Reports include – Choral society to sing The Creation in Axminster with Judy Martin & Peter Parshall; St Thomas’ Boys Choir, Leipzig; ‘I cried out to God through my music’; Canada – Marks of Mission Winning Song; Madrigal enjoys modern revival; Song tribute for Shahbaz Bhatti
Choral society to sing The Creation in Axminster with Judy Martin & Peter Parshall
Exmouth Journal – Axminster and District Choral Society presents Joseph Haydn’s The Creation on Saturday, March 17, at the Minster Church with new musical director, Judy Martin. Conductor Judy Martin makes her debut appearance with the society at 7.30pm, this weekend..The organist and accompanist, Peter Parshall, has also recently moved to Devon from Dublin, where he was director of music at St Bartholomew’s Church, the only church in Ireland to hold two fully choral services every Sunday. Before moving to Dublin, …
http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/what-s-on/choral_society_to_sing_the_creation_in_axminster_1_1235581
St Thomas’ Boys Choir, Leipzig
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Aled Jones marks the 800th anniversary of the renowned St. Thomas Boys’ Choir in Leipzig, and catches up with some of the choirs who are participating in Radio 4’s forthcoming “The People’s Passion” series. Choirs around the UK are currently learning a specially commissioned mass setting and anthem by acclaimed poet Michael Symmons Roberts and Manchester Carols composer Sasha Johnson Manning. Across the same week as this new work is premiered at Manchester Cathedral on Easter Sunday morning, they’ll be joining in with a performance of their own. To find out more about the project, visit bbc.co.uk/peoplespassion.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d0w2p
Related links:
Bob Chilcott (www.bobchilcott.com)
Sense of Sound (www.senseofsound.org)
St Thomas Boys Choir, Leipzig (www.thomaskirche.org)
‘I cried out to God through my music’
News Letter – When Kentucky-born Christian and songwriter Steven Curtis Chapman lost his daughter in an accident, he expressed his grief through music. Ahead of his concert in Belfast next month, he tells LAURA MURPHY how his trust in God became stronger When Ulster audiences flock to Belfast Metropolitan Tabernacle next month to see prolific Christian contemporary songwriter and musician Steven Curtis Chapman perform, they will catch a glimpse of just some of the rawest emotion inside his heart. For the five-time Grammy winner, who was born in Kentucky and lives in Tennessee, will be performing a few of his songs from his album Beauty Will Rise, his 17th to date, and one which was mainly inspired, if you could use the word in such a context, by the tragic death of his little daughter Maria Sue.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/lifestyle/features/i-cried-out-to-god-through-my-music-1-3620920
Canada – Marks of Mission Winning Song
“HOPE” is the song written by Winnipeg musician, singer-songwriter Jaylene Johnson and Nashville guitarist, songwriter, producer Jim Kimball that Jaylene submitted to be considered for the National Church’s Marks of Mission Song Contest. In addition to her music career, Jaylene is the Ministry Coordinator at St. Benedict’s Table in Winnipeg, a growing faith community that meets at All Saints, Anglican Church in downtown Winnipeg. Over 70 song submissions were adjudicated by a panel of judges in December of 2011 and Hope was chosen as the outstanding entry. The prize is a professional recording of the song to be given to the winning songwriter for their marketing and distribution benefit as well as used by the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada to promote the Marks of Mission.The song Hope will be recorded in Vancouver in late March 2012
http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/News/DiocesanNews/tabid/252/Mode/ViewArticle/ArticleId/1442/Default.aspx
Madrigal enjoys modern revival
BBC – A medieval madrigal believed to be the oldest song in the English language enjoys a revival from an unlikely source.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-17371017
Song tribute for Shahbaz Bhatti
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/song.tribute.for.shahbaz.bhatti/29366.htm