British Music Society

The supporting committee included influential names such as Adrian Boult, W. W. Cobbett, E. J. Dent, E. H. Fellowes and George Bernard Shaw.

[2] The first performance (in its orchestral version) of The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams was presented at a BMS concert in the Queen's Hall on 14 June 1921, with Marie Hall (soloist) and the British Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult.

[6] The British Music Society of York was also an offshoot of the original BMS, and continues to operate today under that name.

[7] The British Music Society as it is today was revived in 1979 and granted charitable status in 1995.

It promotes and sponsors recordings (via its own original label and a more recent partnership with the Naxos record label) and issues printed publications, including a newsletter and the annual British Music Journal.