Music for Sunday 31 January 2010
January 29, 2010 by Rob Westwood-Payne
Filed under News, Random Jottings, Worship Meetings
Cradley Heath Salvation Army Band’s contribution to this Sunday’s evening meeting at The Salvation Army in Cradley Heath will be the March: Jubilee Day by world-renowned brass composer, Ray Steadman-Allen.
Ray Steadman-Allen joined the Music Editorial Department of The Salvation Army following the end of the Second World War and at this time was also a trombonist with The International Staff Band and Bandmaster of the Tottenham Citadel Band.
He became a Salvation Army officer (minister) in 1949.
Much of his music as a composer was ahead of its time, to the point that it was sometimes considered unacceptable to the listener. He has been instrumental in guiding Salvation Army music particularly when he led the International Music Editorial Department (1967 to 1980).
Besides well over 200 brass band works published by The Salvation Army, he has written numerous choral works.
In 2005, Ray was admitted to The Order Of the Founder, the highest honour that The Salvation Army can bestow on a member.
This march refers to the Day of Jubilee, a biblical directive to proclaim, in the fiftieth year, liberty to all Israelites in bondage to any of their countrymen. The trumpet of the jubilee would be sounded.
Because the concept of liberty was so often included in the expression of slave spirituals, Ray takes four – Swing low, sweet chariot, I’ve got a robe, Deep river and The day of jubilee and uses them throughout the march.
Why not join us for our meetings this Sunday at 10:30am and 6:00pm at The Salvation Army, Meredith Street, Cradley Heath B64 5EP?
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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.
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