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CORONAVIRUS EMERGENCY: MUSIC APPEAL
The closure of churches, concert and rehearsal venues results in a total income loss for us of ยฃ10,000 each month. This comprises both cash donations and revenue generating events including our choir concerts, workshops and the Leeds International Organ Festival.
In response we are now asking for your urgent support. With your help we will be able to continue our full programme online with thousands of children each week. During the most challenging time of our recent history the need to nurture talent, raise aspirations and provide security and structure for our choir families and school communities is at its greatest – with your help we will not abandon the children we work with.ย
โThis is truly excellent work, and your call for us to increase, not diminish, music, education, community and charity is so encouraging.โ
Tom Daggett, St Paulโs Cathedral
OUR RESPONSE TO THE LOCKDOWN
With churches and schools closed, many providers have โfurloughedโ their entire music staff. At a time when children desperately need these musical and educational skills our approach is different: to adapt and retrain all staff to work effectively in the new online medium. Our message is โbusiness as usualโ; providing stability and reassurance in these uncertain and distressing times.
โHe absolutely loved the rehearsal! I was so happy to see him sitting quietly, listening totally engaged and didnโt want it to finish! I think the online lessons will benefit everyone, not only the boys, we all need something to keep us going especially in this difficult time. We are so grateful that you can continue to teach the children. Even though he canโt go out, he is at least happy that he can still learn to sing with you and continue to see his choir friends.โ
Choir Parent
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Using the combined creative and technological skills of a diverse musical team we have been delivering our full 18 after-school choirs, School Singing Programme and Keyboard Training Programmes online since 26th March. We must continue to inspire our young musicians and provide stability and reassurance for children and families in these uncertain and distressing times.
Whilst we are all confined to our homes our online work is providing children with all the mental health benefits of structured learning, keeping them busy and engaged with a sense of routine. Families are telling us it is also a great help to them as a whole.
TAKING A NATIONAL LEAD
On 2nd April Diocese of Leeds Music organised a webinar called โPractical Approaches to Choir Rehearsals Onlineโ to share what we had learnt with other organisations. The 50 attendees included Westminster Abbey, St Paulโs Cathedral, HM Chapel Royal Windsor, Christ Church Oxford and Kingโs College Cambridge as well as choir directors from a diverse range of schools and colleges. Find out more >>
WITH YOUR HELP WE CAN
Please consider texting CHURCH MUSIC to 70500 to contribute ยฃ5 to the Music Coronavirus Emergency Appeal.
Tune into โฆ@BBCRadio3โฉ tomorrow evening to hear our accordion tutor โฆ@valerie_barrโฉ playing in the โฆ@BBCPhilharmonic with โฆ@LudovicMorlotโฉ, accompanying โฆ@SampsonCarolynโฉ in a wonderful piece by Dutilleux. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0013jr4
Our Director of the Schools Singing Programme @thomas_leech - together with @StPaulsLondon OBE Organ Outreach Fellow @tom_daggett - spoke at the @_cathedralmusic conference today about access, partnerships and excellence growing from sustained foundations in church music.
Today at Leeds Cathedral
The Baptism of the Lord
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๐ญ๐ญ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ (๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐น๐ / ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐)
Dilexisti, Gregorian
Missa Sancti Nicolai, Haydn
Asperges, Gregorian
Quem pastores laudavere, Praetorius
Ave verum corpus, Mozart
Huddersfield Youth Choirs with Bradford Catholic Youth Choir perform the sacred Christmas Carol Guadete, from Piae Cantiones. Arr. Keith Roberts.
A live recording from Huddersfield Town Hall, December 2021 as part of Kirklees Organ Concert Season.
https://youtu.be/WYf4DOXwCww
Thanks for featuring! We've loved hearing the other choirs in your digital Advent Calendar as well...๐ถ๐ต๐ต๐ถ
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Correspondances
www.bbc.co.uk
BBC Philharmonic and soprano Carolyn Sampson in Dutilleux, Dvorak, Copland and Betsy Jolas