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RSCM NEWS
THANK YOU
TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC
We are immensely grateful to all the hundreds of volunteers who bring the RSCM’s work to life right across the country. National Volunteers’ Week, celebrating the role of volunteers, runs from 1
to 7 June, and a number of local events take place around that time, all made possible by volunteer support. There’s a ‘Question Time and Open Forum for Existing and Would-be Organists’ in Wiltshire on 1 June, an ‘Instrumental Workshop’ in Hampshire on
5 June, and on 8 June a ‘Taizé and Iona Workshop’ in Hertfordshire and a ‘Come and Sing’ service with the RSCM’s Director in Cumbria. We are bringing in new ways of engaging as we roll out our Area Restructuring programme. So, if you think you could lead an event, sell tickets, offer a venue, make cups of tea or anything else that may help, we would love to hear from you. Have a look at www.rscm.org.uk/get-involved/ volunteer/ for more details.
NEWS FROM ACROSS THE UK
CANTORION SANCTAIDD
PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED –
A REMINDER
Are you a keen amateur, a semi-professional, or even a professional photographer with an interest in church music? If so, the RSCM needs you! We are looking for people who are willing to attend some of our events across the UK and to take good-quality images that can be used to showcase the work of the RSCM. Perhaps you already attend various local events and also happen to be a good amateur photographer. Maybe you know a member of a local photography club who might be willing to turn up one Sunday and take some images of you and your congregation taking part in, for example, one of our Lift up your Voice events. Or perhaps you are a student looking for experience and a way to bolster your CV. Well, here is your chance to get your photographs into CMQ, a widely circulated and professionally published magazine.
All photographs will be credited to the photographer, and we will send you complimentary copies of the edition of CMQ in which your photographs feature, whether or not you are affiliated with the RSCM.
Cantorion Sanctaidd was formed in January 2013 when our musical team discovered a mutual interest in sacred and spiritually inspiring music. Since then we have performed locally and at Gloucester and Exeter cathedrals and at Shrewsbury Abbey.
On Saturday 30 March we gathered to take part in the inaugural Usk Choral Festival, where 19 choirs performed six concerts over three days. We opened our programme with John Carter’s
He is my joy, followed by Welsh composer Robat Arwyn’s quieter, legato Benedictus, and John Rutter’s Look to the Day, offering a message
of hope for all.
Amazing Grace was delivered very earnestly, followed by Rutter’s moving A flower remembered. We concluded with an Amen, a jazzy-sounding, floor-tapping song, full of life that
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left the audience feeling exhilarated with enthusiastic approval.
It is hoped that the Usk Choral Festival will now take place in alternate years and attract choirs from far
and wide. For more details visit www.cantorion-sanctaidd.org.uk/
Ken Hunt