S O U N D B O A R D D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 1 SOUNDBOARDCHURCH MUSIC AND MUSICIANS THE MAGAZINE OF CHURCH MUSIC DUBLIN ▪ Giving worship a vibrant voice through music ISSUE 32 DECEMBER 2014 Dean Dermot Dunne welcomes the choir before Evensong. Photo: Al Craig On her retirement as Director of Music at Castleknock Parish Church, A Diocesan Choral Evensong Maedhbh Abayawickrema receives a presentation from Canon Paul On Sunday 23 November, as part of its diocesan outreach programme, Christ Houston. Church Cathedral invited parish church choirs to sing Evensong with the cathedral choir. 60 people from all parts of the dioceses responded. Directed by Ian Keatley, cathedral director of music, the entire choral group rehearsed Peregryne, the small choral group before Evensong and the liturgy was then celebrated in the cathedral nave. The established in Vienna in 2009, specialising in late Middle English seating was arranged in collegiate style for the occasion. During the service, repertoire, will sing three times in Ricky Rountree, Archdeacon of Glendalough, presented certificates to church Dublin during the week before music students who had progressed satisfactorily in the Archbishop’s Certificate Christmas. Sunday 14 December at in Church Music course. 5pm; Friday 19 December at Music at Evensong: Hymns, ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate’ (arr. Stanford) and ‘Christ 5.30pm and on Sunday 21 triumphant, ever reigning’. Psalm 93 (chant Macfarren in C). Anthem: ‘For the December at 3pm. Full details on beauty of the earth’ (John Rutter). George Dyson’s Evening Service in D and the page 3. Richard Ayleward Responses were sung by the cathedral choir alone. Vacancies In this issue Organ Scholar, 2015-16 at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin. Closing date 7 January LIVING WORSHIP 2015… 2 2015. Information from: Stuart Nicholson, Organist and Master of the Choristers, [email protected] TRAINING AND INFORMATION for church musicians … 2 Organist and choir director: Castleknock Parish Church, with Clonsilla. Information from Canon Paul Houston [email protected] and on CMD website SUMMER SCHOOL 2015 ... 3 SIMPLIFIED HYMN TUNE … 4 Pay your Soundboard subscription online Subscriptions for 2015 can be paid now TALENT IN PARISH CHURCHES … 6 €15 or £13 (3 issues throughout the year) OFFICE HYMNS … 7 Use your debit or credit card and avoid cheque and postage charges ORGAN BUILDERS AT WORK … 8 Go to www.churchmusicdublin.org/payment 2 S O U N D B O A R D D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 Living Worship 2015 This popular annual course will be held on the mornings of Saturdays Thanks and Praise 17, 24 and 31 January at The Mageough, Cowper Road, Rathmines, beside the Luas tram stop. Thanks and Praise, to be published in May, The supplement to Church Hymnal, to will feature prominently. be titled Thanks and Praise, is on track to be launched at General Synod in On 17 January, Adrienne Galligan will discuss options for A Service of the May 2015. Following consultations with Word and All-Age Worship. Jacqueline Mullen will provide examples of various companies, Hymns Ancient and appropriate music, particularly from Thanks and Praise. Modern Ltd have been engaged to On 24 January, Gerald Field, Dean of Cashel Cathedral and Secretary of produce the supplement. Proof- the Liturgical Advisory Committtee, will discuss Morning and Evening reading by the group appointed by the Prayer, their structure and the use of music. David O’Shea will discuss Liturgical Advisory Committee (LAC) ways of singing the Canticles with particular reference to Thanks and started in October. A 15% discount for Praise. This session promises to be a lively discussion about our Anglican pre-publication bulk orders will be worship heritage and how we may continue to make it relevant. available. A number of choirs and choral groups throughout Ireland have The final session on 31 January will be led by Sandra Pragnell, Dean of St committed to recording items and it is Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, and Derek Verso, director of music at St Paul’s hoped that the recordings will be Church, Glenageary. They will talk about the use of music at the Eucharist available concurrent with publication. in parish churches, and Sandra will consider how the use of space and symbols have an influential impact on how Christians worship. Let’s see you! Further details about Living Worship are on the CMD website: For future issues, we need good www.churchmusicdublin.org images of people singing - something Training videos happening, movement, people enjoying themselves, human interest …. Two new training videos were added to our website recently and to YouTube. The videos aim to make ongoing music education available to In brief, images that reflect the everyone. In Essential Hymn Playing 1 and Essential Hymn Playing 2, David singing church in action. Adams discusses hymn playing, the mainstay of any church organist’s Sunday repertoire. The first video covers registration, tempo, suitable play And we’d like to hear the stories overs and ways to encourage congregational singing. The second contains behind them too, so do write us little vital information for those embarking on hymn playing on the organ. snippets whenever you do something The Essential Organ Playing videos, and the earlier video Music, Eucharist & interesting. More formal choir photos You are on our website. They also are on the Church Music Dublin channel are welcome too, though we use them on YouTube. only sparingly. New faces on the Church Music Dublin Executive We’re always happy to receive things. Adrienne Galligan has been rector of Crumlin and Chapelizod parishes [email protected] since 2008. She will be instituted as Rector of Rathfarnham parish in January. Deputy organists Jack Kinkead is priest-assistant in Taney Parish, Dublin. Raymond Russell is organist and choir director at Monkstown Parish If you are on the deputy organist list, Church. be sure to let us know when your David O’Shea is organist and choir director at Sandford Church with St contact details change. We receive Philip’s, Milltown. occasional advice that the contact numbers are incorrect or that organists are no longer available. To view the list, go to www.churchmusicdublin.org/deputy Remuneration guidelines The guidelines and recommendations are on the website. The suggested rates continue at the 2009 level. The guidelines are published jointly by Church Music Dublin and the Advisory Committee on Church Music of the Roman Catholic bishops. Evensong commences at Christ Church Cathedral, 23 November. Photo: Al Craig S O U N D B O A R D D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 4 3 Archbishop of Dublin’s Certificate in Church Music This three-year course covers the skills needed by the church musician. It includes individual organ tuition, group sessions (Living Worship) on the interface between music and liturgy, and occasional modules on choir training and getting people to sing. Students commit to one year at a time and the cost is shared by the student, the sponsoring parish and the diocese. Sponsoring parishes also commit to 2015 Summer School involving the student actively in the parish’s worship and at Maynooth College taking an ongoing interest in their studies. In Year 3, students are expected to spend six weeks as interns in a For many years, the Irish Church Music Association designated church, under the supervision of the resident has held a Summer School for parish musicians. organist. We are delighted to announce that in 2015 the There also is a one-year Foundation Course, focussing on Summer School will be organised in association basic organ playing. Students may progress to the ACCM if with Church Music Dublin, from 2nd to 5th July they wish, and, in some cases, may be given exemption at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. from Year 1. The training needs and the challenges are similar Exam Results, May 2014: whether parish musicians work in Church of Year 3: Matthew Breen, Taney (Honours); Ireland or Roman Catholic parishes, so to join Stephanie Maxwell, Clontarf, (Honours); forces for a summer school is a sensible and Joseph Bradley, Pass; significant development. The programme will be Year 2: Emma Galloway, Waterford Parishes (Pass). planned jointly by both organisations. Worship during the three-day event will represent the For 2014-15, two students have signed up for the liturgies of both faith traditions. Foundation Course and six students commenced Year 1 of The team of tutors will include Andrew Reid, the ACCM. director of the Royal School of Church Music. One of the students, Thomas Maxwell, sponsored by Taney Andrew has visited Ireland from time to time and parish, achieved first place in the Junior Category at the RSCM affiliates who have experienced him at 2014 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition. work will want to do so again. Congratulations! The summer school is designed as a residential event, starting mid-morning on Thursday and is a small choral ensemble established in Vienna Peregryne ending after lunch on Sunday. The social aspect is in 2009 that specialises in late Middle English repertoire. Its one of its attractive features. However, the event membership has drawn together musicians from Ireland, England, France, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Korea. The group has fee structure will also cater for those who wish to performed in Dublin, Graz, Lucerne and Vienna and, more recently, participate on a daily basis. has concentrated on music of the 15th and 16th centuries, Watch out for further information performed as part of the monastic office of Compline in churches on the CMD and ICMA websites. and cathedrals around Dublin.