Oxford And Cambridge Musical Club
Today the club provides music-making activities in central London with membership open to all. It has an association with the University College London Chamber Music Club but no longer maintains connections with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Club history
The heyday of the club in its original form was from 1900 to 1940 and many famous musicians, politicians and artists of the day were members. The first President of the Club was Dr. Joseph Joachim, the violinist and friend of the composer Brahms. At the establishment of the Club, a number of prominent people were invited to become honorary members, including the Prime Minister Arthur Balfour - who succeeded Joachim as Club President, composers Sir Hubert Parry and Sir Alexander Mackenzie and the conductor Hans Richter.
The Club Archives are held at the Bodleian Library Department of Special Collections in Oxford. An electronic archive of concert programmes from March 1922 onwards is maintained on the Club's website.
Distinguished former members and honorary members
- Hugh Percy Allen
- Richard Armstrong
- Anthony Asquith
- Lennox Berkeley
- Adrian Boult
- John Dykes Bower
- Frederick Bridge
- Percy Buck
- George Butterworth
- Walter Willson Cobbett
- Walford Davies
- Désiré Defauw
- Thomas Dunhill
- Edward Elgar
- Gervase Elwes
- Frederic Alfred d'Erlanger
- Edmund Fellowes
- E. M. Forster
- Freddie Grisewood
- Patrick Hadley
- Ernest Markham Lee
- Compton Mackenzie
- Neville Marriner
- Ernest John Moeran
- Boris Ord
- Walter Parratt
- Harold Rutland
- Percy Scholes
- Geoffrey Shaw
- Heathcote Dicken Statham
- Lytton Strachey
- Lionel Tertis
- Donald Tovey
- William Walton