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SICM 2008 Program

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SICM 2008 Schedule
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Each day at SICM begins with chapel worship and choral reading sessions, and then continues with a wide range of skills, resources and ideas; classes in organ/piano and choral leadership, evening events and social time. Each day offers something unique and important to every church musician’s ministry. Both Full-Week and Daily tuition, meals and accommodation are available.

SICM 2008 Highlights

  • Daily classes in choral leadership, and organ/piano accompaniment and leadership. Organ and Choral classes are streamed to serve both basic and intermediate/advanced levels.
  • Daily Chapel Services led by the SICM Chaplain and students
  • Church Music Retail Store and Choral Reading Sessions by Music Plus (Kitchener, Ontario)
  • The 20th Anniversary Osborne Organ Competition Final Round at St. George’s Memorial Church, Oshawa.
  • Five Special sessions: Are we Off-Key?, a panel discussion about music, musicians and ministry, The Nightingale with Heather Whaley, The Organ in New Worship with Patricia Wright, Teeming Ministry by the minister/organist team Dennis & Lori-Anne Dolloff and Singing the Story: a vocal approach to scripture
  • Opening Dinner, Concert by the Hilariter Singers and Players directed by Andrew Donaldson, an opening Choral Rehearsal led by Lori-Anne Doloff, and Welcome Reception.
  • Crucible Service: a special service offered by the SICM faculty in fellowship with SICM’s students, stretching worship horizons & testing assumptions.
  • Closing Banquet at Trafalgar Castle School and Gala Organ Concert at St. George’s Memorial Anglican Church in Oshawa by Michael Bloss and other past-winners of the Osborne Organ Competition followed by a complimentary reception.
  • Community Choral Concert at St. Mark’s United Church, performed by SICM students, conducted by Lori-Anne Doloff and accompanied by Michael Bloss, followed by a reception.
  • The Great SICM Hymn Challenge: A hymn-playing masterclass session for all who accompany congregations with keyboard instruments, under the guidance of SICM faculty and using the SICM students as congregation.
     

Special Sessions

  • OPENING CONCERT BY HILARITER
    Directed by Dr. Andrew Donaldson    , Hilariter is an inter-denominational group of singers and players committed to diversity in worship and to exploring worship resources available from around the world. For performers, worshippers and listeners, Hilariter sees these musical gifts, their offering and reception, as a form of mission.
     
  • KEYNOTE: Songs and Stories of our Faith / Dawes
    Songs of joy and lament. Stories of triumph and tragedy. Church music is not itself a faith, yet both its musicians and the choristers and congregants to whom they minister live stories which bear similarity to those in the Bible.
     
  • THE ORGAN IN NEW WORSHIP / Wright
    On the night of the 20th Final Round of the Osborne Organ Competition Patricia Wright and friends show why the church needs the talented young artists who pursue church music via the King of Instruments, and shows what organists are even now bringing to new worship.
     
  • ARE WE OFF KEY? / Panel Discussion
    Little respect, poor compensation, no support or training… is music a ministry, or marketing? The United Church of Canada reunites 14 musicians from across Canada that shared a three-day conversation about music, musicians and ministry at SICM 39 to share drafts of a new theological statement about music and ministry, and a draft of Singing Faith Alive!, its new resource document for congregations.
     
  • “TEEMING” WORSHIP / Dolloff & Dolloff
    The teaming of minister to organist is a vital one to healthy and fulfilling worship that teems with inspiration, energy and transforming beauty. At SICM 2008 we take a unique opportunity to learn about the challenges and rewards, the humour and drama, through the eyes of wife and husband.