2024 Entries - change to deadline date

 Please note that the closing time and date to submit entries for the 2024 Festival has been put back to midnight on the 15th January

Alan Connell

Treasurer 

TROPHY RE-HOMING

 In the spring this year we reluctantly decided not to award most of our trophies any more. We simply do not have the volunteer human resources needed to manage the logistics of their collection and allocation to classes so the decision was taken only to award 5 of the 203 trophies we have been given over the years. Next year we will award a couple more than we did this year but the rest of the trophies require re-homing.

We are hoping initially to return trophies to their original donors or their heirs where they can be found and some donors have generously given their trophies to previous winners whose names are engraved on them.

We still have 182 trophies to deal with, 61 of which we have no provenance for, other than in a few cases the name of the trophy itself, which isn't always any practical help. The list is set out below and any information about any of the trophies listed there will be gratefully received. Please send it to me at treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk

Alan Connell

Treasurer

2nd Storyteller Trophy

Alastair Pollard Cup

Alex Johnson Cup

Apollo Gold Medal

Arthur Atkinson Trophy

Beryl Gledhill Trophy

Big Country Chorus Cup

Brass Cup (under 19s)

Burton Shield

C E Matthews Shield

Cherry Bratkowski Shield

Claro Challenge Cup

Cober Hill Trophy

Cossar Silver Trophy

Dan's Cup

Devised Drama Cup

Dixon Memorial Shield

Dorothy Gilbertson Trophy

Dragon Novice Woodwind Trophy

Duchy Cup

Ebor Cup

Elizabeth Anderson Salver

European Piano Teachers Association Trophy

Festival Cup

Gardner Trophy

Harlow Cup

Jennings Folk Singing Cup

Jennings Vocal Duet Cup

John Dickinson Tankard Trophy

John Dunford Trophy

John Heseltine Memorial Trophy

Johnson's Motorcycles Trophy

Jubilee Trophy (1977)

Ken Brooks Memorial Trophy

Maggie Chippendale Memorial Trophy

Margaret Dimmick Memorial Cup

Marie Challenge Cup

Mike Hine Shield

Millennium Trophy

Moldur Trophy

Nicola Bickler Cup

Nigel McClusky Trophy

Pannal Trophy

Paula Harris Trophy

Paula Harris Young Singers Cup

Purcell Trophy

Rosemullion Shield

Scheerer Trophy

Silver Goblet

Spa Cup

St Martins Reading Cup

Stamford Bridge Trophy

Stellar Trophy

Swale Cup

Wagner Shield

Walcot Trophy

Weissenborn Cup

Wensley Cup

William Freeman Trophy

Wolfe Jensen Plate

York Trophy

2024 Syllabus

The 2024 Syllabus has now been completed and is available on the website, http://hcfmsd.co.uk Printed copies will be available from Music House on Cheltenham Parade by the middle of October and will also be available through all North Yorkshire Libraries by around the end of October.

The Annual General Meeting 2023

 It has been necessary to move the AGM from the 10th June to the 24th June at 10:30am in the Friends Meeting House, 12A  Queen Parade, Harrogate, HG1 5PP.

If you know anyone who might attend please let them know.

Alan Connell 

Treasurer 

Performer Schedules 2023

The personal schedules for all performers have been emailed out to the contacts that made the entries.

If you haven't received yours then please check with the person who made the entry.

If they haven't seen the email they should first check their spam folder and then contact Derek Starling at email admin@hcfmsd.co.uk

Derek

TROPHY NON-RETURNS

 The following trophies have still not been returned despite this being possible every Saturday in January via Harrogate Library. This is very disappointing and is causing a lot of unnecessary work.

If you have one of these trophies please now contact me to make arrangements for its return. We know who has the trophies and they have all been contacted more than once as far as we know (allowing for vagaries in the supplied contact details) so it is difficult to understand the protracted delay. 

Adjudicator's Trophy

Barnes Shield

Berriman Piano Trophy

Dunlopillo Trophy

Eliner Rutherford Cup

Emma Dowman Trophy

Eric Godley Shield

F.J.P. Drake Memorial Cup

Henry Parker Memorial Trophy

James Harvey Shield

Jennings Vocal Duet Trophy

Mike Hine Shield

Priestman Cup

Ruby Jaques Memorial Trophy

Silver Goblet Trophy

Spa Cup

Wagner Shield

Watson Trophy Alan Connell Treasurer treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk

TROPHY RETURNS

28 trophies are still outstanding after we made arrangements on four successive Saturdays for them to be returned to Festival representatives in Harrogate Library. This is very disappointing as it is causing an immense amount of work and taking up time that could usefully be deployed in making arrangements for this year's Festival. This is the current "Outstanding" list Adjudicator's Trophy Arthur Atkinson Memorial Trophy Barnes Shield Berriman Piano Trophy Beryl Gledhill Trophy Dales Shield Dunlopillo Trophy Eliner Rutherford Cup Emma Dowman Trophy Eric Godley Shield F.J.P. Drake Memorial Cup Gardner Trophy Henry Parker Memorial Trophy James Harvey Shield Jennings Vocal Duet Trophy Judi Dench Trophy Judy Methven Salver Mike Hine Shield Norman Trophy Paula Harris Young Singer Trophy Priestman Cup Ruby Jaques Memorial Trophy Silcox Shield Silver Goblet Trophy Spa Cup St Martin's Reading Cup Wagner Shield Watson Trophy If you have one of these trophies please now make arrangements to return it. If you have already retured your trophy/trophies thank you very much. Alan Connell Treasurer

 TROPHY COLLECTION

If you have one of the trophies listed below please try to return it to the Festival representatives who will be in Harrogate Library on Saturday the 28th January, between 09:30 and 15:30.

The Library is on Victoria Avenue, postcode HG1 1EG.

Adagio Records Trophy

Adjudicator's Trophy

Alice Hallas Trophy

Annie Forth Trophy

Apollo Gold Medal

Arthur Atkinson Memorial Trophy

Barnes Shield

Berriman Piano Trophy

Beryl Gledhill Trophy

Brass Cup

Chairman's Trophy

Coverdale Gold Medal

Daisy Exelby Memorial Trophy

Dales Shield

Dunlopillo Trophy

Edgecombe Shield

Eliner Rutherford Cup

Emma Dowman Trophy

Eric Godley Shield

Ernest Hopper Trophy

F.J.P. Drake Memorial Cup

Gardner Trophy

Gilbert & Sullivan Silver Bowl

Gwen Johnson Cup

Halls Shield

Henry Parker Memorial Trophy

James Harvey Shield

Jennings Vocal Duet Trophy

Judi Dench Trophy

Judy Methven Salver

Mike Hine Shield

Nicola Bickler Cup

Norman Trophy

Paula Harris Young Singer Trophy

Priestman Cup

Purcell Cup

R.G. Norman Scroll

Ruby Jaques Memorial Trophy

Silcox Shield

Silver Goblet Trophy

Spa Cup

St Martin's Reading Cup

Swale Cup

Wagner Shield

Watson Trophy

White Rose Shield

Whiteways Trophy

William Freeman Trophy

Thanks very much

Alan Connell

Treasurer

Scheduling has started

All the entries for 2023 are in.  They have been checked and we now have all the class sizes worked out.

So now we are able to start work on the schedule.  We hope to have that published by the first week of February.

 

We've had 710 entries.  That's up 100 on last year, but still down from pre-Covid by 150-200.

If you submitted entries you will receive an email with your personal schedules once they are ready.

Looking forward to another fine rendering of performance skills in March

Derek

 The Treasurer is currently sitting in Harrogate Library awaiting the return of nearly 100 trophies. This is the 3rd opportunity for winners to return trophies but unfortunately not very many people have so far returned theirs. Thank you to those who have done so.

Next Saturday is the last day for returns. If trophies are not returned they cannot be awarded this year and we need to know that we have them back before they can be listed in the Programme which is now being put together. We do not have the resources to contact every winner individually.