It is with the greatest regret that the BMS has had to postpone our final concert for the year, which was to have been the Brahms Requiem, on 31st October. We will reschedule this concert to a date in September/October 2022.

In the current COVID climate no-one knows from week to week what lockdowns or restrictions will be in place at any time in the future. This makes concert planning, always a complex matter, fraught with uncertainty. Consequently the BMS has decided that it will only schedule one concert in 2022, the postponed Brahms Requiem. This will, as is usual with our Big Sing events, be the largest scale orchestral and choral concert in the whole Northern Rivers region, and will certainly be a central feature of whatever musical life happens next year.

We know that you are suffering from the lack of live music much as the musicians who are unable to perform. We aim to return to “Normal”, whatever that will look like, in 2023, with a season of 6 concerts. In the meantime smaller scale concerts, including house concerts, may be organised by the general musical community of this region at fairly short notice when restrictions permit.

Nicholas Routley
President