Composers Group
The next SSG Composers Group meeting is in two weeks’ time, on Saturday 16 November starting at 2pm and finishing by 4pm. This will be one of our occasional teaching sessions. I have it in mind to explore flexible arranging for parish music groups but I am open...
Iona Abbey Musician
Iona Abbey is looking for a church musician. Working at Iona Abbey offers the chance to live on a remote Scottish island, surrounded by beauty and community. As Musician, you will provide a variety of music, such as congregational songs, appropriate for Iona Abbey’s...
Chant for Advent
Pluscarden Abbey The Season of Advent: Gregorian Chant from the Monks of Pluscarden Abbey £12 from Pluscarden Abbey shop (pluscardenabbey.org/shop/cd) Review by Sr Margaret Truran OSB The 2023 CD released by the monks of Pluscarden Abbey is a musical and liturgical...
Sancte Paule Apostole
CD Review: Sancte Paule Apostole Music from the Choir of Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh 2CD £15 from osp.org.uk Review by Dan Divers This 2 CD set, entitled Sancte Paule Apostole, after the lively motet by Willaert which is its first track, provides an...
Clifton Podcasts
The Clifton Diocese has produced a series of short podcasts in which Christopher Walker and Richard Jeffrey-Gray talk about ways to introduce singing of the parts of the Mass from the simplest Alleluia to more accomplished settings. There also links to recommended musical settings. The topics of the podcasts . . .