Talk:Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Name and history
It's the "Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields" not the "Academy of St. Martin in the Fields"

The Academy derives its name from the convention used by many 18th-century concert-giving societies, such as the Academy of Ancient Music and the Royal Academy of Music. The St. Martin-in-the-Fields comes from the name of the place where they gave their first concerts and were oroginally based - the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church in London. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.237.248.100 (talk) 23:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm. Back in about 1970, when Sir Neville was in the Upper Midwest preparing to take up his post as conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony, I heard an interview with him on Wisconsin Public Radio, during which he said, if I understood him correctly, that originally the name of the group he founded was simply "The Academy". The St Martins in the FIelds bit was initially a kind of informal identification which more or less inadvertently congealed into the Official Monicker. I may have misunderstood something, though. Alsihler (talk) 06:40, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Correct name
The name is "Academy of St Martin in the Fields", even though it is sometimes spelled with a dot even on the orchestra's own website. Note that in British English, "St" normally abbreviates "Saint", whereas "St." abbreviates "Street". --Deskford (talk) 20:46, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

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Year of foundation
Is the year of its foundation correct? The German wikipedia claims it was founded a year earlier, in 1958. https://www.asmf.org/about-the-academy/ Jezabeliberté (talk) 12:22, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
 * While it is true that the choice of Marriner to lead the new ensemble, the original name and some low key trial concerts in the church all took place in autumn 1958, the first professional concert was in November 1959 and 'the players now see [that] as marking the start of the Academy's professional career' - ref. the 1981 history of the ASMF by Harries, p 21. The fact of the Orchestra's celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2009 and 60th in 2019 confirms this view. So I think the UK wiki infobox should continue to show 1959 as the year of Foundation. GooglerW (talk) 12:51, 26 January 2020 (UTC)