From mh014h2126 at blueyonder.co.uk Tue Oct 6 18:04:18 2009 From: mh014h2126 at blueyonder.co.uk (Mervyn Hogg) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:04:18 +0100 Subject: [LondonChurchesMusicForum] FW: A Master Class and Concert by Lionel Rogg Message-ID: <8FB7D4C61D9D443E95988D03D5164846@OwnerPC> If you are an organist and enjoy French Classical Organ Music this is a day not to be missed. St Albans is easily accessible by train from Kings Cross and the church, close to the town centre, is around 15 minutes walk from the station. THE INTERNATIONAL ORGAN FESTIVAL AT ST ALBANS St Saviour?s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF Saturday 17 October 2009 1000am Masterclass on Music for the French Classical Organ Concert at 5.30pm Lionel Rogg The next concert in our Saturday Organ Concert Series 2009/10 will be given by Lionel Rogg. The concert will take place at St Saviour?s Church, Sandpit Lane on Saturday, 17 October starting at 5.30pm. It will be followed by a reception to give the audience the opportunity to meet the organist. Entrance to the concert is free with a retiring collection in aid of the International Organ Festival Society. In the morning at 10.00am, also at St Saviour?s Church, Lionel Rogg will be giving a Masterclass on French classical organ music, together with students from Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music. There will be an entrance fee of ?10 for the Masterclass (?5 for IOFS members). Please visit www.organfestival.com for full details of all concerts in this series. Biography Lionel Rogg was born in Geneva. Switzerland. He has travelled the world giving countless organ recitals, and made numerous recordings for which he has received many prestigious prizes. He has retained his association with Geneva, having been Professor of Organ at the Conservatory until 2002, and receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University in 1989. He is now in charge of the new organ at the Geneva Victoria Hall. He is a skilled improviser, and teaches improvisation at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Programme Lionel Rogg Improvisation P Bruna Tiento de mano derecha y al medio a dos tiples J Cabanilles Passacalles de Primer Tono A Gabrieli Canzon ariosa G Frescobaldi Toccata Quarta "per l'Elevazione" G Frescobaldi Toccata Sesta "sopra i pedali" Nicolas de Grigny Verses for the Kyrie (from the Mass) Plain Chant en Taille:Fugue ? 5 Cromorne en Taille ? deux parties Trio en dialogue:Grand Jeu J S Bach Chorales from the "Orgelb?chlein" (Advent to Pentecost) J S Bach Prelude and Fugue in C Major BWV 547 Lionel Rogg Petite Suite (2008) Yours sincerely, Mervyn Hogg Tel: 01895 638069 Mob: 07770 641645 Email: mervyn.hogg at blueyonder.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.coin.org.uk/pipermail/londonchurchesmusicforum/attachments/20091006/5b39101e/attachment.html From Harrisonbutcher at blueyonder.co.uk Thu Oct 8 18:13:01 2009 From: Harrisonbutcher at blueyonder.co.uk (Justin Butcher) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:13:01 +0100 Subject: [LondonChurchesMusicForum] "Messiah" for Street Children Message-ID: Dear friends, Greetings from St Luke?s Church, Holloway, and from the streets of Durban, South Africa. Come and sing in the Street Kids? Messiah, December 6th 2009 Rehearsals: 7.30-9.30pm, Tuesday evenings from October 13th Performance: Sunday December 6th at 7.30pm Handel?s ?Messiah? first won the hearts of audiences and critics at its performance at Thomas Coram?s Foundling Hospital in 1750, founded ten years earlier by Captain Thomas Coram, a shipwright from Lyme Regis. A keen philanthropist, Coram was shocked by the sight, on the streets of London, of unwanted children left to fend for themselves or die, and spent many years working to establish his Foundling Hospital. Handel?s ?Messiah? triumphed at this first performance, raising ?728, 3 shillings and sixpence for the Hospital, and was performed there every year at Christmas, until the composer?s death in 1759. 250 years later, ?Messiah? remains the world?s best-loved choral work, and we at St Luke?s, Holloway, are mounting a community choral project to sing ?Messiah?, once again for the benefit of children abandoned and exploited on the streets of some of the world?s wealthiest cities. Street Child World Cup ? winning rights There are around 100 million children worldwide living on the streets. The level of abuse these street children suffer is even higher around major sporting events, as host authorities seek to clean up the streets with enforced round-ups. The Street Child World Cup seeks to ensure that the 2010 South Africa World Cup is not remembered for the abuse inflicted on these children, but because of the long-term change it has made possible. ?No child should have to live on the streets? Gary Lineker at the Street Child World Cup Launch The inaugural Street Child World Cup will take place in Durban, South Africa from 15th - 22nd March 2010. It will place street children centre stage, celebrating their potential, and providing a platform for them to tell their stories and raise the issues which matter most to them with the worldwide media, invited policy-makers and figures from the worlds of football and the arts. A major new report on the state of the world's street children will be released to coincide with the event, and together these will be at the centre of a new call for a world where the basic human rights of street children are upheld. ?Whenever people come across me they laugh. It seems like my mouth is zipped because they talk for us, I wish they could give us a chance to talk for ourselves.? Mbali, 15, Durban, South Africa Human rights organisation Amos Trust has initiated the Street Child World Cup in response to the ground-breaking work of their South African partner and Street Child World Cup hosts Umthombo Street Children, an organisation primarily run by former street children. 8 football teams of street children will be coming to South Africa from Brazil, India, Nicaragua, Ukraine, Philippines, Tanzania, Vietnam and a representative team from the UK. The children will receive football coaching, training in advocacy, communication skills and children?s rights, and a chance to work with an international team of artists (led by Momentum Arts, UK) to tell their stories in creative and imaginative new ways. "The Street Child World Cup demonstrates the tremendous potential of every single child, and especially street children, who are so often treated as less than human. I am proud that the first ever Street Child World Cup will take place in South Africa ? and I urge all governments to guarantee the rights of this most marginalised group of their citizens to lives in which their promise is fulfilled." Archbishop Desmond Tutu So ... Come and sing in the Street Kids? Messiah! Previous experience of choral singing is not essential! Rehearsals begin on Tuesday, October 13th, 7.30pm ? 9.30pm, at St Luke?s Church, Hillmarton Road, London N7 9JE (nearest tube Caledonian Road ? 5 mins? walk, or 91 bus route, or Caledonian Road & Barnsbury overground), and will be held every Tuesday at the same time, until the performance on Sunday December 6th, at 7.30pm. All rehearsals will take place at St Luke?s Church. We are asking all participants to make a one-off donation of ?20 towards our rehearsal costs, but if you can?t afford this, we?d still love to have you involved ? just pay what you can afford. You will need to buy or borrow and bring with you a copy of the ?Messiah? vocal score, the New Novello Choral Edition, edited by Watkins Shaw, available on Amazon, or from most music shops (eg. Chappell of Bond Street, 152-160 Wardour Street, London W1F 8YA, or Schott?s Music Shop, 48 Great Marlborough Street, London W1F 7BB) or direct from Novello Publishing/Music Sales Ltd, 01284 702600, http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/Printed_Music/dist/Music_Sales_Ltd.html. Rehearsals will be in sections ? soprano, alto, tenor, bass ? from 7.30?8.30pm, then all together from 8.30-9.30pm (and then to the pub...), led by myself and my team of highly experienced musical assistants. You will need to attend at least six of the eight rehearsals. There will also be some extra rehearsals nearer the date of the performance itself. If you don?t know whether you?re a soprano, alto, tenor or bass, come along to the first rehearsal and we?ll allocate you to the right section. The following link gives you access to a brilliant, free web page for practising your vocal part: http://www.cyberbass.com/Major_Works/Handel_GF/Handel_Messiah.htm Fundraising The ticket revenue from the performance will go to the Street Child World Cup, but we are also encouraging everyone to raise sponsorship from friends, family and colleagues. Why not set up your own Just Giving page? It?s very easy, totally secure and a very effective way to raise sponsorship, because donors can Gift-Aid their donations (if they wish), thereby increasing their value to the charity by 28%. Go to http://www.justgiving.com/ and click the ?Get started? button, identify Amos Trust (Charity no. 292592) as your charity of choice and off you go - Amos will make sure that all money raised goes to the Street Child World Cup. http://www.streetchildworldcup.org http://www.streetchildworldcup.org/ http://www.amostrust.org http://www.amostrust.org/ Please contact me to register as a participant, on 020 7272 7486, or harrisonbutcher at blueyonder.co.uk. PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO ANYONE YOU THINK MAY BE INTERESTED. Look forward to singing with you! Best wishes - JUSTIN BUTCHER Organist & Choirmaster, St Luke?s Church, Hillmarton Road, West Holloway, London N7 9JE +44 (0)20 7272 7486 harrisonbutcher at blueyonder.co.uk Chris Rose, Associate Director, Amos Trust, Charity no. 292592 83 London Wall, London, EC2M 5ND t. 07758 650 512 www.amostrust.org 'No child should have to be on the streets' Gary Lineker at the launch of the Street Child World Cup Preface to Psalms, Sonnets & Songs by William Byrd (1539 ? 1623) Reasons briefly set down by th?auctor, to perswade Every one to learn to sing. First it is a knowledge easily taught, and quickly learned where there is a good master and an apt Scoller. 2 The exercise of singing is delightful to Nature and good to preserve the health of Man. 3 It doth strengthen all the parts of the brest, and doth open the pipes. 4 It is a singular good remedie for a stutting & stammering in the speech. 5 It is the best means to procure a perfect pronunciation & to make a good Orator. 6 It is the onely way to know where Nature hath bestowed the benefit of a good voice: which gift is so rare, as there is not one among a thousand that hath it: and in many, that excellent gift is lost, because they want Art to express Nature. 7 There is not any Musicke of Instruments whatsoever, comparable to that which is made of the voices of Men, where the voices are good, and the same well sorted and ordered. 8 The better the voyce is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God therewith: and the voyce of man is chiefely to be imployed to that ende. 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This is part of our centenary celebrations and all are very welcome. Further details are available at www.saintmellitushanwell.org.uk and in the attached flier - please send it on to anyone you think might be interested, or display it anywhere you think it might be helpful. Many thanks Joy Williamson -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: St Mellitus Messiah 14-11-09.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 405971 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.coin.org.uk/pipermail/londonchurchesmusicforum/attachments/20091027/c5b4c32e/attachment-0001.pdf