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Diocesan Choirs Festival Saturday 17 October 2009

It is quite amazing how quickly the year goes by and suddenly the annual Choirs Festival music is being practised again. This year at Southwell Minster on October 17th we had to use the nave, as our numbers would not have fitted into the quire as they did in 2008.

Two hundred singers, including the Minster Choir, processed in from the Great Hall on one of those hoped-for warm, sunny autumn days to take part in the traditional service of Choral Evensong. read more »

Service of Compline
Clumber Chapel, May 16th 2009

The weather forecast for the East Midlands was showers and sunshine, but luckily the sun shone on Clumber Chapel at the right time on May 16th when nearly 70 members of affiliated choirs and the lay clerks of Southwell Minster conducted by Paul Hale (Rector Chori), assembled to sing Compline using the traditional plainsong format as published by the the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society. The anthem was, If ye love me, by Thomas Tallis, and Father Philip Corbett from Worksop Priory officiated. The service at 3.00 pm was preceded by a practice at 1.00 pm. This is the third time that this event has been held at Clumber Chapel on alternate years and it has grown in popularity each time.

Choirs taking part included, St. Mary’s, Attenborough; Ockbrook with Borrowash, (from Derby Diocese); Cotgrave Parish Church; St. Michael with St. Anne, Sutton Bonnington, and the Exodus Singers.

David Cowlishaw RSCM Southwell & Notts Area Treasurer

Diocesan Worship Day Saturday 20 September 2008

The weather could not have been finer on a late Summer Saturday when 150 participants met at 9.30 in Southwell Minster for an eagerly awaited Diocesan Worship Day. The aim of the day was to enhance and inspire worship and mission in our churches by embracing the total breadth of our church traditions.

The event had been organised by the Southwell and Nottingham Diocesan Liturgical Committee and the Royal School of Church Music Southwell and Nottinghamshire Area Committee, and was led by Andrew Maries, Consultant for Worship and Music to the Diocese of Exeter; other national speakers included Peter Moger, National Worship Development Officer for the C of E , Gordon Appleton, RSCM Voluntary Networks Director, Geraldine Latty, composer of worship songs and worship leader. Peter Price , RSCM Area ETO, Paul Hale, Rector Chori of Southwell Minster, Andrew Reid, Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral, Jacqui Jones, Precentor Southwell Minster, Nick and Clare Harding and Bishop Tony also directed workshops which numbered 27 during the day. A very useful discussion group, chaired by Paul Hale assembled in the Great Hall during lunch break to consider the subject ‘Which Hymn Book’. This must be a very important issue at the moment and we had much food for thought bearing in mind how many there are to choose from.

At 4.15 pm we all assembled in the nave of the Minster for a closing act of worship.

I know the participants wish to thank the Dean and Chapter of Southwell Minster for their wonderful hospitality during a very stimulating and refreshing day.

David Cowlishaw RSCM Southwell & Notts Area Treasurer

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