York Minster At the weekend members of RSCM Scottish Voices travelled over the border to make a foray into England to sing for the first time as a choir. Well, 20 of us did. Numbers were limited because we were joining with the other three, longer established, RSCM Voices choirs who regularly get together every…
The latest edition of the Royal School of Church Music‘s rather excellent publication Church Music Quarterly (CMQ) with its sister publication The Network, unfortunately contains a couple of errors by omission whereby technology has conspired against publishing details of two of our forthcoming events, a visit to Old Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh on…
Copyright © The Royal School of Church Music This evening (well, technically last night since it’s now after 1am) RSCM Scottish Voices had the pleasure of singing in St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow at the Meet the Director event organised by the RSCM Scotland committee. We had been asked by RSCM Scotland to provide…
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow at 4pm on Saturday 17th September is the next time you can hear RSCM Scottish Voices sing in a service. It will be Choral Evensong, and we will be singing: Laudate Nomen Domini (Christopher Tye)Preces and Responses (Bernard Rose)Psalm 89Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G (Herbert Sumsion)Faire is the…
RSCM Music Sunday and the end of Glasgow’s West End Festival 2011 will be marked on Sunday 26th June when members of RSCM Scottish Voices join with members of St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, Glasgow Chamber Choir and Glasgow University Chapel Choir in a spectacular Choral Evensong accompanied by the St Mary’s Cathedral Festival Orchestra, all…
I was asked recently to contribute an article on RSCM Scottish Voices to the fine RSCM publication Church Music Quarterly. Not having any guidance as to the length of article expected, my first draft was something like 750 words long, but that’s now been negotiated down to 250-300 words although it may be edited further!…
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) is largely an educational charity. As part of the educational aspect of its work, RSCM Scotland can do various things for affiliated churches and members, and in the Spring 2010 RSCM Scotland Newsletter Matthew Beetschen wrote the following: What can RSCM Scotland do for You? Future events in…
There are a few RSCM events coming up which may be of interest not only to RSCM Scottish Voices members, but wider afield too. I’ve slightly altered the contact email addresses for each event to try to avoid them being plagued by Spam, but I’m sure everyone who reads this Blog is intelligent enough to…
In my previous post I mentioned the backlog of music from the RSCM Online store. Yesterday when I arrived home from work there was a nice A4 envelope waiting for me, containing the last piece for which I was waiting, Salvator Mundi, by John Blow. So hopefully everyone should have all their own copies in…
The music for our next meeting, which is on Saturday 20th February at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow, is all available from the RSCM Online Store, but there was some of it out of stock when I ordered mine on 18th January. Today I received a reply to my email which had asked them…
