sadness to have to report that our great friend, colleague and active member of BNUK Anne Leahy passed away yesterday.  The International Symposium "Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass" (2-4 November 2007) in Belfast was originally Anne's idea.  Appropriately the performance of the B-minor Mass on 4 November will be in her memory and in thanksgiving for her life.  She will be deeply missed. 

4 September 2007: Katie Pardee and Yo Tomita have been appointed to organise the 3rd Dialogue meeting to be held on 5-6 January 2008 in Oxford.

The main focus of this meeting will be the nineteenth-century reception of J. S. Bach and his music, though other research areas will also be addressed. In addition to papers, there will be performances of Bach's music as it might have been heard during the nineteenth century in England. There will also be several open forum discussions on other cutting-edge issues, including our own research groups "Music and Text" and "Bach Reception in the 19th century".

We are delighted that the confirmed guest speakers include Christoph Wolff, Richard Jones, Peter Wollny and Ruth HaCohen. There are still a few vacant slots for papers on any topic related to Bach. If you have a suitable paper (duration: 20 mins), we would be delighted to receive either an abstract or fully-written paper as soon as possible. We will close the call as soon as we have a good line-up, so please let us know if you are interested at the earliest opportunity.

15 August 2007: Trustees meeting in Oxford at which several new policy decisions were made: 1) All volumes of Understanding Bach are now on open access, 2) On-line discussions will remain on a reserved area of the website for Members and Friends of BNUK and 3) an area has been reserved on the website for members' news.  We hope the more open facilities will continue to attract readers of the site to become members and an increased number to become Friends of BNUK.

11 April 2007: A new website, a new membership system and the second volume of Understanding Bach.  Please become a member and enjoy Understanding Bach and the on-line debates.