Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Music for Good Friday – Friday 2 April 2010

On Good Friday, the Church commemorated the very special, if sad, event of Jesus Christ’s death on the cross: the moment the barrier of sin between man and God was broken for good. In both meetings, the Cradley Heath Salvation Army Songsters will sing, for the first time, the song, The Christ of Calvary. The [...]

New Year … New Music

January 20, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne  
Filed under News, Random Jottings, Rehearsals

Cradley Heath Salvation Army Songsters will meet on Thursday 21 January 2010 at 7:15pm for their first rehearsal of the New Year.  Songster Leader Rob Westwood-Payne has spent the past few weeks sourcing new music for the new year: Nothing but thy blood Richard Slater was a prolific Salvation Army composer, writing over five hundred songs during his lifetime.  [...]

A Choral Masterclass in one article!

March 17, 2009 by Rob Westwood-Payne  
Filed under Random Jottings

There is no doubt Major Len Ballantine, currently Commanding Officer of the Yorkminster Corps in Canada is an expert communicator. The former International Staff Songsters Leader knows his stuff on choral singing technique too! He has turned the article below – a review of the King’s Singers new recording, “Reflections”, into a choral masterclass which [...]