English Cathedral Music: The Long Nineteenth Century to the Present RMA Study Day
9 July 2008 - Durham University

This study day explores the English cathedral music tradition from the long nineteenth century to the present, especially its qualities as a musical tradition and its place in English, Commonwealth, and religious identity.

Paper Session I - The Nineteenth Century.
Peter Horton - Samuel Sebastian Wesley: The Last of the Old, or the First of the New?
Laura Stokes - Mendelssohn's Oratorios and Late Nineteenth-Century Cathedral Music.
Anthony Rooley - Self-Imposed Exile: Robert Lucas Pearsall - Craftsmanship, Historical Awareness, Crisis and Humour in Music for Formal Liturgy, Private Devotion and Social Pleasure 1845-1855.

Paper Session II - Airwaves and Across the Waves: (Re-)Defining and Disseminating the Tradition.
Rebecca Frost (née Riding) - The BBC and English Cathedral Music: 1922 - 1931.
Ian Burk - How shall We Sing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land? (Psalm 137: 4): The English Cathedral Music Tradition in Australia.
Stephanie Martin - Canadian by Adoption: Healey Willan's Sacred Music.

Paper Session III - Ancient and Modern in the Twentieth Century.
Suzanne Cole - S. Royle Shore's Cathedral Series and the Tudor Church Music Edition in Context.
Laura Meadows - 'It is Very Modern, But I Think it Will Do': Elgar's Te Deum and Benedictus and the Creation of Modernist Cathedral Music.
Joseph Sargent - Howells' Depersonalized Requiem.

Keynote Address - Tim Day - How Might We Study the History of 'Sweet Singing in the Choir'?

Choral Evensong in Durham Cathedral; Conference Dinner at St. Chad's College; Organ Recital in Durham Cathedral.

Further information about the event can be found at (http://www.dur.ac.uk/john-bede.pauley/cathedralmusic.htm) or by contacting John-Bede Pauley (jpauley at csbsju.edu)