The RSCM Durham Area Committee is holding an event in Whitburn Parish Church near Sunderland on Thursday 18th June at 7:30pm during which a number of Items from Paul Ritchie\’s GIA catalogue will be sung by the participants. The assembled choir will be conducted by Andrew Robinson, and […]
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Paul Ritchie will give an organ recital in St Paul\’s Church, Whitley Bay, on Saturday 16th May at 7:30pm. The programme will include a selection of short hymn preludes from his growing collection entitled \’All Saints\’. Each prelude is based on a hymn tune named
Sixty Second Songs for Voice & Piano Book 1 is now available from Recital Music. This is the first of three graded books which will contain songs suitable for children. Book 1 is aimed at very young children and contains eight songs, including two by
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The Choir of the Blessed Sacrament Community in Burlington, North Carolina, will sing \’Come, adore this wondrous presence\’ during the liturgy for Holy Thursday on the 2nd April. The anthem will be sung as the Choir, directed by Jeff Rice, arrives at the Altar of Repose.
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On Friday 17th April at 12:30pm Paul Ritchie will give the opening recital in the 2015 series in Morpeth Methodist Church, and in a programme entitled \’From Lent to Eastertide\’ he will include his Chorale and Variations on \’Forty Days and Forty Nights\’. This was
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Recital Music, a publishing house based in Somerset, held a competition during 2014 inviting composers to submit songs suitable for children of different ages, with the proviso that each song should last no more than sixty seconds. Paul Ritchie submitted two songs, \’The Swing\’ and \’The Little
All of the choral music by Paul Ritchie which GIA publish in America is now available in the form of pdf downloads. Follow the links from the Choral section of the Music page to print sample pages, listen to audio samples, or to purchase mp3 recordings and sheet music.
Shaun Turnbull, Assistant Director of Music, will play the organ Partita on \’Stuttgart\’ before the 6:30pm evening service in Blackburn Cathedral on Sunday 1st February. This service takes the form of \’A sequence of readings and music from Epiphany to Candlemas\’.
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The choir of St Giles\’ Church Durham will sing \’As the Deer\’ during the Ash Wednesday service on February 18th. This setting of verses from Psalm 42 was the winning entry in the St Giles\’ Durham 900th Anniversary competition in 2012 and is scored for
This setting of \’Author of life divine\’ by the hymn writer Charles Wesley was written in 2003 for Michael Haynes and Hexham Abbey Choir, and is scored for unaccompanied solo treble and SATB choir with divisi. A revised and updated version is now available in the
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