Irish Times Notes
Church of Ireland Notes from The Irish Times
Saturday 29 April 2006
Course for Church Musicians
For most worshippers music is an integral part of the liturgy and, for most, good music greatly enhances worship. Indeed it is increasingly evident that many, who might otherwise be, at best, ambivalent towards public worship, are attracted by good quality music. The city cathedrals tend to have the best resources but many parishes work hard to provide the best musical establishment which their circumstances will allow.
In this context the Archbishop?s Certificate Course for Church Musicians, which is organized by the Dublin and Glendalough Diocesan Church Music Committee, is a most important part of the church?s musical infrastructure. This is a three year course which is organized on a modular basis and students commit to one year at a time. The course aims to provide the range of skills and knowledge which would be required by musicians working in local churches. This includes tuition in organ playing, training in choral conducting and rehearsal techniques together with tutorials on the structure of the Church?s liturgy and the role of music in it. Students are sponsored by a parish and the costs are shared between the parish and the student.
The closing date for the receipt of applications for the 2006–07 academic year is 31 May and further details may be had from churchmusicdublin – at – eircom.net.
This morning (Saturday) All Saints? Church, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, will have a Springtime Sale in the church grounds beginning at 10 am. In the evening in St Patrick?s Cathedral, Dublin, there will be a concert at 8 pm in aid of the Chernobyl Children?s Project International by the Cathedral Choir and Resurgam.
Tomorrow (Sunday) the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr John Neill, will visit Newcastle, Wicklow and Powerscourt while the Bishop of Cork , the Rt Revd Paul Colton, will be in Kilmocomogue. In the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, the ?Picture Sermon? at the Sung Eucharist will be delivered by Alison Kelly, Curator of World Religions, Glasgow, who will speak about Claude?s 17th century ?Landscape with Hagar and the Angel?.
In St Mark?s Church, Dundela, Co. Down, where the rector is the Revd John McDowell, there will be a service of Choral Mattins with Liturgy of Dedication at which the preacher will be the Bishop of Tuam, Dr Richard Henderson. This will celebrate the completion of a major refurbishment project which comprises new vestibule doors, a fully refurbished Compton organ, renovated choir vestry, restored bells and a new heating system.
Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon at 3 pm there will be a Discovery Service of Easter Praise ? Anglican worship with an African flavour ? in St George and St Thomas Church, Cathal Brugha Street, Dublin 1. The preacher will be the Revd Obinna Ulogwara and the music will be provided by the Discovery Gospel Choir. All are welcome.
On Wednesday and Thursday the House of Bishops will have a residential meeting in advance of the General Synod which will be held in Armagh from 2 to 4 May.
In Hillsborough parish centre, Co. Down, on Friday evening the Down and Connor Area Committee of the Crosslinks missionary society will hold a Prayer and Praise Evening. This will include a presentation about the work of Crosslinks in North Africa and an interview with Bishop Francis Ntiruka from Tabora Diocese in Tanzania. In St Nicholas? Collegiate Church, Galway, there will be a concert by the Concordia Choir from Minnesota and Cois Cladaigh from Galway in support of Cancer Care West.