Media information and resources
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News from the RSCM
If you are a journalist, we hope you will find the RSCM news releases and RSCM picture gallery useful.
Please feel free to contact the RSCM for comment about any church music issues.
For further enquiries, please contact Stuart Robinson, the Media Relations Organiser, on 07831 827701 (email srobinson(at)rscm.com), or the RSCM Office on 01722 424848.
Articles
Press releases
- 12 March 10: Senior Scottish Judge to chair RSCM
- 4 March 10: First in series of books for church organists launched
- 4 March 10: Updated edition of The Cross of Christ for Passiontide
- 1 March 10: Scholarships available for young organists at Bath summer course
- 10 February 10: Courses for church organists in Salisbury and York
- 9 February 10: RSCM Director to appear on BBC Radio 3, 14th February
- 5 January 10: "Amazing start" to decade for RSCM
- 9 December 09: New Director for RSCM Voices (Midlands & South-West)
- 19 November 09: Honorary Awards 2010 announced
- 10 November 09: Music Sunday 2010 launched
- 2 November 09: New Christmas carol service from the RSCM
- 15 October 09: Winning anthem from Harold Smart Competition to be premiered in Salisbury
- 5 October 09: RSCM seeks new Chair of Council
- 28 September 09: NEW - Supplement to the RSCM Carol Book
- 21 August 09: Millennium Youth Choir concert and broadcasts in September
- 21 August 09: RSCM remembers Dr Gerald Knight
- 14 August 09: Veni Emmanuel! New Advent Sequence from RSCM
- 12 August 09: Singers from Europe and USA to sing at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
- 4 August 09: Young Choristers to broadcast BBC "Sunday Worship" live from Bath Abbey
- 28 July 09: Aled Jones commends new edition of The Voice for Life Chorister's Companion
- 13 July 09: Call to composers for Harold Smart Competition 2009
- 1 July 09: MYC to sing in Chester and Liverpool, 27th July - 2nd August 2009
- 18 May 09: Awards presented at Celebration Day, 16th May 2009
- 11 May 09: RSCM Celebration Day at Salisbury Cathedral, 16th May 2009
- 2 May 09: MYC to sing at BBC Proms
- 1 May 09: New Head of Development at RSCM
- 9 April 09: Music still strong in churches, but can grow further - results of survey
- 6 April 09: Young Voices Festival 2009 - CD-ROM resource available
- 6 April 09: Young Voices Festival 2009 - opportunities to participate
- 3 April 09: MYC make final preparations for pilgrimage to Assisi
- 9 February 09: Milliennium Youth Choir to make Easter pilgrimage to Assisi with BBC
News archive
- 23 December 08: RSCM honorary awards announced
- 23 December 08: Director to visit Australia
- 22 December 08: Winner of Harold Smart Competition 2008 announced
- 18 December 08: Leading church music appointment for East Anglia
- 28 November 08: Scholarships available for young organists
- 24 November 08: Church Music Skills programme launched
- 21 November 08: Friendship - the ideal Christmas present
- 30 September 08: Season by Season published
- 30 September 08: Voice for Life Songbook 2 published
- 16 September 08: Students speak about Sacred Music Studies course
- 19 August 08: RSCM Director announces plans to attract churches and schools to join RSCM
- 31 July 08: RSCM Millennium Youth Choir to sing in Canterbury
- 28 July 08: Musicians from around the world to gather in Canterbury for church music summer school
- 15 July 08: Sentamu endorses world music songbook
- 19 May 08: One year's subscription equivalent to 67 minutes of Premier League football!
- 28 Apr 08: Singing headmaster to lead RSCM
- 16 Apr 08: Piece by David Ogden to be performed at Papal Mass in Washington DC
- 8 Apr 08: Young Voices Festival 2008 - Search for Peace
- 10 Mar 08: School term dates clash with Easter choral course
- 10 Mar 08: Choir stalls to overflow in culture capital's Anglican Cathedral
- 3 Mar 08: Millennium Youth Choir to sing in Salisbury
- 29 Jan 08: BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong to return to Wednesdays
- 28 Jan 08: Festival service to be held on 2 February 2008, Washington, USA
- 28 Jan 08: Honorary Awards to be presented in North America
- 7 Jan 08: Harold Smart Competition winner
- 19 Dec 07: Professor Harper appointed Emeritus Director
- 14 Dec 07: RSCM Honorary Awards 2008 announced
- 11 Dec 07: The Way of the Cross - a new Passiontide service book
- 8 Nov 07: RSCM edition of Songs of Praise, 2nd December 2007
- 8 Oct 07: The psalms and an 80th anniversary
- 4 Oct 07: Sir David Willcocks welcomes new appointment
- 27 Sep 07: RSCM announces appointment of new Director
- 12 Sep 07: Rutter produces recording of Millennium Youth Choir
- 1 Sep 07: Encourage young singers, says Brian Kay
- 21 Aug 07: Millennium Youth Choir launches new CD
- 21 Aug 07: Millennium Youth Choir sings in Edinburgh and on Radio 3
- 10 Jul 07: Royal School of Church Music to be featured on Songs of Praise
- 2 July 07: Church music: top church musician calls for “imaginative partnerships”
- 21 May 07: Archbishop presents Fellowship to RSCM Director
(full text of citation can be found here) - 23 Mar 07: Sacred Music Studies – first awards
- 15 Mar 07: Let's make a musical!
- 9 Mar 07: Easter Course for Organists
- 5 Mar 07: RSCM honours top church musicians
- 26 Feb 07: RSCM 80th Anniversary
- 23 Feb 07: Road to Freedom: booklet marking the anniversary of abolition of the slave trade
- 23 Feb 07: Young Voices Festival - How can I keep from singing?
(Event Diary Marker also available) - 31 Jan 07: Help at hand for "volunteer" organists struggling with diapasons
- 17 Jan 07: RSCM welcomes government funding for music in schools
- 10 Nov 06: RSCM publishes Sunday by Sunday Collection II
- 6 Nov 06: BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong to move to Sundays
- 31 Oct 06: RSCM publishes new songbook for church and school choirs
- 13 Oct 06: John Harper to retire as Director in 2007
- 22 Aug 06: Archbishop encourages clergy to learn music in the bath
- 1 Jun 06: "O when the saints" hits CD-ROM
- 1 Jun 06: Road to Freedom - Cathedrals to rock to "O when the saints"
- 1 May 06: RSCM move to Salisbury - national release
- 1 May 06: RSCM move to Salisbury - area release
Podcasts
Here you can find links to articles and podcasts.
- NEW: God of the Empty Space - John Pantry describes his collection of new music for choir and congregation, with contributions from arranger Chris Norton
- The Advent Sequence (Veni Emmanuel) - The Revd Peter Moger and David Ogden talk about the new sequence of music and words structured around the great Advent Antiphons
- The Carol Book Supplement - John Barnard talks about the 16 new carols added to the RSCM Carol Book, and The Revd Peter Moger discusses the new Christmas carol service
- Season by Season - editors John Barnard and David Iliff discuss their new collection of music for the Church Year
- In Every Corner Sing - Geoff Weaver talks about his new book of Christian songs from around the world
- Sacred Music Studies - students speak about the course
- Lindsay Gray - the sixth Director of the RSCM
- John Rutter: From tails to jeans and sweatshirt – record producing with the MYC
- Everything you wanted to know about the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir… in under 8 minutes
- John Rutter and David Ogden talking about Out of the Stillness (MYC's new CD)
- Voice for Life Songbook
- Sunday by Sunday Collection II
- The Welsh Eucharist
- article on podcasting by Stuart Robinson (RSCM, Media Relations; freelance broadcaster and producer)
Picture Gallery
Please follow this link to find pictures of some of the people and places associated with the RSCM. Photos may be downloaded free of charge but we ask that you credit the RSCM.
This collection is not exhaustive, and more pictures are available on request.