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When:
Saturdays August 7, 14 and 21 from 9.30 am - 11.30 am.
Where:
St. Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane.
Use the Cathedral Car
Park -
entrance from Charlotte Street, just 50
metres from the Eagle/Charlotte
Street
intersection.
Details:
RSCM (Royal School of Church Music) presents "Pipes and Pizza" - a fun, family introduction to the world of the organ. The day includes:
- An opportunity to get ―up close and personal with
several organs in the Brisbane CBD.
- Hear some of Brisbane’s organists demonstrate their party pieces for the king of instruments, and have a lot of fun as well.
- Get a sample bag of organ stuff - pictures, recordings,
CD ROMS etc.
- At the end of each day you get pizza for lunch!
- Some of the class will have the opportunity of playing the king of instruments.
Deadline for registration is Thursday August 5
Cost:
$45 per person for the
3 weeks.
For families, $45 for the first person and
$20 for each other family
member.
For more information:
Call: 07 3336 9104
Email: mortonr@bne.catholic.net.au. Booking necessary.
Download: the Information Brochure
Competition Ends:
10 September 2010
Details:
Australian Society of Music Education
organises a composition competition each year with primary, junior, senior and open sections (basically primary to tertiary students are eligible). RSCM Qld also sponsor prizes for this competition. You many enter any section and if the entry is sacred, it will qualify to be considered for the RSCM prizes.
Download pdf form for more information.
When:
Sunday, 30 May, 6.00 pm
Where:
St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Bulimba
Details:
The Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul in Bulimba is older brick church in a pleasant Brisbane suburb. On Sunday May 30 (Trinity Sunday), Saint Stephen’s Cathedral Choir and Schola, together with organist Peter Krenske gave a sacred concert at 4.00 pm. Dubbed an informal “user-friendly” concert, it included a very wide range of styles of music – Renaissance polyphony in the form of William Byrd’s Sing Joyfully, twentieth century sacred classic in the form of John Ireland’s Greater Love, Bach organ music, some nineteenth Romantic music, (a bit of Rheinberger) and even an African Spiritual in original language! RSCM was a co-sponsor with the church and the cathedral ensembles of the event. It was therefore appropriate that choir and congregation should sing an arrangement of Sidney Nicholson’s Lift High the Cross.
The event was well attended – particularly by members of the parish. The parish very kindly supplied some wonderful refreshments, and the Cathedral Choir stayed to sing at the Sunday afternoon 6.00 pm mass.
When:
Sunday June 20, 2010 at the Evensong
Where:
St. John’s Cathedral
Details:
How do we celebrate important events, occasions or even ideas? Well there are lots of ways but you can pretty sure that music has something to do with many of them – whether its singing “Happy Birthday” at a birthday party, Auld Lang Syne on New Year’s Eve, singing carols at Christmas or singing an Easter Hymn or anthem in church at Easter.
So how do we celebrate the gift of music to the church (and of those who make it)? In exactly the same way – we celebrate the gift of music WITH music.
UPDATE:
That’s what we did on Sunday June 20, 2010 at the Evensong at St. John’s Cathedral – a joint event of St. John’s and RSCM. The choral music was supplied by a St. John’s ensemble consisting of two of their choirs, with conductor Graeme Morton (a member of RSCM Committee and Director of Choirs at St. John’s), and organist Ralph Morton (RSCM Chair in Qld and also nationally). The music included Stanford’s setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A (one of the most festive of the repertoire) and the wonderful “Let All the World in Every Corner Sing” – Ralph Vaughan Williams’ paean which is the final movement of his Five Mystical Songs. The musical theme was extended in the theme of the sermon by the Dean, the Very Reverend Peter Catt. The congregation had its turn at praise in the singing of two wonderful hymns concerning music, the well-known “Sing Praise to the Lord!” with its mentions of “loud organs”, “sweet harps” and ever frequent re-iterations of the hymn’s title line. Then there was the beautiful and recent Fred Pratt Green text “God is our Song” – a more meditative statement on the theme of the gift of music. The evening ended with some welcome refreshments.
About 70 attended this event – not bad for a Sunday evening, and particularly one at the end of Anglican Synod!
Why not start planning Music Sunday for next year in the next few months? It would be great to have celebrations in the churches of RSCM members in the morning, and a large joint celebration in the evening at some larger centre.
Ralph Morton
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