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Blackburn Cathderal Newsletter
1 Howard was your editor’s most generous host when he (JB) and Lords Lieutenant, High Sheriffs and Mayors round every was invited to lead a Master-Class for the choristers of Chichester corner – yet Howard looked after his own guest superbly. In and Winchester Cathedrals at the Southern Cathedrals’ Festival in other words, he is not only supremely efficient (as we in Chichester last summer. Blackburn know) but also a most gracious and generous Howard lives in the Close, right next door to the Deanery, in a friend. It was a most happy visit. most delightful ‘Tardis’ house which is considerably bigger inside Although Howard than out. From one of his three guest bedrooms there’s an has three assistant unparalleled view of the cathedral. His garden, too, is exquisite. vergers, yet he is always on call through his mobile phone. He dealt with at least one crisis most calmly and efficiently: the loudspeaker system had a glitch, which had to be rectified before a major service. Within half an hour all was well, and no one, apart from Howard and his assistant, knew what he had done. Even though he was rushed off his feet during the four very It was such privilege for your editor to lead a 75-minute busy days of the Festival – for not only were there two visiting Master Class with the choristers of Chichester and cathedral choirs, Winchester and Salisbury, but also their Girls’ Winchester, for they were so talented, so professional and choirs, and clergy of those two cathedrals plus a visiting orchestra, so co-operative. -
JOURNAL No. 116 MARCH 2011
Founded 1934 JOURNAL No. 116 MARCH 2011 Patron: The Rt. Revd. Clive Young, Bishop of Dunwich President: Roger Pulham Foreword............................................2 Reports of events...............................3 Articles............................................. .30 In Memoriam.................................. ..62 Acknowledgments............................70 Gazette.......................................... ...70 Cover photograph: St. Edmundsbury Cathedral: the new west- and south-facing organ cases, the gift of the Vestey family 1 A New Year message from our President This is the first edition of the Journal to be produced under the editorship of James Crowe and on your behalf I should like to welcome him; we look forward to many future editions bearing his name. John Cooper retired at our last AGM and will be greatly missed. I have in front of me the August 1972 edition of the Journal and under Members’ news it states “we should like to welcome as a member John Cooper who has recently been appointed Organist at St. Mary-le-Tower Church. Mr. Cooper was formerly organist of Holy Trinity Leamington Spa”. We are very glad John moved to Ipswich as his contribution to local musical culture is huge. 2011 promises to be very interesting, not least because of the opportunities provided by our new and beautiful Cathedral organ at St. Edmundsbury. A programme of exciting recitals and concerts has been devised which includes a special event being sponsored by the Suffolk 0rganists’ Association: David Briggs accompanying a showing of the film Phantom of the Opera on Saturday, 12th November. I hope very much to see you all there. The Association is keen to engage young people to learn to play the organ, so we shall be holding an event at Ipswich Corn Exchange on 4th July, specifically aimed at primary schools. -
12Th January 2020
Music Notes for Epiphany 1: The Baptism of Christ – 12th January 2020 This week, we return to the music of Stanley Vann (1910–2010) at the Solemn Eucharist with his Missa Brevis in A. Vann was born in Leicester, and took to music early in his life, starting with the piano at 6 years of age, and the organ rather later, at 17. Nevertheless, by the time he was 20 he had both of the highest qualifications in the instrument already under his belt. A year later, he was Assistant Organist at Leicester Cathedral, after which he took on several sequential positions as organist in various parishes. After the Second World War, he became Organist at Chelmsford Cathedral and a Professor at Trinity College in London in 1949. Four years later, in 1953, he took up the position with which he is most associated, Master of the Music at Peterborough Cathedral. He was to remain there until he retired in 1977 – although he then remained remarkably active until after his hundredth birthday in 2010, carried off in the end by the consequences of a fall at home rather than running out of steam in any other sense. During this long life, he composed a large number of works of very great quality, and with an harmonic language that is really uniquely his. It is not so much that he does things that nobody else had done, but the characteristic way that he assembles chord progressions, and especially the sense he has for spacing the voices in a chord for maximum effect, that marks out his “voice”. -
Blackburn Cathedral Newsletter Is Supported Financially Not Only by the Generosity of Fof BCM & BCOCA but Also by More Donors Including, Most Recently
1 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS! It’s a real thrill to revisit the cathedral and see the choir in MADONNA OF THE BOULEVARD such good health and in such good hands. I was particularly by Canon Michael Taylor impressed by our choirmaster, James Davy. I do a bit of undergraduate teaching and have had some training in giving feedback to students. The catch phrase is Once upon a time there that feedback should be a ‘sandwich’ ... i.e. say something was a Sculptor whose name positive…then say what you really think & then finish with was James Attwood and he something positive again. I thought our choirmaster was very talented. When he demonstrated this brilliantly. was 58 he came from The downside of visiting the cathedral is that it makes me Manchester to work in our feel like the footballer who used to play for a Premiership Cathedral. He was side, but knows that now he wouldn’t even make a pub commissioned to restore team. some of our crumbling stonework. th One day – 15 June 1965 – our Sculptor was inspired by the sight of a young girl on the Boulevard with her friends on their way home from school. ‘Surely she is the same age as Mary when the Archangel Gabriel visited her?’ he thought. He discovered who her parents were and, after obtaining their permission, he arranged sittings to make preliminary sketches of this young lady. Mr. Attwood was one of the most sought-after sculptors in Carrara marble, which comes from Tuscany in Italy; and so he chose a block of marble which was just the right size, and began to create his Madonna. -
The Career and Reputation of Herbert Howells
Durham E-Theses The Career and reputation of Herbert Howells Marshall, Richard George How to cite: Marshall, Richard George (2005) The Career and reputation of Herbert Howells, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2860/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk The Career and Reputation of Herbert Howells Richard George Marshall The copyright of this thesis rests with the author or the university to which It was submitted. No quotation from It, or information derived from It may be published wtttiout the prior written consent of the author or university, and any Information derived from It should be acknowledged. A thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Music (MA) 2005 1 1 OCT 2006 Contents List of Musical Examples 1 Introductory Comments 3 Introduction 5 Chapter One: Biography 15 Chapter Two: The Construction of Howells' Englishness 38 Chapter Three: Herbert Howells: His Thoughts on Music and Musicians 60 Chapter Four: Howells' Relation to Tudor and Elizabethan Music 86 Conclusion: assessing Howells' career and reputation 108 Appendix One: Work List 115 Appendix Two: A Chronological List of Performances 131 Bibliography 161 List of Musical Examples Ex.5.1. -
26 February 2010 Page 1 of 28 SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2010 (Conductor)
Radio 3 Listings for 20 – 26 February 2010 Page 1 of 28 SATURDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2010 (conductor) SAT 01:00 Through the Night (b00qn51c) 04:02AM Presented by Susan Sharpe Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - motet (BWV.225) 01:01AM Norwegian Soloist Choir, Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Grete Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) Pedersen (conductor) Ruy Blas - overture (Op.95) BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor) 04:19AM Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750) 01:09AM Presto from Sonata for violin solo no.1 (BWV.1001) in G minor Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Hilary Hahn (violin) Concerto for piano and orchestra no. 2 (Op.83) in B flat major Lars Vogt (piano), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek 04:22AM (conductor) Spohr, Louis (1784-1859) Duo for violin and viola (Op.13) in E minor 01:58AM Vilmos Szabadi (violin), Győrgy Konrad (viola) Mussorgsky, Modest (1839-1881) Gopak (Hopak) from the opera Sorotchinsky Fair 04:37AM Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) (conductor) Trio for violin, cello and piano (Op.11) in B flat major, 'Gassenhauer-Trio' 02:00AM Arcadia Trio Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) Ondine from Préludes, Book 2 (No.8) 05:01AM Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Forqueray, Antoine (1672-1745) La Regente from Pièces de Viole (Paris, 1747) 02:04AM Pierre Pitzl and Marcy Jean Bolli (violas da gamba), Luciano Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897) Contini (archlute), Augusta Campagne (harpsichord) Six Songs: Wir wandelten (Op.96 No.2); Alte Liebe (Op.72); Das Mädchen spricht -
2013.2.Music & More
1 RICHARD TANNER A week later RUTH BOND Director of Music of Blackburn Cathedral, 1998-2010, popped in to see your editor POPPED IN TO SAY ‘Hi’ Keith & Ruth Bond were central to the music-making of by your editor, JB our cathedral over 30 years ago. New families who are joining our cathedral’s magnificent music programme may The front doorbell rang – it was not be aware of some of our within-living-memory choir Richard Tanner, looking radiantly history. healthy, full of energy and, as ever, Keith was Cathedral sub organist (he and JB were also brimming with inspiration. Senior Lecturers at the Royal Northern College of Music), and the two Bond daughters were the first female members Richard was in his first year as of the YPC. Both Angela and ‘Wonka’ (Veronica) are now Director of Music of the prestigious grandparents – and Ruth was staying with Wonka and her Rugby School. Their website is family who live near Clitheroe. fascinating: Under Keith’s musical leadership and the Bonds’ At least two centuries of Rugby’s hospitable home in Pleasington, the YPC became the history are written in the stones and largest it’s ever been – of over 30 singers! other monuments to tradition that stand around the School Close, where in 1823 a local lad called William Webb Ellis first ran with the ball and invented the game of rugby football. The YPC in 1982 ‘How big is your family now?’ JB asked Ruth. ‘I’ve got five great-granddaughters and two great- grandsons. And there are several grandchildren living near Blackburn.’ ‘And you drove the 270 miles from your home near Saxmundham to stay with Wonka?,’ remarked JB. -
2013.1.Music & More
1 Chamber Choir and the Northern Sinfonia Chorus to form a THREE FORMER CHORISTERS OF 150-strong North of England choir to perform a newly- commissioned work (“Credo”) by James MacMillan at one of the BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL BBC Promenade Concerts at the Royal Albert Hall. Douglas David Rothwell, Peter Crowther & Tim Ferguson asked if I would like to join the Rushley Singers for that event. It took about half a millisecond to reach a decision – Yes, please! Douglas e-mailed the rehearsal schedule – 5 with the Rushley singers and 2 with the other two choirs – all rehearsals were compulsory. Disaster! One of the joint rehearsals clashed with some arrangements that we had already made to visit friends and family in Devon - I was in danger of being sacked as quickly as I had been recruited! One pleading e-mail later and my apologies for absence from that rehearsal were accepted – Phew! That was close! The initial rehearsal was cancelled because the publishers had not yet printed the music! SANG AT TWO ‘PROMS’ THIS SEASON The music was eventually printed and issued before the next televised by the BBC from scheduled rehearsal to give us all the opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the notes individually. Help! I had always thought THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL! that my sight-reading was fairly good, but this was impossible! There were x-tuplets all over the place (where x = any odd number), complex combinations of intervals, multiple dissonances with other parts, and absolutely no clues in the orchestral reduction to help with the pitching of the first note of any phrase. -
Bcoca Newsletter October 2005
£2 Fof BCM Edition No. 16 BCOCA Edition No. 25 October, 2005 Editor: Dr. John Bertalot, Cathedral Close, Blackburn, BB1 5AA [email protected] TWO TWO MMOORREE ttthh 4400 AAnnnniiivveerrrssaarrriiieess October 6th Rehallowing of the Nave & th November 19 The first Concert by the (then) Blackburn Bach Choir now renamed the Renaissance Singers See page 20 FRIENDS of BLACKBURN CATHEDRAL MUSIC 1 The Girls’ and Men’s highly successful tour of Prague. See pages 7-9 History-making Girls' Mini Course They were by RICHARD TANNER joined by Philippa Hyde Between 3rd and 5th May, the Girls' Choir enjoyed a who sang half term "mini course". This was an opportunity to Mozart's learn some new music, develop as a choir and spend Laudate some time getting to know each other. Dominum On Friday 3rd the Chamber Choir rehearsed for the whole and JB's W. A. Mozart morning. So that the girls could watch a movie after lunch, RT set 1756-91 Steal Away, up a cinema in the crypt using a DVD player, surround sound system and the Cathedral's projector and screen. More rehearsals followed until 9pm, including the choir's first ever Friday evening and Lawrence Wood, father of rehearsal with the gentlemen of the Cathedral Choir. There was girl chorister Alex (see below) much to do, as Sunday was to be an extremely hectic day, who is a member of the Hallé musically speaking. Orchestra, played his 'cello However, before that, on when the Saturday the whole Girls' Choir girls sang met up to rehearse, and then Panis attend a stunning Coffee time Angelicus recital of American Songs, given by Nicola Mills and Greg by Morris in the Crypt. -
Claire Stewart THESIS FINAL 131120
The impact of the introduction of girl choristers at Salisbury and its influence on other British Anglican cathedral choirs Claire Elizabeth Stewart University of London PhD November 2020 'I, Claire Elizabeth Stewart confirm that the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm that this has been indicated in the thesis.' Claire E Stewart, November 2020 1 To the Choristers, Adult Singers and Organist at Sandringham who show great commitment every week in rehearsals and services. You enrich my life and bring me joy in all our musical offerings together. 2 Claire E Stewart, November 2020 Abstract Abstract The aim of this thesis has been to examine the effects that the introduction of girl choristers has had on the all-male tradition that hitherto characterised the Anglican cathedral choir. Arguably, the future of any tradition relies on the success of the present generation for its survival and continuity. That should not imply that the tradition remains identical as in past generations, but rather that a tradition should be able to respond and, if necessary, embrace new ideas. The thesis provides an historical context for the widely reported and seemingly ground-breaking initiative at Salisbury Cathedral in the early 1990s. Through the analysis of contemporary texts, related literature, interviews, a small-scale survey and three illustrative in-depth case studies (Salisbury, Lincoln and Lichfield), the thesis reviews the background to this choral development and explores the immediate and subsequent impact across the sector. The initiative at Salisbury was not (and in some instances is still not) without controversy and so opportunity is taken in the text to rehearse examples of these conflicting views by drawing on contemporary commentary, in part by using the lens of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT). -
OCA Newsletter 2017
Peterborough Cathedral Old Choristers’ Association 2017 Newsletter PETERBOROUGH CATHEDRAL OLD CHORISTERS’ ASSOCIATION 2017 NEWSLETTER 2017 REUNION This year’s reunion took place on Saturday 16 September. Once again, it was held in conjunction with the annual gathering of the Friends of the Cathedral. Old choristers assembled in the stalls and rehearsed with the choirs under the genial direction of Steven Grahl. Before the service, DAVID LOWE laid a wreath at the memorials in St. Sprite’s Chapel in memory of old choristers and former pupils of The King’s School who gave their lives in the two world wars. The first lesson at Evensong was read by SUZ FRANKS. After the service, the Annual General Meeting was held in the Almoner’s Hall. The final event of the day was the reunion dinner, which was held at The Park Inn. Speakers were Canon Ian Black and old chorister CHRISTOPHER BROWN. A first-class meal was enjoyed by the assembled company. The reunion proved, as always, to be a very happy and delightfully nostalgic event. NEW OFFICERS At the AGM, TIM HURST-BROWN was elected as Chairman of the Association. SIMON WILKINSON stood down as Hon. Secretary after being in office for eleven years. He was thanked warmly for his work and particularly for his skilful and unobtrusive organisation of the annual dinners. His successor is LOUISE LAPRUN, to whom we wish every success in this demanding role. She has a hard act to follow, but with the support of the committee and all our members she is sure to make a great success of her new post. -
Friends Blackburn Cathedral February, 2007
£3 F BCM Edition No. 21 of Friiends oofff BCOCA Edition No. 30 Friends Blackburn Bllackburn FFeebbrruuaarryy,, 22000077 Blackburn CCaatthheeddrraalll Designed and Edited by Dr. John Bertalot, Cathedral Cathedral Close, Blackburn, BB1 5AA Old Choristers MUSIC Send your news and photos via E-mail to [email protected] MUSIC Association Our original Lantern Tower, with stunning glass by John Hayward, was designed by Laurence King, who was the architect responsible for the major restoration and redecoration work completed here from 1964-1969. The Provost was Norman Robinson. The Tower was restored and renewed in 1999 by our then architect, Brian Lowe, with glass by Linda Walton, which was inspired by the Water of Baptism and the Fire of the Holy Spirit. The Provost (later, Dean) was David Frayne. 1 From OC PETER CROWTHER J.P. in Lancaster Hi John Please find attached a picture of JEAN and me, with our first-born grandson, ADAM, (he wasn't laying abounden just then) and our newest grandson, CHARLIE. He is doing really well and ALISON BEN TANNER is thriving. Heartiest congratulations to Pippa and Richard on the birth of Ben, Sunday, 15th October, 2006 Hope you can use this in the Newsletter, together with our best wishes to all our friends, wherever they may be. Very best wishes to you Peter Heartiest congratulations, Peter, Jean and especially Alison! What a lovely photograph of an equally wonderful family. JB Peter is Marketing Officer of the Economic Development & Tourism Service of Lancaster City Council. Ben is named after St. Benedict (not named after the new From OC PETER BANKS in Surrey Pope!).