SICM 2007 Program
Quick Highlights
Daily Schedule
Special Sessions
SICM Schedule 2007
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- Daily classes in vocal/choral leadership, and organ/piano accompaniment and leadership. Organ classes are streamed to serve students at basic and intermediate/advanced levels.
- The Great SICM Hymn Challenge: A session for all who accompany congregations with keyboard instruments. Under the guidance of SICM faculty, students test and develop their piano and organ skills with a real congregation.
- Daily Chapel Services led by the SICM Chaplain, faculty and students.
- Daily Physical/Free Time for student wellness and mental focus.
- Church Music Retail Store by Music Plus (Kitchener, Ontario).
- Choral Reading Sessions with repertoire from Music Plus and the Canadian Choral Centre (Winnipeg, Manitoba); and a new “Organ Reading” session by Mark Toews & Christopher Dawes.
- SICM Member’s Free-for-All and Closing Banquet: a time to share anthems and other “finds,” launch compositions, books, recordings and other work… and… well... funny stuff…
- Special Sessions: (see below)
- Opening Dinner, Concert, Choral Rehearsal and reception
- Crucible Service: a special evening service offered by the SICM faculty in fellowship with SICM’s students and the general public, stretching worship horizons & testing assumptions.
- Gala Concert by Jonathan Oldenarm at St. George’s Memorial Anglican Church, Oshawa, with reception.
- Community Sacred Choral Concert conducted by Marta McCarthy and accompanied by Jonathan Oldengarm.
Each day at SICM brings a chapel service in a different tradition; skill, resource and ideas sessions, classes in organ and choral leadership, major evening events and social time, and we hope something unique and important to every church musician’s ministry. Full-Week and daily tuition, meals and accommodation are available.
KEYNOTE: MUSIC AS LIFE, MUSIC AS LOVE / Dawes
Why did a famous Canadian preacher once remark that “The Church’s best angels and its worst devils enter through music?” The answer lies partly in the way church music becomes both a life and a love for many of us. This week, we seek to unravel this inspiring and challenging reality for ourselves and the churches we love and serve.
REHEARSE—WORSHIP? / Donaldson
The thorny problem of how to practise new music and even challenging old music with congregations faces every music ministry. Some believe we should just give up striving for better singing more engaging worship music and do only familiar music, or “dead-easy” music. What do you think?
Holy SONG! / Dawes
A peek into a new, humorous (and hopefully inspiring) guided tour of the complex history and exciting future of congregational song, set to debut as a traveling fund-and-profile-raiser for SICM in fall 2007.
WRITING, ARRANGING AND PUBLISHING MUSIC FOR THE CHURCH / Panel Discussion
Join, and add your voice to, a panel of SICM faculty and invited guests addressing the creation and dissemination of new music to feed a church culture with a constant and increasing appetite.
CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF PAIN IN THE ARM AND HAND / Paull
Playing the piano or organ, ringing hand bells, typing into the computer keyboard, even “conductor’s arm” at the end of a choir practice: your hands and arms are on the front line, perhaps with your voice and eyesight, of your battle with being a church musician. Back by popular demand from 2006, Dr. Paull ‘arms’ you for healthy work and play.