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  • A Season to Sing - an exciting opportunity for choirs

    Added Wed at 1:35 PM by Frances Wilson - 30 views - 0 comments
    A SEASON TO SING A Season To Sing is a brand new 40-minute work for SATB choir/organ or piano, by British composer Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, inspired by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. A Season To Sing will be published by the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) in 2025, marking 300 years since the publication of The Four Seasons. This c... read more

  • CONDUCTING STANFORD WITH DAVID HILL

    Added Wed at 1:28 PM by Frances Wilson - 18 views - 0 comments
    This free online workshop presented by the Royal School of Church Music with acclaimed conductor David Hill (director of the Bach Choir, Principal Conductor of Yale Schola Cantorum, and conductor of the BBC Singers from 2007-17) will offer practical advice on how best to conduct some of Charles Villiers Stanford’s best-known pieces: O for a c... read more

  • A brand new hymn for the RSCM's Big Hymn Sing for Music Sunday

    Added April 24 by Frances Wilson - 43 views - 0 comments
    The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) invites churches to celebrate church music and musicians with the Big Hymn Sing For Music Sunday on 9th June 2024 Music Sunday is an annual event presented by the RSCM to celebrate and give thanks for the music and musicians that enhance worship in such a meaningful and powerful way. This year the RSCM is e... read more

  • Lecture on Stanford with Professor Jeremy Dibble

    Added April 15 by Frances Wilson - 124 views - 0 comments
    As part of the Royal School of Church Music's events to mark the centenary of the death of Charles Villiers Stanford, the noted Stanford expert, Jeremy Dibble (University of Durham), will give an illustrated lecture on Stanford's music at Queens' College, Cambridge, on Saturday 13 July Charles Villiers Stanford is justifiably renowned for his bril... read more

  • The Stanford Responses

    Added April 15 by Frances Wilson - 101 views - 0 comments
    Preces & Responses based on themes from the works of Stanford, adapted and arranged by Jeremy Dibble RSCM Publications Jeremy Dibble writes, 'Given the few existing sets of nineteenth-century Preces and Responses for the Anglican liturgy, the centenary of Stanford’s death seemed to offer a rare opportunity to adapt some of the composer&rsqu... read more

  • Stanford Singing Break at Queens' College Cambridge, 12-14 July

    Added March 7 by Frances Wilson - 184 views - 0 comments
    12-14 July 2024 Come and sing choral music by Charles Villiers Stanford in the magnificent setting of Queens’ College, Cambridge, in an exclusive weekend course hosted by the Royal School of Music to mark the centenary of the composer’s death. There will be services of Evensong and Holy Communion, including the opportunity to sing Sta... read more

  • Onward We Go - a heartwarming new Christmas carol by Thomas Hewitt Jones

    Added November 2, 2023 by Frances Wilson - 157 views - 0 comments
    ONWARD WE GO Music by Thomas Hewitt Jones Words by Canon Gordon Giles The Children’s choir of St Stephen’s, Dulwich Caroline Lenton-Ward, conductor, with Oliver Lallemant (piano), Jill Valentine (viola), Jernej Albreht (clarinet), Joe Downard (bass guitar)and Simon Hewitt Jones (violin) The Children’s choir of St Stephen&rsqu... read more

  • REQUIEM IN A DAY with Matthew Coleridge at Truro Cathedral

    Added August 14, 2023 by Frances Wilson - 239 views - 0 comments
    REQUIEM IN A DAY with Matthew Coleridge Truro Cathedral, 23 September 2023 “As uplifting and glorious as anything I’ve ever sung” – Elizabeth, participant at Selby Abbey event Acclaimed composer Matthew Coleridge invites singers to perform his Requiem, one of the UK’s favourite new choral works, in the spectacular ... read more

  • Coronation Choral Celebration at Hertfordshire Festival of Music

    Added May 19, 2023 by Frances Wilson - 159 views - 0 comments
    Saturday 10 June, 6.00pm - 7.15pm A right royal celebration with Hertford Chamber Choir, conductor Manvinder Rattan and organist William Whitehead. In honour of King Charles III’s Coronation, Hertfordshire Festival of Music presents a splendid evening of choral and organ music by composers, such as Purcell, Handel, Walton, Elgar and ma... read more

  • Come and Sing Stainer's Crucifixion in the church where it was premiered

    Added April 25, 2023 by Frances Wilson - 213 views - 0 comments
    Stainer’s Crucifixion: RSCM Annual Lecture and Come & Sing Workshop John Stainer’s The Crucifixion has been popular with church choirs for more than 130 years. The RSCM’s annual lecture, this year given by Professor Jeremy Dibble, will be hosted by St Marylebone Church (the site of the The Crucifixion’s&nbs... read more