Music for Sunday 16 May 2010

May 14, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne
Filed under News, Random Jottings, Worship Meetings

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On Sunday evening, Cradley Heath Band of The Salvation Army will contribute Leonard Ballantine’s beautiful arrangement of the American folk song, Shenandoah, which has been married to John Oxenham’s words, ‘Mid all the traffic.

Shenandoah was first printed as part of William L. Alden’s article “Sailor Songs”, in the July 1882 issue of Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.The song had become popular as a sea-shanty with British sailors by the 1880s.

John Oxenham’s words reminds us that God can be a rock in the midst of the storms of life and of the importance of meditating on his presence:

‘Mid all the traffic of the ways,
Turmoils without, within,
Make in my heart a quiet place,
And come and dwell therein:

A little shrine of quietness,
All sacred to thyself,
Where thou shalt all my soul possess,
And I may find myself:

Come, occupy my silent place,
And make thy dwelling there!
More grace is wrought in quietness
Than any is aware.

Why not join us for our worship meetings on Sunday at 10:30am and 6:00pm at The Salvation Army, Meredith Street, Cradley Heath, West Midlands B64 5EP.

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About Rob Westwood-Payne
Rob Westwood-Payne grew up in The Salvation Army at Norwich Citadel. He left Norwich to study at the University of Warwick and became fully involved in the music centre there culminating in his conducting Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue to a full house in Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He also transferred to The Salvation Army at Coventry City, where he became Songster Leader at the age of 21. He was made Songster Leader at Cradley Heath in April 1998 shortly before marrying Gail in the following October. He was commissioned Bandmaster of the Cradley Heath Band of The Salvation Army in January 2006. He is a former leader of the West Midlands Divisional Youth Chorus and is currently Programme Director at the West Midlands Divisional Summer School for The Salvation Army. He is an Associate Solicitor in the Licensing Team of a national practice based in the south west.