CHURCH MUSIC QUARTERLY JUNE 2020 REJOICE AND BLOSSOM Tradition, Quality, Innovation, Style. We offer four brands of organ each with their own identity, sounds, appearance, technology and style. All our brands share valuable characteristics such as technological innovation and the best sound quality, which is never a compromise. All provide the player with a unique playing experience. A great heritage and tradition are our starting points; innovation creates the organ of your dreams. Contact us for tickets for our ‘Autumn Shades’ concert at Shaw on Saturday 3rd October 2020 Makin | Copeman Hart | Johannus | Rodgers www. .co.uk For more details and brochures please telephone 01706 888100 Tradition, Quality, CONTENTS 5 WELCOME 35 SINGING SHENG Innovation, Style. Hannah Emmrich writes about the wonderful blend of musical styles 6 IN ACTION found in Nairobian churches. A report about the first RSCM Membership Conference 12 38 HYMN MEDITATION Gordon Giles discusses ‘The head 8 WHAT’S ON that once was crowned with thorns’. Highlights of RSCM events across the UK, June to October 2020 42 BRING THE GLAD TIDINGS 12 DIPLOMACY Susan Jane Matthews shares her IN SONG, 1520 excitement at discovering the music Magnus Williamson looks at of Fanny Hensel and Jeanne the musical dimension of the Demessieux. Field of the Cloth of Gold. 20 46 BRANCHING OUT 18 FROM THE DIRECTOR Ginny Arnott-Wood explains the Hugh Morris on positive narratives diverse work of RSCM Canada. 20 COPY-WRONG, 48 OBITUARIES COPY-RIGHT Stefan Putigny offers advice about copyright law. 49 CLASSIFIED ADS 25 GOTTFRIED 50 MY FAVOURITE HYMN HEINRICH STÖLZEL Peter Gould talks us through some of 29 Warwick Cole draws attention his favourite hymns and organ music. We offer four brands of organ each with their own identity, sounds, to an often overlooked 18th-century composer. appearance, technology and style. All our brands share valuable 51 READERS’ LETTERS characteristics such as technological innovation and the best sound 29 RSCM NEWS News and reports across the 52 REVIEWS quality, which is never a compromise. All provide the player with a RSCM’s international network CMQ evaluates the latest church music books, DVDs and CDs. unique playing experience. A great heritage and tradition are our 34 CONGRATULATIONS starting points; innovation creates the organ of your dreams. Members’ successes and RSCM awards Contact us for tickets for our ‘Autumn Shades’ concert 35 at Shaw on Saturday 3rd October 2020 Makin | Copeman Hart | Johannus | Rodgers www. .co.uk 42 For more details and brochures please telephone 01706 888100 THE OUSELEY CHURCH MUSIC TRUST A Registered Charity has supported the Anglican choral tradition for over 20 years by making grants totalling more than £2½ million to churches and choral foundations. We help with school fees where a child is singing on a regular basis in a cathedral choir. Please see our website at www.ouseleytrust.org.uk ORGAN BURSARIES The Nancy and Sidney Hibbs Organ Scholarship Fund is available to offer bursaries to assist with tuition fees of organists-in-training who are learning to accompany Prayer Book services. It is a requirement that at least some of the services at which the student will play are BCP services; and also that the applicant’s tutor is sympathetic towards and knowledgeable about BCP services and the requirements upon organists who accompany them. Anyone wishing to apply for a grant from the scheme is invited to contact the Prayer Book Society on 0118 984 2582 or pbs.admin@ pbs.org.uk For information about The Prayer Book Society or to join please ring the above number or go to www.pbs.org.uk Registered Charity No. 1099295 and Co Limited by Guarantee No. 4786973 Regent CMQ June 2020.2.qxp_Layout 1 27/04/2020 18:23 Page 1 REGENT RECORDS New and Recent Releases Browse our growing number of releases available for download or streaming OUR FATHER IN THE HEAVENS Anthems by Sir Edward Bairstow Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Simon Bell (director) Carleton Etherington (organ) REGCD543 Thirteen anthems by this iconic composer of Edwardian sacred music, including the first recording of ‘Of the Father’s love begotten’. Timothy Parsons plays the organ of EXETER CATHEDRAL The ENGLISH CATHEDRAL Series Vol. XX REGCD523 Music by Mendelssohn, Locke, SS Wesley, Vierne, Blatchly, Elgar, Muhly, Brahms, Messiaen, and Duruflé. ‘The Cathedral, and Timothy Parsons, should be rightly proud of this highly satisfying and well-executed programme.’ ★★★★ Choir and Organ ‘It demonstrates not only the many different colours of the cathedral organ, but also the virtuosity and sensitivity of its performer.’ The Cornopean REGENT RECORDS, PO Box 528,Wolverhampton, WV3 9YW Tel: 01902 424377 www.regentrecords.com (with secure online ordering). Retail distribution by RSK Entertainment Ltd, Tel: 01488 608900, [email protected]. Available in the USA from the Organ Historical Society www.ohscatalog.org. THE OUSELEY WELCOME CHURCH MUSIC TRUST THE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC The RSCM has since March been providing a range of resources designed to help Registered Charity No. 312828 church musicians stay sharp and choirs retain some sense of togetherness. Our website, A Registered Charity Company Registration for example, features free Hymns of the Day, and Sunday Self-Services. For choristers No. 00250031 has supported the Anglican choral tradition for over 19 The Close, Salisbury, SP1 2EB of all ages there is our recently launched Showbie app (explained in CMQ March 2020), 20 years by making grants totalling more than www.rscm.org.uk which has support materials for RSCM Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards. In addition, we £2½ million to churches and choral foundations. Director: Hugh Morris have been running twice-daily webinars, which you can join live (to ask questions and We help with school fees where a child is singing on Deputy Director (Operations & Finance): to comment) or watch later as a video bought from our webshop. Topics covered include Stephen Mansfield vocal coaching, aural skills, support for organists, Voice for Life coaching, and the a regular basis in a cathedral choir. Deputy Director (Education & Voluntary Please see our website at Networks): Sal McDougall teaching of Lift up your voice repertoire. This issue also contains the usual What’s On Head of Publishing: Tim Ruffer pages listing RSCM events in your local area. Readers are advised, however, that events may be subject to cancellation. EDITOR www.ouseleytrust.org.uk Stefan Putigny The main feature in this this issue marks the 500th anniversary of the Field of the GENERAL ENQUIRIES Cloth of Gold (June 1520), an extravagant event that formed part of a summit between T +44 (0)1722 424848 King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France. Henry understood the F +44 (0)1722 424849 E [email protected] political value of the arts and worked hard to attract the best musicians from far afield, ORGAN BURSARIES including from overseas. As author Magnus Williamson explains, the movement of The Nancy and Sidney Hibbs Organ MUSIC DIRECT Scholarship Fund is available to offer bursaries to T +44 (0)845 021 7726 musicians from one princely court to another was a key factor in the spread of an assist with tuition fees of organists-in-training who F +44 (0)845 021 8826 international style of polyphonic music during the mid-15th century. Print was the are learning to accompany Prayer Book services. It E [email protected] is a requirement that at least some of the services main means by which musical styles were disseminated, yet it is possible that the at which the student will play are BCP services; and also that the EDUCATION AND COURSES intermingling of court musicians at the Field aided in the propagation of the French applicant’s tutor is sympathetic towards and knowledgeable about T +44 (0)1722 424843 chanson – which itself played a role in the development of the ‘Anglican’ anthem. BCP services and the requirements upon organists who accompany E [email protected] them. Is Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel due a renaissance? On pages 25–27, author Warwick ACCOUNTS Cole brings some much-needed attention to this overlooked 18th-century composer. T +44 (0)1722 424842 Anyone wishing to apply for a grant from the scheme is invited to E [email protected] Despite his prodigious output, most of Stölzel’s music has been lost and he remains contact the Prayer Book Society on 0118 984 2582 or pbs.admin@ a relatively obscure figure: a name you recognize, but perhaps whose music you pbs.org.uk VOLUNTARY NETWORKS For information about The Prayer Book Society or to join please ring T +44 (0)1722 424848 have never heard or performed. Yet, what music survives is, in Warwick’s words, the above number or go to www.pbs.org.uk E [email protected] ‘consistently high quality’. Much of it is also within the reach of amateur singers Registered Charity No. 1099295 and Co Limited by Guarantee No. 4786973 and instrumentalists. Why not take a look? Regent CMQ June 2020.2.qxp_Layout 1 27/04/2020 18:23 Page 1 RSCM MEMBERSHIP ENQUIRIES UK (INCL. IRELAND) T +44 (0)1722 424848 E [email protected] STEFAN PUTIGNY www.rscm.org.uk/get-involved/ Australia, Canada, New Zealand, REGENT RECORDS South Africa and USA: Contact your local branch for details CONTRIBUTORS New and Recent Releases Other countries: See website for details www.rscm.org.uk/get-involved/ Browse our growing number of releases available for download or streaming Ginny Arnott- Hannah Emmrich Susan Jane CMQ JUNE 2020 Wood is a native has been music Matthews, OUR FATHER Front cover photo: The Crowned Rose of Toronto and has director at All ARSCM, is director Motets presented to King Henry VIII.