Royal School of Church Music 80th anniversary

Ann and I talking to Geoff Weaver the director of the RSCM Bath course.
The winners of the 10 pin bowling 2007!
The RSCM seems in poor shape these days. The Southwark events are not well attended and in fact the next big one has just been cancelled. There do not seem to be many young people in choirs. Somehow this great organisation seems to have lost its way.
Some favourite prayers.
O God, whom saints and angels delight to worship in heaven: Be ever present with your servants who seek through art and music to perfect the praises offered by your people on earth; and grant to them even now glimpses of your beauty, and make them worthy at length to behold it unveiled for evermore; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
A prayer of John Donne
Bring us, O Lord God, at our last awakening into the house and gate of heaven, to enter into that gate and dwell in that house, where there shall be no darkness nor dazzling, but one equal light; no noise nor silence, but one equal music, no fears nor hopes, but one equal possession; no ends nor beginnings, but one equal eternity; in the habitation of thy glory and dominion, world without end. Amen.

We pray for the work of the Royal School of Church Music to which this church is affiliated; for the director John Harper; all musicians and singers; for our choir and organist.

We give thanks for the RSCM’s 80 years of service to the church and we remember it’s founder Sir Sydney Nicholson who died 60 years ago this year.

We pray for all who compose music, those who perform it and those who listen and pray that our hearts may be uplifted in praise of You the creator of all.

Amen.