Music

The Royal School of Church Musicians (RSCM) offers a training programme for choristers. This includes their Voice for Life training scheme which leads to the coloured Ribbons & medals to award singers on completion of each level - Light Blue, Dark Blue, Red and Yellow. A parallel system of awards designed to be assessed through a formal examination is also run by the RSCM - these are called the Bronze, Silver & Gold awards. (In some local RSCM Areas the Bronze and Silver Awards are called Dean’s and Bishop’s Awards.) For more information see links below.

The year 2009 marks the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth and BBC Radio 3 invited choirs to perform Mendelssohn's "O for the Wings of a Dove" as part of the Mendelssohn celebrations. As part of these celebrations, the choir at St Oswald's church have recorded this piece and it may be found on the following website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/composers/mendelssohn/wings/ or click the link below:

• Guiseley Parish Church - Hear My Prayer

To see the Church Music for December 2009, click here.

To see the Choir diary for December 2009, click here.

The choir practises on a Thursday evening between 7.00 and 8.30pm.

For further information please contact the Organist and Choirmaster, Martin Baker:

Tel: 07825 176129; E-mail: choir@guiseleyparish.org.uk

Weblinks: Royal School of Church Musicians | RSCM Bradford Diocese Area

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