[{"id":262291685436,"handle":"alan-viner","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T09:42:57+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Alan Viner","body_html":"\u003cp\u003e(b.1951) was formerly Director of Music at the Priory Boy's Grammar School, and the Wakeman School, Shrewsbury. He now devotes his time to private teaching, composing and accompanying.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":262292013116,"handle":"andrew-fletcher","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T09:58:47+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Andrew Fletcher","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew Fletcher (b.1950) is a Midlands-based church musician, choral director, teacher, composer, arranger and concert organist who regularly gives recitals, masterclasses and choral workshops both in England and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Fletcher was educated in Birmingham and at Keble College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar. At the age of 20 he became a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists; he also holds their Choir-Training Diploma and is a Fellow of the London College of Music in organ performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis reputation as a choir-trainer was established at St. Mary's, Warwick, where he was Director of Music for eight years. Under his direction the choir made numerous foreign tours, broadcast on TV and radio, and recorded on the Abbey, Chevron and CBS Masterworks labels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 1985 he has pursued a free-lance career in his home town of Birmingham and is much in demand as a teacher of piano, organ and paperwork, as a recitalist and keyboard accompanist, and as a composer and arranger. He is presently Director of Music at St. Thomas's, Stourbridge (which maintains an all-male choral tradition), and directs the Solihull Choral Society. He is also President of the Birmingham Organists' Association and Chairman of the RSCM Area Committee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe is a regular recitalist in England and has performed in such venues as St. Paul's, Canterbury, Coventry, Hereford, Wells and Bristol cathedrals, the abbeys of Tewkesbury, Ampleforth, Waltham and Bath, Southwell Minster, Birmingham and Kidderminster Town Halls, Hull City Hall, and Victoria Hall, Hanley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has toured extensively in the United States, giving recitals, master classes and choral workshops at venues in New York, Hartford CT, Methuen MA, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia PA, (yes, he did get to play a solo on the famous Wanamaker organ!), Baton Rouge LA and Arab AL.\nHis CD recording of late-romantic organ music (St. Mary's, Warwick), has received great critical acclaim and it is hoped that two further recordings, made at Birmingham Oratory and Riverside Church, New York, may eventually be available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a composer he has answered a number of commissions, both organ and choral, for England and the USA, and many of his works are published by the RSCM, Oecumuse, Kevin Mayhew and Oxford University Press.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":262292078652,"handle":"andrew-gant","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T10:02:50+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Andrew Gant","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eAndrew Gant is organist, choirmaster and composer at her majesty’s chapel Royal, St James’s Palace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Gant was a choral scholar at St John's College, Cambridge under the direction of the late Dr George Guest. He subsequently sang with most of the country's leading ensembles, including The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, The Monteverdi Choir and the Cambridge Singers. He was first tenor and musical director of the Light Blues male-voice sextet, for whom he wrote many arrangements and with whom he toured all over the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis degree at Cambridge was in Music and English and included the Arthur Quiller-Couch prize for best creative work for the libretto of his opera Blake. He later studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Patterson, gaining the degree of M.Mus and two of the Academy's composition prizes. His opera The Basement Room was written for the Academy's opera school and performed at the Academy and the Cambridge Festival. In 2002 he was awarded the degree of PhD in composition and contemporary music by Goldsmith's College, University of London, where he studied with Dr Sadie Harrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Gant has worked in church music all his adult life, singing regularly with all the professional church choirs in London including a two-year period as a tenor Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey, appointed by the Abbey Organist Simon Preston. In the early 1990s he moved from singing in church choirs to directing them, and has held posts as conductor at Selwyn College, Cambridge, The Royal Military Chapel (The Guards Chapel), Wellington Barracks, London, and Worcester College, Oxford. He has given regular concerts with his choirs, and led them on foreign tours and in broadcasts and recordings. In September 2000 he took up his current post as Organist, Choirmaster and Composer at Her Majesty's Chapel Royal.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":262292111420,"handle":"andrew-moore","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T10:08:21+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Andrew Moore","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eComposer, arranger, editor, author, and Catholic priest, Andrew Moore has featured in the Kevin Mayhew catalogue for some 25 years. His compositions for the liturgy are widely used. When time allows he also enjoys painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore about Andrew can be found at: \u003ca href=\"www.andrewmooremusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003ewww.andrewmooremusic.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":262292865084,"handle":"betty-roe","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T10:41:41+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Betty Roe","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eBetty Roe (b.1930) Studied music at the Royal Academy of Music and composition with Lennox Berkeley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known for her music in the community, her works include many musicals for all ages, and four operas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty Roe was born in 1930 in North Kensington, London, England, next-door but one to the house in which she now lives. Her father was a fishmonger in Shepherd's Bush Market, and her mother a butcher's bookkeeper. After finding her playing the piano at a very early age, her parents encouraged her piano lessons, from the age of six, with the local teacher, Madam Dorina. She made rapid progress, despite being firmly discouraged from playing by ear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetty was not a good academic scholar, but at the age of twelve she auditioned for a place as a Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) where her choice of pieces, by Albert Ketelby (In a Monastery Garden, In a Persian Market), was not accepted by the Course Director. However she was offered a place on the strength of very successful aural tests, and this earned her a \"Special Place\" at Grammar School. Whilst a Junior Exhibitioner she studied the piano with Fiona Addie, Muriel Dale, and Sadie MacCormack, and cello with Alison Dalrymple. She left school in 1947 (having failed her School Leaving Certificate exams) and took a job as a filing clerk at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and continued piano lessons with Mrs Read at Mary Datchelor School in Camberwell.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1949 she went to the Royal Academy as a senior student. Her professors were York Bowen (piano), Alison Dalrymple (cello), Jean McKenzie-Grieve (singing). After leaving she continued singing lessons, with Clive Carey, Roy Hickman, Peter van der Stolk and Margaret Field-Hyde. She studied composition with Lennox Berkeley for a short time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1940s and 50s she gained considerable practical experience with local churches - both singing and playing the organ.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter leaving the RAM, as well as holding a number of church music posts as organist and choirmaster, she was (1968-78) Director of Music at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and worked extensively as a session singer with leading London groups and ensembles. On the lighter side she worked with celebrities including Cliff Richard, Harry Secombe, Cilla Black, The Two Ronnies and on Top of the Pops. She has conducted choirs and groups variously, and the NorthKen Chorale (as Musical Director of NorthKen Concerts) since 1980.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a composer Betty is best known for her solo songs, church and choral music, revue songs, musicals, and music for schools. She spends most of her time now composing, adjudicating, conducting, staffing summer-schools, music weekends and workshops with groups of all ages and abilities, as well as presenting her one-woman shows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1970 Betty founded Thames Publishing with her late husband, John Bishop. As well as her own extensive list of works, Thames has published many English composers, of both contemporary and historical interest.\nThames Publishing has become a division of William Elkin Music Services since the death of John Bishop in 2000. She has two daughters, both musicians, a son who is a sound recordist, five grandchildren and three cats.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158249549884,"handle":"choral-music","updated_at":"2021-11-26T01:06:02+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-10T17:45:18+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Choral Music","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eOur choral music list encompasses staples of the repertoire, cutting-edge new works, budget collections, bumper choral anthem books, approachable service music, choir training resources and more for choirs of all sizes and abilities. Our talented composers know exactly the kind of music that choirs like to sing, but don't just take our word for it: hear the evidence for yourself!\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158316265532,"handle":"choral-sheet-music","updated_at":"2021-11-26T01:06:02+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-13T14:26:33+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Choral Sheet Music","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eOur range of choral music offers sheets music for choirs of all levels including bestselling repertoire compilations. Kevin Mayhew has been a trusted brand producing a fantastic range of choral music for over 30 years.\u003c\/p\u003e","image":{"created_at":"2020-09-18T18:27:40+01:00","alt":null,"width":400,"height":578,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/8884\/2812\/collections\/278903_b0138.jpg?v=1600450060"}},{"id":261789745212,"handle":"christopher-tambling","updated_at":"2021-11-20T13:55:26+00:00","published_at":"2021-07-26T16:42:24+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Christopher Tambling","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eChristopher Tambling (1964-2015) studied the organ with Malcolm McKelvey at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex. He went on to gain organ scholarships to Canterbury Cathedral and St Peter's College, Oxford, where he studied with Geoffrey Webber and David Sanger and was Organist of Pusey House. He started his teaching career at Sedbergh School in Cumbria, where he was Organist from 1986 to 1989: he then became Director of Music at Glenalmond College, near Perth in Scotland, also taking on roles of Perth City Organist and Conductor of Perth City Orchestra.\nFrom 1997 onwards he was the Director of Music at Downside School near Bath. He was Organist and Master of the Schola Cantorum of Downside Abbey, a 90-strong choir of boys and girls drawn from the school, which regularly sang for services, recordings and concerts. Christopher was much in demand as a composer of accessible church and organ music, and undertook many commissions for schools and churches. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Organists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Mayhew writes: Chris Tambling was a lovely man, a fine composer and a publisher’s dream because he was always open to new ideas and delivered exactly what was needed. Over the years we have published the great majority of his choral and instrumental music, as well as his monumental four-volume work ‘The Church Organist’, which has been established as the leading tutor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides his serious work, Chris also wrote many children’s songs, and two children’s musicals with Michael Forster, which have been performed all over the world. Barbara and I, and all Chris’ friends here send our love to Sara, Edward and Benjamin.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158249517116,"handle":"church-music","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:30+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-10T17:45:18+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Church Music","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eKevin Mayhew \u003cstrong\u003echurch music\u003c\/strong\u003e can be found in churches across the world. Most of our publications are focused on the needs of the parish musician and our house composers are some of the very best in the business: Colin Mawby, Chris Tambling, Malcolm Archer, Noel Rawsthorne - the list reads like a who's who of leading British church musicians from the last 40 years. As with all Kevin Mayhew publications, the quality of church music editing, arranging and production is second to none.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158248927292,"handle":"church-resources","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:36+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-10T17:45:18+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Church Resources","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eChurch Resources from Kevin Mayhew featuring teaching, preaching and service books. In Stock, available to buy direct from the UK publisher online today.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":262293749820,"handle":"colin-mawby","updated_at":"2021-11-23T05:55:48+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-12T11:40:18+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Colin Mawby","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eColin Mawby (b.1936) is a prolific choral conductor and composer.His vocal writing is widely acknowledged to be masterly and his music inspirational. As a conductor, he has worked with the London Mozart Players, the Wren Orchestra, Pro Cantione Antiqua, the Belgian Radio Choir and the BBC Singers. He has been Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, London, Choral Director at Radio Telefís Éireann (RTE) and artistic director of Ireland's National Chamber Choir. On his retirement from the National Chamber Choir in 2001 he was appointed Artistic Director Emeritus to the choir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a composer, his extensive output includes twenty-four masses, five song cycles, a large number of settings for choir and two children's operas. He has received commissions from RTE, Westminster Cathedral, Liverpool Cathedral, the Royal School of Church Music, the Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, and Grace Church, New York, USA. Recent works include a piece written especially for the Requiem of Cardinal Basil Hume and a fanfare for the opening of the Concert Hall in Dublin City University. Awards include Top Honors in the 2002 Waging Peace Through Singing competition in Oregon, USA for his Prayer of Forgiveness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis setting of Psalm 23 was included on Charlotte Church's CD, Voice of an Angel and Ave Maria was recorded on The Celtic Tenors CD, So Strong.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":163063169084,"handle":"discount-km-music-books-auto","title":"Discount - KM MUSIC BOOKS (auto)","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:37+00:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2020-08-13T17:29:50+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"type","relation":"equals","condition":"KM MUSIC BOOKS"}],"published_scope":"global","image":{"created_at":"2020-11-02T12:09:33+00:00","alt":null,"width":500,"height":706,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/8884\/2812\/collections\/RedHot.jpg?v=1604318974"}},{"id":260935581756,"handle":"exc-furn","title":"EXC FURN","updated_at":"2021-11-27T16:55:35+00:00","body_html":"","published_at":"2021-04-21T13:32:47+01:00","sort_order":"price-desc","template_suffix":"","disjunctive":false,"rules":[{"column":"type","relation":"not_equals","condition":"CR-FURNITURE"},{"column":"type","relation":"not_equals","condition":"CR-WOOD"}],"published_scope":"global"},{"id":158224285756,"handle":"music","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:37+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-09T14:53:47+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Music","body_html":"","image":{"created_at":"2020-09-18T18:30:23+01:00","alt":null,"width":500,"height":675,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/8884\/2812\/collections\/m1400473_12.jpg?v=1600450224"}},{"id":262278381628,"handle":"noel-rawsthorne","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:30+00:00","published_at":"2021-10-11T14:02:03+01:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Noel Rawsthorne","body_html":"\u003cp\u003eHaving reached his 86th year on this earth, Noel has decided to retire from the music scene, become a full-time gardener and also compose tasty recipes for a change. He is hoping to qualify as a 3 star master chef, pulling out all the stops on his kitchen cooker, trying to discover new combinations. 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We have been her publisher for 18 years and in that time we have published nearly 500 of her choral and organ pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRos understood that the average parish organist was not as technically assured as she was but had a way of writing that makes people sound better than they are. She was able to write across musical styles, from deeply spiritual liturgical music to fun pieces, like her Liturgical Jazz which we will publish next month. Congregations might find themselves called to prayer by such pieces as ‘In the shadow of your wings’, a slow, ravishing meditation on Psalm 57, or shaken out of their seats by ‘Up she rises’, Ros’s riotous variations on ‘What shall we do with a drunken sailor?’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer vocal writing, always setting fine texts, was similarly assured and welcomed by choirs looking for tuneful, well-crafted music with the occasional harmonic twist to keep them on their toes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLast year Ros contributed a good number of pieces to Songs every choir loves to sing, a collection of traditional songs, the first time she had written anything of a non-sacred nature for us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI liked her pieces so much that I asked her to consider writing more for our instrumental list and we had begun planning a book of recorder pieces which will now sadly not come to fruition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRos always greeted each new request with great enthusiasm. Her editor here, Donald Thomson, said to me: ‘It has always been such a pleasure to work with Ros and she was very prompt about returning her proofs. This last collection of pieces was so full of fun which, although I only knew her at the end of an email connection, seemed to mirror her approach to life.’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe shall miss Ros very much but she leaves a legacy that will live on as her music enhances the lives of countless people all over the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosalie Bonighton (1946-2011) was a composer, part-time teacher, and Organist and Music Director at St John the Evangelist Church, Ballarat, Australia.\u003cbr\u003eShe wrote for both professional and amateur performers, and has a special interest in music for liturgical needs.\u003c\/p\u003e"},{"id":158315905084,"handle":"sheet-music","updated_at":"2021-11-27T12:35:37+00:00","published_at":"2020-02-13T14:26:33+00:00","sort_order":"best-selling","template_suffix":"","published_scope":"global","title":"Sheet Music","body_html":"A wide range of sheet music from Kevin Mayhew music suitable for schools and players from the very young through to the more experienced.","image":{"created_at":"2021-04-14T17:37:52+01:00","alt":null,"width":3600,"height":5399,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0286\/8884\/2812\/collections\/SheetMusic.jpg?v=1618418273"}}]
Instruments: SATB 30 diverse anthems that are guaranteed to appeal to choir and congregation alike. Beautiful, eminently singable melodies that make thoroughly enjoyable listening.
Contents
A Celtic blessing - Martin Setchell Ave maris stella - Richard Shephard Ave verum corpus - June Nixon Blessed is everyone that feareth the Lord - Betty Roe For the beauty of the earth - Mervyn Cousins For the fallen - Peter Irving From church to church - Malcolm McKelvey From my heart springs a song - Rosalie Bonighton God is why I am - June Nixon Hallelujah! It is finished - Rosalie Bonighton Hosanna to the son of David - Noel Rawsthorne I was glad - Noel Rawsthorne Let all the world exultant sing - Colin Mawby Let my prayer come up into your presence - Alan Viner Let not your hearts be troubled - Andrew Moore Lo! My shepherd is divine - William Lloyd Webber Lo, God is here - William Lloyd Webber Lord, teach us how to pray - Rodney Bambrick Morning Star - Richard Shephard Music past silence - Andrew Fletcher May none of God's wonderful works keep silence - Christopher Tambling O Jesus, I have promised - Andrew Gant O salutaris - Malcolm Archer O Saviour of the world - Christopher Tambling Tantum ergo - Malcolm Archer The Lord's Prayer - Martin Setchell The Prayer of Saint Francis - Alan Viner The Spirit of the Lord - Thomas Pitfield To God all praise and glory - Alan Viner Veni Sancte Spiritus - Andrew Moore
