RSCM CHOIRS' FESTIVAL IN DORCHESTER ABBEY 9th OCTOBER, 1999

The Royal School of Church Music Annual Choirs' Festival will take place in Dorchester Abbey on Saturday, 9th October, 1999. The choirs will be directed by Simon Lole (Director of Music, Salisbury Cathedral) and the organist will be Neil Gaston-Nash (Organ Scholar, Christ Church, Oxford). An Address will be given during Festival Evensong by Professor John Harper, Director General of the RSCM.

Evensong, to which everyone is most welcome, begins at 5 p.m. Music during the service includes:

Locus iste a Deo factus est	Bruckner
Preces, Responses and Lord's Prayer	Ives
Psalm 47	Barnby
Evening Canticles	Sumsion in A
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem	Stanford

More than 20 members of the Choir of All Saints' Church will participate in the Festival.