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Welcome

Welcome to the Royal School of Church Music in the Winchester Area.

We aim to promote Church Music within the Area, and to provide training and support for church musicians.

We do this through offering Training and Advice to Churches, Music Leaders and Individual Members, whatever their denomination and musical style, and also through organising various musical events, including our Area Festival, which is usually held on the 2nd Saturday in June, in Winchester Cathedral.

Festival Service 2009 Programme

VISIONS OF HEAVEN
Saturday 13th June 2009
Winchester Cathedral
Practice 1.45 pm for 2.00 pm
Service 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm

Anthems:
Keep me as the Apple of an Eye Fielding
The Fair Chivalry Ashfield
Steal Away Spiritual, arr. Weaver
Teach me, O Lord Byrd
O How Glorious is the Kingdom Harwood (+Descant)

Hymns:

There is a land of pure delight (Beulah)
Bright the vision (Laus Deo)
Holy, Holy, Holy (Apsley, Alan Wilson)
Ye holy angels bright (Darwell’s 148th)

This is the main Area event of the year – around 300 singers attended last year’s hugely successful Service. Choirs and individual singers of all denominations are welcome. Festival Service books are available at collection points across the area @ £4.50 (plus post and packing if unable to collect). Full details from: Martin Penrose. 3, Suffolk Avenue, Southampton. SO15 5EF. Tel. 023 8033 8258. Email PENROSEMUSIC@aol.com.

Festival Service Book Catalogue available

Paul Isted and Gary Philbrick have been maintaining a list of the music available in the huge back catalogue of Festival Service Books, going back to 1968. It is available for download from our downloads page.

Join our eMailing List!

Join our e-Mailing List!

We've set up an e-mail list which we plan to use to communicate more easily with members of the RSCM in the Winchester Area - it is not intended to replace the paper mailings, but it will make more regular and rapid communication easier. This is part of a move to make publicity and event registration available electronically.

If you would like to sign up to our e-mailing list, please go to the registration page, and enter your e-mail address and a password, then click "Subscribe".

All e-mail to the list will be moderated, so you shouldn't receive any junk or spam.

Chorister Awards Syllabus 2009

Details of this year's chorister awards can be found here.

Festival Service Workshops

GETTING READY FOR THE ....


VISIONS OF HEAVEN?

June 13th, Winchester Cathedral

 THEN COME TO THE ....

FESTIVAL WORKSHOP


Saturday March 21st, from 3pm to 6pm (including a refreshment break), at St John the Evangelist, London Road, Hook, RG27 9EG.


An afternoon to help choirs prepare for the Festival. Please contact Ian Rees at The Rectory, Church Street, Basingstoke RG21 7QT, or email ian.rees@dsl.pipex.com if you would like to come, so that we have some idea of numbers...