A Season to Sing - an exciting opportunity for choirs

Added May 8, 2024 - 479 views - 0 comments

A SEASON TO SING A Season To Sing is a brand new 40-minute work for choir and 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 30...

CONDUCTING STANFORD WITH DAVID HILL

Added May 8, 2024 - 354 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 Vill...

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

Added April 24, 2024 - 377 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 mea...

Lecture on Stanford with Professor Jeremy Dibble

Added April 15, 2024 - 390 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 Vill...

The Stanford Responses

Added April 15, 2024 - 599 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 r...